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HCC Receives $1 Million Grant To Build New Engineering Program

Posted on Thursday, September 30th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Business West Staff, Business West
Date: 9/28/2021
Link: Complete Article

HCC Receives $1 Million Grant To Build New Engineering Program

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Community College (HCC) has been awarded nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a new engineering pathways program to help boost the numbers of Latinx and women engineers working in the field. The grant — $956,458 over four years — will allow HCC to design an accelerated, one-year engineering… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories Tagged With: Engineering program, Holyoke Community College, National Science Foundation grant, NSF

Gazda visit to RISE program in Springfield

Posted on Tuesday, September 28th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Gazda visit to RISE program in Springfield

This week CES Executive Director, Todd Gazda, had the opportunity to visit the RISE program in Springfield. This is part of Dr. Gazda’s commitment to visit DYS and SEIS programs so that he might speak with teachers and staff to learn first hand how he and CES might better support the important work they do… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories

UMass Amherst receives $4.4 million grant to train students in cybersecurity

Posted on Monday, September 20th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Ron Chimelas, Masslive
Date: 9/17/2021
Link: Complete Article

UMass Amherst receives $4.4 million grant to train students in cybersecurity

AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a $4.4 million federal grant to educate cybersecurity researchers and professionals, and then place them in jobs throughout the federal government. The university’s Cybersecurity Institute has secured a renewal of its CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. A team of cybersecurity… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories Tagged With: computer science, Cybersecurity education, Scholarship for Service, University of Massachusetts

What’s so dangerous about critical thinking?

Posted on Tuesday, September 7th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dr. Todd Gazda, Executive Director, Collaborative for Educational Services, Commonwealth Magazine
Date: 08-31-2021
Link: Complete Article

What’s so dangerous about critical thinking?

Educators are charged, at least in part, with the responsibility for teaching our students about the ideals and values of our society. In today’s politically polarized environment it is more important than ever to clearly articulate what we stand for. Do we stand against racism, inequity, and oppression regardless of our political affiliation, or will… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories

CES Executive Director Gazda on WHMP Afternoon Buzz podcast with Sheryl Stanton and Buz Eisenberg.

Posted on Monday, August 30th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

CES Executive Director Gazda on WHMP Afternoon Buzz podcast with Sheryl Stanton and Buz Eisenberg.

Collaborative for Educational Services Executive Director Todd Gazda joined Sheryl Stanton,  Superintendent of Mohawk Trail/Hawlemont Regional School District, and Buz Eisenberg of WHMP for the Afternoon Buzz podcast on August 24th. You can listen to the podcast here at this link. Gazda and Stanton discussed the evolving academic year, school district budgets and ESSER funding… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories, Local News Tagged With: Mohawk Trail Regional School District, Sheryl Stanton, Superintendent, Todd Gazda

Attleboro youngsters prepare for school with local/state program

Posted on Monday, August 30th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Sun Chronicle Staff, The Sun Chronicle
Date: 8/25/2021
Link: Complete Article

Attleboro youngsters prepare for school with local/state program

ATTLEBORO — The state has given the city $166,000 to provide extra support to youngsters entering school in the fall in the wake of the pandemic. Attleboro schools and the Attleboro YMCA joined forces with the state Department of Early Education and Care and United Way of Massachusetts Bay to expand and enhance summer programs… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories, State/National News Tagged With: Attleboro Schools, Early Childhood, Early Education and Care

Healthy Hampshire sends team to Johns Hopkins initiative

Posted on Monday, July 19th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 7/19/2021

Healthy Hampshire sends team to Johns Hopkins initiative

Healthy Hampshire County Food Policy Council Startup Circle members Talya Sogoba and Kia Aoki have been chosen to participate in the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Food Policy Council Community Invest in racially and economically just food systems community of practice. Participating as a team, Talya and Kia become part of a two… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories Tagged With: Healthy Hampshire, Healthy Hampshire County Food Policy Council

CES After School program receives grant for Dexter Park Elementary in Orange

Posted on Thursday, July 8th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: July 8, 2021

CES After School program receives grant for Dexter Park Elementary in Orange

The Collaborative for Educational Services After School program has been awarded a five year grant of $200,000 per year to develop and run a new 21st Century Community Learning Center After School program for Dexter Park Elementary School within the Orange Public Schools. A highly competitive process, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories Tagged With: CES After School Programs, Dexter Park Elementary School, Orange Public Schools

Massachusetts Special Education Surrogate Parent Program Transitions to Collaborative for Educational Services

Posted on Thursday, July 1st, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: July 1, 2021

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has awarded the statewide Massachusetts Special Education Surrogate Parent (SESP) Program contract to Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), effective July 1, 2021. CES is a non-profit educational services agency located in Northampton, MA, committed to reaching and educating learners of all ages. CES works in the… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories Tagged With: Massachusetts Special Education Surrogate Parent Program, SESP

Mobile markets make local food accessible

Posted on Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Alexis Breiteneicher, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 6/16/2021

Mobile markets make local food accessible

As summer approaches, several nonprofits are cleaning out their vans, mapping out routes, and coordinating with farmers for the start of their mobile markets. It is exactly what you’d imagine — a small farmers market packed up in a van and driven around to communities. Caitlin Marquis, of the nonprofit Healthy Hampshire, which is supporting… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories Tagged With: Healthy Hampshire

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