Local News

Rural Schools Roundtable emphasizes funding difficulties for area’s rural schools

Posted on Friday, September 24th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Chris Larabee, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 9/23/2021
Link: Complete Article

BUCKLAND — State legislators, school administrators and town officials convened at Mohawk Trail Regional School Thursday morning for a Rural Schools Roundtable to discuss funding challenges Pioneer Valley schools are facing as enrollment dwindles. Superintendents and school committees from the Mohawk Trail, Hampshire, Athol-Royalston, Erving Union 28 and Gill-Montague school districts highlighted the reduction of… [Read More]

Northfield Elementary named National Blue Ribbon School

Posted on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services

Northfield Elementary School was one of 325 schools recognized by Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona as a 2021 National Blue Ribbon School. The award is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups. “This year’s cohort of honorees demonstrates what is possible when committed educators and school… [Read More]

Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School welcomes new vice principal

Posted on Tuesday, September 21st, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Staff Report, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 9/21/2021
Link: Complete Article

When students at Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School arrived for the start of the academic year this month, a new face was there to greet them. New Vice Principal Joseph Moynihan took over for Hayley Gilmore, who was promoted to principal following the retirement of Joanne Giguere. Moynihan, a U.S. Navy veteran and Westfield resident, joined the… [Read More]

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

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]

New Greenfield superintendent brings ‘commitment to supporting the whole child’

Posted on Tuesday, August 24th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Mary Byrne, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 8/22/2021
Link: Complete Article

GREENFIELD — Superintendent Christine DeBarge said she strives to be the kind of superintendent who walks down the hallways of Greenfield’s public schools and knows the names and faces of everyone she sees. “I’m definitely someone who wants to … eventually know the names of all my staff and students,” she said. “Greenfield is small… [Read More]

DeBarge picked to lead Greenfield schools

Posted on Thursday, July 15th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Mary Byrne, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 7/14/2021
Link: Complete Article

GREENFIELD — The School Committee voted unanimously Wednesday night in favor of entering into negotiations with Christine DeBarge to assume the role of superintendent of Greenfield Public Schools. DeBarge, who currently serves as superintendent of East Windsor Public Schools in Connecticut, was one of five finalists who were brought forth to the full committee by the Superintendent Search Committee, headed… [Read More]

New principals named locally

Posted on Thursday, July 15th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Jim Russell, Masslive
Date: 7/13/2021
Link: Complete Article

Michelle Hernandez will be the next principal at the K-6 Fort River Elementary School in town. Amherst Regional Superintendent Michael Morris, on Monday, confirmed her appointment. In a message to parents, caregivers and staff, he wrote that Hernandez “will begin her tenure on August 2, 2021, after completing her commitments to her current school.” She… [Read More]

HEC Academy in Northampton Graduates Class of 2021

Posted on Monday, June 7th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Levesque, Date: 06-07-2021

Northampton, MA — Nine students graduated from HEC Academy in an in-person ceremony held at Union Station on Friday, June 4th. The Academy is an alternative learning program run by the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) on Pleasant Street in Northampton, MA. Each graduate sat at their own table with invited friends and family. Commencement… [Read More]

Mount Tom Academy Class of 2021

Posted on Monday, June 7th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Levesque, Date: 06-07-2021

Photo courtesy of Daily Hampshire Gazette Staff Photographer, Kevin Gutting. Mount Tom Academy, an alternative learning program run by the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) and hosted by Holyoke Community College, graduated four students in an in-person ceremony held at Look Park on Thursday. About 30 friends, family and staff at the school gathered at… [Read More]

Gazda named director of region’s educational resource center

Posted on Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Steve Pfarrer, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 5/31/2021
Link: Complete Article

Todd H. Gazda, the new executive director for the Collaborative for Educational Services, got a somewhat late start in education, as he first worked as a contract attorney after earning a law degree in the mid 1990s. But the Middlefield native later became a social studies and English teacher at Gateway Regional Middle School in… [Read More]