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Area students salute veterans for their service

Posted on Monday, November 11th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: O'Reilly, Poli, Franz, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 11/9/2019
Link: Complete Article

A circle is a symbol of eternity and wholeness, with no beginning and no end. This makes it fitting that dozens of veterans, service members and Sunderland Elementary School students and staff lined the ring-shaped Veterans Memorial and Park on Friday, standing as proof that even in the most divisive political times, Americans can come… [Read More]

New sensory walkway at Bernardston Elementary School to encourage motor skill development

Posted on Saturday, October 26th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Zack DeLuca, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 10/25/2019
Link: Complete Article

BERNARDSTON — Students are already jumping, tip-toeing and leap-frogging across the new sensory walkway, installed at Bernardston Elementary School over Columbus Day weekend. Sensory walkways are colorful, creative ways for children to strengthen their sensory pathways — connections in the brain that are responsible for sight, touch, sound and other senses that enable children to… [Read More]

Melissa Zeitz receives government’s highest honor for teaching mathematics or science in grades K-12.

Posted on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Jennette Barnes, South Coast Today
Date: 10/21/2019
Link: Complete Article

DARTMOUTH — Dartmouth native Melissa Zeitz has received the government’s highest honor for teaching mathematics or science in grades K-12. “I am still in awe,” she said Wednesday from Washington, D.C., where she received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Zeitz, 40, teaches computer science in the Springfield public schools and… [Read More]

Franklin County Tech hosts ‘Tradeswomen of Tomorrow’ panel for freshmen girls

Posted on Wednesday, October 16th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Max Marcus, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 10/16/2019
Link: Complete Article

MONTAGUE — As freshmen girls at Franklin County Technical School weigh which trade they want to study for the rest of their high school years, school administrators are urging them to consider fields that are often seen as being only for men. On Tuesday morning, Franklin Tech hosted a panel of women working in fields… [Read More]

The vocational surge: Smith Voc, South Hadley schools experiencing increased demand

Posted on Wednesday, October 16th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Greta Jochem, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 10/15/2019
Link: Complete Article

Carlos Rivera knew several years ago as a middle school student that he wanted to attend Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School. At the time, Rivera said he didn’t like the school work while at JFK Middle School, and was looking for a hands-on education that he knew he could get at the vocational in… [Read More]

Franklin County has two Schools of Recognition

Posted on Saturday, October 12th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Domenic Poli, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 10/11/2019
Link: Complete Article

Two Franklin County schools are among the 67 recognized by the state for strong MCAS achievement or for exceeding their performance targets. Whately Elementary School and Swift River School in New Salem were named as Schools of Recognition in the “High Growth” category by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and their principals… [Read More]

Author talks to high school students about trauma, life

Posted on Saturday, October 12th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Anita Fritz, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 10/11/2019
Link: Complete Article

GREENFIELD — Award-winning young adult author A.S. King asked several hundred Greenfield High School students Friday morning to look for their “own cans of succotash and examine their suitcases.” Before King (Amy Sarig King) asked those questions, though, she explained to students how she became a writer because of a can of succotash and several… [Read More]

Westhampton Elementary School wins national honor

Posted on Tuesday, October 8th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Bera Dunau, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 10/8/2019
Link: Complete Article

WESTHAMPTON — Westhampton Elementary School may only have 125 students, with one class each for pre-K through sixth grade, but it’s clearly punching above its academic weight. Late last month, the school received a designation as a National Blue Ribbon School from the U.S. Department of Education. It was nominated for this designation, which has… [Read More]

Holyoke voters being asked for $54 million to replace aging middle schools

Posted on Friday, September 27th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: DUSTY CHRISTENSEN, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 9/28/2019
Link: Complete Article

HOLYOKE — When temperatures soar outside, classrooms inside William R. Peck Middle School can get even hotter. Andrea Salvas, the assistant principal at the school, which serves students in grades four through eight, remembers seeing teachers with sweat soaking through their shirts on the first day of school this year. And her thoughts jumped to… [Read More]

Why young people are striking Friday: ‘I won’t go to school and act like everything is normal’

Posted on Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Greta Jochem, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 9/17/2019
Link: Complete Article

NORTHAMPTON — On Friday, many students will skip school for a trip to Boston — but it’s not for fun. The students, along with many adults, will attend the youth-led Boston Climate Strike to demand action on climate change. The strike includes a rally at City Hall plaza and a march to the State House…. [Read More]