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Early Childhood

How Children Can Become Caring Community Members

Posted on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: James McConchie, Greater Good Magazine
Date: 11/5/2021
Link: Complete Article

As a parent, a caregiver, a teacher, or even just a citizen of the world, what kind of people do you hope that today’s children grow up to be? Amid a life-altering pandemic and deep political divisions, we can likely all agree that the world would benefit greatly if children today learn to treat others… [Read More]

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 — 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]

Early Education and Care programs to suspend operations; Some Emergency Child Care Programs will be established

Posted on Wednesday, March 18th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Massachusetts Department of Early Childhood and Care Programs
Link: Complete Article

Governor Baker has ordered all early childhood education programs across the State of Massachusetts to suspend providing childcare by 11:59 P.M. on Sunday, March 22, 2020. This will remain in effect until April 6, 2020. At the same time, the Department of Early Education and Care (“EEC”) is establishing a process to approve Exempt Emergency… [Read More]

Strong Foundations for Young Children Expands to Serve Families Throughout Hampshire County

Posted on Thursday, April 26th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: April 26, 2018

The Strong Foundations for Young Children program, supporting families of infants, toddlers and preschoolers, has this year been redesigned and expanded to bring services to all of Hampshire County. “We are thrilled to be able to expand this important program” says Sarah Lusardi, IECMH Clinical Supervisor at CES, who coordinates all referrals and intakes for… [Read More]

CES Early Childhood Team Begins Nurturing Caring Kids Program

Posted on Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 3/20/2018

Northampton, MA — The Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) in Northampton, MA has announced that their Early Childhood team is beginning work on the new CES Nurturing Caring Kids Program, thanks to support from the Greater Good Science Center and their parenting foundation. GGSC was awarded the project a $50,000 grant in February. The program… [Read More]

Science fun for Early Childhood CFCE families at the Hitchcock Center in Amherst

Posted on Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, The Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 6/7/2017

Amherst, MA – Over seventy-five families spent Monday morning learning about nature at the Hitchcock Center in Amherst. Children and their adults enjoyed nature play, creating, and exploring the educational offerings throughout the center’s “living building.” Family center and playgroup coordinators from the early childhood programs run by the Collaborative for Educational Services invited the… [Read More]

Enchanted Circle Brings reading Alive to Amherst

Posted on Monday, May 1st, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Date: May 1, 2017

AMHERST, MA – Children clapped, danced and growled happily as members of the Enchanted Circle performed two stories at Saturday’s Reading Alive, presented by the Early Childhood Department of the Collaborative for Educational Services at the Grace Episcopal Church. Saturday’s program, in Spanish and English, encouraged families to read aloud together, and focused on stories… [Read More]

Early childhood educator Barbara Black named Gazette’s “Person of the Year”

Posted on Tuesday, March 7th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dusty Christensen, Hampshire Gazette
Date: 3/6/2017
Link: Complete Article

NORTHAMPTON, MA — Amid the piles of brightly colored building blocks, Barbara Black, 66, kneels comfortably among several 4- and 5-year-olds on the floor of a Bridge Street School classroom. “What’s this one?” she asks each child, her seeing-eye dog, Ms. Pie, wagging its tail patiently at her side. “What are you making?” For Black,… [Read More]

Sharing Cultures, Language, and Fun at Programs for Spanish Speaking Families

Posted on Friday, February 17th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 2/17/2017

Three-year old Alan reviews the game options on the shelf behind the seat his mother occupies at a local coffee shop. He brings Connect 4 to the table, and with minimal help from his mother, sets it up. Familiar with the game, he loads the pieces into the slots and talks to his mother about… [Read More]

If you want your children to succeed, teach them to share in Kindergarten

Posted on Friday, July 17th, 2015 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Emma Brown, The Washington Post
Date: 7/16/15
Link: Complete Article

Kindergartners who share, cooperate and are helpful are more likely to have a college degree and a job 20 years later than children who lack those social skills, according to a new study. Kids who get along well with others also are less likely to have substance-abuse problems and run-ins with the law. The research,… [Read More]