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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]

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]

Over 340 educators convene on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments: Bringing together Social and Emotional Learning, Trauma Sensitivity, and Positive Behavioral Approaches in Leominster, MA

Posted on Wednesday, May 31st, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 5/29/2017

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), in collaboration with the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC), the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) and Mass Advocates for Children’s Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative, hosted over 340 educators from school districts across the Commonwealth at the Safe and Supportive Learning Environments: Bringing Together Social… [Read More]