State Qualified Vendor
The Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) is approved by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) as a vendor to deliver a variety of training and consulting services to a range of education providers across the state.
Conditions for School Effectiveness
CES is a DESE-approved vendor for the provision of education improvement services supporting the Conditions for School Effectiveness, defined by DESE as being "necessary for schools to educate their students well." These conditions are aligned with Massachusetts' Race to the Top efforts. Districts or schools may contract with CES for professional development, coaching, and technical assistance in eight elements:
- Principal certification and training
- Teacher recruitment, hiring, and support
- Data systems for ensuring student success, school success, and for making instructional and management decisions
- Teacher preparation
- Teacher coaching
- Teacher licensure
- Professional development services
- Collaboration models/facilitation
For more information, contact William Diehl, Deputy Director, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Education Data Warehouse
Entering its second year as a source for Education Data Warehouse training, the Collaborative is one of only five DESE-approved providers, and the only approved provider west of Worcester, for the EDW training curriculum, which includes the following courses:
- Introduction to the Data Warehouse
- Understanding MCAS Reporting
- Informing Instruction with Data
- Multi-Dimensional Analysis
- Report Builder I
- Report Builder II
For more information on Education Data Warehouse training, contact David Olsson, Education Data Engineer, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Consulting/Professional Development
The Collaborative is in its second year as a DESE pre-qualified vendor for a range of consulting and professional development services, including:
- Project management for school/district performance reviews or assistance services
- Targeted assistance for school or district improvement
- Assessment and evaluation services, including the development of survey, assessment, and review protocols/instruments
- Educational leadership evaluation, development, coaching, and interim leadership services
- Curriculum, performance, and achievement frameworks/standards, protocols and or processes development, review and updating
- Dissemination of standards, research finding, best practices, etc., including planning, implementation, and management of dissemination activities.
For more information, please contact Cecelia Buckley, Director of Professional Services, at
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Early Childhood Training and Consulting
CES is an EEC-approved vendor for training and consulting services for a variety of early education and care providers statewide. Child care centers, family day care centers, and public preschool and kindergarten providers can contract with the Collaborative in a range of areas, such as:
- Partnering with parents
- Promoting school readiness
- Accreditation validation
- Cultural awareness in child rearing practices
- Attention deficit disorder/attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Child abuse and neglect
- Gender bias awareness
For more information, contact Barbara Finlayson, Director of Early Childhood, at
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CES State Qualified Vendor Services: Information Sheet (1-Pg PDF)