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US Department of Ed Selects HEC Academy as Green Ribbon award winner

HEC Academy has been selected one of 55 national 2024 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon award winners. The U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS) is a public ...

50 Years of Belonging and Community for Students with Disabilities

In 1974, the Massachusetts special education law Chapter 766 was passed, which required that all school districts provide education in a new and more inclusive way for students with special ...

SPIFFY Full Coalition Meeting: Spring 2024

The SPIFFY Full Coalition Meeting on March 28 was a lively and interactive event, and we are grateful to all who attended! The SPIFFY Team is already looking forward to the ...

Kristen Whitmore

Kristen Whitmore (she/they) is Special Projects Coordinator at the Collaborative for Educational Services. She works on the Healthy Hampshire initiative, which engages residents and partners in ...

Supporting Access to Educational Technology 

In 1987, schools and districts were not commonly thinking about educational technology as a means to level the playing field for student opportunity. But CES (then named HEC) Executive Director ...

Teaching disability history in schools is ‘long overdue,’ advocates say

Judy Heumann’s death last year was deeply felt in the disability community. Often called “the mother” of the disability rights movement, her activism had a lasting impact on millions of ...

$100,000 Urban Agenda Grant Awarded to Enhance Food Security and Community Leadership in Hampshire County

The Collaborative for Educational Services’ Healthy Hampshire initiative is thrilled to announce a $100,000 grant from the Executive Office of Economic Development's Urban Agenda Grant Program ...

Emerging America shares stories of advocacy

“On behalf of CES, the Emerging America program works nationally in conversation with the Library of Congress and many other partners to support the full inclusion of students with disabilities ...

DYS Education Initiative wins nationwide BreakFree competition

Woody Clift, Director of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) Education Initiative at the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), was thrilled to share that students from ...

Michelle Mendes

Michelle Mendes began her career in Early Childhood as a teacher of young children across multiple settings including childcare programs for infants, toddlers and preschoolers and as an ...

Working with teachers and students online to create pathways, not roadblocks

Digital citizenship is a misnomer, says Casey Daigle. Casey is the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) Digital Learning Manager. Recently, her work has often revolved around ...

Indian Country is Calling 

At the November meeting of the CES N8tive Education Practices Professional Learning Community (PLC), co-facilitators shared their personal experiences in seeing Thanksgiving Day in a ...
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