Brooks Holmes
Brooks Holmes is a retired educator (2022) who taught instrumental music for grades 5-12 over the past 31 years. Brooks’ Concert & Jazz Bands were well known throughout the local & state ...
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‘I’ve learned that things have a cost.’ Meet the migrant children working long hours in factories and fish plants across Mass.
Walter was 16 when he started working the overnight shift at a plastics factory in Central Massachusetts.
He had come from Guatemala on his own to join his father, desperate to escape a ...
Excellence In Education Awards: Living Our Guiding Principles award winners for February and March
The Collaborative for Educational Services is pleased to announce the February and March winners of our regional Excellence in Education: Living our Guiding Principles Award! We honor those ...
Story exhibit on May 1st highlights action-oriented conversations around anti-racism
NORTHAMPTON — An exhibit that aims to promote and spearhead “critical and compassionate” conversations around race, racism and anti-racism is set for May 1 from 6-8 p.m. at the JFK Middle ...
GusNIP Produce Prescription Program boosts healthy food availability and support for local residents
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program’s (GusNIP) Produce Prescription and Nutrition Incentive program has awarded $500,000 over three years to ...
School Readiness Institute
The School Readiness Institute: Strengthening Pre-K and K Experiences to Support School Readiness
Increasingly teachers, early childhood coordinators, principals, special education directors and ...
Fourth Annual DYS Racial Trauma Conference Held in Person
March 20th, 2023 – Norwood MA
Today, well over 300 educators, community partners, clinicians, and professionals affiliated with the Department of Youth Services, or with the Collaborative for ...
Excellence In Education awards: Living Our Guiding Principles award winners for December and January
The Collaborative for Educational Services is pleased to announce the December and January winners of our regional Excellence in Education: Living our Guiding Principles Award! We honor ...
Early Educators Chart a Path from Self-Care and Cultural Responsiveness To Professional Growth
Karen Reuter, deputy director at the Collaborative for Educational Services, remembers the moment when she knew its trainings for early childhood educators were taking hold.
One of the ...
U.S. Education Secretary Statement on Passing of Disability Rights Leader Judy Heumann
Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona issued the following statement on the passing of Disability Rights Leader Judy Heumann:
“On March 4, our country lost a great disability ...
Staff shortages throughout K-12 education are taking a toll
Openings are affecting student programming and services at a time we need them most
AS 2023 OPENED, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education met on January 3 for a ...
Excellence In Education awards: Living Our Guiding Principles award winners for October and November
The Collaborative for Educational Services is pleased to announce the October and November winners of our regional Excellence in Education: Living our Guiding Principles Award! We honor ...