by tjohnston | Nov 15, 2012 | CES Stories
NORTHAMPTON, MA – When the Collaborative for Educational Services’ HEC Academy students learned last fall about Monte’s March, they decided to get involved. This was the third year that Monte Belmonte, host of the local radio station WRSI-FM, had...
by tjohnston | Nov 30, 2011 | CES Stories
NORTHAMPTON, MA – When Dr. Joan Schuman was hired as Executive Director of what is now the Collaborative for Educational Services the agency was a “tiny provider of special education and professional development programs to a limited number of schools in...
by tjohnston | Jun 9, 2011 | CES Stories
NORTHAMPTON, MA – For some people, graduating from high school is a given, a stepping stone on a relatively straight-forward path to college and career. For Ben DeMarino, graduating from the Collaborative for Educational Services’ Alternative Learning...
by tjohnston | Jan 1, 1970 | Icebreakers & Check-ins
When I present this activity, I like to give an intro that goes something like this: When you think about your current professional life, how are things going? This ice breaker can be done in a few ways. You can: give everyone a template to edit on their own slide in...
by tjohnston | Jan 1, 1970 | Uncategorized
When it comes to learning about edtech, I’ve noticed a pattern among adult learners (including me!). They/we routinely enter into learning about tech feeling like they are way behind or have little to gain. This observation was affirmed by pre- and post-session...
