This year, Sabine Denise Jacques and Mariah Lapiroff from the CES Joy and Justice team have been facilitating a theater club in Easthampton that centers self- and social-awareness, embodied connection, and belonging and joy for 6th & 7th graders. They have been using the Brown Paper Studio theater practice to support collaborative thinking and play. Brown Paper Studio is an arts methodology designed to awaken creativity within individuals and groups and to utilize the resulting creative energy for peaceful social transformation; and a unique theater practice that uses art, games,...
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Sep
2021
28
Gazda visit to RISE program in Springfield
This week CES Executive Director, Todd Gazda, had the opportunity to visit the RISE program in Springfield. This is part of Dr. Gazda's commitment to visit DYS and SEIS programs so that he might speak with teachers and staff to learn first hand how he and CES might...
Sep
2021
24
Rural Schools Roundtable emphasizes funding difficulties for area’s rural schools
BUCKLAND — State legislators, school administrators and town officials convened at Mohawk Trail Regional School Thursday morning for a Rural Schools Roundtable to discuss funding challenges Pioneer Valley schools are facing as enrollment dwindles. Superintendents...
Sep
2021
22
Northfield Elementary named National Blue Ribbon School
Northfield Elementary School was one of 325 schools recognized by Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona as a 2021 National Blue Ribbon School. The award is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps among student...
Sep
2021
21
Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School welcomes new vice principal
When students at Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School arrived for the start of the academic year this month, a new face was there to greet them. New Vice Principal Joseph Moynihan took over for Hayley Gilmore, who was promoted to principal following the retirement...
Sep
2021
20
UMass Amherst receives $4.4 million grant to train students in cybersecurity
AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a $4.4 million federal grant to educate cybersecurity researchers and professionals, and then place them in jobs throughout the federal government. The university’s Cybersecurity Institute has secured a...
Sep
2021
7
What’s so dangerous about critical thinking?
Educators are charged, at least in part, with the responsibility for teaching our students about the ideals and values of our society. In today’s politically polarized environment it is more important than ever to clearly articulate what we stand for. Do we stand...
Aug
2021
30
CES Executive Director Gazda on WHMP Afternoon Buzz podcast with Sheryl Stanton and Buz Eisenberg.
Collaborative for Educational Services Executive Director Todd Gazda joined Sheryl Stanton, Superintendent of Mohawk Trail/Hawlemont Regional School District, and Buz Eisenberg of WHMP for the Afternoon Buzz podcast on August 24th. You can listen to the...
Aug
2021
30
Attleboro youngsters prepare for school with local/state program
ATTLEBORO — The state has given the city $166,000 to provide extra support to youngsters entering school in the fall in the wake of the pandemic. Attleboro schools and the Attleboro YMCA joined forces with the state Department of Early Education and Care and United...
Aug
2021
25
Massachusetts statewide school mask order coming
BOSTON — Massachusetts is poised to start its third pandemic-influenced academic year with a mask mandate in place across K-12 schools, after a 9-1 vote Tuesday by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Education Commissioner Jeff Riley said the...
Aug
2021
24
New Greenfield superintendent brings ‘commitment to supporting the whole child’
GREENFIELD — Superintendent Christine DeBarge said she strives to be the kind of superintendent who walks down the hallways of Greenfield’s public schools and knows the names and faces of everyone she sees. “I’m definitely someone who wants to … eventually know the...
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