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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Feb
2019
21
Barbara Cheney Appointed Fellow for Summit Learning
Barbara Cheney, Lead Teacher at Mount Tom Academy, smiles as she thinks about last June’s graduation ceremonies for Mount Tom students, where seven seniors received certificates from Mount Tom to accompany diplomas from their sending schools. Prior to the...
Feb
2019
16
State Legislators and School District Superintendents Gather to Discuss School Funding
NORTHAMPTON - The Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) hosted nine state legislators and aides, and twenty School Superintendents from Franklin and Hampshire counties on Friday morning, February 15th at their offices at 97 Hawley Street in Northampton....
Feb
2019
12
Students to ask state for more education funds
Students and educators from seven Pioneer Valley school districts are going to Boston on Feb. 28 to ask state lawmakers to increase funding for rural schools. The students were supposed to go this week, but the trip was postponed due to inclement weather. The group...
Feb
2019
6
Students Gain Experience Via New CES Internship Program
Thirty area high school students found spring and summer employment through a newly opened summer internship program this past year. Developed by CES’s Matt Rigney, Alternative Youth Programs Director, and funded by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and...
Feb
2019
1
Continuing Earl McGraw’s Legacy in Turners Falls
TURNERS FALLS — Joining the Turners Falls High School student recipient senior Andy Craver, Jessica Vachula-Curtis is this year’s staff recipient of the McGraw Uplift Award. Like Craver, English and special education teacher, Vachula-Curtis was nominated more than...
Feb
2019
1
Andy Craver follows Vice principal’s uplifting example in Turners Falls
Assistant principals, of necessity, are often the high school disciplinarians, which doesn’t exactly endear them to their students. So the late Earl McGraw, the former Turners Falls High School assistant principal, must have been an exceptional person. After he...
Jan
2019
25
Gill-Montague to talk, hold forums on racial issues
TURNERS FALLS — Besides the plan to hold upcoming forums, Superintendent Michael Sullivan said Gill-Montague district schools are addressing civil rights harassment violations by implementing several improvements, including teaching divserity and...
Jan
2019
25
Belchertown School Chief to Retire
BELCHERTOWN — Belchertown Public Schools Superintendent Karol Coffin plans to retire from the district after this school year, effective June 30. Coffin submitted a letter of intent to retire on Jan. 14 and notified district employees by the following afternoon,...
Jan
2019
18
Belchertown vice principal taking job in South Hadley
BELCHERTOWN — Bruce Hastings, Belchertown High School’s assistant principal, dean of students and athletic director, will end his tenure at the school this week to become an assistant principal in South Hadley. Friday will be Hastings’ last day in Belchertown, and...
Jan
2019
17
Pols take their cue from students
High school senior Augie Seuffert looked around the full circle in the school’s library, seeing mostly his peers and politicians. He offered his reflection. “I came in here thinking I was going to be talked to by a bunch of politicians on issues, and they actually...
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