The graduation celebration for Mount Tom Academy’s class of 2026 was held in the Fine & Performing Arts Building in the Leslie Phillips Theater on the Holyoke Community College Campus. The ceremony took place on Tuesday morning, June 2nd. This year’s graduates included nine students, from East Longmeadow, Granby High School, Minnechaug High School, Greenfield High School, Easthampton High School, and Hampshire Regional High School. Speaking at the graduation were Maureen Binienda, Interim Executive Director of the Collaborative for Educational Services; Karen Reuter, Deputy...
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Scibak visits Easthampton High School’s 21st Century Community Learning Center
Representative John Scibak visited Easthampton High School’s 21st Century Community Learning Center After School Program on Tuesday, March 20th. Scibak toured the program and received an update about what the after school program offers to students and their...
CES Early Childhood Team Begins Nurturing Caring Kids Program
Northampton, MA -- The Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) in Northampton, MA has announced that their Early Childhood team is beginning work on the new CES Nurturing Caring Kids Program, thanks to support from the Greater Good Science Center and their...
Thriving North Berkshire Academy Result of Collaborative Efforts
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Aiden Kozik knows what he needs to do to succeed: Be prepared, be respectful, cooperate in the classroom and finish what he starts. That was the message he gave, along with Director Jodi Drury, to Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito and dozens of officials...
Safe and Supportive Schools for All
March 14 marks one month since the tragic shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Today is a day to solemnly remember the 14 students and 3 educators who were killed and to engage in reflection and civil discourse about preventing...
Treating Childhood Trauma
In 1850, a Catholic orphanage called St. Aemilian was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to take in children whose parents had died in a cholera epidemic. 168 Years later, that same organization -- now known as "SaintA" -- is still finding shelter for thousands of...
Easthampton high school hosts “Transforming Education for Social Justice” conference
EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Hundreds of students attended a conference to learn how to overcome social justice issues at their schools. Zemor Tevah, one of the educators at the event, told 22News students have a hard time feeling comfortable, “I feel like a lot of...
ESE Issues Fiscal Conditions in Rural School Districts Report
In January, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) filed a report with the Joint Committee on Ways & Means, the Joint Committee on Education and the Commonwealth’s Rural Policy Advisory Commission on Fiscal Conditions in Rural...
Woody Clift panelist at Transforming Education for Youth in Connecticut Justice System conference
Woody Clift, CES Director of Department of Youth Services Education Initiative, was one of five panel experts at the Transforming Education for Youth in Connecticut’s Justice System event. Hosted by the Tow Youth Justice Institute at the University of New Haven,...
Jeff Riley Will Be Massachusetts’ New Education Commissioner
It's official: Jeff Riley will be the state's next education commissioner. Members of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted 8-3 to recommend Riley for the post. Among his supporters, Education Sec. James Peyser, who will make the official...
Pioneer science teacher Penney Betsold earns Grinspoon award
NORTHFIELD — The fact that Pioneer Valley Regional School science teacher Penney Betsold is this year’s winner of the Grinspoon Award for Excellence in Teaching came as no surprise to her students Tuesday afternoon. “I could have called it,” Pioneer senior Matt...
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