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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Aug
2016
10
Collaborative for Educational Services receives Teaching with Primary Sources grant from Library of Congress
NORTHAMPTON, MA - The Library of Congress has announced that the highly successful program run by the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS), has been awarded a $201,000 grant, renewable for three years. “Every student...
Aug
2016
10
Mohawk supt. seeks ‘rural school aid’
BUCKLAND, MA — Saying that 50 school districts and about 100 rural towns “will soon face the equivalent of bankruptcy,” Mohawk Trail Regional School Superintendent Michael Buoniconti has drafted a proposal to establish rural school aid as part of the state’s...
Aug
2016
4
Jennifer Albert Perry is new PVRS assistant principal
NORTHFIELD, MA — As of Monday, Jennifer Albert Perry started work in her new position as the Pioneer Valley Regional School’s assistant principal. Albert Perry, 36, of Florence, is replacing former assistant principal Mike Duprey, who announced his resignation in...
Aug
2016
1
Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) welcomes two new specialists to professional development roles
CES is committed to meeting and exceeding the needs of its member districts in its products and services. As a part of that charge, effective on July 1, 2016, the agency has brought on board Laurel Peltier and Sharon Jones, two new Curriculum and Instruction...
Jul
2016
25
Amherst educator hired to co-lead Mohawk
BUCKLAND, MA — Former Amherst Regional Middle School principal Marisa Mendonsa of Florence has been hired for the newly created co-principal position at the Mohawk Trail Regional School. Mendonsa will begin her new role on Aug. 1, according to Mohawk Trail Regional...
Jul
2016
25
New Frontier superintendent champions experience in learning and life
WHATELY, MA — Lynn M. Carey, new superintendent of the Frontier Regional School District, sits inside her new office in the administration building on Christian Lane, behind a freshly inscribed name plate which sits on the edge of a mahogany desk. “The priority is...
Jul
2016
19
The Collaborative for Educational Services launches statewide Special Education Team Leader Institute
Northampton, MA -- The Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) in Northampton, MA has announced the launch this fall of the Special Education Team Leader Institute. The Institute’s mission, in partnership with and supported by the MA Department of Elementary...
Jul
2016
18
Distance Learning infrastructure project funded by USDA Rural Development
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today announced $23.4 million in grants to support 81 Distance Learning and Telemedicine projects in 32 states across the nation. Massachusetts’ Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) was awarded $337,356 for a distance...
Jul
2016
15
Mass. Center for Civic Education promotes engaged citizenship among students
When history teacher Roger Desrosiers received a postcard from the Center for Civic Education in 1987 offering free classroom materials for the U.S. Constitution’s bicentennial, little did he know that the organization would become his life’s work. After decades of...
Jul
2016
14
Smith School names interim superintendent
NORTHAMPTON, MA — The Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School board of trustees voted 3-1 Wednesday to offer Kevin C. Farr the job of interim superintendent for the coming school year. Farr, a longtime technical school educator, was one of two finalists...
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