WINCHESTER - Last year, a report surfaced that alleged Winchester students struggled to read. In response, the district, through Superintendent Dr. Frank Hackett, reached out to the Collaborative for Educational Services, a Northampton-based non-profit, to pull back the curtain and do a deep dive into the district’s practices. Two members of the group appeared at a recent School Committee meeting to outline the report. The Collaborative published a 111-page report that the superintendent sent out to the public two weeks ago. In it, they surveyed and held listening sessions with parents,...
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CES wins $60,000 federal grant to bring arts into DYS classrooms
NORTHAMPTON, MA - The National Endowment of the Arts recently awarded a $60,000 grant to the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) to expand art opportunities for youth involved in the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS). The Artists in Juvenile...
Reunion Center in Easthampton launches new mentoring program for middle schoolers
EASTHAMPTON, MA - On a recent rainy Monday, The Reunion Center, an alternative education program on Pine Street, was a hub of after-school activity. Pairs of students huddled in front of computer screens and at small tables scattered around the program?s one-room...
Local communities celebrate the Week of the Young Child
NORTHAMPTON, MA - Communities throughout Hampshire County are organizing a series of events next week (April 14th - 20th) to raise awareness of the needs of young children, and their families, as well as the community programs and services that support them. The...
Dean Tech Students Learn High-Tech Skills by Moving Robots
HOLYOKE, MA - Web Design and Computer Programming Instructor Karen Morneau says that whenever the Robotics Club meets at Dean Technical High School, more students show up. The afterschool club is popular, she says, because students soon learn that working with...
Winter 2013 Special Olympics
SOUTH HADLEY, MA - Steve and Patty Pittsley, of Ware, watched from the stands as their son Maxwell, 19, practiced throwing a ball and dribbling at the winter Special Olympics on Thursday in the gym at Smith Middle School in South Hadley. "He loves basketball," said...
CES Conference Explores How Technology Can Help Students Learn
HOLYOKE, MA - The Collaborative for Educational Services, in collaboration with MassCue, hosted the 2013 Technology in Education Conference on January 14th at the Kittredge Center at Holyoke Community College from 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Over 200 educators, technology...
Students Learn at local horse farm
Thanks to the efforts of a committed special education teacher, Collaborative students have been able to participate in a work and learning program at the Full of Grace Horse Farm in Amherst, Massachusetts. The story that follows was sent to us by Patricia Taylor,...
AESA Walter G. Turner Award goes to Senator Chang-Diaz and Rep. Peisch
TAMPA, FL - State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz and Rep. Alice Hanlon Peisch, D-Wellesley, were awarded the 2012 Walter G. Turner Award by the American Educational Service Agency (AESA). The two co-chairs of the Joint Committee on Education were selected for their...
Monte’s March
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 organized...
CES Director Accepts National Award For Innovative Leadership
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 Hampshire...
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