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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Dec
2022
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CES Provides 2022 Election Day Professional Development
On November 8th this year, nine school districts from Franklin, Hampshire, and Berkshire counties partnered with the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) to offer a robust selection of Election Day Professional Development workshops for...
Dec
2022
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The Massachusetts Migrant Education Program Partners with School Districts
The Massachusetts Migrant Education Program (MMEP) has developed strong partnerships and collaborations with school districts that have larger migratory student populations in the Commonwealth. These joint efforts benefit the migratory students and families, and...
Nov
2022
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Massachusetts DYS Students Win National BreakFree Competitions
Collaborative for Educational Services’ Woody Clift, Director of the DYS Education Initiative, announced that several of the students in the program had created winning entries in two national competitions sponsored by BreakFree Education. Said Clift, “It brings me...
Nov
2022
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ASCD and ISTE to Merge
Today, after a key vote, it's official: Two giants in the education space will join forces, creating a professional development powerhouse for their educator members. The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the Association for Supervision...
Nov
2022
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Comerford secures $1M for Franklin, Hampshire county projects
A series of education, family medicine, food access and infrastructure projects across Franklin and Hampshire counties are among the local recipients included in a $3.76 billion spending package signed into law by Gov. Charlie Baker earlier this month. “I’m...
Nov
2022
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Easthampton Students Dig Into Pepin School History
At this time last year, Jacqui LeFrance's grade 4 English Language Learner students at Center Pepin School in Easthampton were hard at work coming up with questions to ask their neighbor, Ms. Casagrande and her family. They were engaged in writing interview...
Nov
2022
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Safe and Healthy Schools Summit draws educators in discussion of how to manage race, polarizing conversations in schools
HOLYOKE — While the world has played a continual defense against the psychological, social and economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic amid a racial reckoning, teachers throughout the state and beyond have been grappling with how to manage polarizing...
Nov
2022
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History’s Mysteries becomes iCivics Private i History Detectives
CES is happy to share that History's Mysteries, originally developed by Laurie Risler and Kelley Brown with support from CES’s Emerging America, is now part of iCivics, which works to “ensure that every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic...
Oct
2022
14
Two members of DYS Education Initiative team receive 2022 DYS Commissioner’s Awards
Director of the DYS Education Initiative Woody Clift has announced that two of the DYS team are part of the annual DYS Commissioner’s Awards. “Please join me in extending a huge shout out to our very own, talented, and distinguished colleagues Fiona Coker,...
Oct
2022
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Salazar receives 2022 Latino Excellence Award
Rossana Salazar received a 2022 Latino Excellence Award in a virtual ceremony which took place Thursday, October 13, 2022. The awards, presented by the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus, honor Latino “leaders, trailblazers, and changemakers who...
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