EASTHAMPTON — A yearlong pilot program called “Getting to Y” is helping a group of city high school students gain a better understanding of what their peers are going through when it comes to a variety of health-related concerns, ranging from ...
[BOSTON] – Today, the Department of Youth Services (DYS) held its 10th Annual “Share YourArt, Share Your Voice” Youth Arts Showcase at WGBH Studios. It is the culmination of DYS’syear-round arts programming and included an Art Gallery and sale, ...
It’s a busy Tuesday at the Green Room. As Dan Sullivan, site coordinator, explains the different offerings each day of the week, he fields a steady stream of questions from adults and students starting their afterschool day. All are quickly ...
NORTHFIELD — In the Pioneer Valley Regional School library and on the trails behind the building, Massachusetts Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler got a lesson in rural education.
Tutwiler, along with two assistant secretaries and his ...
NORTHAMPTON — Even if the students at Bridge Street Elementary School didn’t know who Patrick Tutwiler was, they could clearly tell he was somebody important.
Students frequently stopped him during a Monday tour of the pre-K-5 school to say ...
Walter was 16 when he started working the overnight shift at a plastics factory in Central Massachusetts.
He had come from Guatemala on his own to join his father, desperate to escape a poor, violent country where two of his childhood friends ...
The Collaborative for Educational Services is pleased to announce the February and March winners of our regional Excellence in Education: Living our Guiding Principles Award! We honor those educators across the DYS workforce who embody one or ...
NORTHAMPTON — An exhibit that aims to promote and spearhead “critical and compassionate” conversations around race, racism and anti-racism is set for May 1 from 6-8 p.m. at the JFK Middle school.
The REAL Talk Story Exhibit was formulated by ...
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program’s (GusNIP) Produce Prescription and Nutrition Incentive program has awarded $500,000 over three years to support the Produce for Health in Hampshire County’s ...
March 20th, 2023 – Norwood MA
Today, well over 300 educators, community partners, clinicians, and professionals affiliated with the Department of Youth Services, or with the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) gathered in person at the ...
The Collaborative for Educational Services is pleased to announce the December and January winners of our regional Excellence in Education: Living our Guiding Principles Award! We honor those educators across the DYS workforce who embody one ...
Karen Reuter, deputy director at the Collaborative for Educational Services, remembers the moment when she knew its trainings for early childhood educators were taking hold.
One of the workshop participants stopped themselves in a peer ...