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…
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Loris Bjorkman-Joslyn
Loris Bjorkman-Joslyn is a Special Education teacher at PVPA Charter School in South Hadley. She has been teaching in Special Education for 10 years. Loris holds a B.A. in Psychology…
Safire DeJong Ed.D.
…UMass Amherst. Her research focuses on young people’s experiences with status and power in schools and communities. At CES, Safire works with a team of talented and experienced co-facilitators (the…
Understanding & Navigating the New Massachusetts IEP: An introductory course
…impact of Massachusetts’ new IEP process. The IEP process has been updated with the goal of improving educational outcomes and experiences for students with disabilities in the Commonwealth – this…
Students are still struggling in the classroom
…says despite the setbacks there has been progress. Students are spending more time inside science and math classes than they did three decades ago. Reading literacy rates have also improved….
Local groups team up, offer forum to guide parents in supporting children’s mental health needs during pandemic
…Youth Coalition and Quaboag Hills Substance Use Alliance. Minding Your Mind provides mental health education to adolescents, teens and young adults, parents and caregivers, teachers and school administrators to end…
Kate Hobbs
Kate joins the Licensure team having spent 7 years working as the Data Quality and Use Coordinator for the Special Education in Institutional Settings contract with CES. In her role…
Adam Stumacher
…and whose fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications. He holds degrees from Cornell University and Saint Mary’s College and was the Carol Houck Smith fellow at the University…
Urban legislators don’t get the struggle to fund large, rural bus routes
Maybe someone should arrange a school bus ride across the 530 road miles of the Mohawk Trail Regional School District for state legislators from those geographically tiny Boston metro cities…
Peter Vamosy
Peter Vamosy has taught in western Massachusetts for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Social Studies education from the State University of New York at…