…approved Superintendent John Provost’s budget plan, which reduces educational support positions, adds special education teachers and moves students receiving special education services into the mainstream. The approved budget for the…
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U.S. Department of Education Issues Guidance on Federal Funds to Support Afghan and Other Newcomer Students
…by states, LEAs, and schools to support recently arrived students. In addition to an overview of federal funds, this letter contains resources that LEAs may use as they fulfill their obligations to not only…
Collaborative for Educational Services Begins Statewide Youth Mental Health First Aid Training Project
…from behavioral support services. CES will train education staff of at-risk adolescent students within the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) programs. Adolescents entering the MA DYS juvenile justice system…
Ross Newton
Ross Newton is a History Teacher at HEC Academy in Northampton, a special education public high school of the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES). Ross relates history to students’ lives…
HEC Academy students support Monte’s March
HEC Academy students joined Monte Belmonte yesterday afternoon for part of his annual “Monte’s March” to raise awareness and funds for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts. HEC Academy students…
Sharon Jones, M.Ed.
…for the University of Massachusetts. Sharon is widely known for her expertise in helping schools and teachers adopt the structures, dispositions and skills for effective co-teaching. Sharon coaches co-teachers across…
Bridging to Belonging: PLC Summer 2024
…communities and schools. In this PLC series, we frame and explore tensions across differences that are present in our schools as we seek to find ways for all students and…
ELL Education Workgroup
This workgroup will help all educators to strengthen their skills for working with ELL students and others who need language support, design curricula for these students, or gain further practice…
Local author shows how memory is critical to teaching struggling learners
…so that the lessons engage struggling learners as well as proficient students. “The push is towards increasingly complex lessons and reading complex texts, which is not necessarily in struggling learners’…
Two members of DYS Education Initiative team receive 2022 DYS Commissioner’s Awards
…strategies to navigate systems that do not always support and see them. Joining together in partnerships is how we create meaningful and impactful programming for our students within DYS.” Congratulations…