…South Hadley elementary school, Minnick said. “It was a very small agency in providing special education services and a little vocational education to schools in the area,” she added. In…
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Welcome new SPIFFY Coalition Coordinator, Amy!
…stewarding the Healthy Relationships Grant project, a collaboration between Safe Passage, Community Action, and Easthampton High School to support the Easthampton High School community in building skills to recognize, interrupt…
The classroom hits the virtual road
…20, the class took a trip to the ancient civilizations — virtually. “Look to your right,” Breier said to her class at White Brook Middle School. “That’s the Parthenon.” Students…
Early Educators Chart a Path from Self-Care and Cultural Responsiveness To Professional Growth
…of isolation. To respond to the problem — and with grant support from the Community Foundation in hand— the Northampton-based Collaborative provided an institute for early educators from Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin…
A morning of educational play for families from seventeen communities at the Holyoke Children’s Museum
…playgroups and family centers are funded by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, through the Coordinated Family and Community Engagement (CFCE) Grant. The centers provide programming for children…
Sarah Westbrook
…the QFT for a range of audiences, including NCSS, NSTA, NCHE, and ASCD national conferences; Chicago Public Schools; Cincinnati Public Schools; New York State BOCES districts, San Francisco Public Schools;…
Community leaders support local program for young children and families
…the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) in Northampton; and the Executive Director of CES, Bill Diehl. Ms. Susan Clopton and her husband, John Levine, donated $10,000 in a matching grant…
Families Embracing Anti-Bias Values: Film Screening and Discussion
…in their communities, and in schools. Families Embracing Anti-Bias Values (2024) is a companion to Reflecting on Anti-Bias Education in Action: The Early Years (2021), which received the Silver Prize…
Supporting Access to Educational Technology
…grants from the Federal Rural Utility Service and a Massachusetts Educational Technology grant, and worked with local districts to pilot distance learning courses for their students. The project began with…
SPIFFY and QHSUA Present to Ware Select Board
On June 3, 2025, SPIFFY Coalition Coordinator, Lexi Polokoff, and Project Director for the STOP Act Grant on Underage Drinking Prevention for Healthy Quaboag and the Quaboag Hills Substance Use…