Dr. Shawn Fortin is the Director of Teaching and Learning for the Belchertown Public Schools. He has fifteen years of experience in public K-12 education in MA and has used…
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2024 CADCA National Leadership Forum
Along with numerous staff from other Western MA prevention coalitions, SPIFFY Coalition Coordinator Amy Cronin DiCaprio and SPIFFY Policy, Youth, and School Coordinator Lexi Polokoff attended the 2024 CADCA National…
Lori Allen
Lori Allen is the Director of the Belchertown Family Center. She earned her BA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and received her High School English licensure in…
Area schools turn to Google’s online software solutions
…for word processing, storage, presentations and other functions. The students in Michele Andrews’ fifth grade class at R.K. Finn Ryan Road School quickly found the waffle on their screens and…
Focus on Teaching Students in Poverty
…away as Alaska and Wyoming, and as part of the 2019 ASCD Conference on Educational Leadership. It continues to be an important part of the CES focus on social justice…
From “flat Earth” to climate change denial, kids are deluged with fake science. Now teachers are fighting back
Melissa Lau, a middle-school science teacher in Piedmont, Oklahoma, with over 19 years of experience, stood by the doorway of her classroom as the last few of her first-period sixth…
CES Instructor Danielle Maco earns BreakFree Educator Badge
…initiatives with her students since the 2018-2019 school year. BreakFree Education, a national organization that partners directly with juvenile justice agencies, provides educational programs that “inspire and engage students held…
GusNIP Produce Prescription Program boosts healthy food availability and support for local residents
…the foods locally that support better health. A lot has been accomplished. In 2019, the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) and 10 other partner organizations, including the Hilltown Community Health…
Story exhibit on May 1st highlights action-oriented conversations around anti-racism
…separate or isolated.” The plan in 2019 was to create a physical exhibit for the stories that were collected so far, but when schools closed in March 2020 due to…
‘You’re braver than you believe’ Smith Voc sends 122 grads out into world
…campus on Thursday to cheer on Smith Vocational’s class of 2019. The vocational school saw 122 students graduate this year, almost all of whom were present to walk across the…