…have increased the financial burden for the remaining, aging population to pay for services and schools, and for finding replacement workers, town committee members and volunteer firefighters. Lack of adequate…
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Starting Strong Summit convenes early childhood leaders and stakeholders from across the Commonwealth
Worcester, MA — Key stakeholders from around the state, including early childhood and elementary educators, researchers, advocates, mental health and health providers, and educational policy experts; representatives from the Massachusetts…
Unjammed: Using Technology to Transform Teaching and Learning in the Classroom
The Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) and its educational partners, the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) and Commonwealth Corporation, were among those selected by The Center for Educational Excellence…
Building an Innovative Community for Special Education Team Leaders
CES Curriculum and Instructional Specialist in Special Education Laurel Peltier has been part of the team leading the statewide Special Education Team Leader Institute (SETLI) in Massachusetts since 2016, funded…
2017 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year Announced
Teacher of the year Sydney Chaffee, a teacher at the Codman Academy Charter Public School in Dorchester was among the nineteen educators honored at a State House ceremony last week….
Healthy Hampshire
…for: blog blog 2020 03 16 schools closed in massachusetts until at least april 7th charlie baker 2 ( Page 38 ) Building communities that support nourished, active, and joyful…
How one Massachusetts town turned around early reading program
MALDEN, MA — When Carlos entered Kristen Reidy’s first-grade class at the Salemwood School in Malden, Mass., nearly five years ago, his reading scores put him in the “at risk”…
Bill S.261 would support literacy intervention programs in Massachusetts
…Public Schools, said the bill would “reduce unnecessary special education referrals.” “We’re at 19.6 percent of BPS students needing special education, that’s one fifth,” she said. “Serious thought needs to…
Teaching Disability History: How the Civil War Changed Disability and American Government
…part of the project, Massachusetts Humanities awarded an Expand Massachusetts Stories grant to allow Emerging America and Disability History scholar Graham Warder to research and publish the compelling stories of…
Educator Preparation programs win approval from the MA Office of Educator Licensure
…Program approval is the process through which a program or sponsoring organization receives approval from the Massachusetts Commissioner of Education to prepare candidates for educator licensure in Massachusetts. The fundamental…