NORTHAMPTON: Despite the rainy weather, staff and students from HEC Academy (an alternative middle and high school in Northampton, MA managed by the Collaborative for Educational Services) participated for the…
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‘Hour of Code’ engages Pioneer Valley students
…and accessible. She and her classmates at Mount Tom Academy — an alternative high school at Holyoke Community College — were among the millions of students participating this year. Conceived…
HEC Academy holds graduation ceremony, honors seven students
Northampton, MA — In ceremonies held this morning at Smith College’s Sage Hall, seven area students from HEC Academy in Northampton graduated from high school. Keynote speaker James Arana, Associate…
Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) helps teachers communicate with students who have difficulty speaking
NORTHAMPTON, MA – Imagine how isolating and frustrating it would be if you couldn’t speak clearly enough to be understood. There are many students across Massachusetts in this situation. Luckily,…
Students are still struggling in the classroom
…4 Americans fail to get their high school degree on time. And despite reforms in the school curriculum and technology, achievement gaps have yet to narrow. Diehl has been an…
Monte’s March
…Greenfield. Students in both the Sunderland program and HEC Academy in Northampton together raised $1,234 (an easy sum to remember) through a penny drive and a school craft fair. The…
Staff shortages throughout K-12 education are taking a toll
…to meet the needs of all students. While all students are impacted, those students who have the greatest need are the very ones who are most profoundly feeling the impact…
Survival Skills For Superheroes: How We Understand and Assist Struggling Students
Now more than ever, educators need to understand the daily challenges that students face and the impact that those challenges have on learning. We need to be prepared to offer…
Building Classroom Cultures That Inspire Successful Students and Peaceful learning Environments
…ideas to develop expectations/communication for students, ways to integrate important skill development into our classroom routines and to embrace the management of challenging behaviors/attitudes as students struggle. This will be…
UMass Amherst receives $4.4 million grant to train students in cybersecurity
…Services, a Northampton nonprofit that recruits high school students for careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — particularly those who are students of color or come from low-income backgrounds….