…Massachusetts Center for Healthy Communities and a public health and human services consultant. She has written successful grant proposals to SAMSHA, HRSA, MDPH, BSAS, USDOE, OJJDP, and numerous community foundations….
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‘It feels good to do good’: Greenfield High School students participate in Community Service Learning Day
…Public Library, reading to students at Federal Street School and helping at the Moose Lodge. Principal Karin Patenaude said it was a great day for the students to give back…
Gill-Montague superintendent announces retirement
…be the right time for me to go,” Sullivan wrote to School Committee members this week. The School Committee has not formally discussed the issue in a public meeting, but…
Early childhood educator Barbara Black named Gazette’s “Person of the Year”
…Northampton Public Schools. “They need to experience the world.” It is Black’s dedication to those principles — to improving education for young children and their families — that has made…
Whately Elementary selects Kristina Kirton as new principal
…20 years, comes from the Holyoke Public Schools, where she most recently served as an administrator developing curriculum. Members of the search committee described her as student-first, and valued by…
Christine Shea
Christine Shea is the Director of Assessment and Accountability for the Westfield Public School District where she oversees the assessment system for the district along with central registration, the English…
Barbara Cheney – CES Profile
…to the area seventeen years ago, after teaching in the New York City public schools. Barbara’s students struggled not only with all the typical teenage issues, but with additional social…
HEC Academy in Northampton Celebrates Graduates of 2024
…worked with other Key Clubs including Northampton and the Kiwanis clubs of Northampton, Westfield and Holyoke. HEC Academy is a therapeutic, public day special education program for youth in grades…
Food policy council wins grant to turn hunger stories into policy advocacy
…and spin those stories into advocacy for improved public policies. Since 2022, the Hampshire County Food Policy Council, a resident-led coalition supported by the Collaborative for Educational Services, has been…
Educator Preparation programs win approval from the MA Office of Educator Licensure
…purpose of state approval of educator preparation programs is to assure the public that teachers and other educators who complete these programs in Massachusetts are prepared to educate our PreK-12…