SPIFFY Youth Steering Committee member Z Vamosy received the Youth Activist Award from the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth at their Annual Gay-la on March 30, 2024. This event brings…
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Department of Youth Services Guiding Principles awards for November
The Collaborative for Educational Services is pleased to announce the November winners of our regional Excellence in Education: Living our Guiding Principles Award! We continue to honor those educators across…
Jacqueline LaFrance
…hundred years of history at the elementary school buildings in Easthampton, commemorating their move to a new elementary school (see blog post with more information). Her presentation also included local…
‘Hour of Code’ engages Pioneer Valley students
…senior Zach Laprade, 18, of Southampton, was working with Teddy McCormick, 20, an engineering student at Holyoke Community College, on an activity that involved making two-dimensional creatures chase a hero….
Excellence In Education: Living our Guiding Principles Awards – February and March winners announced
The Collaborative for Educational Services is pleased to announce the February and March winners of our regional Excellence in Education: Living our Guiding Principles Award! We honor those educators across…
Frozen yogurt and a chance to celebrate working for healthy communities
…across Hampshire County and the Hilltowns; volunteers and community leaders; funders; and project representatives from organizations that included the Hampshire Regional YMCA, CISA, Grow Food Northampton, PVGrows Investment Fund, Amherst…
National award promotes use of educational technology in the Department of Youth Services
NORTHAMPTON, MA – Many young people who are involved with Department of Youth Services (DYS), the state’s juvenile justice system, have been challenged by traditional teaching approaches used in their…
Andy Craver follows Vice principal’s uplifting example in Turners Falls
…them up with love and laughter, going after goals with all your heart and helping others go after their goals. The award, appropriately called the McGraw Uplift Award, is given…
Orientation to Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum
…or more lessons between September 2022 and January 2023. Choose which lessons to teach. Provide written feedback online. Earn 10 PDPs (Massachusetts) on completion of written feedback. (Teachers from other…
Springfield Treatment Center wins first place in nationwide read-a-thon for students residing in juvenile justice facilities.
…series of prompts. Teachers submitted the reviews to CEEAS to be posted on the Unbound book review blog. More than 2,000 students participated in the read-a-thon. Brian Barrett, Teaching Coordinator…