The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has awarded the statewide Massachusetts Special Education Surrogate Parent (SESP) Program contract to Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), effective July 1,…
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The Massachusetts Migrant Education Program Partners with School Districts
The Massachusetts Migrant Education Program (MMEP) has developed strong partnerships and collaborations with school districts that have larger migratory student populations in the Commonwealth. These joint efforts benefit the migratory…
Early Childhood Focuses on Social-Emotional Wellbeing as the Foundation of Learning
The Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) early education programs first began in 1996, as preschool teachers and childcare providers recognized that many at-risk children were struggling with social-emotional issues. In…
Mass Cultural Council Funds Artist in Residence Working with the DYS Education Initiative
Artist in residence, Jenny Herzog, a singer, tap dancer, teacher, and director, will be working with the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) DYS Education Initiative this spring. The residency is…
Western MA coalition releases recommendations for minimizing the impact of trauma on young children involved in DCF
…grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families. This grant was one of only ten awarded in the country, and the only one…
Northampton schools eye ‘science of reading’ model, backed by $323K in grants
…competitive grant for which more than 80 school districts in Massachusetts applied. That grant came on the heels of another $154,000 grant from the federal government called the Accelerated Literacy…
$773K to support BHN’s childhood mental health program
…no matter how small. These grants will provide early education and care programs with the tools and resources needed to help educators identify kids [who are] struggling and support families…
Gill-Montague, Franklin Tech, Pioneer in regionalization talks
TURNERS FALLS — The Gill-Montague Regional School Committee gave tentative approval to a set of grant proposals that would allow the district — along with the Pioneer Valley Regional School…
Mary Connolly
…health education. She is also a health education consultant and helps many districts transform their curriculum from content based to skills based. As an author, Mary wrote Skills-Based Health Education,…
Excellence In Education Awards: Living Our Guiding Principles award winners for February and March
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…