…Share Your Art – Share Your Voice! Exhibition showcases the work of youth involved with the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, the state’s juvenile justice system. Share Your Art –…
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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…
HERD INSTINCT Smith Voke students find lesson in the barn
…academic courses, one week in vocational programs ranging from cosmetology to criminal justice. In the animal science program, which has around 50 students this year, they learn grooming, artificial insemination…
CES wins $60,000 federal grant to bring arts into DYS classrooms
…Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS). The Artists in Juvenile Justice Initiative will bring performance, digital media, and visual arts to DYS classrooms around the state. “We are thrilled to…
Moilanen named 2016 Local PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator
…Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), and Commonwealth Corporation, were among seven juvenile justice agencies nationwide that were selected by CEEAS to participate in the “Unjammed Initiative.” Moilanen and the other…
Megan Ronzio
…at a local therapeutic residential/day school and as a case manager for both the Justice Resource Institute in Boston and South Shore Mental Health in Quincy. Megan moved to the…
10th Annual Share Your Art, Share Your Voice
…DYS’s year-round arts programming and included an Art Gallery and sale, and live performances by youth in the Massachusetts juvenile justice system. The artwork displayed at the event included paintings,…
Mel Motel
…behavior without relying on punishment as the solution. Mel has taught Vermont middle and high school students and currently teaches “Community and Restorative Justice” at the Community College of Vermont….
Mass. Center for Civic Education promotes engaged citizenship among students
…by the National Bicentennial Commission for the U.S. Constitution, chaired by former Chief Justice Warren Burger. Since the project was launched, it has been used in over 200 Massachusetts schools….
David L. Hudson Jr.
…much of his career, he has worked on First Amendment issues. He serves as a Justice Robert H. Jackson Legal Fellow for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and…