…passage. As part of its efforts to prepare youth for educational and employment opportunities post-discharge, the Department has made graduation events a significant moment for youth and families to celebrate…
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Despite Claims, PVCICS is Not a Model of Integrated K-12 Public Education
…Superintendent, Granby Public Schools John Robert Superintendent, Hatfield Public Schools Tari Thomas Superintendent, R.C. Mahar Regional, Orange and Petersham Elementary Schools Nicholas Young, Superintendent, South Hadley Public Schools Marlene DiLeo,…
‘School Local’ aims to promote city schools, will kick off with rally on steps of City Hall
…a community effort to promote public schools in an era where other options, such as private and charter schools, are able to afford the publicity. “The public schools, they don’t…
The Collaborative for Educational Services launches statewide Special Education Team Leader Institute
…will engage individuals actively facilitating IEP teams in their schools in learning experiences aligned to professional standards and best practices in special education leadership, and will ultimately cultivate a statewide…
Third Annual DYS Racial Trauma Conference Held on April 11, 2022
…Kenann McKenzie, Ph.D., Executive Director Generous Listening and Dialogue Center Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University on Using Listening and Dialogue to Create Restorative Communities; Edith…
Guided Discipline for Middle and High School Classrooms
This virtual professional learning series equips teachers to Organize classrooms to create optimal conditions for learning Implement a preventive, problem solving and restorative approach to discipline Respond to a wider…
Edna Olive
Edna Olive is the Associate Director at Engaging Schools. She has over 25 years of experience as a lassroom teacher, school administrator, coach, facilitator, consultant, and entrepreneur, with a focus…
School suspensions don’t work. It’s time for something better.
…meeting. “Cindy, what happened?” When it comes to student misbehavior, most schools have long practiced a basic system of crime and punishment, isolating the perceived “offender” through detention or suspension….
Supporting Access to Educational Technology
In 1987, schools and districts were not commonly thinking about educational technology as a means to level the playing field for student opportunity. But CES (then named HEC) Executive Director…
Rural School Aid awarded to local districts
…also chairman of the Massachusetts Rural Schools Coalition, which lobbied for the new form of school aid to rural towns. “The Massachusetts Rural Schools Coalition lood to continued partnering with…