…and fellow educators’ experiences teaching within inner city classrooms to illustrate how learning, activism, pop culture and society itself are perceived and shared via technology by today’s students. Attendees later…
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Joan E. Schuman scholarship inspires students to pursue their dreams
NORTHAMPTON – For over twenty years, Joan Schuman led the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), creating and nurturing programs and resources that sought to provide the highest quality education for…
Check out UMass Amherst’s SPHHS In-Person Career Fair!
…opportunity to meet bachelor’s and master’s level students from Public Health Sciences, Nutrition, Kinesiology, & Communication Disorders. Their Public Health graduate students come from respective programs in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health…
AESA Walter G. Turner Award goes to Senator Chang-Diaz and Rep. Peisch
…co-chairs of the Joint Committee on Education were selected for their outstanding contributions to the advancement of regional education programs in Massachusetts. Joan Schuman, executive director of the Collaborative for…
CES wins $60,000 federal grant to bring arts into DYS classrooms
…Programs at CES. Throughout the initiative, artists from four organizations (Performance Project, Actors Shakespeare Project, Merill Comeau Fiber Arts, and This World Music) will work with DYS teachers in classroom-based…
Dozens of lawmakers asking for education aid increase beyond Baker budget proposal
…that sum was not enough to maintain their programs and implored the lawmakers to bump up the funding in their versions of the budget. “It does seem to me that…
Winter 2013 Special Olympics
…on Thursday in the gym at Smith Middle School in South Hadley. “He loves basketball,” said Steve. “He’s been looking forward to this.” Maxwell was among 80 developmentally disabled youth…
The classroom hits the virtual road
…Easthampton. The 28 headsets are now available to classes and after-school programs at White Brook. “We’re thrilled they were able to help us,” said Rachel Achmad, a parent volunteer who…
U.S. Education Secretary Statement on Passing of Disability Rights Leader Judy Heumann
…had the right to physically attend public school, but that such students had the right to learn the same curriculum as their non-disabled peers. Her leadership is realized in the nearly…
Isolda Ortega-Bustamante
Isolda Ortega-Bustamante is the Director of Development for the Collaborative for Educational Services in Northampton, MA. She was the Director of State and Federal Programs for the Holyoke Public Schools…