WARE, MA – Initiatives initiated by the Special Education Director Heather Bish, that include a weekly newsletter and monthly “brainstorming” session with neighboring districts, were praised by the school committee…
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Empowering Students with Disability History: A Workshop for Special Education Professionals
This short workshop empowers Special Education teachers to integrate disability history and foster supportive attention to disability across the K-12 academic curriculum, by providing them with basic historical knowledge and…
DYS Education Initiative wins nationwide BreakFree competition
Woody Clift, Director of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) Education Initiative at the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), was thrilled to share that students from the Robert F…
AG Healey Reminds Public Schools About Laws Requiring Equal Access to Education Regardless of Immigration Status
…share this guidance.” Under state and federal law, state educational agencies and local school districts must provide all elementary and secondary students with equal access to public education—irrespective of race,…
Staff shortages throughout K-12 education are taking a toll
Openings are affecting student programming and services at a time we need them most AS 2023 OPENED, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education met on January 3 for…
Survey of Parents of Children with Special Needs
A parent involvement survey is now open to parents of students with individualized education programs (IEPs) in school districts in the special education data collection Cohort 4. Until May 29,…
CES Director Accepts National Award For Innovative Leadership
NORTHAMPTON, MA – When Dr. Joan Schuman was hired as Executive Director of what is now the Collaborative for Educational Services the agency was a “tiny provider of special education…
Silverback Learning Announces First Massachusetts Implementation Of Student Achievement Solution Mileposts Throughout Southbridge District?s K-12 Schools
…its students. Please visit http://www.swcec.org. About Collaborative for Educational Services Located in Northampton, MA since 1974, the Collaborative for Educational Services is a non-profit educational services agency, committed to reaching…
Teaching disability history in schools is ‘long overdue,’ advocates say
…of disability services and programs. The organization is behind a grassroots campaign to get more disability history into classrooms — something a growing group of advocates and educators are also…
CES Workforce Programs lead to multiple opportunities
In the spring of 2020, while the world was in lockdown and schools remote, CES Director of Workforce Programs Matt Rigney thought about ways to continue assisting students as part…