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…
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Excellence In Education awards: Living Our Guiding Principles award winners for October and November
…mission to improve the academic and life outcomes for the youth they serve. October 2022 The Metro Excellence in Education winner for October, 2022 is Samia Taste-Peterson. Samia began working…
CES welcomes a new SJE Specialist to the team
…East Longmeadow before moving on to working at UMass Amherst in new teacher education. She is currently working on her Education Specialist degree in Social Justice Education at UMass Amherst….
Skills-Based Health Education Workshop
In this three hour workshop, professionals learn how to use the MA Health and Physical Education Framework to plan, design, and implement skills-based units and lessons….
Palmer-Monson Family Network offers a “great, fun, safe place” for kids and parents
…and more to community members who need them. “They collect winter stuff for us to give to families, which is awesome,” White said. Another initiative the PMFN is currently offering…
Kathi Titus, M.Ed.
…youth who reside in institutional settings across the state (Departments of Mental Health, Youth Services, Public Health and County Houses of Correction). Titus taught at the high school level for…
Welcome new SPIFFY Coalition Coordinator, Amy!
…stewarding the Healthy Relationships Grant project, a collaboration between Safe Passage, Community Action, and Easthampton High School to support the Easthampton High School community in building skills to recognize, interrupt…
Unjammed: Using Technology to Transform Teaching and Learning in the Classroom
The Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) and its educational partners, the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) and Commonwealth Corporation, were among those selected by The Center for Educational Excellence…
SPIFFY and QHSUA Present to Ware Select Board
On June 3, 2025, SPIFFY Coalition Coordinator, Lexi Polokoff, and Project Director for the STOP Act Grant on Underage Drinking Prevention for Healthy Quaboag and the Quaboag Hills Substance Use…
U.S. Department of Education Issues Guidance on Federal Funds to Support Afghan and Other Newcomer Students
Today, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) issued a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) to Chief State School Officers detailing information about federal funds and resources available to support Afghan children and their families, who have recently…