The Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) is proud to announce the launch of the CES Center for Emerging Educational Practice, a cutting-edge resource hub dedicated to supporting PreK-12 educators and administrators, particularly those in small and mid-sized districts. This dynamic new website, emergingedpractices.org, provides free, practical, research-based resources to address some of the most pressing challenges in public education today. Empowering Educators and AdministratorsThe CES Center for Emerging Educational Practice is designed to support educators who face unique...
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May
2020
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CES moves ISTE Educator Certification Online, Offering Educators Flexibility as They Prepare for Sustained Digital Teaching
The Collaborative for Educational Services will offer ISTE Certification for Educators in a fully online format starting this month, increasing access to critical training as schools prepare for sustained remote learning. “When we moved to remote learning, many of...
May
2020
8
When Your Remote Classroom Is Your Car: How Some Rural Students Without Broadband Are Connecting
Even though school is closed, on a given day there are about a dozen cars lined up in the parking lot of Sanderson Academy in Ashfield with people using the school’s WiFi. Natalie Szewczyk is one of them. The 18-year-old has turned her Toyota Corolla into a mobile...
May
2020
7
Making music: Pioneer students design homemade instruments for music, engineering project
Middle school students at the Pioneer Valley Regional School in Northfield showcased their musical talents and engineering design skills recently during a combined class project through which they built and played musical instruments using materials found at home....
May
2020
4
The people’s principal: Jackson Street School leader says goodbye after three decades in district
NORTHAMPTON — Gwen Agna initially hesitated when she was offered the role of interim principal at Bridge Street School in 1993. She stayed up all night writing a letter to then-school superintendent Bruce Willard “about all the things I couldn’t do,” she recalled....
May
2020
4
Easthampton High team wins national civics championship
EASTHAMPTON — Before this week, Easthampton High School had never finished better than 19th at the national finals for the We the People competition. Yet on Monday night, a public school team from this small city learned that they’d done the unthinkable: They had...
May
2020
1
Sheffield Elementary School celebrates National Poetry Month with ‘poet trees’
TURNERS FALLS — National Poetry Month at Sheffield Elementary School usually centers around second-graders, who learn about the art form all year long. But this year, it morphed into a community-building project. Second-graders learn how to read poetry by studying...
Apr
2020
29
Frontier Regional School Sign Project Honors Graduating Seniors
(South Deerfield, MA) — The Frontier Regional School District has found an innovative way to honor its graduating senior class. Adorning the front lawn of the South Deerfield School are a series of signs containing the names and pictures of each member of the FRS...
Apr
2020
27
How to reach students without internet access during coronavirus? Schools get creative
This article about students without internet access at home was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. On the Friday before spring break at Meigs Middle School in Decatur,...
Apr
2020
26
Franklin Tech to open nursing simulation lab next school year
MONTAGUE — Construction of a new nursing simulation lab that Franklin County Technical School had planned to open this fall has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the school still expects to have the lab available at some point during the next school...
Apr
2020
26
Turners Falls High School seniors surprised with parade
MONTAGUE — The Class of 2020 is grappling with what has become an unusual graduation season, due to restrictions on large public gatherings that have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. Seniors at Turners Falls High School, probably like at most other high...
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