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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Feb
2020
28
Government 101: Primary voting explained by a high school teacher
SOUTH DEERFIELD — What’s a primary? What’s a superdelegate? Why is Iowa such a big deal? What are we voting for, again? American democracy is complicated. Laura Moore, who teaches government at Frontier Regional School, understands this completely. In fact, she has...
Feb
2020
27
Meet Mack: Gill-Montague’s school comfort dog
TURNERS FALLS — A 5-week-old chocolate Labrador named Mack is headed to the Gill-Montague Regional School District next month to become the first full-time school comfort dog in Franklin County. Mack will work with School Resource Officer Dan Miner to establish...
Feb
2020
21
Warwick Community School Improv Club puts creativity to test with annual performance
WARWICK — Warwick Community School students let their imaginations run wild on Tuesday, pretending to be animals and creating spontaneous stories during an Improv Club performance at Town Hall. The 15 students in the school’s Improv Club gave a 30-minute...
Feb
2020
21
Teacher Lauren Brown set to temporarily lead Northampton’s Jackson Street School
NORTHAMPTON — A fifth grade teacher who is training to be a school leader has been named Jackson Street School’s interim principal for next school year. Superintendent John Provost announced earlier this month that he intends to appoint Lauren Brown to temporarily...
Feb
2020
20
Mass Association of School Superintendents Supports Attorney General Healey in JUUL lawsuit announcement
Paul Andrews, M.A.S.S. Director of Professional Development and Government Relation, represented M.A.S.S. today as Attorney General Maura Healey announced that her office has sued JUUL Labs Inc. for creating a youth vaping epidemic by intentionally marketing and...
Feb
2020
19
Resources for Social Justice in Education Work
In the spirit of Black History Month as a time to reflect and dig deeper into our commitments, CES would like to share some resources for those of you doing social justice and equity work in education. These come highly recommended by Safire DeJong, Ed.D., one of...
Feb
2020
12
School panel takes aim at gun violence
HATFIELD — In 1992, Anne Thalheimer was a teenager in her second year at Bard College at Simon’s Rock when her life changed. “I was writing a paper for his class … and then the phone rang, a voice telling us to turn out the lights, lock the door and get down on the...
Feb
2020
12
Pioneer Special Olympics bowling group connects ‘unified buddies’ with student athletes
ERVING — The sound of children’s laughter blended with the crashing and rattling of bowling pins at the French King Bowling alley Thursday during another week of the Pioneer Valley Regional School District’s Special Olympics bowling season. The annual program is...
Feb
2020
6
CES After School Program celebrates twenty years
The first CES After School Program opened at Palmer Middle School twenty years ago. Today, Palmer is one of only a handful of sites in Massachusetts designated as a Demonstration level site, excelling in multiple areas of programming. CES currently runs thirteen...
Jan
2020
23
Belchertown teacher named Grammy Music Educator Award finalist
BELCHERTOWN — Swift River Elementary School teacher Geoffrey Gould is in the running to take home Grammy gold on Sunday after being chosen as a finalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award. Gould, who was nominated for the award by a colleague, found out last year...
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