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The Center for Emerging Educational Practice

This new Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) resource is just for you – and stands on the cutting edge of advances impacting preK-12 public education—delivering the practical resources created through the work of talented consultants bringing innovative, equity-centered solutions to schools and communities.

The work of the CES specialists combine expertise across multiple disciplines—content specialists, social justice trainers, instructional technology, research, and evaluation—to advance education through comprehensive and customized approaches, grounded in an equity lens and responding to challenging district, school, and educator concerns. We now offer the Center to hold for educators some of the practical, evidence-based tools, guides, and frameworks developed through that work.

The Center for Emerging Educational Practices Mission

The mission of the Center for Emerging Educational Practice (CEEP) is to convene interdisciplinary teams from within CES and our network of partners to develop accessible resources tailored to a diverse range of audiences. From teachers and education leaders to practitioners, caregivers, policymakers, researchers, and other education decision-makers, CEEP collaborates with experts and practitioners to create resources that support, inspire, and inform. Our process is iterative, driven by reflection, dialogue, and design to address pressing needs in the educational community, with a focus on the unique contexts of small and mid-sized districts.

We invite educators to explore and use these resources.

 

The CES Center for Emerging Educational Practice serves as a resource hub for teachers, education leaders, practitioners, care-givers, policy-makers, researchers and other education decision-makers who are working to ensure that all students thrive, especially in the unique contexts of small and mid-sized districts.

We offer practical toolkits, research-based guides and tips, as well as professional development opportunities for educators who want to grow their own professional practice and improve educational systems at every level – classrooms, schools, districts and communities. 

The online, downloadable resources created for the Center are available for educators free of charge, through Creative Commons licenses. We invite educators to apply and adapt the tools and guides housed on the Center for their own use. 

AI Policy Starter Kit

Resources for district/school leaders to draft AI guidelines, recommendations & policy.

    Generative AI Toolkit

    A toolkit that supports the metacognitive processes for critical engagement & dialogue.

      Equity audits and inquiry cycles: A practical starter kit

      To equip educators & leaders, especially in smaller districts, with critical knowledge, understandings and tools needed to undertake ongoing cycles of humanizing inquiry, and the systematic, relational work of creating conditions of equity in schools.

        Teacher-Student Boundaries: A Guide for Secondary Educators

         A trauma informed, developmentally appropriate,  culturally responsive guide for secondary educators     

          Meet the AI in the Classroom Team

          Contact the team at emerginged@collaborative.org.

          Sahara Pradhan M.Ed.

          Sahara Pradhan is an experienced researcher and evaluator with a focus on qualitative methods and applied social research. She is currently completing a PhD at the College of Education at UMass-Amherst, and just completed a term as managing editor of Comparative Education Review. She is also ...

          Position: Research and Evaluation Specialist

          Email: spradhan@collaborative.org

          Suzanne Judson-Whitehouse

          Suzanne Judson-Whitehouse is the CES Online Learning Manager. In this role, she leads the development of online courses with a focus on inclusive practices for online course development, faculty training and multi-media and production services in support of online (synchronous and ...

          Position: Online Learning Manager

          Email: sjudsonwhitehouse@collaborative.org

          Rebecca Mazur Ph.D.

          Rebecca Mazur, PhD is an educational researcher and evaluator, and a former high school librarian. She has designed and conducted studies investigating a variety of educational phenomena including system factors that support or constrain student learning outcomes, teacher support networks, ...

          Position: Senior Evaluation Research Specialist

          Email: rmazur@collaborative.org

          Casey Daigle

          Casey has been co-creating with educators and edtech for 14 years. As the Digital Learning Manager for the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), Casey's work explores how we invite connection and imagination through technology. Her expertise centers on program development, ...

          Position: Digital Learning Manager

          Email: cdaigle@collaborative.org

          Phone: (413) 588-7050

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