FY2013 HIGHLIGHTS Everyone is a learner Collaborative for Educational Services Our mission is to develop and foster educational excellence and opportunity for all learners through collaboration and leadership. We are a community of innovative and effective professionals dedicated to improving education. We know that everyone is a learner from the day they are born, and we know how to create classrooms and other environments in which every learner can flourish. We know how to reach, inspire, support, and educate children, youth and adults, and we help others to do the same. BUILDING Everyone is a learner CAPACITY Front Cover: With support from a CES Alternative Learning Program, Brandon is back on track to graduate and attend college. Story on page 6 FY2013 Collaborative for Educational Services very year is filled with rewarding accomplishments and he Collaborative for Educational Services has always challenging new opportunities for the Collaborative, prioritized attracting highly skilled, dedicated staff E but 2013 has provided a unique chance to look back T who research best practices to inspire, engage and on our forty-year history and consider our future. support learners of all ages. As a result, we have identified the needs, and developed services that support the successful The retirement in early 2014 of Executive Director Dr. Joan development of our students. Schuman will constitute a big transition for the organization. When she was hired twenty years ago, the Collaborative Since the days of Education Reform, the Collaborative was a tiny agency, with a small but dedicated staff providing has nurtured centers for assistive technology, the use and special education services for a handful of member districts, interpretation of data, the teaching of English Language and a professional development department in its infancy. Learners, and developed expertise to meet the requirements of state and federal initiatives. It has expanded to bring quality Today, as a result of Joan's leadership and innovative spirit, education programs to incarcerated and institutionalized our membership has tripled, our budget is many times youth, established licensure programs across the state for what it was when she began, and the breadth of innovative teachers and administrators, and built technology supports services we offer to children, parents, educators, and for our own agency as well as for our member districts. communities is staggering in comparison. As we have grown both programmatically and geographically, Dr. Schuman’s understanding of educational trends, her welcoming Franklin County Districts into our membership and ability to network with state and federal leaders, her gift in changing our name to be more inclusive of our clientele, we hiring talented staff, her tireless advocacy for educational focused this year on building our own internal capacity and service agencies, and her vision for new possibilities for CES infrastructure. I believe we have accomplished that goal and have combined to make the Collaborative one of the most as a result, we are prepared to meet the requirements highly-respected, leading-edge agencies in the region. of the state's new legislation on educational collaboratives We are incredibly grateful to Dr. Schuman for her and whatever opportunities come our way over the next valuable work here, and the Board takes very seriously its several years. responsibility to preserve her legacy. To maintain the integrity I consider myself very fortunate to have been surrounded of the Collaborative, we must ensure that it continues to FY2013 REPORT by staff and board members who are creative, visionary and . evolve and remain relevant. passionately committed to serving young people, schools I look forward to a future with a new leader who shares and communities. As I near my retirement, I am filled with Joan’s commitment to providing excellent educational a sense of great pride for all we have accomplished together services to the educators and learners in our member to provide the best educational services that we can for districts and beyond. all learners. Sincerely, Sincerely, Lisa L. Minnick Joan E. Schuman, Ed.D. COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR EDUCATIONAL COLLABORATIVE Chair, Board of Directors Executive Director 1 HAMPSHIRE COUNTY Amherst-Pelham Regional School District Governance www.arps.org Superintendent: Maria Geryk he Collaborative for Educational Services is Board of Directors: formed by its member districts and governed Amherst-Pelham Regional Kip Fonsh by a Board of Directors comprised of an Amherst Elementary Amilcar Shabazz T Pelham Elementary Trevor Baptiste elected school committee representative from each member school district. Belchertown Public School District www.belchertownps.org In addition to the Board of Directors, two Steering Superintendent: Judith Houle Committees composed of the Superintendents of Board of Directors: Beverly Phaneuf Schools of the Franklin and Hampshire County Easthampton Public School District member districts, respectively, serve in an advisory www.easthampton.k12.ma.us capacity to the Executive Director. Both groups Superintendent: Nancy Follansbee meet regularly throughout the year. Board of Directors: Lori Ingraham Granby Public School District www.granbyschoolsma.org 2012-2013 Superintendent: Isabelina Rodriguez BOARD OF DIRECTORS FY Board of Directors: Dawn Cooke Hadley Public School District and STEERING COMMITTEES 2013 www.hadleyschools.org Superintendent: Donna Moyer Board of Directors: Robie Grant Hampshire Regional School District www.hr-k12.org Superintendent: Craig Jurgensen Franklin County Technical School FRANKLIN www.fcts.org COUNTY Board of Directors: Superintendent: James Laverty Chesterfield-Goshen Nichole Walden Board of Directors: John Carey Hampshire Regional Trish Colson- Montgomery Frontier Regional/Union 38 School District Southampton Elementary Kim Schott www.frontierregionalandunion38.com Westhampton Elementary Brigid O’Riordan Superintendent: Regina Nash Williamsburg Elementary Jeff Gelbard Board of Directors: Hatfield Public School District Conway Elementary Erin Beaudet www.hatfieldpublicschools.net Deerfield Elementary Kenneth Cuddeback Superintendent: John Robert Frontier Regional Robert Decker, III FY2013 REPORT Board of Directors: Cathy Englehardt . Sunderland Elementary Douglas Fulton Pioneer Valley Regional School District Whately Elementary Nathanael Fortune Northampton Public School District www.pioneervalley.k12.ma.us/PVRSD www.nps.northampton.ma.us Gill-Montague Regional School District Superintendent: Dayle Doiron Superintendent: Brian Salzer www.gmrsd.org Board of Directors: Vacant Board of Directors: Lisa Minnick (Chair) Interim Superintendent: Mark Prince R.C. Mahar Regional School District Board of Directors: Sandy Brown South Hadley Public School District www.rcmahar.org www.southhadleyschools.org Greenfield Public School District Superintendent: Michael Baldassarre Superintendent: Nicholas Young gpsk12.org Board of Directors: Peter Cross Board of Directors: Dale Carey Superintendent: Susan Hollins Union 28 School District Board of Directors: Vacant Smith Vocational & Agricultural High School www.union28.org smith.tec.ma.us Mohawk Trail Regional School District Superintendent: Joan Wickman Superintendent: Jeffrey Peterson www.mohawkschools.org Board of Directors: Board of Directors: Joseph Cotton Superintendent: Michael Buoniconti Erving Elementary Mackensey Bailey COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR EDUCATIONAL COLLABORATIVE Board of Directors: Leverett Elementary Sarah Dolven Ware Public School District Mohawk Trail Regional Patricia Bell New Salem Elementary Carla Halpern www.warepublicschools.com 2 Rowe Elementary Vacant Shutesbury Elementary Daniel Hayes Superintendent: Mary-Elizabeth Beach Hawlemont Regional Vacant Wendell Elementary Sarah Chase Board of Directors: Vacant CONTINUES As the Collaborative for Educational Services approaches its 40th year of service, we offer these reflections on our journey, and the many ways we have served learners through the years To Create and Lead Joan Schuman remembers: Joan Schuman, 1998 hen Joan Schuman arrived on August 1, 1993 as the new Executive Director of the Hampshire Educational Collaborative, W the 19-year-old organization was housed in cramped rooms in the old South Hadley Center School. Within six months the Executive Director small staff was packing up to move to larger quarters. Joan E. Schuman joined the "My first goal," said Schuman, "was to find new space for a new YEARS Collaborative in 1993 and will beginning." By the end of 1993, "We were in the only office building retire after a 20-year tenure. in the Northampton Industrial Park, had our first large grant to provide adult education classes throughout the county, and had replaced typewriters and word processing machines with computers." Founded in 1974 as the That was also the same year the Commonwealth’s landmark Hampshire Educational Education Reform Act was signed into law, bringing many more YEARS Collaborative, CES turns 40 in resources into schools as the state attempted to equalize funding 2014. Paul Stracco was there. among communities. Some of this funding came in the form of competitive grants, which the Collaborative sought at both the state and federal levels on behalf of its small member rural districts. As a result, Schuman said, "a number of innovative programs were started and many of those continue today." “Joan was always incredible at researching new ideas and