Serving Over 35,000 Students with Specialized Needs

Collaborative programs serve students with special needs, and are designed to provide high quality, personalized education. Most importantly, collaboratives help schools to offer inspiring and supportive learning programs to the students who most need it, ranging from in-district to outplacement and home-based settings.

Because they are locally based, collaborative student programs and services can be highly cost effective, while helping students stay closer to home.

Collaboratives work to identify emerging issues and develop innovative and specialized programming to help.

Some of the collaborative programming that supports students:

  • Special education programs, both in-district and outplacement, particularly for over 5,000 students with multiple, complex learning and therapeutic needs
  • After school programs
  • Vocational and school-to-work programs
  • Early childhood services
  • Supplemental education and therapeutic services
  • Virtual learning and the Commonwealth Virtual School
  • Recovery High Schools
  • Health and safety initiatives (including mental health)
  • Adult programming

“I never saw myself having a future and they showed me that I did, and a very bright one at that.”

– BiCounty Collaborative student

Massachusetts Collaboratives

Massachusetts collaboratives are educational services agencies that bring school districts together to form partnerships to create regional educational capacity and resources. Membership in MOEC is open to all DESE approved educational collaboratives.

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Partnerships for Change

MOEC is the Commonwealth’s primary advocate for collaboratives and the critical role they play in the Massachusetts educational system.

Leading Statewide Initiatives

MOEC and its members have a history of working with districts, often in partnership with DESE, to support statewide initiatives. 

Massachusetts Collaboratives

Massachusetts collaboratives bring school districts together to form partnerships to create regional educational capacity and resources.

Serving Students with Specialized Needs

Collaborative programs are designed to provide high quality, personalized education for students with special needs.

Bringing Expertise to Expand Capacity

Collaboratives support business needs, offer significant cost savings, and bring partnerships and expertise which expand district capacity.

Professional Development

Each year, collaboratives offer well over 300 training and networking sessions and 50 different professional learning communities, sharing exemplary educational practices.

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