The East Bay Educational Collaborative is closing. We are selling inventory, furniture & misc items on FB Marketplace under East Bay. Pickup only @ 317 Market St. Warren RI, go to the door with blue awning behind the building.
04/30/2024
Raising the Bar in 3D Learning and 3D Assessment. Available for the 2024-2025 School Year!
Smithsonian Science for the Classroom (K-2)
Celebrate National AT Awareness Day with ATAP on April 3rd from 2:30pm-5:30pm at the Warwick Public Library located at 600 Sandy Lane.
The Rhode Island ATAP is designed as a statewide partnership, each with a targeted assistive technology focus, working together to improve access to acquisition of assistive technology for individuals with disabilities.
ATAP Partners include ORS as the lead agency, Adaptive Telephone Equipment Loan Program (ATEL), East Bay Educational Collaborative (EBEC), Ocean State Center for Independent Living (OSCIL), and TechACCESS of RI. There will be other AT focused state agencies present to celebrate with the ATAP Partners.
Below there is a link to sign up for the event. It is free! Great information and great programs working together.
C-OSE Free Event!
Hear what makes Carolina’s version different than all the rest.
See how EBEC’s partnership with Carolina can make implementation easier with materials, refurbishment and professional development.
Examine the user-friendly printed Teacher Guides and Student Editions.
Explore the hands-on materials.
Compare the Carolinascienceonline.com experience to the other versions.
Register here: https://ebecri.libcal.com/event/12306064
03/13/2024
Assistive Technology Awareness Day!
03/06/2024
Assistive Technology Awareness Day!
TECHNOLOGY AWARENESS DAY!
April 3, 2024, from 2:30-5:30PM @ The Warwick Library
We will celebrate with guest speakers, displays of assistive technology, and refreshments!
We will also be presenting the Assistive Technology Access Partnership AT Champion Award!
The ATAP Assistive Technology Champion Award was established in 2023. It is the Rhode Island Assistive Technology Access Partnership’s (ATAP) award recognizing outstanding achievements of an individual or agency that champions the use of assistive technology for individuals with disabilities.
Nominees for this award are individuals using AT to reach their goals and maximize their independence or agencies/programs/advocates that have impacted the lives of individuals with disabilities in the area of assistive technology.
The award nominee can be a(n): Individual with disabilities who uses AT; Professional providing services; or
Agency/Program/Advocate working on behalf of individuals with disabilities.
03/05/2024
Teacher Assistant Training starts May 15th, 2024.
This course includes six on-site sessions & materials. Click here to register https://ebecri.org/taprogram
01/03/2024
Teacher Assistant Training starts January 23, 2024!
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East Bay Educational Collaborative (EBEC) is celebrating its 30th year of K-12 support to districts, schools, and educators!
EBEC provides a wide variety of nationally recognized educational services, K-12, for professional development, science materials resources, as well as an alternate secondary career academy school. Services also include Assistive Technologies, Teacher Assistant Training, and Restorative Justice training.
The Science Kit program is housed in the EBEC Science Materials Resource Center (MRC). The MRC provides nationally developed science kits such as FOSS, Carolina Building Blocks 3D, and Lab-Aids SEPUP kits. It also, through significant grant funding, provides high schools with the newest high school NGSS aligned curriculum programs with teacher professional development for Physics, Chemistry, Earth & Space Sciences, and Biology. Annually, science curriculum kit materials are provided to over 100,000 students in classrooms Rhode Island., Massachusetts, Connecticut, and most recently New Hampshire.. We not only provide the complete science curriculum kits, but also provide subsequent refurbishment of science kits after each usage to insure economies of scale and sustainable support to classrooms. This insures teachers and students have everything they need for teaching and learning.
EBEC is also home The A. William Josephs Career Academy (AWJCA) which currently has 65 students enrolled. The AWJCA is committed to providing a safe and nurturing learning environment in an alternative setting that promotes high expectations and success for all students through differentiated and individualized instruction. Our program was established to allow all of our students to become skillful learners who are responsible and productive members of society.
In 2016 though 2019 EBEC received grants from the U.S. Office of Naval Research and has provided teachers in over 45 high schools approximately $1,000,000 total in free NGSS STEM resources and professional development for Physics, Chemistry, Earth & Space Sciences, and Biology,, PD, with stipends to teachers for implementation research.
EBEC is also currently in partnership with the US Math Recovery Council provided trainings for Math teachers.
Other partnerships include Lab-Aids, Woods Hole Oceanographic, JASON Learning, Roger Williams Park Zoo, and the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
History of East Bay Educational Collaborative:
In 1989 EBEC was established by the R.I. Legislature as one of four regional collaboratives. Services began with grant funding to provide collaborative services in Science and Mathematics headed up by Ron DeFronzo and Judy Droitcour. In 1990 they continued working to improve and promote Math and Science teaching in collaboration with other districts.
By 1995 EBEC, with a KITES grant, we began to implement Science Kit inquiry based, hands on resources to make education most effective in the time allotted for science class. At that time EBEC provided science kits to its eight member districts, housed in a 30 x 50 foot library basement. By the fall of 1996 it had outgrown that space and moved to our current location 317 Market Street in Warren where we currently provide & refurbish kits using a warehouse that is half an acre in size
In 1993 the Husky alternative program was created in a local high school in order to provide an alternative learning environment to students who were not finding success with traditional education. That program established a much needed model of support for high school students that were not successful and on track to graduate. It found quick success. Before long Husky outgrew the space provided in the High school, and Mr. A. William Josephs & Gerald Kowalczyk found that their missions aligned and The East Bay Educational Collaborative moved into the EBEC building. From a staff of 4 with 12 enrolled to a staff of 15 and 65 enrolled.
In 2004 EBEC professional development support for all content areas and the MRC for science materials was charged with an expanded mission by its Board of Directors. Having developed a successful model of recognized support for all its services to its original eight member districts, the Board established an Office of Client Services. It then hired Ron Kahn who had been serving as a high school science specialist, to be Director of Client Services and market offerings of all services to a regional market in New England. Since that time services are now offered across Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and in New Hampshire.
Currently, Donna Ottaviano, Ed.D. the EBEC Executive Director for the past six years has expanded services to include involvement with the R.I. School Superintendents Association. Donna was a former Superintendent of the Year and served on the RISSA board of directors. She has promoted the expansion of the EBEC
Since its founding EBEC has received numerous recognition awards and grants. It was recognized by the Governor’s Blue Print Commission on STEM education for its outstanding science program support. Additionally, grants were received
