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Area Cooperative Educational Services received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars and Institutes Program.  The ACES project, entitled “The Long Civil Rights Movement,” is a collaboration between the ACES Institute, ACES Professional Development and School Improvement Services, and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.  The award, in the amount of $154,991, will support a two-week professional development conference at Yale University in June, 2018. The conference plans to expand teacher understanding of the civil rights movement from a finite 20th-century phenomenon to a 150-year continuum of American history that influences modern views and politics. Participation will be open to kindergarten to grade 12 teachers nationwide.  The grant is part of the National Endowment for the Humanities “Common Good: Humanities in the Public Square” initiative which seeks to connect the study of the humanities to current conditions in modern life. There were a total of 32 grants awarded nationwide.  ACES was one of only five organizations in the state of Connecticut to receive an award.  Based in North Haven, ACES is a regional educational service center that serves the educational needs of the 25 communities in Greater New Haven. ACES mission is to empower its students, member districts and other clients to meet educational and life challenges in the changing global environment by providing collaborative, customized, cost-effective solutions to meet identified needs in the educational community.  For more information on ACES, visit www.aces.org.