Dear Southern Worcester County Educational Collaborative Community,

Welcome to our website and our Collaborative.  SWCEC has been educating our Districts’ most exceptional learners for the last 49 years.  We are always here with open arms to provide students with care, nurturing, and excellent programming to prepare them for their eventual matriculation into the larger world outside of our campuses located in Dudley and Southbridge, Massachusetts.   

Our mission is twofold.  First, provide our communities with a diverse and robust array of programming, services, and professional development to enhance the teaching and learning experience.  The second is to do what exceptional Special Educators do best, and that is to put ourselves out of business.  By this I mean that everyone here at SWCEC is geared toward making our students as independent as they can be, hopefully to the point of no longer needing the specialized support, instruction, and therapy we provide by the time they move on to adulthood.  

Fostering student independence through care and rigorous challenge as well as developing long-lasting relationships is paramount to our vocation here at SWCEC.  While SWCEC is the smallest of the 24 Collaboratives in the Commonwealth, it does not mean that we do not do great things.  Our successful students flourish and regularly come back “home” to SWCEC to check in, reminisce, and talk about their own challenges and successes after leaving us.   

I am grateful that you have taken the time to visit our website and hope you have found valuable information about our Collaborative.  Our goal is to be responsive to the needs of our school districts and students while providing the utmost in care and educational opportunity for their continued growth as learners to become productive members of their community.  If you have more questions about SWCEC do not hesitate to call us or even schedule a time for a visit.  We would be thrilled to have you here. 

Yours in education,

Arnold Lundwall

Executive Director, SWCEC