School and mental health professionals met Wednesday morning for the Safe and Healthy School Summit for a discussion on ways to mediate the mental health challenges faced by students in…
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Conference draws 140 educators in discussion of how to manage race, polarizing conversations in schools
On November 17th, 2022 at the Log Cabin in Holyoke, the SPIFFY Coalition co-sponsored and co-organized the 9th Annual Safe and Healthy Schools Summit: Supporting Schools in Seeking Racial Healing…
Empowering Educators: Integrating the New Massachusetts Frameworks into Health Education
…skills to deliver health education lessons that enable students to learn the skills they need to make informed decisions and lead healthy lives. Please note: In order to earn the…
Flip-It Training
FLIP IT is a four step supportive strategy to help young children identify their feelings, learn healthy self-control and reduce challenging behavior. This workshop will teach participants how to respond…
Prompting with Purpose: No Hype, Just Help: AI Series for Educators
…work, and evaluating what comes back with a critical eye. No prior experience required. Just bring a task you’re actually working on and a healthy dose of skepticism. This work…
Gail Gramarossa, MPH, CHES
…Massachusetts Center for Healthy Communities and a public health and human services consultant. She has written successful grant proposals to SAMSHA, HRSA, MDPH, BSAS, USDOE, OJJDP, and numerous community foundations….
Early Childhood Programs Reduce Need for Special Ed
…and Family Policy, which is hosting the new data analytics project, tapped into comprehensive state public school data going back to the 1990s. They tracked two main sets of variables…
In Historic Win, Nationally Recognized Teacher Jahana Hayes Elected to U.S. House
…that we promise for our kids.” As a 15-year veteran teacher and administrator in the Waterbury, Conn., public schools, Hayes’ work with students has informed her views on education policy….
Raising MCAS bar was a move in the wrong direction
…be an innovative educational leader. The decision by the board undermines those efforts and is just an extension of a failed policy strategy that is not responsive to the needs…
Over 340 educators convene on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments: Bringing together Social and Emotional Learning, Trauma Sensitivity, and Positive Behavioral Approaches in Leominster, MA
…Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative, hosted over 340 educators from school districts across the Commonwealth at the Safe and Supportive Learning Environments: Bringing Together Social and Emotional Learning, Trauma Sensitivity…