Dear Kathryn,

I attended the conference on Student Suspension last September.  The work I do training teachers and providing school mental health consultation helps to answer the question “What supports are in place to help children with behavioral health issues?”  To that end, I am attaching a flyer to a professional development workshop I am providing in Hartford this summer.

If I can be of service to the Center for Children’s Advocacy in the future, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks for the great work you do!

Sincerely,

Susan Averna, PhD

Developmental and Educational Psychologist

Building Resilient Classrooms

www.resilientclassrooms.com

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/06/20/482472535/why-preschool-suspensions-still-happen-and-how-to-stop-them?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160620

This article ties together two of our seminar topics in the past year: Suspending Our Students: New CT Law and Schools’ Responsibilities (concerning Public Act 15-96 which bans suspensions in preK through grade 2, with one exception) and the impact of Implicit Bias (Confronting and Countering Implicit Bias) on those discipline decisions.

Contact Kathryn Meyer ([log in to unmask]) or Leon Smith ([log in to unmask]), if you’d like to learn more.

Kathryn Scheinberg Meyer, Esq.
Director, SpeakUp Initiatives

211 State Street, Bridgeport, CT 06604  (203)335-0719

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