Emerging From The Pandemic, Critical Education Issues Discussed At Westport Library Forum
On Saturday a panel of education experts address issues of concern to parents, educators and students at a forum held at the Library and organized by Toni Boucher, candidate for state senate. Boucher, who is in a race with Democrat Ceci Maher to fill the vacancy in the 26th district which includes Westport created by Westport's Will Haskell who is retiring to attend law school at NYU. Ms. Boucher was the former co-Chairman of the CT State House and Senate Education, Higher Education and Children committees among others.
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A distinguished panel of experts in the field of education discussed what we have learned from the pandemic about teaching, learning, child development and mental health and how that knowledge may help moving forward in education. The panel included Joshua Aronson (Panel Facilitator), PhD, Associate Professor of Applied Psycology, Directs Mindful Education Lab, New York University; Morgaen Donaldson, PhD, Phillip E. Austin Endowed Professor of Education Policy and Leadership and Associate Dean for Research at the Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut; Peter Valentin, PhD, Senior Lecturer and Chairman of the Forensics Department, University of New Haven; Andrea Leonardi, Assistant Superintendent and Head of Special Services, Wilton Public Schools; Bianka Kortlan-Cox, VP-Legislation and Public Policy, Connecticut Association for the Gifted and Jesse Balis-Harris, Achievement First, Interim K-8 Chief of Schools.
The panel discussed issues and took questions from the audience of more than two dozen area parents and several ugh school students for nearly two hours.
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