Amy Newman has been a teacher in Jewish day schools for fifteen years, and has taught every grade from kindergarten through twelfth. Currently, Amy is a teacher and instructional coach at Schechter Boston. Previously she worked at Gann Academy: the New Jewish High School of Greater Boston, and the Ramaz School. Amy has a BA in Jewish Studies from McGill University, an EdM in Learning and Teaching from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is a graduate of the Drisha Scholars Circle.
May 06, 2021
While some experts believe spanking should not be done as it can interfere with children’s healthy development, others believe that its use as a mild disciplinary tactic can be effective.
The Straits Times
When a family member’s young son slipped from her hands and tried to make a dash into busy traffic, she caught him just in time – then she slapped him on his bottom. He howled, more from indignation than pain.
I asked her why she had smacked him.
He needs to understand the danger he’d exposed himself to, she said, so next time he’ll be more careful. This way he would remember, she said.
Keynote speaker Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization
At nursing leadership event, speakers cite critical role for nurses in vaccination campaigns, call for vaccine equity among wealthy and developing nations
May 5, 2021 – Nurses and nursing leaders can play a significant role in supporting the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in countries in the developing world, according to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization.
Throughout history, nurses have played a key role in advocating for and in delivering vaccines, said Okonjo-Iweala in her keynote address at an April 29, 2021, virtual workshop on “Vaccine Equity in the Time of Pandemics: The Role of Nurses in Vaccination Programs.”
For immediate release: May 5, 2021
Boston, MA – Recognizing the urgent need to elevate nursing and midwifery leadership around the world, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Graduate School of Education, together with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), have launched the Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program to give ministry-level nurses and midwives a foundational understanding and field experience in global public health and population health management.
The program formally kicked off on April 29, 2021, during World Immunization Week, with a two-hour virtual workshop featuring a keynote address from Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Utica tutoring program offers one-on-one help, mostly to immigrant children Amy Neff Roth, Observer-Dispatch
Here are a few things to know about Watson-Williams Elementary School fifth-grader Friday Moon.
She was born in Thailand, but came to the United States as a baby.
She was born on a Friday.
“So my mom, being her, said let’s name her Friday because she couldn’t think of anything better,” the 10-year-old said.
She loves reading, especially “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” but finds fifth-grade math a bit frustrating with equations full of parentheses, exponents and different math operations.
So when the Midtown Utica Community Center started offering Zoom tutoring during the pandemic, Friday signed up.