The Massachusetts Teachers Association has proposed its own vaccination plan, teaming up with nurses, firefighters and EMTs to vaccinate teachers at every school district. It s an onsite program where we control the registration so it s efficient, it s effective, we want the governor to join us in that plan, said Merrie Najimy, the MTA president.
It s a plan that would allow teachers to forgo the online booking system. We can solve the problem of the debacle of the vaccine rollout, said Najimy.
The union says the idea hasn t been rejected, but so far, Gov. Charlie Baker has not signed on.
Superintendents in Middlesex County have ideas, as well. They re asking the state to have teachers vaccinated in school on a Friday in order to minimize school day disruption and to allow teachers a couple of days to recover from any issues.
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How to Help a Teen Out of a Homework Hole
The more students fall behind in the pandemic, the less likely they are to feel that they can catch up.
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Published Feb. 26, 2021Updated March 2, 2021
Pandemic school is taking its toll on students, especially teens. A recent study, conducted by NBC News and Challenge Success, a nonprofit affiliated with the Stanford Graduate School of Education, found that 50 percent more kids in high school report feeling disengaged from school this year than last. In December, Education Week reported that schools were seeing “dramatic increases in the number of failing or near-failing grades” on report cards.
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Ellen Braaten, a child psychologist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, fell in love with Prague when she spent seven months there on a sabbatical in 2018 and 2019. Following her sabbatical, she went back a few times to finish research she had done there, and she began thinking about how she might spend even more time in Prague while still keeping up with her Boston-based work responsibilities.
Then the coronavirus pandemic struck. Like many other professionals, Braaten found herself working from home and that presented her with the perfect opportunity to try managing her job full-time from overseas. “There was no excuse for me not to go back to Prague and work there,” says Braaten. “I had a choice to be in a place that I love.” Last fall she spent more than two months in Prague, where she used videoconferencing to attend meetings with her colleagues, teach classes, meet with patients and speak at virtual conferences.