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After his remote school days, Will Brown walks around Mattapan and Dorchester to refocus. (Max Larkin/WBUR)
Take away Will Brown’s commute to and from his home on the Dorchester-Mattapan line and he gets
time to think.
“After a school day, I normally go for a walk and just listen to some tunes, Brown says. Just. refocus myself, you know?”
Brown, a junior at Boston Arts Academy, is still learning entirely remotely. So in the afternoons, instead of a crowded bus from the Fenway, you ll find him walking through his neighborhood and reflecting on his life so far to a soundtrack of gospel, funk and Afro-Cuban.
Susan Cole, pioneering advocate for traumatized children in schools, dies at 72
By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated May 16, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Susan Cole.(Jessica Scranton)
Susan Cole was already the stateâs leading advocate for children whose learning abilities are hobbled by traumatic experiences when she took her work to a new level.
Along with her five students at Harvard Law Schoolâs Education Law Clinic, she began lobbying lawmakers to provide grants to Massachusetts school districts that set up trauma-sensitive environments. Facing difficult odds, they succeeded in getting the proposal added to legislation tightening gun laws, which was signed into law in 2014.
Non-English speaking students with diagnosed disabilities are routinely denied access to instruction and support in their native language, according to families, advocates, and researchers. Though state and federal laws require schools to address both language and disability, Boston schools too often accommodate just one.
By John Lee Grant |
Gabriela Vargas. (Courtesy photograph.)
Haverhill High School students want a greater say in their education, including how money should be spent.
For the past two years, a group of Haverhill High School students have been working with Massachusetts Advocates for Children and Harvard Law School looking to find ways to improve student success by creating a safe and supportive learning environment. Their group Haverhill Violence Intervention and Prevention or VIP, for short has been brainstorming with Harvard Law interns and addressing state legislators with the goal of improving relationships between educators and students.
Last Thursday, Haverhill High School senior and Student Council President Gabriela Vargas told the School Committee why student input is critical in achieving that goal.