The Public Schools of



The Public Schools ofBerlin and Boylston, Massachusetts The Berlin-Boylston Public Schools invite you to join us at 6:30pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, in the Tahanto Regional Middle/High School Auditorium as we offer parents and students this important, timely and beneficial presentation:Helping Your Kids Navigate Social Media, Social Problems and BullyingWhy are digital issues so challenging for parents today?? This presentation and discussion, led by Dr.?Elizabeth?Englander, will cover the myths that might be undermining parental confidence; broad issues to think about and why they matter (such as content, what is displaced by tech for today's kids, the impact of tech on brain development and behavior and relationships); and how to talk to kids about living with technology.? Everything is based on research, including rules & tips that parents rate as most successful.??Dr. Elizabeth Englander is the founder and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State University, a Center which delivers programs, resources, and research to more than?400 schools?every year nationwide. As a researcher and a professor of Psychology for 25 years, she is a nationally recognized expert in the area of bullying and cyberbullying, childhood causes of aggression and abuse, and children’s use of technology. She was named Most Valuable Educator of 2013 by the Boston Red Sox because of her work in technological aggression and how it interacts with peer abusiveness in general. In 2018, she was appointed to the Massachusetts Governor's Juvenile Justice Advisory Council. Dr. Englander was a Nominee for the 2015 National Crime Victims’ Service Award and is the Chair of the Cyberbullying Workgroup for the Institute of Child Development and Digital Media, collaborating with the National Academy of Sciences. Each year Dr. Englander trains and supervises graduate and undergraduate students and collaborates with multiple agencies around the State of Massachusetts and across the nation.?Dr. Englander writes for both academic audiences and for the public. She was the Special Editor for the Cyberbullying issues of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry-CONNECT and the Journal of Social Sciences, and has authored more than a hundred articles in academic journals and books. She is the author of Understanding Violence, a standard academic text in the field of child development and violent criminal behavior, and of Bullying and Cyberbullying: A Guide for Educators, published by Harvard Education Press. She has also written a variety of research-based curricula and educational handouts for communities and professionals. Reflecting her interest in educating laypeople, Dr. Englander has answered questions in a column for the New York Times (online edition), and she writes the column Bullying Bulletin Board, which is syndicated by Gatehouse Media in hundreds of newspapers nationwide.The presentation is free of charge. Brochures on topic related to this presentation will be available at the door. For more information, please contact: Carol Costello, Director of Curriculum & Grants, at: ccostello@. ................
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