It’s a Thursday morning at the John Winthrop Elementary School in Dorchester and Jaymie Silverman is multitasking. She’s on the phone, and she’s talking to a parent who just came in, checking in with a student, and preparing for an…
“It is calmer,” Laurie Acker, the City Connects Program in Minnesota, says of the brand new school year. “When Covid first hit it was an emergency and there was chaos. Then last year was extremely hard for teachers and students.…
News headlines keep echoing a dismal fact: across the country, children are dealing with the trauma of living through a global pandemic. This is true for both school-aged children and for young children ages 0 to 5. And as City…
Last October, Jannet Sanchez started working as a City Connects Coordinator at Boston’s Maurice J. Tobin School. Her first step? Learn about her new school quickly by building strong relationships with teachers. Classes had been going on for a month,…
Once upon a time, Shannon Stamegna thought she might go to law school. But after she started looking at educational programs, she found the social work program at Salem State University. “The description of the program and of learning to…
As students return to in-person learning inside their schools, many are bringing the traumas of the pandemic with them. Schools can help by providing integrated student support, a whole child approach that meets students’ academic, social-emotional, family, and health needs.…
Even though the pandemic has engulfed the nation, creating unprecedented challenges, City Connects is working with its funders and community partners to meet students’ and families’ needs. One example is in Minnesota. “This year, because of the pandemic, the needs…
“Preschool shouldn’t be like this,” Erika Griffin says of the Early Learning Center in Salem, Mass., where children have their own desks and their own bins of toys that only they can play with – all to protect them from…
