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Building Self-Awareness in Our Children
by Lindsay Weiner
Thursday, November 21 
8:30 - 9:30 am

Lindsay Weiner, Moderator
GVS has partnered with Yale-trained SEL expert Lindsay Weiner to bring a series of SEL-related workshops to Green Vale parents throughout the school year. Lindsay is an independent consultant who works with schools and families on implementing Social Emotional Learning. She also works for Yale's SEL program, RULER, as a parent liaison in Westport, CT schools. She is an experienced teacher who taught 3rd and 5th Grades in NYC public schools and Pre-K in Westport.

Kind & Careful Online Communication
by Katie Duffy Schumacher
October 22, 7:00 PM
Harris Theater

Lindsay Weiner, Moderator
GVS has partnered with Yale-trained SEL expert Lindsay Weiner to bring a series of SEL-related workshops to Green Vale parents throughout the school year. Lindsay is an independent consultant who works with schools and families on implementing Social Emotional Learning. She also works for Yale's SEL program, RULER, as a parent liaison in Westport, CT schools. She is an experienced teacher who taught 3rd and 5th Grades in NYC public schools and Pre-K in Westport.

"The Social Emotional Experience in Upper Elementary (3rd-5th Grade)"
May 15
8:30 am 

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"Success Strategies for Working Parents"
featuring Daisy Wademan Dowling
postponed

Dowling is founder and CEO of {Workparent}, whose mission is to provide working mothers and fathers, and the organizations that employ them, with the information and tools they need to succeed. Her passion is "to change the conversation around working parenthood." She is also a speaker, professor, and author who has written for  The Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

Her session at Green Vale will offer ten simple strategies that all working parents can use immediately to build more satisfying and successful lives. You will leave this session with: 

• Actionable tips for meeting the toughest working-parent challenges and effectively balancing home and professional responsibilities; 
• Techniques for communicating more effectively with colleagues, caregivers, and children;
• A greater sense of control over your calendar and career; and
• Connections to other working parents in the Green Vale community. 

"How to Foster Characteristics Like Gratitude, Resilience, Empathy, and Self-Control: An Educator's Survey of Best Practice" 
February 7
8:30 am 

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Harvey Bass is currently working on a PhD. in Information Science from Long Island University. His dissertation deals with using assistive technology to reduce or eliminate problem behavior in adolescents who have been diagnosed as autistic. He also holds MS and MBA degrees.

He will be joined by Melissa Noga, GVS Math Department, who uses manipulatives in her work as a supplemental/enrichment math specialist in the Lower School division. In addition, Tricia Allen will offer physiological expertise as an occupational therapist. 
 

Topics will include:

• The impact of recreational technology on fine motor skill development in today’s children
• Fine motor skill development at Green Vale
• Introduction of activity box and demonstration by occupational therapist Tricia Allen
• The life-long benefits of improved fine motor skill development – Harvey Bass

Attendees will receive a free box of manipulatives to use with children at home.

Please note this event is for parents only.

 

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​Nov. 29 | 8:30 am 
Presented by The Green Vale School and The Parent Collective with Lindsay Weiner.

Lindsay Weiner works with Yale University's Center for Emotional Intelligence to counsel schools and parents on how to prioritize and implement Social Emotional Learning. 

The Parent Collective offers prenatal and parenting classes in Manhattan, Fairfield County (CT), and Huntington, Long Island with a fresh approach that helps couples establish friendships among others living locally with children the same age and/or due at the same time.  TPC is an alternative to other "one and done" childbirth and parenting classes.