When students engage in violent or other disturbing behavior in their schools, administrators will often suspend or expel them as a strategy to keep schools safe. Critics of this kind of traditional discipline point out that its effectiveness hasn't been proved, and that expulsion creates a higher risk of school dropout. A conference this summer at Keene State College will examine other ways of creating effective school disipline while maintaining control in the face of school violence. Educators from around New England will spend the week of August 10-14 addressing the question at the annual summer workshops sponsored by the Institute on Emotional Disabilities. In groups representing early childhood, elementary schools, secondary schools, and school administration, they will work collaboratively and with experts in the field to explore ways of changing students' behaviors while they remain in school.
Some spaces are still available in each of the four areas.
Academic credit is available. Top Meryman Portraits of Sagendorphs Donated Two portraits by Richard Summer Meryman will be on display at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery from Saturday, June 20, through Wednesday, August 5, during an exhibition of works by Alexander James. N.H. Robb Sagendorph was founder and publisher of Yankee magazine. His wife, an artist, was the benefactor of the original Thorne Gallery, named after her mother, Louise Thorne of Chicago. Born in Boston in 1882, Meryman first studied art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School.