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The philosophy at
MARC is that K-12 educators should benefit from personal attention
and, whenever possible, the help and presence of professionals from the Center. We generally
emphasize personal help and assistance in
implementing school change. Recognizing the burdens
that K-12 educators struggle with in our society, we seek to make
the program as little a burden as possible: our goal is to reduce
workloads, not increase them.
Faculty training
services are generally in-school and provided
by the Center's Director
or Program Coordinator. No school is
guaranteed that Dr. Englander will personally train their faculty,
although she does conduct the majority of these trainings.
MARC's in-service faculty trainings
for schools are generally
free of charge unless they occur during the summer. If schools have grant funding that would be
appropriate, we ask that they contribute some of it to MARC.
The demand for these
in-services unfortunately far exceeds our capacity. Because we
cannot possibly provide all the in-service trainings that schools
want, we also offer a Train the Trainer
Program (which does have a registration fee) which certifies
Trainers to impart basic knowledge to their colleagues. Both
the faculty in-service programs and the Train the Trainer programs
satisfy state law's requirement for professional development in the
areas of bullying and cyberbullying prevention.
TOPICS COVERED:
Our research program directly informs our trainings. Faculty trainings are designed to provide faculty members with
concrete skills in areas such as how to respond when bullying
is witnessed and how do online interactions between
children affect the behavior you see in school?
Cyberbullying is an enormously important area which is
growing in its influence on children and we always review our latest
research findings in these trainings.
MARC offers its anti-bullying programs to K-12
schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Currently, the program
is grant-supported and participating schools do not have to pay for
it, although they are asked to cooperate with the research.
Click
here to read a
description of our
K-12 Anti-Bullying Program
What
about faculty training to satisfy the new law in Massachusetts?
Please email
marc@bridgew.edu
with questions, or put
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