Dr. Katie McBrine is a Pediatrician at Healthcare South in Scituate, MA who started to make her own Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when the hospital ran out. Students, parents and staff from our Somerville, MA schools joined online last Thursday, May 7th to learn how to make simple masks without any sewing involved.
Read MoreThe day after NYC public schools closed their doors, Principal Kourtney Boyd asked if the Citizen Schools New York (CSNY) team at P.S. 157 could help by calling parents and putting together a list of students’ tech needs at home. Campus Director Jay Torres was ready to deliver—at that very moment. She and her team of AmeriCorps Teaching Fellows had collected this information from the beginning of the school year, having prioritized parent involvement as an important driver of student engagement—“this is the core” says Teaching Fellow Brenda Amaya.
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