NY State Center for Rural Schools

The Harvard-led National Center for Rural Education and Research Networks (NCRERN) is now officially up and running. The past two days were spent getting oriented to the various components of the impact assessment process and to begin the networking amongst the teams from 30 rural school districts from all parts of Upstate NY. Tom Kane (PI) spoke this afternoon sharing what has been learned to date from Urban districts and other members of the Harvard team led various sessions. John Sipple led 4 focus groups examining all angles of Chronic Absenteeism in the 30 districts and was duly impressed with the experience, professionalism, motivation and knowledge of the participants.

The meetings took place over two days at the renovated Hotel Syracuse. The renovation is spectacular. First opened n 1924, closed on 2004, and then refurbished and reopened in 2016, this is a classic hotel with modern amenities. Fun to see.

The Mental Health Assn of NY is a great resource for student mental health issues. Read their Healthy Young Minds newsletter herehttps://www.mentalhealthednys.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Healthy_Young_Minds_September_2019_FINAL.pdf