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McKamey & Clemons in D.C. to Discuss Nation’s After-School Programs
“This opportunity puts the Youth Development Program at RIC at the center of the national conversation about youth workers and begins to bring visibility to our state, our college and our growing program,” said McKamey.
To Repair Rather Than Punish, RIC Hosts Restorative Practice Symposium
“The goal of schools is to educate. Yet in Rhode Island more than 10,000 students were suspended last year, resulting in more than 43,000 days out of school,” said Colin Murphy, business and communications consultant for Youth Restoration Project (pictured third from left).
Universal Design for Learning and the Arts: A Seminar at RIC
Neuropsychologists have found that right-brain people have different skills and preferences than those who are left-brain. Universal Design for Learning is a framework for instruction that taps both sides of the brain.
RIC Trains Social Workers in Trauma-Informed Care
Grant-funded project targets mental health services for R.I. youth in the child welfare system.
Autism on the Rise - How RIC is Changing the Outcomes
RIC partners with Sherlock Center to create autism education certificate program
RIC Hosts 2014 STEM Career Expo for Girls
In a workshop titled “Learning to Make Things Fly,” students received a quick lesson in physics and built their own catapult.
Closing the Gender Gap in STEM Fields: STEM Expo for Girls
Rhode Island College ImpactWorkshop participants at the STEM Expo at Rhode Island College. (Photo credit: Tech Collective.)
Buildings That Time Forgot
Rhode Island College is on the ballot this November as referendum Question #3. If approved, it will provide $50 million in much-needed renovation- construction funds for three of the college’s aged buildings.
Are You Sleep Deprived?
Ben Franklin advised the Puritans, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” The problem is few Americans seem to be taking his advice.