March 24, 2023
Updates
Youth Mental Health Webinar Series
Dear Parents and Guardians;
We are excited to announce the Youth Mental Health Webinar Series through McLean Hospital. Throughout this series McLean clinicians will provide skills used for emotion regulation, general well-being and mental health awareness for parents to use for themselves and with their children.
Youth Mental Health Series Webinars for Parents/Guardians are available until April 5, 2023.
Understanding Teens: Brains, Protection, and Risk by Marisa Silveri, Ph.D.
Description: This lecture addresses many dimensions of teenagers. Beginning with a journey through teenage brain development, based on brain imaging findings, aspects of emotional and cognitive growth that accompany the teenage years will be discussed. These collective changes during the second decade of life will then be discussed from the perspectives of factors, protective and risk factors, associated with initiation and escalation of substance use, and issues with mental health.
Password: SCS2022
Taming the Perfectionistic Drive by Nathaniel Van Kirk, Ph.D.
Description: 1. Learn about the different forms perfectionism may take and how to differentiate between adaptive/functional perfectionism and mal-adaptive perfectionism.
2. Recognize signs of maladaptive perfectionism and its impact.
3. Learn strategies for combating maladaptive perfectionism and supporting high school students struggling with perfectionism.
Password: SCS2022
Mindful Parenting by Blaise Aguirre, M.D.
Description: Multitasking is considered a skill that many parents recognize as a capacity. The problem is that all evidence shows that the brain cannot efficiently multitask. In multitasking, rather than doing lots of things well, we end up doing lots of things not as well as we could have. Bouncing back and forth between tasks when caring for children can be distracting and stressful. Mindful parenting is another approach.
In this talk, you will recognize how mindful parenting can:
1) Help caregivers feel more responsive and less stressed
2) Recognize the benefits of pausing and then by stepping away from multitasking and be more effective
3)Model the practice for their kids with the goal of less reactive interactions
Password: SCS2022
Understanding Self-Harm for Parents by Michael Hollander, Ph.D.
Description:
1. Participants will understand the difference between suicidal behavior and NSSI.
2. Participants will learn how to validate the emotional experience of NSSI without condoning the behavior.
3.Participants will learn how to use Radical Acceptance and other Distress Tolerance Skills to stay on balance when managing NSSI.
Password: SCS2022
In addition to the above workshops, we will also be offering culturally sensitive workshops through Mclean hospital. Descriptions and access codes are below.
Culturally Sensitive Parent Mental Health Series Webinars are available until May 2023.
Spanish-Speaking Parent Communities by Presenter: Yudelki (Judy) Firpo-Perretti, Ph.D.
Presentation 1: Strategies to help your children understand and manage their emotions: Part I
Brief description: Provides psychoeducation about the function of emotions, the importance of co-regulation, and strategies to help caregivers model effective emotion regulation skills.
Vimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/751342118
Password: SCS2022
Presentation 2: Strategies to help your children understand and manage their emotions: Part II
Brief description: Provides caregivers with specific strategies to support their children in identifying and managing difficult emotions and challenges.
Vimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/751352808
Password: SCS2022
Brazilian-Portuguese Speaking Parent Communities by Presenter: Luciana Payne, Ph.D.
Presentation 1: Now what? What to do with emotions and behaviors I don’t understand
Brief description: Foundational strategies parents can use to help them maintain relationships with their children/adolescents and respond effectively to ineffective behaviors.
Vimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/754046032
Password: SCS2022
Presentation 2: Understanding depression and anxiety
Brief description: Providing psychoeducation on child/adolescent depression and anxiety and strategies parents can use to help support them.
Vimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/760872147
Password: SCS2022
Tannerfest
FREE OPEN HOUSE EVENT
Celebrating our K-12 Visual and Performing Arts Students
Woburn Public Schools is Hiring!
Special Education Resource Room Teacher - Goodyear
Grade Three Elementary Education Teacher - Long Term Substitute - Altavesta
Grade 1 Long Term Substitute Teacher - Linscott
Special Education Paraprofessional - Full Time With Benefits
ESY (Extended School Year) Special Education Teacher
ESY (Extended School Year) Related Service Providers
Special Education Paraprofessionals - ESY Program (Summer)
Upcoming Dates
Good Friday - No School
April Vacation - April 17-April 21
SPRING MCAS Testing- Dates will vary by grade level and will be communicated by Principal
Memorial Day - No School
"Get Ready Program" - June 1, 2023 for incoming kindergarteners
Graduation Day - June 2, 2023
Woburn Public Schools tentative last day will be on June 29, 2023.
Dismissal times are as follows:
High School - 11:00 AM
Middle School - 11:30 AM
Elementary School - 12:00 AM
Lunch will be served.
Resolution
Prioritizing the safety and well being of our students, teachers, and staff the Woburn School Committee has adopted a resolution that reminds us that secure storage of firearms is a legal requirement in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, pursuant to M.G.L. Chapter 140, sections 131L and 131C. A complete copy of this resolution is available on the WPS website.