Northshore Education Consortium

Mental Health Professional Development: Understanding the impact of stress & trauma on learning

Chronic stress and trauma can derail learning and be a primary cause of challenging and disruptive behavior in the classroom. NEC seeks to provide professional development opportunities to its educators to help them better reach and teach NEC students struggling with mental health issues.

CATEGORY: Strengthening Partner Capacity
LOCATION: Beverly, MA
AMOUNT: $18,675
YEAR AWARDED: 2021
WEBSITE: nsedu.org


Perpetual Motion

Have you heard the Tower Foundation’s origin story?  It has now been freshly told by Cassandra Gainer in the recent issue of Traffic East, a Western New York journal celebrating entrepreneurial and creative energy.  Gainer interviewed daughters Mollie Byrnes and Cynthia Doyle in telling the story of Peter and Elizabeth Tower’s life together and how they came … Continued