Category Archives: Lecture

Community Forum: Gun Violence Prevention in Newton 

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Newton PTO Council in Community Notes, Events, Lecture

June 1 Community Forum: 

Gun Violence Prevention in Newton 

*Thursday, June 1 (6:00-7:00 pm) June is Gun Violence Awareness Month. Join Newton Police, Newton Health & Human Services, and the Newton Gun Violence Prevention Collaborative on a Zoom webinar to learn about strategies to keep kids safe, store guns safely, and explore the ways that red flag laws can protect our friends, family, and community. Register at tinyurl.com/yc6y9u86 or for more info: https://facebook.com/events/s/community-forum-gun-violence-p/150484067887223/

Disrupting Implicit Bias Presentation

Posted on April 23, 2023 by Newton PTO Council in Community Notes, Education/Enrichment, From Our PTOs, Lecture, Newton PTO Council, Newton Public Schools, SEPAC

SEPAC is co-hosting an event with the Newton PTOC (Parent Teacher Organization
Council), FORJ (Families Organizing for Racial Justice), and ELPAC (English Learners Parent
Advisory Council). The event will be held at the Angier Elementary School cafeteria for those who are
able to attend in-person 7:30-9pm and over Zoom: 
HTTPS://US02WEB.ZOOM.US/J/83085228831 
MEETING ID: 830 8522 8831

We’ll first hear a presentation from Dr. Tessa Charlesworth, a researcher at Harvard who studies how
and why beliefs and attitudes about different social groups can change. Her presentation will
provide an overview of bias in society with respect to various social groups and explore what
research tells us are the best interventions to shift the biases of a society, organization, and
individual. Q&A and then a community discussion to follow.

UMass Amherst Speaker Series

Posted on March 5, 2023 by Newton PTO Council in Community Notes, Lecture

Come join us for an interactive conversation with

Edie Meidav, Professor of English, UMass Amherst

Meidav will read from Another Love Discourse, her highly acclaimed lyric novel about the play of grief, empathy, new and old love, and the quest to overcome blindness in human relations. Following the reading, Meidav will sign copies of the book. 

Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 4:00-5:30 PM

Shaw Hall, Mount Ida Campus 

Free and open to the public

RSVP: 617-243-1119; jhreynolds@umass.edu

Registration Link:  RSVP:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-reading-from-another-love-discourse-by-author-edie-meidav-tickets-503788564157?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

To join a pre-event book club, contact Jenny Reynolds (jhreynolds@umass.edu).

To purchase a copy, contact Amherst Books (books@amherstbooks.com; 413-256-1547).

Edie Meidav is the author of the prose collection Kingdom of the Young, and novels including Lola, California, and Crawl Space. Her previous work has been recognized by the Bard Fiction Prize and the Kafka Prize, as well as support from the Fulbright Program, the Howard Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation. A senior editor at the journal Conjunctions, she is a professor in the MFA program for Poets and Writers at UMass Amherst.