Kamilah Drummond-Forrester News

• Landmark Achievements
  

  From a study of how schools shortchange girls to our work on white privilege, these are some highlights from the past 50 years.
• The 74: An Educator’s View: The Empathy & Compassion Biden Talks About Are SEL Skills Every Child Should Have. How Teachers Can Help Students Learn Them
  Kamilah Drummond-Forrester discusses the importance of compassion--such as that Joe Biden often references--in the education of children in this Op-Ed in The 74.
• EdSurge: The Pandemic Has Revealed What Really Matters in Education. (Spoiler: It’s Not Tests.)
  Kamilah Drummond-Forrester, M.A., discusses what the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed about education in this latest Op-Ed.
• Project Director Testifies Before Boston City Council on Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Education
  

  Kamilah Drummond-Forrester, director of Open Circle, spoke on the importance of the social and emotional wellbeing of both students and teachers.Kamilah Drummond-Forrester, M.A., CAGS, testified at a hearing on reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Testimony: Reopening Boston Public Schools
  

  October 27, 2020

  The written testimony of Kamilah Drummond-Forrester, M.A., CAGS, presented to the Boston City Council Committee on Education.
• Hechinger Report: OPINION: Teachers will need to focus more on how students are feeling in these tough times
  

  Kamilah Drummond-Forrester of Open Circle discusses the importance of social and emotional wellbeing in education during at this time.
• WCW Hosts Workshop for Middle Schoolers on STEM, Digital Wellbeing, and Identity
  

  August 20, 2020

  The Wellesley Centers for Women teamed up with the Wellesley College Computer Science Department to host a virtual workshop that helped adolescents explore their identities, introduced them to STEM concepts, and taught them about healthy social media use.
• EdSurge: The Role Social-Emotional Learning Plays in Teaching White Children About Race
  Researcher Kamilah Drummond-Forrester, M.A., CAGS, of WCW discusses the role social emotional learning plays in teaching white children about race in this Op-Ed on EdSurge.
• Webinar Links Remote Learning, Social Technology, and Social and Emotional Learning
  

  July 31, 2020

  Two programs of the Wellesley Centers for Women collaborated to host a webinar that explored the roles of social technology and SEL in remote learning.
• Supporting Educators With Social and Emotional Learning Resources
  

  Open Circle offers virtual training and other resources for elementary school teachers, many of whom taught remotely for the remainder of the school year.
• Social and Emotional Learning Supports Restorative Justice
  

  Kamilah Drummond-Forrester, M.A., CAGS, explains why she believes social and emotional learning is critical for effective implementation of restorative justice practices.
• Foster's Daily Democrat: Schools Spotlight Social, Emotional Learning Amid Complex Times
  Portsmouth, NH elementary schools are beginning to adopt the Open Circle curriculum, which was developed as a WCW action project in order to promote SEL.
• Collaborating to Advance Equity and SEL
  

  Kamilah Drummond-Forrester, M.A., Gail Cruise-Roberson, and Sarah Fiarman lead a workshop on equity and SEL at Tufts University.The National SEED Project and Open Circle teamed up to facilitate a workshop on equity and social and emotional learning at Tufts University.
• SEL: The State of SEL in Massachusetts
  At a SEL4MA summit, Kamilah Drummond-Forrester, M.A., director of WCW’s action program Open Circle, discusses equity in social-emotional learning.
• Presentations & Convenings: Inaugural Women of Color Conference
  

  The Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) partnered with The Home for Little Wanderers for the inaugural Women of Color Conference held at Wellesley College in June 2018. This program—geared toward providers who work with at-risk youth and families across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts— highlighted the importance of self-care; offered opportunities for relaxation, renewal, and inspiration; and provided a context in which to view the critical work done on behalf of young women and girls of color. The conference was spearheaded by Joan Wallace- Benjamin, Ph.D., the recently retired president and CEO of The Home, one of the largest service providers in New England dedicated to ensuring the healthy behavioral, emotional, social, and educational development, and physical wellbeing of children and families living in at-risk circumstances.
• Wellesley Centers for Women Partners with The Home for Little Wanderers to Host Inaugural Women of Color Conference
  

  August 6, 2018

  Self care, rejuvenation, creativity, and empowerment were promoted throughout the Women of Color Conference held in partnership by WCW and The Home for Little Wanderers in June 2018 at Wellesley College.
• New Findings, Publications, Presentations: Education
  

  

  
  

  Scholars at WCW spoke at conferences and workshops on early child care and social and emotional learning, two crucial education areas.