Category Archives: Special Programs

Snap-Judgement Society: Dr. Hinduja Counsels Cyber Caution to Williston Students, Parents

120403 0828Dr. Sameer Hinduja believes that modern technology can be useful—but only if it’s used in a responsible, positive way.

The co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center shared that message with The Williston Northampton School community this week. An evening presentation on Monday, April 2, was designed for parents, followed by a talk at all-school assembly on Tuesday morning.

In the evening, Dr. Hinduja encouraged parents to talk to their sons and daughters about online activity. He urged them to be involved and set ground rules.

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Cyberbullying Expert Sameer Hinduja to Speak to Parents and Students

Dr. Sameer Hinduja will visit The Williston Northampton School on Monday, April 2 and Tuesday, April 3.

Dr. Hinduja, an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida Atlantic University and Co-Director of the Cyberbulling Research Center, works nationally and internationally with the public and private sectors to reduce online victimization and its consequences.

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Embracing Diversity: A Day of Workshops and Collaboration

6912515797 84aa5ed14b o“We are more authentically human when we embrace diversity,” Mount Holyoke College professor Martha Ackmann told the assembled Williston Northampton School community at the start of the 10th annual Diversity Day.

The day would be filled with a variety of workshops—on everything from cyber bullying and Islamic awareness to Zumba and hip hop. But the morning was devoted to a trailblazer from the past: Toni Stone, a female baseball player whose grit and determination in the face of racism was on the leading edge of the civil rights movement.

See the full photo gallery from Diversity Day.

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Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographer Nancy Siesel to Visit Williston

dianaPhotographer Nancy Siesel will speak at The Williston Northampton School on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. Ms. Siesel’s visit is part of the School’s annual Photographers’ Lecture Series.

A former staff photographer for The New York Times, Ms. Siesel has a deep interest in the transformative power of documentary photography.

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The Economics of Coal: A Williston Northampton Field Trip

009 Mt Tom Power 020812The 21 students of the AP environmental science class trooped into the room at the Mt. Tom Power Plant.  The trip had been billed as a tour of the facilities, but the students weren’t exactly sure what to expect.

Would they get to see the control room? Other parts of the plant? Or just inside of this small room with its rows of chairs and plant diagram?

Station Services Manager Richard Merchant walked into the room and looked around at the seated students. He turned to a fellow engineer.

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