Webinars

2022 Webinars

Our webinars are free and open to the public but you have to register to attend.

Upcoming webinars

May 19, 7-9:00pm. Privatization and the Assault on Public Education. Join us for a conversation with authors Donald Cohen and Tim Tyson at the Hunt Library. Register here.

May 23, 7-8:30pm. Resilience Film Screening. Join us for this award-winning, 60-minute film, Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope! This powerful movie is a conversation-starter and a perspective-changer. This documentary examines how abuse, neglect and other adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) affect children’s development & health outcomes in adulthood. Register here.

June 20, 7-8:30pm. Resilience Film Screening. Join us for this award-winning, 60-minute film, Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope! This powerful movie is a conversation-starter and a perspective-changer. This documentary examines how abuse, neglect and other adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) affect children’s development & health outcomes in adulthood. Register here.

Completed webinars

Privatization and the Assault on Public Education. In this in-person event at the Hunt Library, NCSU, authors Donald Cohen and Tim Tyson discuss the problems associated with privatizing public goods such as education.

NC Pre-K: Possibilities and Barriers. Discussion about NC’s (and federal) Early Childhood Education (ECE) policies and the NC Pre-K program with Elizabeth Byrum, Policy Analyst with NC Child, and Dawn Dawson, Senior Director, Office of Early Learning, Wake County Public Schools.

Special Education: Supporting Students’ Abilities When a Disability Exists. Panel discussion with school psychologists, special education teachers, and parents to discuss the current crisis in providing special education services to our students and ways we can improve the system.

Teacher Pipeline: What Are We Going to Do? Join us for a conversation with Bryan Proffitt, Vice President of the NC Association of Educators to discuss NC’s teacher pipeline problem.

NC School Social Workers in Action. The value of school social workers has never been more evident and critical than during the last two years. Learn more about the role social workers play in providing students and their families the services they need to stay in school and be successful.

Resilience Film Screening. Join us for this award-winning, 60-minute film, Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope! This powerful movie is a conversation-starter and a perspective-changer. This documentary examines how abuse, neglect and other adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) affect children’s development & health outcomes in adulthood.

School Social Workers in NC: Needed More Now Than Ever. The value of school social workers has never been more evident and critical than during the last two years with COVID, virtual learning, families losing jobs, homes, and loved ones to COVID, along with the increase in the numbers of students reporting mental health issues.

Overview of School Social Workers in NC & Registration

Child Poverty in NC. A conversation with Gene Nichol and Heather Hunt, researchers with the NC Poverty Research Fund at UNC Law School. They discuss sobering data from their new must-read report “The persistent and pervasive challenge of child poverty and hunger in NC.”