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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Voices of Franklin: Gretchen Donohue - "supporting the necessary override for public school funding"
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2011/03/introducing-voices-of-franklin.html
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
"Lean In Girls" starts April 22 - Learn more and register today!
"Here at Children's Museum of Franklin, we're passionate about the importance of empowering girls.
The Lean In Girls curriculum, a subset of Sheryl Sandberg's original Lean In program, was established in 2023 as a “leadership program that helps girls see themselves as leaders in a world that often tells them they’re not.”
Over the course of the program, through strength-building activities and discussion, participants will learn resilience, confidence, and inclusivity.
This is a free program!"
"Lean In Girls" starts April 22 - Learn more and register today! |
Monday, March 25, 2024
Watch "The Anxious Generation Art Project" on YouTube (video)
"Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt believes childhood itself has gone missing. And he and artist Dave Cicirelli are teaming up to tell that story at the scenes of the crime.Haidt argues that for a little over a decade, we’ve been raising children in an environment hostile to human development. Kids are spending upwards of eight to nine hours a day on their phones and very little time playing in the real world with other kids. Their mental health has suffered and their real-world childhood has been taken away from them.Based on the essential findings of Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation, we're blanketing the centers of media, government, and tech in provocative images and installations that remove the filters from the phone-based coming of age.This guerilla art takeover is anchored by a ten-foot-tall “Missing Childhood” milk cartons in prominent public spaces. These cartons will not just tell the tragic story of youth’s mental health decline but also be a forum for passerbyers to share their personal experiences with this dramatic shift in childhood."
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Explore your options at the Post High School Fair on April 4 from 6 to 8 PM
Post High School Fair |
Sunday, January 14, 2024
The Children’s Museum of Franklin to start with pop ups (audio)
FM #1136 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1136 in the series.
This session of the radio show shares my conversation with the founders of the forthcoming Children’s Museum of Franklin; Meg Hagen and Erin Gallagher.
Meg and Erin fill us in on their Franklin story, the idea for the museum, starting as a pop up or mobile museum for now to help build interest and community excitement.
There are opportunities to help volunteer and contribute in other ways as well as financially. The show notes contain links to their web page with their pop up schedule and contact and contribution forms.
Let’s listen to my conversation with Meg and Erin
Audio link -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1136-childrens-museum-franklin-starts-with-popups-01-10-24--------------
Franklin Children’s Museum -> https://www.childrensmuseumfranklin.org/
Events -> https://www.childrensmuseumfranklin.org/events
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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Register for the Backyard Ecosystem Education (BEE) Program Today
Registration Open Until February 29, 2024
The Backyard Ecosystem Education (BEE) Program is an interactive program for Franklin residents and business owners to design and create a native, biologically diverse habitat at their property. The BEE Program consists of five themed workshops and one field day giving residents and business owners the skills to:
- Attract wildlife and plant life to their habitat;
- Support their habitat through climate change and other ecological stressors;
- Plan and design their backyard habitat with professional practitioners; and
- Be considered a Backyard Ecosystem Advocate
Upon successful completion and attendance of the BEE Program, participants will be considered a "Backyard Ecosystem Advocate" and their habitats, once established, will have the opportunity to become "Certified Wildlife Habitats" through the National Wildlife Federation. Register with the QR code above or by visiting https://BIT.LY/BEEPROGRAM.
Registration is on a first come, first serve basis. Registration closes February 29, 2024. Registration is available to all residents regardless of ownership/rental status or living situation, all Franklin business owners, and up to five FPS high school students. The Conservation Department is currently collaborating with FPS - STEM to excuse up to five students for the scheduled field day, so students - please apply if you are interested!
Workshop descriptions are listed below. Questions? Email bgoodlander@franklinma.gov.
Workshop Title | Date, Time, and Location | Description |
Wildlife | Wednesday, April 3, 2024 4p - 6p Location TBD | Residents will learn common wildlife species that they may find in their backyard habitats and/or how to attract these wildlife species to their habitats. |
Plant Life | Wednesday, April 10, 2024 4p - 6p Location TBD | Residents will learn common native and wildlife friendly plants and common invasive plants they may plant and/or find in their backyard habitats. |
Landscapes and Regional Context | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 4p - 6p Location TBD | Residents will learn to identify what landscape they live in, its regional context, and how to design a habitat suitable for their surroundings. |
Climate and Other Ecological Stressors | Wednesday, April 24, 2024 4p - 6p Location TBD | Residents will learn how to plan their habitat for climate change, design their habitat considering climate resilience, and mitigate future environmental stressors and disturbance events. |
Planning and Design | Wednesday, May 1, 2024 4p - 6p Location TBD | Residents will be able to sit down in small groups with professional practitioners to design their own specific backyard habitat applying all lessons learned in previous workshops. |
Field Day and Graduation Luncheon | Friday, May 10 10a - 2p Location TBD | Residents will be bussed around Town for a tour of raingardens, biodiversity areas, turtle nesting habitats, regenerative forests, gardens, and more. Lunch and a graduation ceremony will be provided. |
Shared from -> https://www.franklinma.gov/conservation/news/register-backyard-ecosystem-education-bee-program-today
Register for the Backyard Ecosystem Education (BEE) Program Today |
Thursday, December 21, 2023
What I listened to on a podcast, led to my reading the book
While walking around town, I am frequently listening to a book on tape, or to a podcast, or on busy roads, music. One podcast in the regular queue is with Adam Grant.
"Your brain on art" with authors Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen on the WorkLife with Adam Granthttps://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/your-brain-on-art-with-ivy-ross-and-susan-magsamen/id1346314086?i=1000638235681 I don't have an Apple device as the podcast is usually available via multiple podcast apps.
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Join the Backyard Ecosystem Education (BEE) Program in 2024
Registration Opens January 2, 2024 - Closes February 29, 2024
The Backyard Ecosystem Education (BEE) Program is an interactive program for Franklin residents and business owners to design and create a native, biologically diverse habitat at their property. The BEE Program consists of five themed workshops and one field day giving residents and business owners the skills to:
- Attract wildlife and plant life to their habitat;
- Support their habitat through climate change and other ecological stressors;
- Plan and design their backyard habitat with professional practitioners; and
- Be considered a Backyard Ecosystem Advocate
Upon successful completion and attendance of the BEE Program, participants will be considered a "Backyard Ecosystem Advocate" and their habitats, once established, will have the opportunity to become "Certified Wildlife Habitats" through the National Wildlife Federation.
Registration opens January 2, 2024 and is on a first come, first serve basis. Registration closes February 29, 2024. Registration is available to all residents regardless of ownership/rental status or living situation, all Franklin business owners, and up to five FPS high school students. The Conservation Department is currently collaborating with FPS - STEM to excuse up to five students for the scheduled field day, so students - please apply if you are interested!
Workshop descriptions are listed below. Questions? Email bgoodlander@franklinma.gov.
Workshop Title | Date, Time, and Location | Description |
Wildlife | Wednesday, April 3, 2024 4p - 6p Location TBD | Residents will learn common wildlife species that they may find in their backyard habitats and/or how to attract these wildlife species to their habitats. |
Plant Life | Wednesday, April 10, 2024 4p - 6p Location TBD | Residents will learn common native and wildlife friendly plants and common invasive plants they may plant and/or find in their backyard habitats. |
Landscapes and Regional Context | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 4p - 6p Location TBD | Residents will learn to identify what landscape they live in, its regional context, and how to design a habitat suitable for their surroundings. |
Climate and Other Ecological Stressors | Wednesday, April 24, 2024 4p - 6p Location TBD | Residents will learn how to plan their habitat for climate change, design their habitat considering climate resilience, and mitigate future environmental stressors and disturbance events. |
Planning and Design | Wednesday, May 1, 2024 4p - 6p Location TBD | Residents will be able to sit down in small groups with professional practitioners to design their own specific backyard habitat applying all lessons learned in previous workshops. |
Field Day and Graduation Luncheon | Friday, May 10 10a - 2p Location TBD | Residents will be bussed around Town for a tour of raingardens, biodiversity areas, turtle nesting habitats, regenerative forests, gardens, and more. Lunch and a graduation ceremony will be provided. |
Shared from -> https://www.franklinma.gov/conservation/news/join-backyard-ecosystem-education-bee-program-2024
Join the Backyard Ecosystem Education (BEE) Program in 2024 |
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Higher Education Investments: Supporting Our Economy and Future Generations
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Monday, March 20, 2023
Register to Learn how to build and use a labyrinth in your backyard - March 21
You will learn what a labyrinth is and is not.
You will be able to describe types of labyrinths, how to create them, and their uses.
1 CLASS, TUES. MARCH 21 6:30-7:30 PM, $10
Tri County Regional Vocational Technical High School Adult and Continuing Education at 147 Pond Street, Franklin
Learn how to build and use a labyrinth in your backyard - March 26 |
Monday, March 13, 2023
Sharing the recent More Perfect Union - wfpr episodes
One easy way is to think of a podcast as "radio on demand." If you listen to radio, the show is scheduled for a particular day and time. If you miss it, now you can listen to it when you want if there is a podcast episode published.
In this episode, the group sits down to talk about the growing problem surrounding gun violence; why this keeps happening, the false conflation between mental health and shootings, what steps need to be taken to mitigate violence, and what the future looks like.
In this episode, the group is joined by new Dean College president Dr. Kenneth Elmore, to discuss the current state of education in the United States; where has modern education improved, what could use improving, is diversity being addressed, and much more.
Audio file -> https://more-perfect-union.captivate.fm/episode/075-the-state-of-education-in-america-with-dr-ken-elmore
wfpr.fm: A More Perfect Union (audio) |
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Tri-County RVTHS Students’ Planning for the Future
Saturday, December 17, 2022
MassLive: "Federal judge rules in favor of Ludlow schools in lawsuit over treatment of transgender students"
“Since July 1, 2012, Massachusetts law has provided that ‘no person shall be excluded from or discriminated against . . . in obtaining the advantages, privileges and courses of study of [a] public school on account of . . . gender identity,’” his ruling quoted.His order also noted that while parents have the option to send their children to public schools, they do not have constitutional rights to dictate how those schools educate children. An attorney for the school system, David S. Lawless, applauded the judge’s decision in an area of law that continues to be challenged across the country.“Given the novelty in particular, he addressed both the legal issues in the complaint that was in front (of him) and that it’s an evolving area of the law,” Lawless said Thursday after the ruling came down. “School districts are put in a very difficult position; this is one more guidepost for them along the way.”
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Creative Corner Art Studio schedules to host free Open House, Saturday, Nov 26 from 1 to 3 PM
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
The Fraud Squad set to present at the Franklin Senior Center, Nov 10
From the Tri-County RVTHS Instagram we share:
Today (Tuesday, Nov 8), Legal and Protective Services juniors, “The Fraud Squad,” delivered their second of eight presentations to local senior centers warning people about current scams targeting elderly people. Local police officers have informed LPS students about trends in these crimes that aim to scam people out of thousands of dollars every year.
The Fraud Squad’s next presentation will be at the Franklin Senior Center on Thursday at 10:00 AM.