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In January, TRRE and UNH Extension partnered to provide a a day-long workshop on youth mental health . TRRE teaching residents, faculty, and area youth workers benefitted from the 8-hour certification course led by UNH Extension child, youth, and family resiliency specialists Gail Kennedy and Thom Linehan. Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training is a 5-step action plan offering initial help to young people showing signs of a mental illness or who are in a crisis, and connects them with the appropriate professional, peer, social, or self-help care. Tom Schram , TRRE's Director of Pedagogy and Clinical Experience participated with teaching residents and expressed, “Classroom teachers are likely to encounter young people in emotional or mental crises," and added, Part of being an effective teacher is knowing how to respond to whatever you see in front of you, and, in cases of emotional or mental stress, then knowing how to connect that young person with the appropri...

Teacher Residency for Rural Education (TRRE) teaching residents and faculty recently kicked off the spring semester by gathering together at Gorham’s North Country Education Services to share strategies and learn about the relationship between curriculum and assessment. Each semester TRRE faculty gather with teaching residents for symposia that review course content and highlight the connection to teaching students in rural communities. Courses for spring include:  Exploring Mathematics with Young Children  with Dr. Kathryn McCurdy,  Introduction to Assessment  taught by Dr. Emilie Reagan, and our Residency Internship and Seminar in Teaching with Dr. Tom Schram. At this symposium, local math specialists Ann Elise Record from Hillside Elementary  in Berlin and Mark Pribbernow from Lancaster Elementary shared how specialists work with and support classroom teachers. Teaching residents learned a helpful analogy:  Teaching math is an iceberg – what...

Ms. Jellison - TRRE Teaching Mentor and STEAM Coordinator at White Mountains Regional High School Ms. Jellison is an eleven year veteran in the classroom teaching both middle school and high school with a focus on science and inquiry based learning. Ms. Jellison is hosting one of the TRRE residents for the 2017-2018 school year. This teaching resident has become an integral component to the learning environment at WMRHS. What makes the TRRE program important is the dedication to the North Country. Working in a rural community is a unique experience. Rural settings can also be great places to work, especially since teaching in these areas is much more relationship-driven between the community providers and families. Teaching residents are not only embedded into the school environment, but they are also outside the classroom walls volunteering in the communities in which they work and live. I hope to continue in being an advocate for the program and would love to be a mentor ...

My name is Holly Munce and I am a proud member of the first TRRE cohort. My placement is in grade 5 at Hillside Elementary School in Berlin with my strand focus of Elementary Education, kindergarten through grade 6. Over the summer, my community internship was two-fold. I was a volunteer with the Family Resource Center in Gorham, NH where I shared time observing Family Reunification Visits as well as spending time with the summer youth program for children 6-11 years old. Prior to my participation in the TRRE program, I was an economics teacher at New Hampton School in New Hampton, NH, then settled in Berlin fourteen years ago. Since becoming a permanent fixture in the Berlin community, I became a parent to two amazing children and joined the Berlin School District as a Title 1 paraprofessional where I worked for six years. Joining the TRRE cohort was a natural progression in my deeper connection to the community and to education. The program was suggested to me by my buildin...