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Covid trauma is continuing Children need help to see an endpoint to the pandemic past two years and Lawrence since last July. The health center is a collaboration among Cohen After nearly two full years of Children’s Medical Center and the coronavirus pandemic, the several other school districts that mental health crisis among opened in January 2020. school-age children “ L aw re n c e is at its peak. entered the collaboraAccording to the tive with Northwell most recent survey to get students help by the Centers for quickly with counselDisease Control and ors, psychologists Prevention, mental and social workers,” health-related emerDr. Karen Mackler, gency department the Lawrence district visits nationwide psychologist, increased 24 percent explained. The overfor children ages 5 to arching problem 11, and 31 percent for caused by the panyoung people ages 12 demic, she said, is to 17, from March that “kids lost out on 2020, the first weeks KAREN a typical school enviof the pandemic, to ronment,” and “the October 2020. And mACKlER kids are struggling to many experts con- Psychologist, have relationships.” tend that the stress Lawrence School The mask debate children are feeling is another issue that has only worsened District can raise a child’s as the crisis has stress level, Mackler dragged on. said, because of mixed messagTo attack the problem and ing. At school, students are told to hopefully make inroads locally, war a mask, but at home, or the Hewlett-Woodmere School through public discourse, they District and the Lawrence School hear opposing views. District have joined forces with Laura Peterson, HewlettNorthwell Health’s Behavioral Woodmere’s the executive direcHealth Center in Rockville Centre, Hewlett-Woodmere for the Continued on page 12
By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
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THE HEBREw ACADEmY of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School robotics team captured its first-ever first place trophy at the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education Robotics Tournament on Dec. 16 at HAFTR. From left were Shirly Gottlieb, the Robotics Club president, and team members Sean Harris, Yoni Goldstein and Atara Smulevitz.
Learning by doing at HAFTR Robotics builds future skills in the present By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
From a Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School senior who wants to major in engineering in college to a HAFTR Middle School seventh-grader who built his own computer, the robotics program at both levels attracts students who are curious and motivated. Building on a STEM (sci-
ence, technology, engineering a n d m at h ) p ro g r a m at HAFTR’s early childhood and lower school levels, expanding STEM education in the middle school and high school became a mission five years ago. That was when Gittel Grant joined the staff. She serves as the middle school’s STEM chair and the school’s robotics coach. “STEM is a big passion of mine,” Grant said, sitting at
one of the fireproof tables in the middle school robotics room. “We call it 21st century learning, instead of going with textbooks that were written 50 years ago. It’s more of the idea there is more learning you need to be successful in this world.” The students at both the middle and high school learn what are called hard skills: coding, engineering and Continued on page 14
t’s really an important message that there is stability and a safe place for our children.