Welcome to Teacher Summer Institute 2017! For the first time ever, Boston Public Schools and the Boston Teachers Union are co-hosting an academic conference for teachers. TSI will focus on highlighting the best practices of some of our most passionate urban educators across BPS. Teachers, central office staff, and valued members of our community will join together to help bring a shared vision for instruction to life across the district. Please note, this is open to all educators, and is not exclusively for new teachers. We hope to see you there!
With the recent overhaul of the Boston Code of Conduct and the passage of Chapter 222 legislation to reduce out-of-school suspensions and expulsions and promote alternative methods of discipline, the Boston Student Advisory Council (BSAC) developed a Boston student rights phone app that allows students, teachers and administrators to stay up-to-date with policy and practice and report violations of the Code to the BPS Office of Equity, in addition to empowering the user to identify, interrupt and report hate crime and speech and harassment. Available on both the Apple and Android Google store, the app has been downloaded close to 12,000 times and is the first of its kind.
