April 15, 2025 @ 8:15 am – 2:30 pm
Registration: 8:15 – 8:45 am
Conference: 8:45 am – 2:30 pm
Attend In Person or Via Zoom
Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School
758 Marrett Rd.
Lexington, MA 02421
To receive PDPs, participants must attend this conference and the conference, Collaboration is Key to Effectively Supporting Students, April 29, 2025. Members can participate in-person, virtually or by viewing the recording. Following the live conference, registrants will be emailed a link to view the recorded conference. The recording will be made available for 10 days after the conference.
Speakers
Donnalyn Kahn and Angela Buchanan Smagula, Kahn & Smagula LLP
Description
Attorneys Donnalyn Kahn and Angela Smagula will explain how to implement discipline in school settings in compliance with the law. The presenters will emphasize the importance of positive alternatives to suspension or expulsion, such as restorative justice practices that will keep students in school. Attendees will learn strategies to communicate clearly and appropriately with families. Finally, presenters will discuss the importance of maintaining appropriate professional boundaries with students, families, and colleagues.
About the Speakers
Donnalyn Kahn (she/her) and Angela Buchanan Smagula (she/her) are two seasoned attorneys from top law schools (BU & Georgetown) with large law firm training and prior judicial clerkships who previously provided day-to-day legal representation in-house to the City of Newton for the past 20 years as City Solicitor and Deputy City Solicitor. They combined expertise and established Kahn & Smagula LLP, representing public, charter and independent schools in all aspects of school and education law, including contract drafting and review, policy and protocol training, discipline, risk management and all general employment matters faced in school settings. They regularly provide advice and counsel to school committee members, superintendents and school principals.
Membership Information
Most MPY webinars are available ONLY to current staff from member districts and organizations. Public school memberships include police and fire personnel. Former and retired employees and members of committees, including but not limited to, PTO/PTA, PAC, School Improvement Councils, Health Councils, Drug/Alcohol Councils, and school volunteers, are not considered MPY members.
PDPs and CEUs
MPY is an approved Professional Development Provider through the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (Provider No. F20180079). Professional Development Points (PDPs) are offered for most MPY professional development webinars. PDPs are issued in 10 hour increments, per DESE requirements.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available for clinical staff through the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association, Inc. (MaMHCA). The NASW and the MaMHCA approve each event individually. CEUs may be given in hourly increments.
To receive PDPs and CEUs, participants must pass the quiz. The PDP quiz will be made available only to participants who have registered for and attended both conferences.
Event Cancellation Policy
If you are unable to attend a MPY webinar you must cancel, through Bonnie Mullen at bonnie@mpyinc.org, one business day before the webinar.
For MPY hybrid conferences, the date in-person registration closes will be posted on MPY’s website. Virtual conference registration will close one business day before the hybrid conference. You cannot cancel or switch your registration from in-person to virtual after in-person registration closes. Please email Bonnie Mullen at bonnie@mpyinc.org with any questions regarding registration.
Registration: 8:15 – 8:45 am
Conference: 8:45 am – 2:30 pm