IMPASSIONED, ELOQUENT AND INSPIRING

Hauppauge Middle School Principal Maryann Fletcher recently was a panelist at the 22nd Annual Council for Prejudice Reduction Conference, in partnership with the College of Business at Stony Brook University, which was held at Stony Brook University. On behalf of the Council for Prejudice Reduction (CPR), the College of Business at Stony Brook University (SBU), and the community of educators dedicated to helping all children learn well, stay safe, graduate and participate in rewarding lives, CPR Executive Director Roberta Richin thanked Fletcher for her “impassioned, eloquent, inspiring contribution to our panel discussion regarding the already award-winning film, Beyond Measure.”

“The examples of professional practices you shared enriched the conference experience for everyone and helped all our participants understand what they could do as soon as they returned to their every-day school, home and community lives,” described Richin. “Your suggestions were specific and actionable, your vision and values were as transparent as they were appealing, and your determination to give all students more diverse opportunities to make their dreams came true drove a number of our participants to wish that you were the principal of the school attended by their children.”

Richin also stated that she is “optimistic that the conversation at the conference will be part of a larger and locally-driven endeavor to generate for public education a shared body of knowledge, a common vocabulary, a code of ethics, a pedagogical oath and the affirmation that teaching is a profession uniquely charged with the responsibility of helping every child do well by doing good.”