Presented by: 

Frank Clegg, Former President, Microsoft Canada, and Current CEO, Canadians for Safe Technology (C4ST)

Sharon Goldberg, MD, Integrative Physician

 J. Stuart Ablon, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Founder and Director of Think:Kids, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

and

Mary Anne Tierney, RN, MPH, Executive Director, SafeTech NC

Sponsored by The Leto Institute, TechSafeSchools, and SafeTech NC

Learn how to create healthier school environments to help students improve their behavior, mood, and attention with free, simple interventions. Find out how children are vulnerable to wireless radiation, and how simple practices can reduce exposures for students and staff. In this edWebinar, attendees will learn simple solutions to create healthier schools, including:

• Safer tech practices in classrooms for lifelong tech use
• Gold-standard policies for creating phone-free schools
• Simple steps for IT to turn down the dial on radiation exposures, using existing equipment
• Ideas to enhance 504 plans to improve outcomes with mood and behavior

This edWebinar offers simple strategies to transform schools into healthier spaces where students, teachers, and all staff can thrive. Learning objectives include:

• Learn highlights of the most reliable science on children’s vulnerability to wireless radiation and excessive screen time, and the connection to mood, memory, behavior, and overall health
• Create healthier classrooms with simple modifications to tech habits and tech equipment
• Develop phone-free school policies that reduce distractions, improve academic and mental health outcomes, and improve overall school safety
• Modify 504 plans of vulnerable students to improve outcomes.

This edWebinar will be of interest to educators at all grade levels, school leaders, district leaders, administrators, IT directors, school counselors, and school nurses.

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About the Presenters

Frank Clegg spent his 40-year career in the technology industry until his retirement as President of Microsoft Canada, and formerly as Vice President of Microsoft’s Central U.S. and Canada Region. Following his retirement, and in response to learning from experts worldwide on the biological effects of radio-frequency radiation emitted by all wireless technologies, Frank co-founded Canadians for Safe Technology (C4ST), a national coalition dedicated to education and policy advocacy on how to use wireless devices more safely. Frank serves on the board of the Environmental Health Trust, a non-profit which champions the identification of emerging environmental hazards and formulates preventative solutions. He was instrumental in the development of online tools to enable law enforcement to track and prevent child exploitation, leading to the creation of The Kids’ Internet Safety Alliance (KINSA), which provided a proactive response to the negative aspects of the internet that harm young people.

Sharon Goldberg, MD, is an integrative medicine physician based in Santa Fe, NM, and board certified in Internal Medicine since 2000. With 20+ years of experience in chronic disease management and prevention, she blends conventional medicine with root-cause approaches that address nutrition and environmental factors. Dr. Goldberg is Associate Professor of Medicine, Community Faculty at the University of New Mexico and previously held academic roles at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Miami. She earned her MD from Tel Aviv University and completed her residency at Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC.   For the past decade, she has focused on treating complex patients using integrative methods. A leading expert on literacy of electromagnetic fields (EMF) in healthcare, she served as Course Director for the EMF Medical Conference 2021, sits on the Advisory Board of the Building Biology Institute, and is an editorial board member of Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine.

J. Stuart Ablon, Ph.D., is the Founder and Director of Think:Kids in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. An award-winning psychologist, Dr. Ablon is Associate Professor and the Thomas G. Stemberg Endowed Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of three books, Changeable (featured by the Next Big Idea Club), The School Discipline Fix, and Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach. Dr. Ablon received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and completed his training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. One of the world’s top-rated thought leaders and keynote speakers, Dr. Ablon teaches educators, parents, clinicians, managers, and leaders a very different approach to understanding and addressing challenging behavior of all types and in all people. Dr. Ablon has helped hundreds of organizations throughout the world implement his Collaborative Problem Solving approach.

Mary Anne Tierney, RN, MPH, is the Executive Director of Safe Tech NC, a non-profit sharing how to use technology more safely, and focused on supporting school officials, healthcare professionals, and parents to create safer environments for children. She is certified as an Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist with the Building Biology Institute, and runs Blue Ridge EMF Solutions, a consulting firm providing assessments and mitigation of electromagnetic fields (EMF’s), based in Western NC. Mary Anne served for many years as a psychiatric nurse and manager of public health programs to improve children’s wellbeing. She is currently in training as a psychiatric nurse practitioner. She is an ambassador with the Phone-Free School Movement and ScreenStrong.

About the sponsors

The Leto Institute is a private grant making organization with a mission to create positive change on environmental health matters, with a focus on protecting children’s health.

TechSafeSchools is a project of the award-winning non-profit Grassroots Environmental Education. We provide school officials, teachers, and parents with tools needed to reduce exposure to radio-frequency (wireless) radiation in schools. Our recommendations do not interfere with technology’s performance. We do not sell products. Our focus is simply on students’ health. We believe the best environment for learning is a safe environment.

 

SafeTech NC is a non-profit organization with a mission to share why and how to use technology safely to preserve our health and wellbeing.

Collectively, the work of all three sponsors is guided by the Precautionary Principle, which is simplified here: Whenever there is significant evidence 

of harm, yet not scientific consensus, it is better to be safe than sorry, particularly for children, who are most vulnerable.

REGISTER HERE:  https://home.edweb.net/webinar/mentalhealth20251022/