The Byram Hills Central School District's Parent Academy supports parents and guardians across all grade levels with knowledge, strategies, and resources that promote student growth, wellness, and achievement.
Through engaging workshops and expert-led sessions, the Parent Academy aims to:
- Equip parents with valuable strategies to support their children’s academic and emotional development.
- Strengthen the partnership between school and home.
- Build a learning community where parents can share, grow, and connect.
In 2025-2026, the sessions included:
- How children learn to read and write, with expert researcher and NYU professor, Dr. Carolyn Strom.
- Building executive function skills, with Ms. Tanya Bosco from Innovative Designs for Education.
- Digital wellness, with expert Ms. Sarah Gallagher Trombley.
- Supporting kids through the college application process, with psychotherapy clinician Ms. Jennifer Schultz.
The Parent Academy seminars were made possible thanks to a grant from the Byram Hills Education Foundation. Scroll down to learn more about each presenter and topic.
2026-2027 EVENTS. SIGN UP NOW!
- Raising Resilient Kids: The Art of Stepping Back
- Tech Safety and Strategies for Elementary School
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Raising Resilient Kids: The Art of Stepping Back
It’s a natural biological drive for parents to be protective of their child and keep them from harm. In our modern life, this urge too often morphs into an impulse to prevent our kids from struggling. Somewhere between the travel team schedule and the college essay editing, many of us climbed onto our kid's ride, buckled up and never got off. We feel their disappointments in our own stomachs, their anxiety in our own chests. In this talk, Jennifer Schultz, LCSW, Founder and Clinical Director of Schultz Psychotherapy Center (www.
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