John Badalament will speak at Glen Urquhart School

John Badalament, author of the acclaimed [amazon 1577316606 inline], will speak at Glen Urquhart School on Thursday, April 25. Badalament is a Harvard-trained educator with 20 years of experience as a teacher, dean of students, and counselor in school and clinical settings for children, teens, and adults. His work has been featured on ABC News, NPR, in Men's Health, Mom Magazine, L.A. Times, and the Boston Globe.

Badalament serves on the Honorary Board of the Year of Responsible Men, a partnership with The White House, and he has been recognized in the New York Times by the Family Violence Prevention Fund for his commitment to ending violence against women and children. His latest documentary project is entitled Gender Traps: How Marriage Problems Start In Kindergarten.

With a wealth of professional and personal experience, Badalament's keynote addresses and workshops are loaded with current research, innovative ideas, powerful stories, and takeaway activities. His highly inclusive “community of dads” approach to parent involvement benefits children and families, with or without a dad or male figure in their lives.

Badalament will speak at Glen Urquhart at 7:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted, with all proceeds to benefit Gain@GUS, a program that provides free academic and recreational summer enrichment to talented students in the city of Beverly and surrounding areas.

Glen Urquhart School, an independent Kñ8 day school in Beverly, MA, cultivates original thinkers with a global perspective in the pursuit of academic excellence, intellectual growth, and good character. Through their partnerships with various world organizations and experts in education, such as Harvard Project Zero, MIT Lab, Montserratt College of Art, The Food Project, and NPH Orphanages throughout Central America, Glen Urquhart delivers world-class academics and a world-wise curriculum in an atmosphere of individualized support and care.