2016 Spring Catalog

BUSINESS, CAREER & FINANCE

Keep Calm & Carry On: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for Teens NEW! Teenagers today deal with many stresses and competing demands on their time and attention. This course is designed to help your teen learn tools to cope with the demands of a very busy life. We will learn and practice mindfulness exercises that help increase their ability to focus and pay attention, to calm down when feeling stressed or anxious, and to create more opportunities to enjoy simply being who they are so they can thrive. A growing body of scientific evidence shows that mindfulness training can be instrumental in reducing stress and its negative effects on the body. This workshop is a well-developed, research- based curriculum pulling from the latest in the fields of mindful- ness, neuroscience and positive psychology. Each week we will explore practical tools that will help teens relax, navigate the stresses of school and social pressures, as well as cultivating a greater sense of joy and happiness, inner resilience and optimism. Cheryl Vigder Brause is the co-founder and director of 2bpresent, an organization dedicated to helping people live with greater awareness, less stress and more joy. She has completed her Level I and Level II Meditation Teacher Training from Om Yoga. She is trained in many mindfulness-based curricula, including Learning to BREATHE – a mindfulness curriculum for adolescents, Mindful Schools, MBSR for Teens, and is certified to teach the Stressed Teens (MBSR-T) Program. 5 Wednesdays: March 9 – April 13 (no class March 23): 5:30 – 7:00 pm Location TBA to registered students / $495 / Code 135 Planning for Family Members with Special Needs NEW! When you are no longer around, how can you ensure that a family member with special needs is protected? When there is no plan in place, those with special needs can easily lose their government benefits. This class will cover the topics of obtaining, maximizing, and preserving benefits, creating and implementing first and third-party Supplemental Needs Trusts (SNT), and differentiating between the types of Guardianships available to protect loved ones. Michael J. Greenberg, Esq. is an estate planning, elder law, and special needs attorney at Keane & Beane, PC in White Plains. Mr. Greenberg received his law degree from Emory University School of Law and his undergraduate degree from Williams College. He is admitted to the bar in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Florida. Thursday: April 7: 7:00 – 8:00 pm MHS Palmer Rm 121/ $25 / Code 128

AP Calculus AB Test Prep NEW! Get ready for the May 5th exam with Dr. Susan Allen, retired MHS mathematics teacher with decades of teaching experience. This course will provide a review of all topics in the AP Calculus AB syllabus, stressing strategies for both the free response and multiple choice sections of the exam. We will strive to answer all questions in an atmosphere of both focused small group work and one-on-one attention. Both teacher prepared materials and previous AP exam questions will be assigned and explained. Dr. Susan G. Allen taught high school mathematics for forty years in New York, California, and Vermont. She retired from Mamaroneck High School in June 2013 with extensive experience teaching both AP Calculus AB and BC and has continued to stay in touch with all of the current updates in both curriculum and ACT Test Prep: English and Writing NEW! What do you need to know to excel on the English and Reading sections of the ACT? Learn the skills and strategies to improve your scores in four, ninety minute sessions. You will master grammar, punctuation, and sentence placement as required for the English test and become so comfortable with the Reading passages that you will be able to anticipate the questions. Bring The Real ACT Prep Guide for practice tests and a notebook and pen and be prepared to do homework. If any student has already done the practice tests in that book, Barron’s ACT Guide can be used. Whether you have already started preparing for the ACT or are just getting started, this class will help improve your score. The class will conclude in plenty of time for the test in April or lay the groundwork for the tests in June and September. testing expectations from the College Board. 6 Tuesdays: Mar 29 – May 3: 7:00 – 8:30 pm MHS Palmer Rm 121 / $150 / Code 136 Protecting Family Assets The relevant laws have changed, and so have planning techniques. Learn how to legally avoid estate taxes and nursing home costs, and how to keep family assets from ending up in the hands of your children’s spouses, all while maintaining control. You will be taught what needs to be done in order to pass assets to children free of estate tax, how you can protect your home and investment accounts from future nursing home costs, how you can avoid in-laws from having access to your family’s estate, and how to avoid the problems that may arise out of the probate process. How trusts can be used to accomplish these goals will be part of the presentation. Neil Lubarsky, a Harvard Law graduate who also possesses an LLM in tax law from NYU, has been a practicing estate planning and elder law attorney for over 30 years. Monday: May 2: 7:00 – 8:30 pm MHS Palmer Rm 122 / $25 / Code 129

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