10.03.2022 Education Teacher bans cellphones in class — Says face-to-face teaching crucial to learning “You cannot learn at the same time you are looking at other information.” That’s the long and short of why Shelter Island School social studies teacher Peter Miedema has...
06.13.2020 Columns Column: Re-entry anxiety Many of us have been quarantined in our homes for weeks. Shelter Island and the country are beginning to open. But, what happens if you feel too anxious to...
04.29.2020 Columns Coping with the crisis: How to help our children The mental health effects of shelter-at-home orders are impacting all of us on the Island. Some groups are struggling more than others. Parents with small children are having a...
04.13.2020 Opinion Coping with the crisis: What we know This is the first of a weekly series of columns by Dr. Ryan Sultan, a board-certified adult and pediatric psychiatrist, and an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia...