Speaker

Penny Copplestone, M.Ed.

Elementary Educator & Counselor

Penny's career in elementary education was founded on the belief that building relationships with students and championing their individuality is fundamental to their capacity to engage with learning. Core to her efforts is the desire to close the achievement gap between students who excel and students who fall behind because of race, economics or ethnicity. She holds a Masters Degree in Guidance and Counseling from Framingham State University, a BA in Elementary Education from UMass Amherst, and is certified as a K-8 teacher in Massachusetts with additional training in teaching the whole child and teaching in an inclusion classroom.