First a video from NYC - Occupy the Department of Education
Maryland State Board of Education - Search for the new State Superintendent of Schools
Superintendent's dramatically shape the way education happens in schools. They can support or suppress the Arts, focus on testing to the exclusion of other programs, support or end extended day programs, and so much more. Maryland will soon hire a new State Superintendent, but first they're giving everyone a chance to voice what qualities they think the Superintendent should have. People interested in directly participating in this can go online and complete the survey by November 18 2011, or attend a series of open forums held at 2:30 pm and again at 7pm at each of the following locations.
11/3 - Seneca Valley High School (Montgomery County) 19401 Crystal Rock Drive, Germantown, MD 20874
11/7 - Huntingtown High School (Calvert County) 4125 N Solomons Island Rd, Huntingtown, MD 20639
11/7 - Mountain Ridge High School (Allegany County) 100 Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick Lane, Frostburg, MD 21532
11/9 - Edgewood High School (Harford County) 215 Willoughby Beach Rd, Edgewood, MD 21040
11/10 - Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Baltimore City) 1400 West Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21209
Showing posts with label aid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aid. Show all posts
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Awareness and Aid
Last month the Book List was for Autism Acceptance and I wish this event was happening then. On May 12 at 7:30 pm Wretches and Jabbers will be shown in 100 cities across the United States. The movie is about two men with autism, who were excluded from public schools as children, who travel the world and meet other people with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Here's the web page with city listings.
The PepsiRefresh Project gave a grant to a gentleman who is using it to provide books to public schools in Chicago. People can vote for the PepsiRefresh Projects they like and the more votes the projects get the larger their grant funding. You can vote for this project here.
A friend of mine, Elizabeth Handel, runs a literacy program for inmates and their children in Massachusetts. It's called A Book from Mom/ABook from Dad and was started in 2004. They take donations of used books to prisions for parents to give to their children when they visit. If parents can't meet with their children some prisions allow them to record themselves reading the book and then send the book and recording to their child. It's very local with Handel sorting and delivering most of the books herself, some information about the program is available here. Sadly A Book from Mom/A Book from Dad is not set up for internet donations. But if you're in MA look out for bookstores and schools who work with this organization and donate through them
The PepsiRefresh Project gave a grant to a gentleman who is using it to provide books to public schools in Chicago. People can vote for the PepsiRefresh Projects they like and the more votes the projects get the larger their grant funding. You can vote for this project here.
A friend of mine, Elizabeth Handel, runs a literacy program for inmates and their children in Massachusetts. It's called A Book from Mom/ABook from Dad and was started in 2004. They take donations of used books to prisions for parents to give to their children when they visit. If parents can't meet with their children some prisions allow them to record themselves reading the book and then send the book and recording to their child. It's very local with Handel sorting and delivering most of the books herself, some information about the program is available here. Sadly A Book from Mom/A Book from Dad is not set up for internet donations. But if you're in MA look out for bookstores and schools who work with this organization and donate through them
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