Several recent articles on the different types of learning that could make middle grades more engaging have caught our attention, including: Valerie Strauss’s piece on “How to Fix the Mess we call Middle School“ This article shows how service learning in the community serves to really challenge middle grade students in Minnesota. There are plenty of [...]
All posts for the month February, 2012
Place-based education ideas
Posted by christinerafal on February 27, 2012
http://rafalforward4.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/place-based-education-ideas/
SomerCare Coordinator
CAAS 66-70 Union Square, # 104 Somerville, MA 02143 Phone 617 623 7370 Fax 617 628 2512 Voice Mail 617 623 1392 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Posted: February 12, 2012 SomerPromise Care Coordinator 24 hours/week, plus benefits The SomerPromise [...]
Posted by christinerafal on February 26, 2012
http://rafalforward4.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/somercare-coordinator/
TedX talk in Somerville–apply to attend
from Melissa McWhinney (she is the “I” in the note below): There will be a TEDx event in Somerville on March 4 at the Armory. TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a concept designed to share “ideas worth spreading.” http://www.ted.com Basically, a selected group of speakers give brief talks about something in which they have expertise [...]
Posted by christinerafal on February 15, 2012
http://rafalforward4.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/tedx-talk-in-somerville-apply-to-attend/
Office Hours Thursday Feb 16
Hello dear friends and neighbors: I just wanted to let you know that I will have an office hour at Brunello’s from 5:30 to 6:30 on Thursday, February 16, just after the parent-teacher conferences at both Winter Hill Community School and the Healey School. I will also stop by WHCS PTA at 2:45 and then [...]
Posted by christinerafal on February 13, 2012
http://rafalforward4.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/office-hours-thursday-feb-16/
Thinking about School, Family & Community Partnerships
Harvard Graduate School of Education is offering a course on “The Why, What, and How of School, Family, and Community Partnerships.” This is a topic frequently on my mind and I found that I have already read several of the required books. If you have also read some, please feel free to post your impressions [...]
Posted by christinerafal on February 6, 2012
http://rafalforward4.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/thinking-about-school-family-community-partnerships/
Somerville El Sistema Program Planning Meeting
Thursday, February 9 at 7pm at East Somerville Community School @ Cummings (42 Prescott Street) All community members are invited to an initial planning meeting to create an El Sistema program in Somerville! An exciting and successful series of informal musical exchanges between the SPS Music Department, ESCS and Brighton’s Conservatory Lab Charter School (an [...]
Posted by christinerafal on February 1, 2012
http://rafalforward4.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/somerville-el-sistema-program-planning-meeting/
