Catherine and Count Basie Middle School 72 is offering a financial training series for all parents! Learn how to become your own financial planner, the different types of investments as well as improving your credit! Come join the following companies and experts while they give financial advice for the future.
ING Direct and ING Sharebuilders
Registration is required.
Please Click Here to review the flyer and learn more about these empowering events sponsored by MS 72 in Queens, NY!
The National Center for Learning and Citizenship (NCLC) at the Education Commission of the States has just announced that they are now open for proposals to join Schools of Success: A National Network of Service-Learning Schools.
Middle Schools serving grades 6-9 are invited to apply for the awards. With funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service, Learn and Serve America program, NCLC will select 10 schools with extensive service-learning experience that wish to promote high-quality service-learning to address STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) objectives in middle schools with large populations of youth from disadvantaged backgrounds. Intents to Apply are due January 8, 2010.
In a recent newsletter, we asked you to share what your school or district is doing to make a difference through service learning. Our featured feedback came from Amanda Miles, Principal of Coral Park Elementary School in Florida, who is using a Read for a Need project that benefits both kids and members of the community. Amanda said,
"Students in 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades were challenged to read eight books and obtain a sponsor for $1.00 per book. With the money collected, books were purchased for the Coral Park readers to give to 2nd, 3rd and 4th graders in a neighboring Title One school, Hunt Elementary. Children selected books by genre (i.e., mystery, fantasy, biography, etc.) and took them to Hunt where 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students who did not have many books at home could select their very own titles to keep! The children at Hunt were also challenged to read eight books prior to the OCHO Project delivering books to them. Pictures tell the story as do student's reflections of their involvement in Project OCHO. "It felt really good to help other children." "I love to read and I want other kids to love it, too!"
We posted about this program back in February, so it's exciting to see that it's making a difference! As is evident, service learning is a powerful way to boost school connectedness and other integral dimensions of school climate. Please share any programs you know about that are getting kids involved and benefitting the community.
CSEE believes that creating supportive and inclusive learning environments is everyone's responsibility, and we applaud the Special Olympics End the R-Word Day. This project takes an important step to raise awareness around the world about the hurtful and derogatory nature of the word "retard(ed)".
R-Word Day is 3/31/09, and high school and college students will be using the day to collect pledges to end the casual and pejorative uses of the word. It's up to us to change the conversation—teach your students to respect, value, and honor each other through their actions and words. Together, we can create a more caring community for all!
Get involved:
Click here to visit the Facebook event page
Visit the community on the Special Olympics website
Greece Unified School District is the 8th largest district in New York—it’s a huge, expansive suburban unit of 13+ elementary, middle and high schools filled with students from government-subsidized housing to homes worth several hundred thousand dollars. In spite of its challenging size and diversity, the district is doing very effective and far-reaching work to support and promote positive school climates.
A major trailblazer of the district’s initiatives is Conor Cusack. Conor coordinates the Greece Community Asset initiative, a project that promotes positive youth development through social and civic learning.