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Monday, July 30th, 2007Adopt-a-School: An Idea whose Time has Come Jeremy Del Rio @ UYWI 2007 What would happen if… * Every public school in America were adopted by three neighborhood churches? * The 300,000 evangelical churches in America prayed every week for the nation’s 100,000 public schools? * Volunteers from those churches served the schools as hall [...]
Adopt-a-School Question from a UYWI participant
Monday, July 23rd, 2007I received the following email today from “Z” via Myspace(!). I was in your workshop at UYWI for Adopt a School. Just want to say thank you for your encouraging words. Still having a little trouble getting my sr. pastor excited about reaching out and helping the schools. We have 3 schools within 2 miles [...]
A dream come true
Monday, July 23rd, 2007On Friday and Saturday, an entire neighborhood witnessed answered prayers with their own eyes as the guy who organized this as a tribute to old-school hip hop, coordinated this as a tribute to new school opportunity: Eleven years ago, thirteen young people ages 14-22 overcame the lack of money, space, equipment, and paid staff to [...]
7th and 8th Grade BBQ at PS 34
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007[Click photo for larger image. Photo courtesy Michael Mowery.] In their ongoing relationship with PS 34, Abounding Grace Ministries and Generation Xcel hosted a barbeque for the school’s 7th and 8th grade students yesterday. Thanks to Dean Jonathan for making the introduction, and Paint the Town for sponsoring the festivities.
Timeline: Adopt-A-School Generates Traction
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007[Photo courtesy of Michael Mowery.] It never ceases to amaze me how the right idea at the right time can inspire action. Sometimes, it takes a while for the idea to germinate underground before sprouting. But good seed in good soil with good nurture produces good fruit. So it’s been with Adopt-a-School. Timeline + Jan [...]
Paint the Town
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007Adopt a School takes a giant leap forward this summer with the help of New Hope New York and the Metro New York Baptist Association. For the past three years, NHNY has sponsored Paint the Town as a summer outreach event where volunteers from around the country beautify and paint neighborhood public schools. This year [...]
A Campus Ministry Primer for Cities
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007Student Venture Playbook: A Campus Ministry Primer for Cities. Buy it TODAY! I had the privilege of collaborating with Kevin Young and Student Venture New York in designing and writing commentary for their staff training book. After months of envisioning, drafting, designing, and editing, and a baptism by fire in the world of self-publishing, the [...]
I fail to see the "bright side" of this
Thursday, January 4th, 2007“On the bright side, New York ranked slightly higher than the national average on the federal fourth-grade reading test, with 33 percent deemed proficient, compared with 29.8 percent nationally. On the eighth-grade math exam, 30.8 percent of New Yorkers passed, compared to 28.5 percent nationally.” Story. So 67% of New York City’s 4th graders aren’t [...]
Dean Jonathan
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006More on our local Adopt-A-School experiment. Jonathan, in 2003, with a PS 34 student After offering teaching positions to both Jonathan and Dorothy, the principal at PS 34 asked Jonathan to also become the 7th and 8th grade dean. As dean, he will be responsible both for math interventions with underperforming students and disciplinary issues [...]
PS 34, Take 2
Friday, July 28th, 2006Last month, Jonathan paved the Adopt-A-School way at P.S. 34, the public school across the street from Generation Xcel. Yesterday, Dorothy Rivera joined him as a second math teacher at the school. A Cornell University graduate and lifelong New Yorker, Dorothy spent the summer before her senior year on Xcel’s staff and worked full-time after [...]
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