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Monday, January 14th, 2008(Submitted September 2007) INTRODUCTION This case study reports on the implementation of Paint the Town 2007 (PTT) and relies on written documentation, first person observations, and interviews with the internal PTT administrative team and external PTT project partners. VISIONARY LEADERSHIP Visionaries transcend what is familiar to see what the familiar cannot. They perceive the “new [...]
Adopt-a-School Update: 20/20 Vision for Schools (Part 1 of 4)
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008The January 2007 issue of Tri-State Voice features a cover story announcing the Coalition’s new adopt a school initiative, “20/20 Vision for Schools: Transforming Public Education within a Single Generation of Students.” Here’s an excerpt: Youth Pastor Edwin Pacheco is on a mission to save New York City’s public schools. But unlike some who prefer [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007A Vision of Today’s Students Courtesy: Digital Ethnography. Transcript, with fascinating comment thread, including this: I come from a country in which a majority of people earn less than 1 dollar a day and I say what are you complaining about. The reason you spend so much time in Facebook,or playing with your laptops is [...]
NYC schools a model for reform?
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007Nearly two years after the Coalition began urging NYC churches to adopt local public schools, New York City’s public school system, the largest in the country, yesterday won the Broad Prize, given each year to an urban school district that has made great improvements in student achievement, particularly in closing gaps between white and minority [...]
Hugging banned in Virginia middle school
Thursday, June 21st, 2007A group called NowPublic, outraged over the recent effort by a Virginia middle school to ban touching of any kind, requested permission to use this picture of NFL great Santana Moss hugging Generation Xcel student Troy in an online report on the ban. It’s amazing that a Google image or Flickr photo search for the [...]
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 [...]
The Power (and Peril) of Praising your Kids
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007Fascinating article at New York magazine about the inverse power of praise. “When we praise children for their intelligence,†Dweck wrote in her study summary, “we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart, don’t risk making mistakes.†… “Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control,†she [...]
About Time
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007Open Source the Gospel
Friday, March 16th, 2007In January, in response to a question about how to engage a plugged-in generation, I wrote: 8. Embrace the open source culture of the internet and its ability to empower the masses. Like all great technological innovations, the internet was built by people who shared their knowledge with others who could improve upon it. Google, [...]
Another great High School opportunity
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL – the Brains who design NASA’s rocketships) Summer High School Internship Program (SpaceSHIP) is designed for high school students who have demonstrated a strong interest in and aptitude for Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics (STEM). Apply Online: http://minorityeducation.jpl.nasa.gov. Eligibility Requirements: € Students must be U.S. citizens. € All participants must [...]
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