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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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On the far right, Community Garden Coordinator Kymisha Montgomery talks about the educational outreach and classes that she teaches - spanning from urban gardening to healthy cooking classes. NRCS photo by USDA/Brooke DeCubellis
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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By Cpl. Han Samuel
USAG Yongsan Public Affairs
YONGSAN GARRISON — “After parents, it’s the educators, teachers, administrators and staff who have the biggest influence on our children,” U.S. Forces Korea Commander, Gen. James D. Thurman said, at the sixth annual Department of Defense Dependent Schools awards and recognition ceremony, April 6.
Thurman recounted how the three most influential people in his life were his father, his scout master, and his high school football coach.According to Thurman, these people had the biggest impact in developing his values in serving the country and teaching him about becoming a good citizen. He thus emphasized the significance that each of the roles, filled by the 66 DoDDS Korea staff members being recognized that day, had.
“What you do every day is so important - it’s the most important thing we’ve got going on here on the peninsula, outside of defending this place,” Thurman said.
In the midst of an uncertain period, Thurman explained that it was especially important that the people who strongly influenced future generations were doing a good job in educating the younger members of the community. Thurman presented each of the 66 DoDDs Korea staff members with scrolls of appreciation, on behalf of USFK.
Staff members included teachers, counselors, secretaries, technicians, librarians and administrators.
Sixteen were recognized for serving DoDDs for over 20 years.
Some of the honorees had four decades of service.
Laurel Eisinger, principal of Daegu American School, who has served DoDDs for 30 years, said she had worked through multiple positions within DoDDs, including the district level, area level and administrative level.
Having invested a significant amount of time in the profession, Eisinger said, “I believe right from the bottom of my heart that effective educators help children to be the successful leaders of tomorrow.”
After being in the profession and meeting many other teachers, however, she said, “I don’t think there’s an educator that doesn’t take this job whose goal isn’t to make a difference.”
While Eisinger is convinced that effective educators are crucial for impacting future generations, she also stated that it’s not just the doing of educators.
Rather, she added, it is a task that is performed by the whole community.
We parked near a downtown Louisville underpass and saw this plaque dedicated to the writers of the Happy Birthday song -
Happy Birthday Song Did you know that the most popular song in the English language was born in Louisville?
The Guinness Book of World Records awards the distinction of most popular song to “Happy Birthday to You,” the creation of sisters Mildred and Patty Hill, both Louisville educators. They wrote a book of children’s songs called Song Stories for the Kindergarten, published in 1893, with music by Mildred and lyrics by Patty. “Good Morning to All,” sometimes listed as “Good Morning to You,” was among the 72 songs included. According to The Encyclopedia of Louisville, Patty changed the words to “Happy Birthday to You” while attending a birthday party at what is now the Little Loomhouse.
The song reportedly earns $2 million in royalties every year, with the money going, in part, to an early childhood foundation established in honor of the Hills. “Happy Birthday to You” was copyrighted for the first time in 1935 and will remain copyrighted until at least the year 2030.
In 2002, under the leadership of Mayor Dave Armstrong, the city of Louisville named a city parking lot in honor of the Hill sisters. The “Happy Birthday Lot” is located just southwest of Main and Ninth streets.
And the sisters’ most enduring work has even made it into space: On March 8, 1969, it was crooned by the crew of Apollo IX.
"Happy Birthday to You", also known more simply as "Happy Birthday", is a song that is traditionally sung to celebrate the anniversary of a person's birth. According to the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records, "Happy Birthday to You" is the most recognized song in the English language, followed by "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow". The song's base lyrics have been translated into at least 18 languages.
The melody of "Happy Birthday to You" comes from the song "Good Morning to All", which was written and composed by American siblings Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill in 1893. Patty was a kindergarten principal in Louisville, Kentucky, developing various teaching methods at what is now the Little Loomhouse; Mildred was a pianist and composer. The sisters created "Good Morning to All" as a song that would be easy to be sung by young children.
The combination of melody and lyrics in "Happy Birthday to You" first appeared in print in 1912, and probably existed even earlier. None of these early appearances included credits or copyright notices. The Summy Company registered for copyright in 1935, crediting authors Preston Ware Orem and Mrs. R.R. Forman. In 1990, Warner Chappell purchased the company owning the copyright for $15 million, with the value of "Happy Birthday" estimated at $5 million. Based on the 1935 copyright registration, Warner claims that the United States copyright will not expire until 2030, and that unauthorized public performances of the song are technically illegal unless royalties are paid to it. In one specific instance on February 2010, these royalties were said to amount to $700. In the European Union, the copyright of the song will expire on December 31, 2016. The actual American copyright status of "Happy Birthday to You" began to draw more attention with the passage of the Copyright Term Extension Act in 1998. When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Act in Eldred v. Ashcroft in 2003, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer specifically mentioned "Happy Birthday to You" in his dissenting opinion.
One of the most famous performances of "Happy Birthday to You" was Marilyn Monroe's rendition to U.S. President John F. Kennedy in May 1962. The Walt Disney Company paid the copyright holder U.S. $5,000 to use the song in the birthday scene of the defunct Epcot attraction Horizons.
The documentary film The Corporation states that Warner/Chappell charges up to U.S. $10,000 for the song to appear in a film. Because of the copyright issue, filmmakers rarely show complete singalongs of "Happy Birthday" in films, either substituting the public-domain "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" or avoiding the song entirely. Before the song was copyrighted it was used freely, as in Bosko's Party, a Warner Brothers cartoon of 1932, where a chorus of animals sings it twice through. The entire song is performed in tribute to the title character of Batman Begins, a Warner Brothers film. In the 1987 documentary Eyes on the Prize about the US Civil Rights Movement, there was a birthday party scene in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s discouragement began to lift. After its initial release, the film was unavailable for sale or broadcast for many years because of the cost of clearing many copyrights, of which "Happy Birthday to You" was one. Grants in 2005 for copyright clearances have allowed PBS to rebroadcast the film as recently as February 2008.
Patty Smith Hill (March 27, 1868 – May 25, 1946) was a American nursery school, and kindergarten teacher, one of the leaders of the Kindergarten Movement in the United States.
She is perhaps best known as the sister of Mildred J. Hill with whom she co-wrote the tune to the song, Good Morning to All which became as popular as Happy Birthday to You.
She developed the "Patty Hill blocks" and helped create the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia University Teachers College. Her own childhood experiences influenced her creative approach to developing the kindergarten curriculum. She incorporated many of the progressive education ideas of mentor John Dewey rather than strictly following the system laid down by kindergarten inventor, Friedrich Froebel. Hill's work laid the foundation for the standards of kindergarten education that were adopted in the public school system in the United States, thus impacting the lives of millions of children.
Patty Smith Hill was born on March 27, 1868 in Anchorage, Kentucky, one of six children of William and Martha Hill. Her father was a Presbyterian minister who founded Bellewood Female Seminary. The Hill parents tried to provide their children with the best possible education, encouraging them to become independent thinkers. Their mother believed that children should have fun at every possible opportunity, and she established extensive play areas at their home where the children spent hours playing freely and building with bricks, barrels, and boards.
Patty Hill graduated from Louisville Collegiate Institute in 1887, after which she joined the Louisville Kindergarten Training School. At the time, Froebel’s kindergartens were popular in the United States, and Froebelian education was in almost every training school for kindergarten teachers. Hill’s teacher, and principal of the Louisville Kindergarten Training School, Anna E. Bryan, however encouraged her students to experiment with different classroom techniques, beside that of Froebel. It is there that Hill started to develop her own educational methods.
Mildred J. Hill (June 27, 1859 - June 5, 1916) was an American songwriter and musicologist, who composed the melody for "Good Morning to All", later used as the melody for "Happy Birthday to You". Mildred J. Hill, born in Louisville, Kentucky, was the oldest of three sisters, Mildred, Patty, and Jessica. She learned music from her father, Calvin Cody, and Adolph Weidig.
Mildred Hill was a kindergarten and Sunday-school teacher, like her younger sister Patty. She moved into music, teaching, composing, performing, and specializing in the study of Negro spirituals. Hill and her sister were honored at the Chicago World's Fair for their work in the progressive education program at the experimental kindergarten, the Louisville Experimental Kindergarten School. She wrote about music using the pen name Johann Tonsor.
Hill died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1916. She is buried with her sister in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.
Educators enjoy a special after-hours viewing of the exhibits at the National Archives while learning about resources and workshops for National History Day. They include options for video conferencing programs into their classroom, DocsTeach online resources and lesson plans, Learning Labs, field trip planning, and more during an Educators Open House at the National Archives in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2018.
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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The Great Charter or Magna Carta .
Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
some of the peer educators of saheli sangh, pune, india.
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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .