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The 17th Annual Association of Caribbean Higher Education Administrators (ACHEA) Conference

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 .

 

Trombonist Ron Westray

 

More Info: www.bluecanoerecords.com/ron-westray.html

 

Tags: #trombone #tromboneplayers #musicians #music #jazz #education

 

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 .

 

Educators at DoDDS-Europe schools in Vicenza, Italy, are reaching out to parents to create effective, nonpunitive approaches to protecting middle and high school students from the adverse effects of online bullying.

 

Photo illustration by David Ruderman, USAG Vicenza Public Affairs

 

Learn more about U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil and www.facebook.com/USAGvicenza.

 

June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup

 

Find out what happened at the June 2014 Final Scratch Educator Meetup at MIT - bit.ly/jun2014-scratch-meetup

 

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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup

 

Find out what happened at the June 2014 Final Scratch Educator Meetup at MIT - bit.ly/jun2014-scratch-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 .

June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup

 

Find out what happened at the June 2014 Final Scratch Educator Meetup at MIT - bit.ly/jun2014-scratch-meetup

 

Check out our events page for more info on upcoming meetups. - scratched.media.mit.edu/events

 

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Kansas Art Educators Association

2011 Conference, Garden City, Kansas

Dates: October 20- October 22, 2011

 

Location: Garden City High School

 

Find out more about how you can participate in the Dream Rocket Project, go to www.thedreamrocket.com

 

View Images of Artwork and a few images of the conference at:

www.flickr.com/photos/thedreamrocket/sets/72157627416910319/

  

Participants who's art was on display at this conference:

 

Maureen A. Cunningham from Watsonville, CA

 

Girl Scout Troop 1256 (2nd Grade Brownies) with the Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York, Inc.

 

Girl Scout Junior Troop 134 and Lisa Davis from Adams, TN

 

Patricia S. Joy from Loveland, Colorado

 

Mary Kay Davis from Sunnyvale, CA

 

The Montessori School of Huntsville, Alabama

 

Netherhall Learning Camp and 1st year Textile Craft Students from Huddersfield University in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England

 

Whitesburg Elementary School in Huntsville, Alabama

 

St. Andrew's Sewanee School in Sewanee, TN

 

Laura Grover from Bellevue, Washington

 

Monte Sano Elementary School: Huntsville, AL

5th Grade Class, Teacher: Carol English

 

North Roebuck Elementary School from Pelham, Al

 

Students visiting the University of Alabama in Huntsville from Serbia

 

Rainbow Elementary School from Huntsville, Alabama

 

Columbia Elementary School in Madison, Alabama

 

Monte Sano Elementary School - Mr. Masterson's 5th Grade Class in Huntsville, Alabama

 

Walnut Springs Middle School in Westerville, Ohio

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Silvia Piza – Tandlich and Friends from Costa Rica

 

Jessica Pribula from East Grand Forks, Minnesota

 

Nastya Sokolova, Viktoriya Sbitneva, Lera Pereverzeva

Group: 5th Grade #A, Art school # 548 “Tsaritsino”

From - Moscow, Russia

 

North Roebuck Elementary School from Pelham, Al

 

St. John's Catholic School in Madison, Alabama

Teacher - Marilu Priebe, Students in the 8th Grade

 

Whitney Bandel from Manhattan, Kansas

 

All Saints Catholic High School from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England

   

The Dream Rocket Project www.thedreamrocket.com

 

Backed by the Governor, legislators, police, educators, clergy, community activists, Attorney General Matt Denn proposed a multi-faceted plan to allocate money from a financial crisis settlement Wednesday, designed to have a profound impact on some of Delaware’s most economically distressed and crime-stricken communities.

 

Funded by settlements with Bank of America and Citi to resolve allegations of actions with respect to investments that contributed to the financial crash, “Lifting Up Delaware’s Communities” consists of three main components: Investing in people and neighborhoods, providing help to our high-poverty schools, and promoting affordable housing and development in economically impacted areas.

 

“We believe that this ambitious investment in Delaware’s economically impacted communities has the potential to transform parts of our state,” said Attorney General Matt Denn, “and we have faith it will have a real impact on people who desperately need help.”

 

Governor Markell noted the plan supports efforts in some of the highest need areas of the state, which can then serve to enhance all of Delaware. “Thriving cities shelter their people in safe and comfortable homes,” Markell said. “They support vibrant neighborhoods, and that allows businesses to prosper, and it also lures visitors as well.”

 

The details of Lifting Up Delaware’s Communities are as follows:

1.Investing In People and Neighborhoods. An investment of almost $16 million in programs to help youth succeed, provide treatment for Delawareans with substance abuse disorder, help inmates being released from our prisons to avoid re-offending and going back to jail, and fund a variety of policing and other enrichment activities for economically impacted communities. Specifically:

a. Substance Abuse Treatment. Proposing $3 million be spent over a period of three years to establish additional treatment facilities for persons suffering from substance abuse disorder or related conditions.

b. After-School and Summer Programs. Proposing $3 million be spent over three years for summer and after-school programs targeted at children from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.

c. Prison Re-Entry Programs. Proposing $3 million be spent over three years to provide competitive grants to non-profit organizations that assist persons being released from correctional facilities in Delaware to avoid new criminal offenses.

d. Community Policing and Community Support. Proposing $5.9 million be allocated to the state’s Neighborhood Building Blocks Fund, which can make grants for a broad array of government and non-profit efforts to support economically impacted neighborhoods. The fund currently has $1 million available from a prior bank settlement. One example of a potential use of these funds is the Wilmington neighborhood foot patrol initiative that the Department of Justice and the City of Wilmington are about to propose to the Fund. We are also proposing that $1 million of the funds be used to continue the existence of the Department of Justice’s Crime Strategies Unit, which is designed to address underlying causes of crime in economically disadvantaged areas (such as abating nuisance properties).

2.Providing Help to Our High-Poverty Schools. Proposing to invest almost $5 million in adding teachers and paraprofessionals for the 16 elementary schools in Delaware with the highest percentage of low-income students. Each of the following elementary schools would receive $300,000 over a three year period to hire additional teachers or paraprofessionals to provide additional assistance with their students:

Brittingham Elementary (Cape Henlopen School District)

East Dover Elementary (Capital School District)

Towne Point Elementary (Capital School District)

Bancroft Elementary (Christina School District)

Elbert Palmer Elementary (Christina School District)

Pulaski Elementary (Christina School District)

Stubbs Elementary (Christina School District),

Eisenberg Elementary (Colonial School District)

Colwyck Elementary (Colonial School District),

Dunbar Elementary (Laurel School District)

Highlands Elementary (Red Clay School District)

Lewis Dual Language Elementary (Red Clay School District)

Richardson Park Elementary (Red Clay School District)

Shortlidge Elementary (Red Clay School District)

Warner Elementary (Red Clay School District)

West Seaford Elementary (Seaford School District)

3.Promoting Affordable Housing and Development In Economically Impacted Areas. Proposing to invest almost $16 million in efforts to promote affordable housing and economic development in economically impacted areas of the state. Specifically:

a. Foreclosure Prevention. Proposing to direct $1.5 million to the Delaware Mortgage Assistance Program to help Delaware homeowners prevent foreclosures on their primary properties.

b. Affordable Housing. Proposing to dedicate over $10 million to the Delaware State Housing Authority’s Strong Neighborhoods Revolving Housing Fund which is dedicated to the creation of affordable housing in economically impacted areas.

c. Economic Development in Low Income Areas. Proposing to devote almost $4 million to the Downtown Development Districts Program, half of which would be used to provide down payment assistance to homeowners willing to purchase homes in those districts.

 

The settlement of multistate investigations into the actions by Bank of America and Citi, in addition to providing direct relief to some homeowners and the state’s pension funds, has resulted in the state having $36,615,801 that it is permitted to spend to (a) remediate harm the state suffered from the mortgage and financial crisis, and (b) improve housing. Given the nature of the settlement, the settlement funds are not meant to be used to simply supplant existing state programs or for programs that do not target economically impacted areas or individuals.

 

“In the past, the Attorney General’s Office has independently exercised its common law authority to distribute lawsuit settlement funds,” said Attorney General Matt Denn. “But given the unprecedented sum of money involved in this settlement, we believe it is a sound practice to consult with the Governor and General Assembly regarding the expenditure of the funds.”

 

The Attorney General has already consulted with the Governor and obtained his agreement regarding the use of the funds, and will now seek to enter into a similar agreement with the General Assembly’s Joint Finance Committee.

 

Addressing high poverty schools is supported by educators across the state. Equetta Jones, a fourth grade teacher at Warner Elementary School in Wilmington, looks forward to the opportunities the school funding will bring. “So many people think our children don’t want to learn. They do want to learn, they are inspired to learn, and they are me. I am a prodigy of city schools,” Jones said. “Our teachers are capable but we do need resources, and this funding will actually support us by giving us additional staff.”

 

Colonel Elmer Setting, Chief of the New Castle County Police, believes education is a key component to substance abuse treatment. “It’s normally the message from law enforcement that we must find drug dealers and arrest them,” Setting said. “We’ve done that, but the prisons are full and forced sobriety is not the answer. Education is the only way out.”

 

Several elected officials representing the city of Wilmington offered support to the initiative.

 

“This proposal to invest in some of our hardest hit communities is a balanced one that is important to our citizens and to our effort to reduce violent crime,” said Senator Margaret Rose Henry. “Not only should we make these investments, but given the violence that we are seeing in our neighborhoods, we should make them sooner rather than later.”

 

“We can argue about what money should be spent where, but it’s difficult for me not to agree with conceptually where this money is being spent,” said New Castle County Councilman Jea Street. “The fact of the matter is, if you look at housing, the highest foreclosure rate in the state is in my council district in the city. The city is in trouble and it needs help.”

 

Wilmington City Council President Theo Gregory thanked the Attorney General for acting so quickly. “I wanted to thank and express my appreciation for the foresight in the recognition that there’s an urgency to get started, and that Matt Denn hit the ground running,” Gregory said.

 

The Joint Finance Committee is expected to address the proposal in early February.

A group of North Bay Maker Educators came to Tam Makers to learn how to create automata (a.k.a. kinetic or mechanical sculptures). This special meetup was organized by Adam Singer, technology / maker educator at Davidson Middle School, and my partner Geo Money, engineering teacher at Tam High School. Geo started by giving folks a tour of our incredible makerspace and wood shop, which we use in the evenings for wood working and maker classes at Tam Makers. We then gave a joint presentation about our Art Float for Social Change: earlier this year, we led over a hundred volunteers to create this large-scale, community-built, socially-conscious automaton, to inspire more people to participate in community life.

 

Geo then invited a dozen maker educators from Marin and the East Bay to create their own automaton, using special parts he had prepared for this occasion. Participants make their automata move round and round, side to side or up and down, using foam cams attached to bamboo sticks, sliding through 3D-printed guides on a wooden box. It was a great way to learn basic principles of mechanical engineering in a playful, hands-on activity that delighted everyone. We hope that students will enjoy creating their own automata as much as their teachers did!

 

This was one of our most fun and productive workshop at Tam Makers this year, because we were working with such creative and experienced teachers, who designed and built with some really ingenious projects in just an hour. Here's what they created.

 

Maker educators featured in this video include: Sara Bolduc, James, Claire Comins, Walt Hays, Lisa Skinner, Paige Teamey, Jae Tillinghast, as well as Edomyas, Fred and Mike.

 

See more images of this workshop in our photo album:

flickr.com/photos/fabola/sets/72157674462043237

 

Learn how to create your own Cardboard Automata:

exploratorium.edu/tinkering/projects/cardboard-automata

 

Learn more about North Bay Maker Educators:

plus.google.com/communities/110857114647152222610

 

Learn more about Tam Makers:

tammakers.org/

June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup

 

Find out what happened at the June 2014 Final Scratch Educator Meetup at MIT - bit.ly/jun2014-scratch-meetup

 

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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup

 

Find out what happened at the June 2014 Final Scratch Educator Meetup at MIT - bit.ly/jun2014-scratch-meetup

 

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Leave No Trace Trainer Liz Mahan joined Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Conservation Biologist Bill Hogseth and Wildlife Biologist Harvey Halvorsen as guest educators. Photo by Tina Shaw/USFWS.

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 .

 

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 .

June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup

 

Find out what happened at the June 2014 Final Scratch Educator Meetup at MIT - bit.ly/jun2014-scratch-meetup

 

Check out our events page for more info on upcoming meetups. - scratched.media.mit.edu/events

 

scratch-ed.org

Arabella Burton Buckley (24 October 1840 – 9 February 1929) was a writer and science educator. She championed Darwinian evolution with particular emphasis on the mind and morals, in contrast to the prevailing emphasis on competition and physical survival. Charles Darwin described her as being able to 'treat evolution with much dexterity and truthfulness'.

 

Buckley was born in Brighton, England. Her brother was Henry Buckley, 1st Baron Wrenbury. At the age of 24, she went to work as secretary to Charles Lyell, and remained with him until his death in 1875, on which Charles Darwin wrote to her to commiserate with her. After that, she began lecturing and writing on science.

 

Being Charles Lyell's assistant and a female put her in good standing to educate youth. One of Buckley's earlier pieces, The Fairy-Land of Science, puts her views of science in a children's book setting, much like a mother educating her child. Her work was labelled as lectures rather than chapters, mirroring how she would teach young people. One of her lectures, "The Two Great Sculptors - Water and Ice" emphasizes how water and ice create hills, crevasses and valleys much as a sculptor will create a statue using a chisel. It also describes how water always needs somewhere to go and often takes part of the land with it, causing cliffs to fall apart leaving faults and intrusions behind. She saw no contradiction in using fancy to present fact, writing of the natural world: "Can any magic tale be more marvellous, or any thought grander, or more sublime than this?"

 

Buckley married at the age of 44, but continued publishing under her maiden name, although one of the later editions of Eyes and No Eyes gives her married name (Mrs Fisher). She also edited two other publications: Mary Somerville's Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1877) and Heinrich Leutemann's Animals from Life (1887). Her books were translated into Japanese, Polish and Swedish in her lifetime.

In Buckley's time, male scientists often had female assistants and included some of their findings in the lead scientists' work. The women themselves generally would not be labelled scientists, and so did not receive any acknowledgement.

Arabella Buckley died of influenza at her home, 3 Boburg Terrace, Sidmouth, Devon, on 9 February 1929. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabella_Buckley

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 .

 

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 .

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