If we decide to start publicly pushing for Vargas to move on this, we will have to reach out to them, along with students, teachers, academics, businesspeople and the rest of the community. DA -----Original Message----- From: Meghan Delehanty <meghandelred@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sender: regional_school-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:48:44 To: regional_school@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<regional_school@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: regional_school@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [regional_school] Re: Regional Academy Website and More Has anyone reached out to the parents of the RCSD? Just curious how many in this group are RCSD parents? Despite the negative perceptions out there - we have incredible families and parents in the district and they should be key in this. Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:17:25 -0800 From: datias34@xxxxxxxxx Subject: [regional_school] Regional Academy Website and More To: regional_school@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi Everyone, With Bill's blessing, I took it upon myself to get some infrastructure together in case we decide that the Rochester City School District needs a little nudge (i.e. public pressure) to get the Regional Academy going. So I started a website, a Twitter page and a Facebook group. Obviously, I shouldn't be the only one in control of all of this so at some point some of you should start taking on roles within this infrastructure. For now, I would just like to get some of you involved and as a group we can go from there. Here's where everything is: Website: I used Google via Blogger to start the website and get the domain name. I chose this route because I have found that Blogger is the easiest webpage platform for people to use who do not do websites. Using this platform, if you can type, you can contribute to the site. The website WILL be at www.regionalacademy.org. It's taking a few extra days with the holiday for the domain name to go over to the actual page. For the next few days, you can see the site at http://regionalacademy.blogspot.com/. Again, very soon, regionalacademy.org will be the website's address. By using Blogger, anyone who wants to will be able to blog on this site. It is pretty barebones right now, but Bill is sending me the DVD that was distributed a few years back and I'll be posting that on the site as well as more links. Your blog posts will keep it fresh and hopefully, keep people coming back. If we decide to put public pressure on RCSD, we can host an online petition there and more. Please check out the site and give feedback. (I would just sent feedback to me directly rather than post to the entire listserv) Twitter: There is now a Regional Academy Twitter page at https://twitter.com/RegionalAcademy. If you have a twitter account, please follow this profile. I have been choosing strategic members of the media to follow so that if we go "public" it will be easier to get coverage as most reporters follow people who follow them. I have not put a description of the RA on the Twitter profile yet, as I am waiting to see if we are going to be using it to put pressure on Vargas. What we decide to do will determine what should be on the Twitter description. Facebook: Currently, there is a closed Facebook group. It is at https://www.facebook.com/groups/482575945127914/. It is closed because, again, we have not decided on a plan on how to get RCSD on board. Facebook "pages" are easier to like, but due to Facebook's decision to charge pages to allow all their followers to see posts, Groups seem to be a more democratic FB tool. It's a great tool to share articles, have conversations, etc. The problem with FB groups is, people can just be added to them without their permission. I have not done that to anyone because it is bad internet form. I do realize that not everyone may be on Facebook. That's OK as it is just one tool that we can use and more interactive tools can be added to the website. And of course, we always have this listserv. So check everything out and let me know what you think. Also, committee leaders, if you could send me reports, lists, whatever you have, I can add that to the website and start adding hotlinks to some of the text that is up there. Thanks!!! Dave Atias