I wonder how many of the regional list members would like to have
an interactive theatre session to become familiar with the work of
Augusto Boal as a tool to organize the various constitutencies that
are being mentioned. Let me know-I have used it with the School 12
PTA, colleagues and students. Everyone agrees that it is a powerful
process that opens lines of communication and possibilities.
If a group of 10 are interested we can set a date and time-minimum
2 hours.
When parents are ready-I can bring 4-6 from School 12.
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Julie Mitchell
<jmitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And, then, as a teacher in a suburban district and a parent of a
child who is supposed to start kindergarten in a suburban district
in September 2013, I am ready to start educating this particular
population who may be very resistant to the concept. I am so
excited about the possibilities and so frustrated with the testing
culture dominating
our students and teachers right now.
Julie
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:34 PM, William Cala
<wcala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We must mobilize parents. I met with a Rochester parent last
week. We met at the Children’s Agenda and there is a strong
interest in partnering. Jeff Sciortino is the parent and he is up
to the task of organizing (as I am sure Meghan is as well). Jeff
will be in contact again after the holidays. I hope this proves to
be a fruitful endeavor.
Peace,
Bill
From: regional_school-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:regional_school-
bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Meghan Delehanty
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 8:49 AM
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
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Julie
Mrs. Julie Mitchell
Fairport High School
English 10
