[regional_school] Exciting News from the Big Picture Learning Network
- From: "William Cala" <wcala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <regional_school@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:26:42 -0400
Much of our work has been based on Big Picture Schools… Here is their latest
newsletter.
Bill
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OCTOBER 2011
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Tylor Campbell (left), Ashlynn Southern, Shay Bell and Destiny West play Catch
Phrase at Phoenix Rising Alternative Day Program on Wednesday. The teacher in
their class uses the game to encourage teamwork and to get students thinking.
MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World
(Article link 4th story below)
Schools are in full swing around the country and Big Picture Learning schools
have been busy deepening student learning through their interests. Here are
just some of the news articles and feature stories that highlight what our
students are doing. Enjoy!
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Met Providence students awarded at the 2011 National Youth Entrepreneurship
Challenge
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Anthony Defilippo and John Novas of BPL’s Met School in Providence, RI placed
third in the finals of the 2011 National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge. This
contest of over 20,000 students was produced by the Network for Teaching
Entrepreneurship. As reported in the Providence Journal, the two students
received the third place prize of “$3,500 in venture-capital funding, a laptop
computer and two round-trip airline tickets for business-related travel.”
To view their video presentation go to: http://www.vimeo.com/30212618
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To view the ABC6 feature story and interview go to:
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To view the video of them along with other competitors ringing the opening bell
at the NYSE go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTOcqXbcsVI
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Delaware Looks to Improve Struggling Schools
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WBOC feature story of Delaware’s Gov. Jack Markell visit to Positive Outcomes
School in Camden. Positive Outcomes is one of the newest schools in the Big
Picture Learning network. To view video click on link.
http://www.wboc.com/story/15560762/partnership-schools
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(VIDEO with text transcript)
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Bronx teen grows food on mini-farm on plot right next to his high school
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High school senior Basilous Falconer is being honored by Senator Kirsten
Gillibrand’s office for singlehandedly creating a garden/ farm complete with
chickens outside his school for a project.
Click on link to read story
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Alternative school works to help students become their best selves
By KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer
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BPL’s Terra Nova High School gets a $64,000 grant from State Farm Insurance
by Wendy Owen
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What Employers Don’t Know About Their New Hires, and Why
by Charles Mojkowski and Elliot Washor
Article reprint granted by the Association of Career and Technical Education –
Techniques – October 2011
Click here to download PDF of article
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About Big Picture Learning
Big Picture Learning’s mission is the education of a nation, one student at a
time. As a non-profit organization dedicated to a fundamental redesign of
education in the United States, Big Picture Learning’s (BPL) vision is to
catalyze vital changes in K-Adult education by generating and sustaining
innovative, personalized learning environments that work in tandem with the
real world of their greater community. At the core of Big Picture Learning’s
mission is a commitment to equity for all students, especially underserved
urban students, and the expectation that these students can achieve success.
Big Picture Learning designs innovative learning environments, researches and
replicates new models for learning, and trains educators to serve as leaders in
their schools and communities. In order to create and influence the education
of the future, Big Picture Learning must continually reflect on and improve our
practice and research to provide the results to leverage our influence in
policy decisions and educational systems at the state, national, and
international levels.
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For sixteen years the BPL network has served over 26,000 students in 20 U.S.
states and another 5000 students in 6 countries around the world, meeting the
individual needs of students to help them excel at the high school level, but
to also be prepared academically and emotionally for their post-high school
endeavors. Since 1996, most of the students served by BPL are in the U.S.
demographic groups least likely to complete high school, enroll in college, or
attain post-secondary degrees (85% of BPL schools receive Title I funding; 66%
of students are eligible for free/reduced lunch).
In addition to supporting its network of schools, Big Picture works with and
through other organizations to incorporate selected features and components of
the Big Picture school design in other school designs. Big Picture is helping
organizations, districts, and schools throughout the country to use its student
advisory program, enhance personalization, refine project-based learning, and
integrate real-world learning through adaptations of Big Picture’s Learning
Through Interests/Internships. This “Big Picture Inside” work has resulted in
innovative designs for secondary, post-secondary, and career and technical
schools and for STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) and
out-of-school youth programs.
Support Big Picture Learning's mission: education of a nation,
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