July/August Newsflash
Upcoming events
Dec. 2-9: Philadelphia Young Playwrights produce winning high school plays. 11 a.m. (Dec. 5-9); 8 p.m. (Dec. 2, 3). Plays & Players Theater, 1714 Delancey St. Winning high school plays by students are professionally produced and staged. $15, students & seniors: $12. Group and family rates available. Visit phillyyoungplayrights.org or call 215-665-9226.
Dec. 3 – 7: 37th Annual
National Staff Development Council (NSDC)
Conference: A Declaration of Professional
Learning: The Revolution Begins.
Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch
St. Focus on: leadership, high-performance
culture, race and class culture, and advocacy.
Includes keynote speaker Dr. Beverly Daniel
Tatum (Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting
Together in the Cafeteria?) lectures,
roundtables, and workshops featuring teacher
leaders, instructional coaches, principals,
administrators and superintendents. Sponsored
by Houghton-Mifflin, Temple University,
Harcourt Publishers, CORE, Inc. Visit
www.nsdc.org.
Dec. 4: The Big Block! at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art. 10:30
a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Museum of Art,
Ben Franklin Pkwy at 26th Street, Education
Corridor, Ground Floor. Day of displays,
demonstrations, workshops and printing
culminates semester project by The Philadelphia
Print Collaborative with schools and community
organizations around print technique of
woodcut. Contact Caitlin Perkins at 215-701-6148
or cperkins@solfopro.com.
Dec. 6: Frank McCourt, author
of Teacher Man and Angela’s Ashes
8 p.m. Free Library of Philadelphia, Central
Branch’s Montgomery Auditorium,
1901 Vine Street. A Pulitzer Prize-winning
author, Frank McCourt retired after teaching
in New York City Public Schools for 30
years. $12, $8 for students. For more
information, call 215-567-4341.
Dec. 7: School Reform Commission Planning Meeting. 1 p.m. School District of Philadelphia Education Center, 400 N. Broad Street. To register to speak, call 215-400-4040 by 4:30 pm the day before the meeting.
Dec. 7: Parenting After Violence Symposium II. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Temple Health Sciences Building, 4th Floor, Broad & Ontario Sts. For information, call 215-683-6048.
Dec. 8: Mifflin School in East Falls Open House. 9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 3624 Conrad Street. Coffee with the principal and tour of the school included. If interested, RSVP to the School at 215-951-4007 or East Falls School Committee at efschoolcommittee@mac.com.
Dec. 12: Philadelphia Education Fund Distinguished Educator Lecture Series: Creating Conditions to Promote Learning and Youth Development: What it Takes to Leave No Child Behind, featuring Dr. Pedro Noguera, award-winning educator, author (“City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming The Promise of Public Education”), activist and director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education. United Way Bldg, 7 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, 1st Floor. For information, go to http://www.philaedfund.org/pdfs/distinguisheddec.pdf.
Dec. 13: Kensington High School planning meeting: Final meeting & celebration. 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Kensington School of Culinary Arts, 2463 Emerald St. Community members, Philadelphia Education Fund, Concordia planning and design consultants, parents, students, teachers and business leaders conclude new school planning. For more information, contact Tia Keitt, Philadelphia Education Fund, at 215-665-1400.
Dec. 14: West Philadelphia High School Steering Committee Meeting: Final meeting & celebration. 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. School’s Room 207, 48th & Walnut Streets. Community members, Philadelphia Education Fund, Concordia planning and design consultants, parents, students, teachers, business leaders and others conclude new school planning. Refreshments and childcare will be provided. For more information, contact Tia Keitt, Philadelphia Education Fund, at 215-665-1400.
Dec. 14: School Reform Commission Action Meeting. 1 p.m. School District of Philadelphia Education Center, 400 N. Broad Street. To register to speak, call 215-400-4040 by 4:30 pm the day before the meeting.
Dec. 16: Youth Development Conference to Inspire Community Action. 8 a.m.– 4 p.m. Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch Street. Town Hall meeting, lunch and workshops such as “Peace in the Streets,” “Building Youth Power through Partnerships,” “Connecting Cultures,” and more. Sponsored by Greater Philadelphia Federation of Settlements and United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania. To register and for more information, visit http://www.greatsettlements.org/2005_conf/overview.htm.
Now through Jan. 13, 2006: Applications accepted for Youth Service America Grants. Youth Service America and Disney offer $500 grants to students ages 5 – 14 or the teachers, schools, and organizations that engage them to implement service projects on National and Global Youth Service Day, April 21-23, 2006. For more information and application, visit http://www.ysa.org/awards/award_grant.cfm#nowavailable.
Every Thursday: Talk radio program with Sandra Dungee Glenn, School Reform Commission member. 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. WURD 900 AM. Call-in number: 215-426-1310.
School Calendar
Dec. 13: K-8 Report Cards Distributed.
Dec. 14 - 16: K-8 Parent Teacher Conferences / Early Dismissal.
Dec. 26 - Jan. 2: Schools
and Administrative Offices closed for
Winter Recess.
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