October Newsflash
Upcoming events
Oct. 8: Tri-State Get Smart about Parent Power Fair 2005. 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Hyatt Regency/ Penn’s Landing, 201 S. Columbus Blvd. Panel discussions, interactive workstations, exhibitors, vendors, keynote presentation and entertainment. Free. Lunch included. Pre-registration required. Sponsored by Pennsylvania Parent Information & Resource Center. Call 215-763-0883.
October 8: How to Survive High School. 10 a.m. – 12 noon. West Regional Campus, Community College of Philadelphia, Community Room. 4725 Chestnut St. For middle-school students and parents. Topics: High school selection, course selection, special admission programs and schools, career choices. Representatives from: Philadelphia School District, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistant Agency, Tuition Assistance Program, Philadelphia Police Dept., organized labor, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia magnet schools. Sponsored by St. Rep. James Roebuck & Community College. Call 215-724-2227.
Oct. 22: Juvenile Injustice: A Proposal for Reform. 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Moore College of Art & Design, 20th Street and Ben Franklin Parkway. Features author and Harvard professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr., with Bilal Qayyum, Father’s Day Rally Committee, and Robert G. Schwartz, Juvenile Law Center. Free. Refreshments at 5:30 p.m. Book signing, 8:30 p.m. RSVP and register at 215-563-5848, ext. 11, or by clicking on “Forging the Future,” on www.pccy.org.
Oct. 12: Basic Tutor Training (session 1 of 3). 5:30p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Municipal Services Building, 1401 JFK Blvd., 16th floor. Sponsored by Mayor’s Commission on Literacy. For information, contact Linda at 215–686–5256.
Oct. 12: GED Tutor Training (session
1 of 3). 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Municipal Services Building, 1401 JFK
Blvd., 16th floor. Sponsored by Mayor’s
Commission on Literacy. For information,
contactl Linda at 215–686–5256.
Oct. 15: Serve-A-Thon.
9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Waterview Recreation
Center, 5826 McMahon Street. City
Year Greater Philadelphia, on its
annual day of volunteer service, will
provide services such as refurbishing
the basketball courts, painting fences,
, and removing graffiti from the Germantown-area
playground. Contact Michael
Flynn to volunteer or for more details.
Oct. 18: The neglected importance of connections: The role of student engagement in the transition to high school. 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 7 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. Speaker: Dr. Christopher C. Weiss. For information, or to RSVP, call 215-665-1400. By Philadelphia Education Fund as part of Fall 2005 Distinguished Educator Lecture Series.
October 18-21: Child Advocacy Leadership Institute. Doubletree Hotel, 237 S. Broad Street. National event hosted by Voices for America’s Children will offer workshops on school readiness, racial inequities, message framing, working with state administrators, message framing and more. For more information, contact Arohi Pathak at pathak@voices.org or 202-289-0777 ext. 220. Register at or visit www.voices.org.
Oct. 19: School Reform Commission Planning Meeting. 1 pm. School District of Philadelphia Education Center, 440 N. Broad Street. To register to speak, call 215-400-4040 by 4:30 p.m. the day before the meeting.
Oct. 20: Struggles of the Shadows: Philadelphia’s Free African Youth. 10 p.m. airing on WHYY-TV 12. Half-hour documentary follows five Philadelphia School District teenagers as they explore the free African community in Philadelphia while slavery still existed in the United States. The students researched, scripted, and produced the film with the support of Scribe Video Center. The film includes footage of local historic sites, student interviews, scholars’ comments, and talks with tour guides.
Oct. 22: Philadelphia Cares Day. A team of 10,000 volunteers head into 100 Philadelphia public schools to paint murals and hallways, landscape schoolyards, whitewash graffiti and more in an effort to beautify schools. Contact Isabel Mapp for further information at 215-898-2020 or sammapp@pobox.upenn.edu.
Oct. 22: Center City Elementary School Fair. 12 Noon – 3 p.m. Pennsylvania Convention Center, 12th and Arch Streets, Hall D. Principals, staff, teachers and involved parents from over 30 public, parochial, independent, and charter schools in Center City will be on hand to answer questions. Event is free and family entertainment provided. For information, call 215-440-5500 or visit www.CenterCitySchools.com.
Oct. 24 – 28: 21st Annual VOMA International Training and Conference: Restorative Justice: Imagining the Possibilities. Holiday Inn Historic District, 400 Arch Street. Sponsored by Victim Offender Mediation Association. Documentary and broad spectrum of trainings that include victim offender mediation/conferencing, implementing restorative processes in schools, dialogues in crimes of severe violence, mediating parent-teen conflicts, addressing sexual abuse restoratively and more. To register, visit www.voma.org/conf05.shtml. For more information, contact Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz at lsa@mcc.org. or 612-874-0570 or 717-859-1151.
Oct. 25: Addressing the academic achievement gap. 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 7 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. Speaker: Belinda Williams. For information, or to RSVP, call 215-665-1400. By Philadelphia Education Fund as part of Fall 2005 Distinguished Educator Lecture Series.
Oct. 26: School Reform Commission Action Meeting. 1 p.m. School District of Philadelphia Education Center, 440 N. Broad Street. To register to speak, call 215-400-4040 by 4:30 p.m. the day before the meeting.
Oct. 27 - 30: 34th Annual NSEE Conference. Loew’s Hotel, 21 S. 12th Street. The National Society for Experiential Education hosts workshops, roundtable meetings, panels, awards ceremonies, luncheons, and more for administrators, K-12 educators, counselors, support staff, and students. To register and for more information, visit www.nsee.org.
Nov. 2: Educators Workshop: Philadelphia’s Free Black Community. 5 p.m.-7 p.m. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust St., hosts the first of a series of workshops for teachers exploring the history of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and Philadelphia’s free black community during the antebellum period. Free and open to the public. To register, or for information, call 215-732-6200, extension 412, or send an email to events@hsp.org.
Nov. 3 – 5: National Middle School Conference. Pennsylvania Convention Center, 12th and Arch Sts. Largest conference in the world specifically focused on middle school education. Offering nearly 500 concurrent sessions, workshops, and keynote presentations by known leaders in middle- level education. Topics include: classroom management, differentiated instruction, diversity, curriculum, technology and more. To register or for more information, visit the NMSA or Pennsylvania Middle School Association websites at www.nmsa.org or www.pmsaweb.org.
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.
Now through Oct. 31: Applications accepted for the National Liberty Museum’s annual Young Heroes Award. Teachers and mentors invited to nominate a child or teenager in the Delaware Valley. Nomination forms available at www.libertymuseum.org, or by calling 215-925-2800, ext. 112, and at the museum, 321 Chestnut St. Award honors young people who “creating positive change in their communities, and who have shown optimism, leadership and creativity through non-violent, volunteer, civic and artistic work.
Ongoing: ASAP/After School Activities Partnerships offers School District staff the opportunity to lead chess clubs, proven to improve children’s performance, in their schools. The School District will grant extra-curricular money and ASAP will provide training and materials. If interested, contact Ben Cooper at bcooper@phillyasap.org or 215-545-3072.
School Calendar
Oct. 10: Schools and Administrative
Offices closed for Columbus Day.
Oct. 13: Schools and Administrative Offices closed for Yom Kippur.
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