Optimally, students will be sophomores or juniors, English Language Learners currently in ESL courses in DC Public Schools or DC public charter schools. Karina Hurtado-Ocampo, the coalition's educational organizer will be conducting interviews through September 3.
More about what the fellowship entails is in the information packet. For more information, contact Karina, (718) 679-3299 or via email.
Four years ago, educators, nonprofits, elected officials, corporations, and the philanthropic community banded together in Greater Cincinnati for a common purpose: help each child succeed from birth to meaningful careers. Today, this public-private partnership, known as Strive, unites a broad swath of committed individuals and organizations around shared issues, goals, measurements and results, and then actively supports and strengthens strategies that eliminate the cracks children might fall through.
Be part of a spirited and informative exchange as Jeff Edmondson, Strive’s executive director, discusses how the coalition is helping students meet five key benchmarks toward success in and out of school; and how working groups address activities ranging from early childhood education to college retention.
Contact Pho Palmer with questions: (202) 261-5397 or via email.
Columbia Heights/Shaw Family Support Collaborative's latest parenting class starts March 25 and all DCPS parents are welcome! Details in the flier below.
Shawgpparent Classes
Then plan on attending the State of Shaw Middle School Summit and Open House on Saturday, January 9 from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm. The summit/open house is being held at Garnet-Patterson (2001 10th Street, NW). The event will feature such open house sessions as:
Lunch will be provided. Additional information is provided in the flier, below.
State of Shaw Summit FlyerNearly 20,000 parents, students, faculty, and staff participated in a SY 2008-2009 DCPS/Westat school satisfaction survey whose purpose was to identify areas of improvement and to use as an accountability and progress measure. Areas asked about included safety, family and community engagement, leadership, and teaching and learning. The report compares findings from the SY 2007-2008 survey.
Violence is unfortunately an issue for too many of DC's youth. How young people think about school safety, then, is important. A comparison of the citywide and Ward 1 secondary school findings is shown in the table below. The good news is that students in three of the four secondary schools in Ward 1 feel safe in their schools. The not-so-good news is these same Banneker, Columbia Heights Ed and Shaw students do not feel as safe out of school as they do in school, particularly when compared with their peers across the city. Of course, the Cardozo results are not a surprise. We owe it to all students to improve safety in and around schools, particularly those who are most threatened.
What we -- school stakeholders, elected and appointed officials, advocates, students -- do with this survey information and real life experience is the question. There are very real public policy and practice challenges associated with "fixing" this problem. Some in the community advocate for law and order kinds of solutions while others seek solutions that are less punitive and more in the rehabilitative and supportive realms. No matter which solutions are chosen, the public should use the survey results as DCPS plans to: to assess progress and identify areas of improvement.
DCPS is reporting the results in a variety of ways. Users can find citywide reports as well as summaries for elementary and secondary schools. DCPS is also reporting results by school:
Assist parents of Bruce Monroe at Parkview Elementary School on Thursday, December 10 (and every Thursday) set up and run a food bank from 3:30 - 5:30 pm. Volunteers will help set up and distribute free food to area residents, including many hit hard by the economic crisis. To get involved, contact Elizabeth at elizabeth [AT] stepdc [DOT] org or 829-8989.
Individuals will get five minutes face-to-face with Chancellor Rhee, more personal than the community and town hall type meetings with which she started her tenure. Office hours start on December 9 in Ward 7 and come to Ward 1 on April 8 at Bruce-Monroe Elementary School (3560 Warder Street, NW). Can't wait until April? Then head up to Ward 4 on January 14 to Raymond Education Campus (915 Spring Road, NW). Other dates and locations are listed on the DCPS Web site. All office hours will be held from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.
