Is there a place for interfaith discussions at public school. Eboo Patel says there's a need for students to discuss their own religions with one another. Can we do this in a public school setting? How? View his video then chime in with your comment. http://www.ifyc.org/about_movement
"It's not the time for anger, this is the time...to build the beloved
community." Dr. Martin Luther King
No matter what you're religious beliefs or ethnic background you are or
are not, you might be interested in viewing and listening to the ideas and
solutions of Eboo Patel.
"We need to find ways for people from different backgrounds to get to know
each other." He poses that brotherhood and understanding is the key to
disarming conflict, especially the conflicts and wars that are born from
religious misunderstandings. He says that too often it's children and teens
that are fighting wars around the world so it's important that we build
opportunities for children and teens to talk across the borders of faith,
especially as America's original policies were based on the ideals of
freedom and tolerance.
Patel shares that America is a nation where people from the four corners of
the world come together and it's our nation where open dialogue and
discussion is allowed happen. He tells the story of a man and his son
reflecting on their internment during WWII, "...[A]nd by your people I don't
just mean the Japanese, never let American forget about this, because
America is too good for what it did to us. [Japanese Internment]" The reason
there is freedom in America is due to the diversity that protects this
freedom. It's up to all of us to embrace our differences and learn about
each other so we have peace and tolerance instead of mistrust and conflict.
The Interfaith Youth Organization webpage says "Imagine a world where people
from different religious backgrounds come together to create understanding
and respect by serving their communities. This is the world we are
building."
Powerful stuff and a message that I personally had never considered,
especially in the public school setting.
Listen to his intelligent, inspirational and enlightening video from his
speech at Cincinnati's Freedom Center. What does this mean for public school
students? Can we have these discussions in school? What do you think? Feel
free to send me your comments after listening to his video in its entirety.
http://www.ifyc.org/about_movement
Friday, July 25, 2008
Bill Strickland Serves the Good Stuff
Talk about changing the world. Check out Bill Strickland's video and then go buy his book Making the Impossible Possible. He offers training, dignity and hope to people-in-need in Pittsburgh, PA.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Service Learning 101 from IBNA Annual Conference San Francisco
Thank you so much for attending my session at the IBNA Annual Conference in San Francisco. In Service Learning 101 you all collaborated to brainstorm service learning project ideas.
Hopefully you'll be inspired to use the PARC method to create a complete unit or lesson plan. If you do, please e-mail me so I can share your plan, reflection and/or photos and we can collectively celebrate your hard work.
Ideas for Future Service Learning Projects:
1) Dirty beaches: beach clean-up, video, reporting
2) Water usage (water unit): commitment (use Taking it Global?), use money saved on bill to buy a well
3) Adopt a child (Language Arts connection): donate $1 to Foster Parents' Plan, write and correspond using Language A or B
4) Shelter Project (Home Ec. Sewing, Technology, Industrial Arts: design and donate clothing to shelters, can also create a donation campaign collecting hotel/toiletries at airports
5) Adopt a school: student voice on what is needed, diaries, tsunami relief, natural disasters6) Interfaith Support/Understanding Group (world history/religion theme)
I hope you're inspired to take service to a new level by connecting it to your curriculum, including student voice and giving students a way to evaluate, reflect and celebrate their efforts.
The big question now belongs to all of us IB educators:
How can we inspire our teachers and students with The Power to Think and the Will to Act?
Maybe some of these projects can be posted on the Sharing Our Humanity site. Take lots of pics ok. I can post them here. Send me your Good Stuff!
Hopefully you'll be inspired to use the PARC method to create a complete unit or lesson plan. If you do, please e-mail me so I can share your plan, reflection and/or photos and we can collectively celebrate your hard work.
Ideas for Future Service Learning Projects:
1) Dirty beaches: beach clean-up, video, reporting
2) Water usage (water unit): commitment (use Taking it Global?), use money saved on bill to buy a well
3) Adopt a child (Language Arts connection): donate $1 to Foster Parents' Plan, write and correspond using Language A or B
4) Shelter Project (Home Ec. Sewing, Technology, Industrial Arts: design and donate clothing to shelters, can also create a donation campaign collecting hotel/toiletries at airports
5) Adopt a school: student voice on what is needed, diaries, tsunami relief, natural disasters6) Interfaith Support/Understanding Group (world history/religion theme)
I hope you're inspired to take service to a new level by connecting it to your curriculum, including student voice and giving students a way to evaluate, reflect and celebrate their efforts.
The big question now belongs to all of us IB educators:
How can we inspire our teachers and students with The Power to Think and the Will to Act?
Maybe some of these projects can be posted on the Sharing Our Humanity site. Take lots of pics ok. I can post them here. Send me your Good Stuff!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
IB AND SERVICE
Thank you to the members of the Leave a Legacy Club at Pacific Beach Middle, and their Teacher Advisor, Jill Schenk, for designing the IB Middle Years Programme mural.
INSPIRED TO SERVE!
Great authors inspire...Here are some inspiring quotes found in three superb Service related resources.
“There’s a radical—and wonderful—new idea here… that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people’s ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world.”
– Deborah Meier, educator [from: whatcankidsdo.org]
[FROM Teens with the Courage to Give]
To laugh often and much,
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends,
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others,
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let him that would move the world first move himself. -Socrates
Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some people see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not. -Robert F. Kennedy
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. -Mark Twain
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
-John F. Kennedy
[FROM Cathryn Berger Kaye’s--The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action]
If you need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of your arm. -Yiddish Proverb
The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
-Joseph Campbell, Author
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs it lifeline.
-Kofe Annan, Secretary General, United Nations
A person’s mind stretched ot a new ideas never goes back to its original dimensions.
-Oliver Wnedell Holmes, Jurist and Writer
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, other transform a yellow spot into the sun. -Pablo Picasso
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
-Arthur Ashe, Athlete
A pitcher cries for water to carry. And a person for work that is real.
-From To Be of Use by Marge Piercy, Poet
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to sleep in a room with a mosquito.
-Anita Roddick, Activist and Founder of The Body Shop
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at doing. -Quincy Jones, Musician
The elders were wise. They knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to the lack of respect for humans, too. -Chief Luther Standing Bear of the Lakota Sioux
The Earth is now ours; it is a treasure we hold in trust for future generations.
-African Proverb
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
-Wilma Rudolph, Athlete
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid of standing still.
-Chinese Proverb
“There’s a radical—and wonderful—new idea here… that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people’s ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world.”
– Deborah Meier, educator [from: whatcankidsdo.org]
[FROM Teens with the Courage to Give]
To laugh often and much,
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends,
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others,
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let him that would move the world first move himself. -Socrates
Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some people see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not. -Robert F. Kennedy
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. -Mark Twain
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
-John F. Kennedy
[FROM Cathryn Berger Kaye’s--The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action]
If you need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of your arm. -Yiddish Proverb
The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
-Joseph Campbell, Author
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs it lifeline.
-Kofe Annan, Secretary General, United Nations
A person’s mind stretched ot a new ideas never goes back to its original dimensions.
-Oliver Wnedell Holmes, Jurist and Writer
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, other transform a yellow spot into the sun. -Pablo Picasso
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
-Arthur Ashe, Athlete
A pitcher cries for water to carry. And a person for work that is real.
-From To Be of Use by Marge Piercy, Poet
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to sleep in a room with a mosquito.
-Anita Roddick, Activist and Founder of The Body Shop
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at doing. -Quincy Jones, Musician
The elders were wise. They knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to the lack of respect for humans, too. -Chief Luther Standing Bear of the Lakota Sioux
The Earth is now ours; it is a treasure we hold in trust for future generations.
-African Proverb
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
-Wilma Rudolph, Athlete
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid of standing still.
-Chinese Proverb
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Students Provide Food Security at San Diego's Morse High School
Kudos to the students of Morse High School!
http://www.sandiegoroots.org/terra_nova.html
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Learner Survey
The PB IB webpage is down right now and a couple of you wanted links for
prepping beginning of the year ATL lessons to help students to identify
their own learning profile (style/preference/strength/multiple
intelligences, etc).
prepping beginning of the year ATL lessons to help students to identify
their own learning profile (style/preference/strength/multiple
intelligences, etc).
Here are links to help students learn about themselves as learners.
According to Carol Ann Tomlinson, differentiated learning takes into account
a student's learner profile (learning styles/modalities, etc), interests,
and abilities. Great books by the way! Order or borrow them from your
school's professional library.
Here are some resources we learned about at the training at Branksome Hall,
IB Level III with Cindy Strickland, ASCD co-author with Carol Ann Tomlinson:
Interest-A-Lyzer
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/CurriculumCompacting/SEC-IMAG/ialsecon.pd
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My Way Learning Profile Survey (learning styles)
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/sem/pdf/myway.pdf
Links for Differentiated Instruction
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/di.htm
Kids Take Action!
Not sure where to take kids who are ready to change the world? Start here:
http://www.learnandserve.org/for_individuals/students/index.asp
Welcome
Welcome to my educational blog: Serve the Good Stuff. Can you tell I created the name when I was starving?
To my face, my colleagues thank me for sharing all of "those great teacher resources". They are so polite and courteous and always make me feel loved. But secretly I fear they are tired of me filling up their inbox and curse the day they gave me their e-dress. So, being the resourceful teacher that I like to think I am, pat pat, bow, bow, I have created this forum to post what I seem to think is hip, cool, and just sooo dang exciting for teachers and kids.
Yes, I know, it's only my version of the world but hey, sometimes, just sometimes, what I send out might be just the thing everyone's been looking for. So, for all you that have a "Jenny E-mails Read During Vacation" folder on your desktop hopefully this blog will help free up some memory and time. Here's to you my awesome colleagues; past, present and future. This on'es for you...Cheers.
To my face, my colleagues thank me for sharing all of "those great teacher resources". They are so polite and courteous and always make me feel loved. But secretly I fear they are tired of me filling up their inbox and curse the day they gave me their e-dress. So, being the resourceful teacher that I like to think I am, pat pat, bow, bow, I have created this forum to post what I seem to think is hip, cool, and just sooo dang exciting for teachers and kids.
Yes, I know, it's only my version of the world but hey, sometimes, just sometimes, what I send out might be just the thing everyone's been looking for. So, for all you that have a "Jenny E-mails Read During Vacation" folder on your desktop hopefully this blog will help free up some memory and time. Here's to you my awesome colleagues; past, present and future. This on'es for you...Cheers.
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