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Building and Sustaining a Gay-Straight Alliance

Interested in starting a Gay-Straight Alliance or similar student organization at your school?
Do you have a GSA that is in need of a jumpstart for 2013?
Join members of NYQueer as we explore GSA best practices, ideas for programming and ways to support both students and staff in cultivating a LGBTQ-inclusive school community.

This meeting is open to students and staff and students are strongly encouraged to participate!

When: Tuesday, 1/22 from 5-630pm
Where: UA Institute for Math & Science for Young Women, 283 Adams Street, 4th Floor (downtown Brooklyn)
Please RSVP to: Wazinabibi@gmail.com

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Perspectives on Tragedy in Newtown, CT.

NYCoRE has begun compiling resources to bring perspective regarding the tragedy in Newtown, CT.

from: http://z4webhosting.com/blog/85016/mourning-at-vigil/

As Bob Peterson, President of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, reminds us:

“In the coming days, we will mourn the victims of the Sandy Hook tragedy. But we must also organize to prevent future such tragedies. We have no choice.”

Please consider adding relevant resources.
http://nycore-teaching.wikispaces.com/Talking+%26+Teaching+about+Newtown%2C+CT

 

 

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“Fighting Merit Pay” Chapter from Educational Courage (by NYCoRE members) in Washington Post

“You Want to Pay Me for What?!?”: Resisting Merit Pay and the Business Model of Education is a chapter written by NYCoRE core members Sam Coleman and Edwin Mayorga for the book Educational Courage: Resisting the Ambush of Public Education .

Excerpts of the chapter were posted by Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post in “The Answer Sheet” blog. The chapter tells the story of how Sam Coleman came to recognize how corporate-based reform was affecting what he did in the classroom and how he stopped a standardized test score-based merit pay  program at his school.

Check out the post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2012/11/22/a-story-of-educational-courage/

Find out more info about the book Educational Courage here

NYCoRE still has copies to sell at a reduced rate. If you’re interested email: edwin@nycore.org

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