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Mailing Address: 17 Lexington Avenue, A1207 “Racial Balance” Programs: The New Racism New York, NY 10010 By Debi Ghate and relegated to “colored” institutions. This was potential. By decisively rejecting the claim that Email: [email protected] Earlier this month the Supreme Court heard a monstrous injustice. It mattered not how intel- members of a racial group (who have nothing in www.EducationUpdate.com arguments by two public school boards seek- ligent or talented a student was, it mattered not common but a physiological attribute) are inter- Tel: 212-477-5600 Fax: 212-477-5893 ing its sanction of “racial balance” programs. where he lived or what his study interests were-- changeable. And by denouncing “diversity” as an If upheld, the boards will possess the power to he had black skin. anti-value—and as the new racism. PUBLISHER & EDITOR IN CHIEF: shuffle around students of various racial back- In the supposed name of correcting this wrong, A private school, such as the Kamehameha Pola Rosen, Ed.D. grounds in order to forcibly “integrate” them and today’s public school boards claim the need for School—which recently won its federal court ADVISORY COUNCIL: create a “diverse community.” “racial balance” programs. Instead of dismissing appeal upholding its right to restrict admission Mary Brabeck, Dean, NYU School of But what the boards are advocating is itself race as irrelevant, the boards claim that a racially to native Hawaiian students—is free to adopt a Education; Sheila Evans-Tranumn, Assoc. racism. As Ayn Rand wrote, racism is “the notion diverse school is a value, worth forcing upon its racist and collectivist mission if it wishes. We Comm. of Education, NYS; Charlotte K. that a man’s intellectual and characterological constituents. To promote this so-called value, they have no right to interfere. But when a public Frank, Ph.D., Senior VP, McGraw-Hill; traits are produced by his internal body chemis- foist a new straightjacket that potentially holds school board, a government agency, arbitrarily Joan Freilich, Ph.D., Vice Chair, Con try, which means, in practice, that a man is to be back bright students because of their race. They treats some of its citizens differently, it creates a Edison; Cynthia Greenleaf, Ph.D., Director, judged, not by his own character and actions but insist on branding a student by his skin color and horrendous injustice. The Supreme Court exists Partnerships, Chicago Public Schools; by the characters and actions of a collective of dictating what school he will attend. They insist to protect Americans from such abuses of gov- Augusta S. Kappner, Ph.D., President, ancestors.” It means placing the group’s standing on enforcing quotas and counting students like ernmental power. Just as one would not allow a Bank St. College; Bonnie Kaiser, Ph.D., above the individual’s, valuing the arbitrary (a barnyard stock. They insist on creating a new public school board to make decisions based on Director, Precollege Program, Rockefeller man’s ancestry) over the essential (his own char- kind of injustice—a new kind of racism—in the a student’s shoe size, so it should not be allowed University; Harold Koplewicz, M.D., acter or ability.) Judging individuals by their race name of eliminating the old. to do so based on race. Let’s hope the Justices Founder & Director, NYU Child Study is evil no matter what incarnation it takes. How do we actually correct the injustice of recognize this.# Center; Cecilia McCarton, Ph.D., Dir., The Until the late 20th century, of course, some segregation? By insisting on a truly color-blind Debi Ghate is Vice-President of Academic McCarton Center; Alfred S. Posamentier, states had segregated schools. Blacks were society, wherein an individual’s qualifications Programs at the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, Ph.D., Dean, School of Education, CCNY; denied access to the best available public schools are determined only by his actions, abilities and Calif. Adam Sugerman, Publisher, Palmiche Press; Laurie Tisch, Chair, Center for Arts LETTERS In This Issue Education ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Response to: Prison College Programs school and I am in the second class of grade 8 Editorial & Letters ...... 2 Heather Rosen, Adam Sugerman, Unlock the Keys to Human Potential since the school has been open. Ms. Arnette, Rob Wertheimer To the Editor: with so much on her hands being a principal Not only do we have to pay room, board and and all makes sure she takes the time to get Spotlight on Schools...... 3-11 ASSISTANT EDITOR: everything else for our son, David’s killers, we to know each and every one of her students, Liza Young now have to pay for an education for them too? and we love her for that! To her we are her Music, Art & Dance...... 6 GUEST COLUMNISTS: Have you ever lost your twenty three year old daughters; each of us has a different potential Clive Barnes, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, son to one shot in the heart by a stranger in and in her eyes each of us is so special to her. Dean’s Column...... 6 Ty Endean, D.O., Debi Ghate, Dr. Carole the middle of the night, a wonderful family of I love her dearly. Hankin, Christina Herbert, Dr. Glenn six destroyed forever in an instant? Our oldest Celine Gordon S. Hirsch, Benjamin L. Mitchell, Dr. daughter had to witness this horrendous crime Bronx, NY Special Education...... 8-9 Alfred Posamentier, Randi Sachs, Randi and watch helplessly as her baby brother and Weingarten best friend died! Our hearts and souls are bro- To the Editor: ken forever! The school is very good. I like the rich environ- COVER STORY...... 12-13 STAFF WRITERS: K Fleet ment that the staff creates. I also like the educa- Jacob Appel, J.D., Judith Aquino, Stevanne Ashland, MA tion. It is very informative and I have learned a Colleges & Grad Schools. 14-17, 22 Auerbach, Ph.D., Joan Baum, Ph.D., Mike lot within the few months I have been in school. Cohen, Gillian Granoff, Richard Kagan, Sybil Maimin, Martha McCarthy, Ph.D., Response to: Lucy Sprague Mitchell Jessica Profiles in Education...... 19 To the Editor: Bronx, NY Merri Rosenberg, Chris Rowan, Emily How nice to see a recent article regarding Lucy (Student at TYWLS, Bronx Campus) Sherwood, Ph.D., Lisa Winkler Sprague Mitchell’s lasting contributions to edu- Books ...... 20 EDITOR-AT-LARGE & cation. As family members we are grateful for her Response to: Tiki Barber Supports Arts SPONSORSHIP COORDINATOR: efforts in education reform. As parents and now Education MetroBEAT...... 21 Steve Bailey grandparents we have growing concerns about To the Editor: Inquiries: 646-872-4018 the welfare of our teachers. The plethora of new This is an extremely important aspect of our MEDICAL UPDATE ...... 22 mandates have only stifled and overwhelmed students’ lives, because as a NYC schoolteacher BOOK REVIEWERS: the teachers we know. There is more talk among I have observed they receive very little knowl- Harris Healy III, Lillian Shapiro, Selene these educators of early retirement and we are in edge, if any at all. I have been teaching for 6 Movies...... 23 Vasquez danger of losing a depth and quality of educator years now. As a product of the NYC board of MEDICAL EDITOR: that will be impossible to replace. education I admire anyone who takes the time to Herman Rosen, M.D. Pati Mitchell give back to our future. I am now in charge of a Fayetteville, AR suspension site in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and my MODERN LANGUAGE EDITOR: students need as much motivation as they can Adam Sugerman Response to: An Interview with Arnette get to get them interested in the core curriculum. MOVIE & THEATER REVIEWS: Crocker, Principal, Young Women’s Leadership When they see major figures in their lives that Jan Aaron School they like getting involved in their lives that is the MUSIC EDITOR: To the Editor: greatest motivation for them. So once again, I Irving M. Spitz Ms. Arnette (as my fellow scholars and I call would like to thank every one involved in bring- her) is a wonderful principal. I am a student ing this all together. ART DIRECTOR: at the Young Women’s Leadership School Abdul Ganie Neil Schuldiner Bronx Campus. This is my second year in this Brooklyn, NY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT: Martin Lieberman, Manager. Nancy Kontos, Steve Bailey EDITORIAL INTERNS: Heather Maher, Justine Rivera Education Update is published monthly by Education Update, Inc. All material is copyrighted and may not be printed without express consent of the publisher. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Education Update, P.O. Box 1588, NY, NY 10159 Subscription: Annual $30. 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New Amsterdam last night, courtesy of Cameron novel than the overly jolly movie version. to mention up and around the proscenium arch in LOCATION: Multiple (see below) Mackintosh, Walt Disney and the original author, Most of the music, of course, is taken from the gravity-defying fashion. DETAILS: Parks & Recreation’s Winter/Spring P.L. Travers. film’s original score by Richard M. Sherman and Having brought in Lee, it was perhaps a pity not 2007 Learn to Swim Program is free and offers “Mary Poppins” was fine as a Disney movie Robert B. Sherman, so you probably go in hum- to have also imported his incandescent English classes for toddlers ages 3-5, children aged 6-14, and is even better as this Broadway musical, ming the tunes. But the new and amiable songs co-star Laura Michelle Kelly as Mary Poppins. and adults of all ages. Registration will be held imported sound and whole from London’s West by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe make a That said, Ashley Brown, despite difficulty with at the pool sites (below) on Saturday, January 27 End. Let’s play cute and call it—and the cast led decent fit, and the whole patchwork, orches- that acutely English accent trademarked by the and Saturday, February 3 from 9:30 a.m.–12:00 by Ashley Brown, Gavin Lee, Daniel Jenkins and trated by William David Brohn, has just that right film’s Julie Andrews, grows on one. Her acidu- p.m. Space is limited for this free program and Rebecca Luker— supercalifragilisticexpialido- Broadway belt and lilt. lated charm, occasional wicked smile and school- participants will be accepted on a first-come- cious. Or words to that effect. What makes Mackintosh currently the best marm authority finally prove totally endearing. first-serve basis. For more information, please This story—of a super-nanny who literally producer on Broadway and the West End is his The parents Banks—stuffy, inhibited George visit www.nyc.gov/parks or call 311. descends upon the unruly, unhappy Banks family creative touch and the manner in which he picks and flustered and confused Winifred—are BRONX: St. Mary’s Recreation Center, 450 on 17 Cherry Tree Lane, somewhere in Edwardian his collaborators, places them on the same page, played with commanding zest by fine, young- East 145th Street and St. Ann’s Avenue London, proceeds to restore order and then just as and makes sure they stay there. ish Broadway veterans, Daniel Jenkins and the BROOKLYN: Brownsville Recreation Center, literally takes off into the heavens—has its own “Mary Poppins” looks and sounds complete—a lovely Rebecca Luker. 1555 Linden Blvd. at Christopher Street perfectly engineered piece of musical theater. As the children Banks (there are three different St. John’s Recreation Center, 1251 Prospect The staging by Richard Eyre and co-director pairs), Katherine Leigh Doherty and Matthew Place between Troy and Schenectady Avenues Johns Hopkins University Matthew Bourne and choreography (Bourne and Gumley were excellent, as were the Banks’ ser- Metropolitan Pool, 261 Bedford Avenue at Receives $50 M Stephen Mear) seem seamless, although perhaps vants, a resourceful Jane Carr as Mrs. Brill and a Metropolitan Avenue Compiled by Heather Maher Bourne, with a set of smoothly energized and imag- nicely wary Mark Price as Robertson Ay. A kind MANHATTAN: Asser Levy Pool, 392 Asser William Polk Carey, a relative of the founder of inative dance numbers, deserves the most laurels. word is also due Ruth Gottschall, who screeched Levy Place at East 23rdStreet Johns Hopkins University, recently gave a gift of But there’s also Bob Crowley’s superbly inven- most effectively as that governess from the past, Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, 1 Clarkson $50 million to the school. With this gift, the uni- tive scenery and costumes, Howard Harrison’s the dreaded Miss Andrew. Street and 7th Avenue South versity plans to launch its first graduate business lighting and the terrific stage effects for which Film musicals don’t normally translate well into Chelsea Recreation Center, 430 West 25th school and education school. The University hopes I presume we tip our cap, in part, to technical stage versions—think “Singing in the Rain”—but Street between 9th and 10th Avenues that by opening these new specialized schools, the director David Benken. It’s a show that looks “Mary Poppins” doesn’t simply translate, it tran- Recreation Center 54, 348 East 54th Street most pressing needs of the nation’s public schools good enough to eat. scends. This is a great show that, for first time between 1st and 2nd Avenues will be met. Education schools generally do not The production appears smoother and perhaps this season, has Broadway singing again.# QUEENS: Roy Wilkins Recreation Center, receive much revenue because teachers do not slicker than it did in London—and the ensemble is MARY POPPINS 177th Street and Baisley Boulevard generate much wealth but the university’s new edu- a lot crisper, especially in it’s dancing. 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Music in the Air: Interview with Paul Ash, President of studies show how learning and playing music can buyer around to where the appropriate saxo- Sam Ash Music Stores affect student achievement, especially in regard phone could be bought. Sam Ash was also ahead to learning math, languages and socializing. of the curve, the first music store, for example, By Joan Baum, Ph.D. Ironically, it is often the case that those who to carry a synthesizer. The soft spoken, 77 year old learn on the job rather than exclusively in the Paul Ash talks lovingly of long days spent in who never learned to play an classroom become education’s most generous his office, and admiringly of his nephew Richard instrument but who heads, argu- and constant supporters. Bill Gates comes to who handles the more complicated and sophisti- ably, the best known chain music mind, of course, but so should Paul Ash, who for cated aspects of the business. But make no mis- store in the country, named for years has enriched the lives of school children take: Paul Ash is minding the store. And minding his father Sam Ash, is eager to by way of sponsoring scholarships and school it in the spirit of his beloved father and mother. make sure that his mother, Rose, contests, keeping prices low, and creating a wel- Though today Sam Ash sells many instruments gets full credit for having sug- coming atmosphere in all of its stores, including (“violins are hot again”), acoustic and electronic, gested, 82 years ago that she and its largest, on W. 48th Street, Music Row. In this recording equipment, disc jockey sound systems, Sam buy a store. Before that, sense Paul Ash can be said to be continuing his the stores take special pride in engaging young Sam had been a fabric cutter and father and mother’s tradition of offering quality people, letting them try out instruments, educat- a bandleader, Rose a bookkeeper. and personal attention. Did someone want a sax ing them. Not for nothing did New York City a And so, for $400 “Sam Ash” was in the old days when his father’s one store carried couple of years ago declare a Sam Ash Day and born—a mom and pop operation only small string instruments? No problem. Sam the Long Island Music Hall of Fame include in Brooklyn selling sheet music. Ash would personally shepherd the potential “Sam Ash” among its honorees.# Paul Ash was, so to speak, born and raised in the Brownsville store, since his family lived in a small adjoining apartment. No living room meant playing in the store. Then, at the age of nine, Paul began to help out, unpack- ALL THE GEAR YOU NEED! ing merchandise and accompany- ing his father on rounds all over the borough, delivering (without charge) music scores. Though Sam Ash had taught violin, Paul Ash was never tempted to learn an instrument. Older brother Jerry, however, played the piano—in the store, of course—and Paul recalls that every time a music teacher walked in, Jerry would get different criticism. It was Paul’s delight, when Jerry got Paul Ash, President 5)&
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The Dean’s Column How to Find the Square Root –Without a Calculator! by alfred posamentier, ph.d. rect square root, then if we were to divide 27 by 5.2, we would get 5.2. But this is not the case Why would anyone want to find the square root here, since √27 ≠5.2. of a number without using a calculator. Surely, no We seek a closer approximation. To do that, one would do such a thing, except a teacher trying we find 27 / 5.2 = 5.192. Since 27 ≈ 5.2•5.192, to demonstrate the nature of the square root of a one of the factors (5.2 in this case) must be bigger number. Introducing the notion of the extraction than √27 and the other factor (5.192 in this case) of a square root through a manual method, which must be less than √27. Hence, √27 is sandwiched relies on the notion of what a square root is, the between the two numbers 5.2 and 5.192, that is, concept will be better understood. Experience 5.192 < √27 < 5.2, so that it is plausible to infer has shown that students will have a much better that the average (5.196) is a better approximation appreciation of what the square root of a number for √27 than either 5.2 or 5.192. represents after this discussion than they have This process continues, each time with addi- before it. It ought to be stressed at the outset that tional decimal places, so that an allowance is you are in no way implying that this procedure made for a closer approximation. That is, (5.192 ALL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ought to be used in place of a calculator. + 5.196) / 2 = 5.194, then 27 / 5.194 = 5.19831. This method was first published in 1690 by This continuous process provides insight into the the English mathematician Joseph Raphson (or finding of the square root of a number which is Ralphson) in his book, Analysis alquationum not a perfect square. FAMOUS FOR DISCOUNTS SINCE 1924! universalis, attributing it to Newton, and there- As cumbersome as the method may be, it surely fore the algorithm bears both names, the Newton- gives some insight into what a square root repre- Raphson method. sents. It also reminds us how useful a calculator Manhattan Brooklyn White Plains Edison It is perhaps best to see the method used in a can be! 160 W 48th Street 2600 Flatbush Ave. 178 Mamaroneck Ave. 1831 Rt. 27 specific example: Suppose we wish to find √27. Dr. Alfred S. Posamentier is Dean of the School Obviously, the calculator would be used here. of Education at City College of NY, author of (212) 719-2299 (718) 951-3888 (914) 949-8448 (732) 572-5595 However, you might like to introduce the task by over 40 books on math including Math Wonders having students guess at what this value might be. to Inspire Teachers and Students (ASCD, 2003) Certainly it is between √25 and √36, or between 5 and Math Charmers: Tantilizing Tidbits for the and 6, but closer to 5. Mind (Prometheus, 2003), and member of the www.samashmusic.com Suppose we guess at 5.2. If this were the cor- NYS Standards Committee on Math.

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NYU Child Advocacy Award Dinner Raises Over $6.5 Million to Battle Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders The NYU Child Study Center hosted its Ninth Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner recently at Cipriani 42nd Street honoring philanthropists

Stanley and Fiona Druckenmiller for their deep Mia Matheson Mia Matheson commitment to organizations and programs that A. Christine Butler foster the success and well being of New York’s children. Chaired by Goldman Sachs President and COO Gary Cohn and his wife Lisa Pevaroff- Cohn, this year’s dinner raised more than $6.5 million to support the Child Study Center’s work to improve the research necessary to advance the (L-R) Board Member and Dinner Chair prevention, identification, and treatment of men- Gary Cohn, Director Dr. Harold S. (L-R) Arthur and Linda Carter and Klara (L-R) Honoree Fiona Druckenmiller and Koplewicz, and Board Member and tal health disorders in children and adolescents. and Larry Silverstein Board Chair Brooke Garber Neidich Dinner Chair Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn Childhood: Lost and Found, a short film pro- duced exclusively for the Child Study Center selective mutism, dyslexia, bipolar disorder, and order,” said dinner co-chair Gary Cohn. “Now, Tipper Gore; Governor George E. Pataki; by Nathaniel Kahn, Academy Award-nominated obsessive-compulsive disorder and how they just a few years later—and I believe as a result Whoopi Goldberg; then Senator Jon S. Corzine director of My Architect (2004), premiered at the have found a path to wellness through the NYU of the Center’s visibility and public awareness and Joanne Corzine; Surgeon General David gala. The film featured a series of short vignettes Child Study Center. programs—we are breaking past records and Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.; Lawrence Summers, with patients and families treated at the NYU “When Dr. Koplewicz and the board started attracting astute donors who are impressed with President of Harvard University; Leonard N. Child Study Center. It tells the emotional story of building the Child Study Center, donors seemed the Center’s track record and see a real need for Stern; and Bob and Suzanne Wright, co-founders children and families impacted by autism, atten- hesitant to contribute for fear that their children meaningful research and quality treatment to help of Autism Speaks. tion deficit/hyperactivity disorder, depression, would be labeled as having a mental health dis- give children back their childhood.” In addition to raising funds for the Center, Attended by 600 guests, the $6.5 million raised the gala increases awareness of the devastating to support the Center’s work represents a 63 per- effects of childhood mental disorders and demon- From the NYU CHILD STUDY CENTER: ASK THE EXPERT cent increase from funds raised at the 2005 gala. strates that the movement to battle these disorders Founder and director Harold S. Koplewicz and reduce stigma surrounding the issue is gain- How Can I Raise cautioned, “Despite all our success, the stigma ing ground. of mental illness remains all too prevalent. Our A live auction conducted by Sotheby’s Jamie dream is the day when mental health is thought Niven raised $247,000 and consisted of a Z100 Successful Children? of as simply another part of one’s physical health. Jingle Ball concert package; a “Cheeseburger By Glenn S. Hirsch, M.D. with them about their day and your day. Give We are extraordinarily lucky to have donors who in Paradise” Jimmy Buffett concert package; As I sat with my family over them time to talk about themselves—what they are passionate about fighting childhood mental an exclusive chartered evening on a 115-foot the holidays holding my newest are doing, their feelings and concerns. Children disorders—and are proud to do so.” Benetti Yacht was auctioned three times; a sports grandchild, I began to reflect on often get ambiguous and contradictory messages Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller join a dis- package with premium seats to eight New York the things my wife and I did right, and wrong, in from their larger environment. The only way tinguished group of past recipients of the Child professional sports events; and a movie package bringing up our children. In doing so we began to help them sort things out is by an ongoing Advocacy Award. Past honorees include: Mayor with a walk-on role in a Barry Levinson film. In discussing, or more accurately, I began to give dialogue. As they get older don’t forget to dis- Michael R. Bloomberg; then First Lady Hillary addition, Mr. Niven raised 31 contributions for a advice to the new parents on what makes for an cuss the more difficult issues—sex, drugs, etc. Rodham Clinton; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; research fund totaling $490,000. # effective parent. In the spirit of resolutions for Avoiding these topics may suggest to your child the New Year I thought that I would offer some that you are giving tacit approval. Avoidance also themes for raising successful children. means that you are allowing them to get their First, develop an authoritative style of parent- information and their decisions on how to handle ing. This style emphasizes warmth, caring and things from their peers. SEPARATION AND DIVORCE respect for your children along with clear rules, Spend time with your child. Children never guidelines, and limits. Authoritative parents outgrow the need to have quality time with their SUPPORT GROUP allow and expect discussions of beliefs, opinions, parents. There is growing evidence that hav- and ideas between parents and children but also ing regular family meals enhances interactions FOR INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING THESE acknowledge that families are not democracies. between parents and their children. During meals It is always important to hear and listen to your make sure that television, phones, and blackber- DIFFICULT TRANSITIONS child’s point of view, but that should not stop ries are off and use the time for discussion. At you from having unambiguous expectations and other times play with them and read with them Six weekly lunchtime meetings exploring the many parenting, legal, rules. Ultimately parents make the final deci- and even watch television with them. You can use and psychological issues that go along with separation and divorce sions. Explain your decisions. Don’t rely on the what you watch and read to help your children ‘because I said so’ reason. learn valuable lessons by discussing situations Children learn best by example and actions. that are presented and talking about people’s TUESDAYS 12:00 - 1:30 pm They’re great observers of what you do and how motivations, character, and ethics. you do it. How you interact with others, behave Remain involved. When the teen years approach Beginning January 23, 2007 in daily situations, and participate in communal parents tend to want to give their kids increasing $300 for the series activities are what your children will ultimately privacy and space. It is important to balance that learn and model. Follow-up your actions by dis- with ongoing supervision of your teen’s activi- The discussion, led by two experienced clinicians, will be tailored to the cussing the situations they have witnessed. ties, friends, and school performance. Teens can particular needs of group members. Some commonly asked questions Talk with your children. Have conversations continued on page 9 that we will be discussing include: • When and how to tell the kids? • How do I set up rules in my home? • How do I find the best lawyer for me? • Which custody arrangements are best for the kids? The Churchill School and Center • How do I handle family events and holidays? The Churchill Center • When is it okay for me to start dating? 301 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016 • Can I have a cooperative relationship with the other parent? ENHANCING SOCIAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT SPRING/FALL 2007 Meetings will be held at NYU Child Study Center (577 First Ave. at 33rd St.) • Children learn how to effectively interact with peers and handle social situations • Boys and girls ages 5-14 in small groups based on age, interests, and skill-based needs For more information, please call Rebecca Dell’Aglio at 212 263 8720. • Offered by The Churchill School psychologists and social workers • Program includes two private meetings to discuss child’s progress and one parent workshop The Family Divorce Support Service is a project of the NYU Child Study Center’s • Ten-week program, Mondays or Wednesdays 4:15 - 5:00 PM beginning in March 2007 Family Studies Program in association with the Ackerman Institute for the Family.

Call Jane Gertler, (212) 722-0610 ext. 2111 NYU Child Study Center • 577 First Avenue New York, NY 10016 www.churchillschool.com 212 263 6622 tel • 212 263 0281 fax • www.AboutOurKids.org JANUARY 2007 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ Special Education 

Lindamood-Bell Offers Strategies & Hope for Children Who Struggle with Literacy By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D. benefited from early (IEP). Craynon herself spends a lot of time The story reads like a feel-good movie script: intervention, and on the phone assisting families obtain public In 1998, the high poverty and heavily minority L i n d a m o o d - B e l l reimbursement for their services as part of their school district of Pueblo, Colorado began provid- requires a fairly impartial hearings process. ing intensive remedial reading instruction to its intense time com- With demonstrable success in closing the 4,300 children. By 2005, the district’s scores on mitment. Students achievement gap, Lindamood-Bell is still seeking the state achievement test for third graders sky- typically commit to cast its net more widely to help more children rocketed from rock bottom to the second highest to four hour blocks reach their learning potential. “That might mean in the state. The reason? The district had part- of instruction per expanding into the school system [currently most nered with Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, day, five days a instruction is done on-site at the Lindamood- a for-profit organization that teaches children week (oftentimes Bell office], and that also may mean opening how to read, spell, comprehend and express schools will allow other centers,” adds Craynon. They’re looking language in 43 learning centers throughout the them to miss part at opening a downtown Manhattan or Brooklyn United States and London. of the school day, office, and maybe one in Westchester County. Situated in an Upper East Side townhouse, the and many choose Even Australia and Asia are within their sights; serene and stately exterior of New York City’s to attend during the each center would be aligned with an American Lindamood-Bell office belies the buzz of activity summer); the good school as part of a global outreach effort. There’s taking place on its third floor. Within cubicles news is, the aver- even thought of a philanthropic endeavor, a mis- for students who are learning to work amidst the age length of time sion that might help poor African children attain ambient noise of their peers, or private rooms needed to achieve literacy. “We have big goals,” sums up Craynon for those who aren’t yet ready for distraction, success is a sur- simply as she greets waiting parents at the end of specially trained teachers are working one-on- (L-R) Liz Craynon & Ali Laputka, Lindamood-Bell prising six to eight a long day. “We started one little reading center one with children on a variety of targeted reading weeks. The price in San Luis Obispo twenty years ago and now strategies. An adolescent boy struggles to read every learning goal, there’s a specifically tailored tag is not cheap—the rate is $105 an hour—but it’s a multimillion dollar organization….Nanci a paragraph about the desert, stumbling over remedial program. For example, for learners who about half their clients are publicly reimbursed Bell always says ‘We can do this. We can do any- the word ‘limestone,’ but does better a second need decoding skills, the Lindamood Phoneme by the Department of Education if they can thing!’” Not a bad motto for a company whose time around; an 18 year old girl attempts to use Sequencing Program, known as LiPS, “talks demonstrate that the program is essential for logo, Pegasus, is a reminder of the human ability vocabulary to describe simplistic pictures, such about feeling sounds in our mouth,” explains the student’s Individualized Education Plan to sprout wings and realize one’s dreams.# as a flamingo or a woman walking a dog. Craynon. “Each sound in the English lan- The literacy strategies used to help these guage is assigned a simplified linguistic students—many who come with symptoms of label. A ‘t’ is a ‘tongue tapper’ and an ‘s’ dyslexia, auditory/sensory processing disorders, is a ‘smile sound’…We try to ask students For Families with Children with Special Needs ADD/ADHD, and autism—are all based on solid to say what the letter feels like,” a strategy and for the Professionals who Work with Them research which is constantly being updated at that helps them get past their initial obsta- the research and development facility in San cle, their inability to break words down. So Luis Obispo, California, the site of the origi- for learners who cannot differentiate the From nal Lindamood-Bell center (founded in 1986). disparate sounds embedded within a word, Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc./Dept. ED107 th th “Everything at Lindamood-Bell is based on the they can feel their lips, tongue, and mouth 116 East 16th Street/5th Floor, New York, NY 10003 dual coding theory,” explains Clinical Director forming shapes. “We stimulate the sensory www.resourcesnyc.org ▪ www.resourcesnycdatabase.org ▪ [email protected] and Regional Manager Liz Craynon. “Cognition system to help make sense of the printed is proportional to the extent to which we inte- word,” sums up Craynon. Missed our Camp Fair? Don’t Worry. Order your very own copy of grate letters within a word and pictures of the Positive reinforcement is a key compo- word…If I say ‘cat’ we can picture the letters nent of the Lindamood-Bell learning strat- rd ‘c-a-t’ or we can picture a little gray thing that egy. Younger children get to pick rewards Camps 2007 All New 23 Edition meows. Sometimes a child’s skills are a little out of a prize box when they achieve posi- Completely updated, more than two dozen new camps added. In Spanish and stronger on the decoding side versus comprehen- tive results; older children may redeem star English, indexed by type of camp and disability. Details on sessions, fees, ages, sion, and sometimes they’re a little stronger on cards for coveted gift certificates. area served, language spoken and more. the comprehension side versus decoding…And It’s no easy task to teach literacy, espe- sometimes they’re a little bit of both.” For cially to an at-risk kid who may not have $25.00 + P&H $8.00 per copy. 81/2 x 11, 440 pages. ISBN 0-9755116-4-5

This monthly column provides educa- Also Coming This Spring! tors, parents and families with important Dr. Hirsch All new: The Comprehensive Directory, 2nd Edition continued from page 8 information about child and adolescent All new: The Comprehensive Directory, 2 Edition mental health issues. Please submit ques- $75.00 + P&H $8.00 per copy, 81/2 x 11, 1500 pages, ISBN 0-9755116-3-7 be very impulsive and reckless and believe that tions for ASK THE EXPERT to Glenn For more information or to order call (212) 677- 4650 or FAX (212) 254- 4070 they have the unique ability to avoid any serious S. Hirsch, M.D., Medical Director at the difficulty. At the same time they want indepen- NYU Child Study Center at glenn.hirsch@ dence and increased responsibility. Help them med.nyu.edu. To subscribe to the ASK earn those privileges by monitoring and helping THE EXPERT Newsletter or for more informa- Now Accepting First, Second, Third, and Fourth them think through the right course of action. tion about the NYU Child Study Center, visit Have a Happy New Year. www.AboutOurKids.org or call 212-263-6622. GGrradadeeAApppplliiccatatiioonnssffoorrSSeepptteemmbeberr20072007

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New Queens Middle School for Language Development By Lisa K. Winkler students with many learning disabilities, ranging job placement choice. It works in partnership our expectations.” Her biggest concern now, is Take an abandoned parochial school building in from mild retardation, multiple learning issues, with county and state agencies and school dis- reaching the children that would most benefit Woodside, Queens. Add $1.7 million, a fast-work- and autism spectrum disorders. Our philosophy, tricts to provide the best opportunities for each in the middle school setting. “We want minority ing contractor, and 50 language impaired middle our niche, is that language is the foundation to student. families to find out about our school and apply. school students. What do you get? The School all learning,” said Tiegerman. The school doesn’t School directors didn’t vote to expand the Middle class families have access to attorneys for Language and Communication Development label students based on their disabilities but on school until last spring, making the search for and computers to assist in finding schools for Middle/High School, designed to address the their language disorder. Teaching and instruction new premises, and the subsequent fund-rais- their special needs child. Very often, minority needs of students ages 11-21. is individually modified to address each student’s ing and renovations rushed during the summer. families have limited English proficiency and An extension of the Glen Cove pre-school needs. For every six students, there’s a teacher The school opened on time and according to find out about us last. We want people to know and elementary facility, the new school, which and a teacher’s assistant. “If you can’t talk,FOSS_5 can’t xTiergerman, 10_bw ad is “going6/28/06 very well,2:36 andPM meeting Page 1we’re here,” she said.# opened in September, guarantees that students ask a question, can’t use your can further develop their language skills. For words, you won’t be able to func- founder and director, Dr. Ellenmorris Tiegerman, tion, no matter what the subject,” it’s the solution to a much-needed problem. “As said Tiegerman. our students got older, programs didn’t exist. The non-for-profit school FOSS® (Full Option Science There’s a tremendous need to serve these stu- receives public funds, doesn’t dents,” she said in a telephone interview. charge tuition, and actively raises We wanted to System™), the most popular The school reaches ninth grade now and will add money through parent fundrais- a grade each year, expecting to serve its capacity ing events and corporate grants. research-based science of 150 students. While there’s open enrollment, The high school will offer two know the most program in the nation, springs the school screens applicants, from a waiting paths: an academic, Regents- list to ensure students’ needs are met. “We have based option; and a vocational, from research conducted at successful the Lawrence Hall of Science. way to learn This research has guided the development Arts Education, a Universal of successful active-learning science curricula Language at the Dr. Sun Yat science, so for more than 25 years. Studies show students using FOSS outperform students who don’t. Sen Middle School we asked the by Sybil Maimin class. The student performers memorize While the controversy about immigra- lines and make costumes and props. They tion policy swirls around the nation, develop reading, speaking, and move- classroom experts! Manhattan’s MS 131, the Dr. Sun Yat Sen ment skills, and learn the importance Middle School whose student population of expressing themselves. Video artist is 93 percent Asian, 20 percent of whom Anna Strout is collaborating with teacher are non-English-speaking recent arrivals, Britney Montgomery in a “Secrets of US educates its pupils in a calm, welcoming History” project that involves collage, Don’t just open books environment that draws strength from the clay figure creations, and poetry writ- OPEN MINDS arts, a universal language. Recipient of a ing and allows students to use cameras two-year $65,000 Partnership grant from and record raps in a professional sound the Center for Arts Education (CAE) that studio. pairs visiting professionals with class- Lehrach explains, “I just love art and room teachers in theater, visual arts, and every teacher in this building is doing video, the school enables students to something in the arts.” To have this express themselves in ways that bypass program, she advises, “you must have words even as they learn reading, writing, resources for materials and you must math, and history. Recently, CAE staff believe in it.” Disparaging pressures visited the school to assess the program to “teach to the test,” she says broad and meet with teachers and artists, visit exposure, including the arts, gives stu- classrooms, and see student work. dents connections to content that actu- Using digital cameras purchased with ally enhances test preparation. “And,” Title III money, students take pictures she adds, “The arts will go with them in a nearby park that contains lots of through life.” Visitors to the architectur- community artifacts. Exploring history, ally handsome, well-equipped, and well- they research old photos of Chinatown maintained MS 133 are greeted by a and compare them with their own, dis- larger-than life bust of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, covering that women and children were a hanging scroll with Chinese characters, largely absent in former times. They and a large, light filled atrium filled with learn about composition and symbolism impressive student work and highlight- and how to capture what cannot be seen. ed by a striking, colorful, tile full-wall A little skinny sister is represented by a mural, “Timeless Spirit,” by Chinese art- young tree, a fat grandpa by a wide gate. ist Seong Moy. Immigration stories have been download- The Center for Arts Education, chaired ed from the computer. Longtime principal by Laurie M. Tisch, was founded in 1996 Jane Lehrach explains, “We use real life as a reaction to deep cuts in arts funding situations to help children make con- for city schools following the 1970’s fis- nections.” Visual artist Emily Reidman cal crisis. It has awarded over $30 million is enriching Jennifer Joyce’s English in private and public money to support Language Arts curriculum with a drawing arts education programs and partnerships. project that allows students to illustrate Working Playground, a cultural arts organi- their thoughts and ideas with cartoons zation, partners with MS 133 in the current that will ultimately depict “transition of project. CAE carefully assesses its goals a character” using stop frame animation. which include changing school culture When you contact us mention Lawrence Hall of Science The visitors observed Special Education through the arts, incorporating art into the and receive a free FOSSweb CD-ROM! students rehearsing the story of Aladdin core curriculum, partnerships and collabo- with theater professional Allison Talis rations with arts institutions and organiza- coaching Margaret Aspill’s hard-working tions, and professional development.#

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www.EducationUpdate.com Choose an animated or stationary online banner ad. University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 Call (212) 477-5600 for rates. JANUARY 2007 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ spotlight on schools ABC 11 “Say Yes to Education” Thrives in P.S. 57 By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D. and Cambridge, Massachusetts.) “Selling the an IEP that required occupational and physi- The front door of P.S. 57 on 115th Street is dream of excellence is a very hard sell in Harlem, cal therapy, the school was unable to provide entirely obscured by steel girders these days, where kids don’t get enough opportunity and role enough hours of care to correct Justin’s problems. but the real support is going on inside this East modeling. Here at P.S. 57, we’ve got to cultivate a Through persistent intervention, “Say Yes” got Harlem building, where “Say Yes to Education”, culture where they can see success,” adds Soto. him admitted to Blythedale Children’s Hospital in the brainchild of hedge fund guru George Weiss, Building that culture begins with a strong staff- Westchester, where he’s now receiving five days has promised one lucky class of students a free ing foundation that includes a program manager, per week of intensive OT/PT along with full time college education if they graduate from high program assistant, and reading specialist (who schooling on-site for one year, all reimbursed by school. Past the security guard and down a long does either push-in or pull-out remediation where “Say Yes”. “Every child is special here,” explains worker Paola Veras, this can mean connecting corridor, the “Say Yes” headquarters—housing a needed) at every school, as well as two educa- program manager Marta Morales, wiping tears parents with literacy programs or a vast array of small administrative space, a reading specialist’s tion managers who oversee all five “Say Yes” from her eyes as she recounts Justin’s story. “He higher learning opportunities, from vocational office, and a diminutive classroom for homework classrooms. Instruction goals for the children had slipped through the cracks. His teachers were education to a GED or even a CUNY degree, all help—stands like a beacon of hope, inviting the are intensely personalized: “We’re doing lots giving up on him. We knew that he needed a spe- paid for, once again, by the good graces of “Say 50-plus children (most of them now second grad- of assessments,” states Carmen Vega-Rivera, cial setting….Justin is ecstatic now.” Yes.” “The key is that someone is going to hold ers since they were selected into the program as Director of the NYC chapter of “Say Yes.” “One To meet the arduous “Say Yes” academic and their hand and bring them to something of inter- kindergarteners in 2004), to share in a culture of of our goals is to have an individual plan for social goals requires a staff that doesn’t quit at est,” notes Veras. Siblings are encouraged to help academic advancement and success. every child…We’d like to be able to say for every 3 PM. “Say Yes” kids are expected to attend an out in “Say Yes” classrooms or find community “We have a school with kids who come child, ‘What’s our plan for little Emily—cogni- after school enrichment program (it’s not manda- service opportunities to serve as role models for from broken homes, broken families, and broken tively, socially and emotionally?’” tory but they have nearly perfect attendance), others. Once a week, a Bingham-McCutchen dreams,” explains P.S. 57’s principal, Israel Soto, The story of Justin (not his real name) provides which includes an hour of homework help and lawyer is on-site, pro bono, to “do everything whose consistency (eight years at the helm) and a graphic illustration of how such a personalized an hour of cultural enrichment during which except custody battles…that includes things like strong leadership helped his school win the oppor- approach can change the course of a child’s life. children select ten week cycles of art, music or immigration, quality of life, criminal defense tunity to house a “Say Yes” classroom. (There are Born with a genetic disorder that impaired the dance that take place in P.S. 57’s classrooms. On and home default,” says Veras. In a recent case, four others in Harlem, as well as longstanding nerve endings in his feet, Justin couldn’t dress one wintry afternoon, Tanya Torres, an exhibited Bingham lawyer Jaime Fried Dockray was able “Say Yes” programs in Philadelphia, Hartford, himself and was falling down in school. Despite artist, is teaching a group of youngsters how to to help a parent whose landlord was insisting she make linoleum cut prints, first asking them to owed him a bogus rent payment of $6000. “[The describe and critique Rafael Tufino’s evocative client] almost couldn’t believe that this problem print, “Sugar Cane Cutters.” “The artist wanted that had nearly destroyed her life for six weeks to show how tough that job was for Puerto Rican was gone in just one afternoon,” says Dockray. men and women,” explains Torres. Down the Overseeing the extended “Say Yes” family will hall, ten boys are belting out “Feliz Navidad” to be no small logistical feat in the coming years. the accompaniment of wood blocks and rhythm Middle school will present its share of chal- instruments. An Afro-Caribbean dance class and lenges, as kids scatter into other schools; already an Aztec dance class, both punctuated by a puls- 11 children from the original kindergarten class ing drum beat, are preparing students on stage for have moved to other schools, states or countries. an upcoming holiday show. But the guarantee of a paid college education It takes a village to raise a family, and “Say will follow all of the original “Say Yes” children Yes” takes that credo to heart. According the wherever they go: “That’s the magic of it,” extols Vega-Rivera, “We sit down with the family and Vega-Rivera. “Once you’re identified as a ‘Say discuss the needs of parents and siblings, so that Yes’ child, you’re always a ‘Say Yes’ child. The all voices and parties are at the table.” For social promise and the dream continue.” # 12 13 Nutrition & Schools: A 2007 Plan Corporate Contributions to Education 2007 EDUCATION UPDATE | JANUARY 2007 JANUARY 2007 | EDUCATION UPDATE

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bDOEy joan baum, ph.d. Chethis countryf J sinceorge the age of nine, Jorge CCollazoo ingll seven regionalazo chefs, chefs at in the individual the Helm Parents, If your children haven’t told you about originally thought of journalism as a career, but, schools, training the actual cooks, and ensuring nutritious, good-looking bagel, salad and pasta working his way through college in restaurants, a smooth and uniform application of recipes, bars in their school cafeterias, you may want he soon became “enthralled” with the food busi- menus and delivery systems. to get in touch with the DOE’s Department of ness and left Temple University in order to train The position also requires great sensitivity, School Food (inelegantly called in a former life at the Culinary Institute of America. After various particularly regarding the “stigma” students feel the NYC Department of Education’s Office of stints in the private sector, including an extended about a program that labels them as getting School Food & Nutrition Services). More than period as executive chef at a major law firm, he “welfare food.” Also challenging is the matter a name change has been going on in this divi- and his family moved to Vermont, where he con- of administrative schedules—for some students, sion, under the aegis of David Berkowitz, the tinued his studies at the New England Culinary lunch is the last period of the day, and they sim-

Executive Director of the program, and Executive Institute (NECI). The word “study” is not inap- ply go leave the building and pick up fast food on John Magazine Lawn, Food Management Chef, Jorge Collazo. Hired three years ago, the propriate because it was there that he came to their way home. Long lines and a crowded cafete- Culinary Institute of America (CIA)-trained chef appreciate the larger picture, and when he taught ria may also be a deterrent. A lot, however, can has been carrying out a complex mandate to a food and culture course at NECI, it was with an be done, the chef suggests. Life skills classes that improve food services for the more than 1,400 eye to showing new chefs how food reflects and teach sexual education could easily add a com- schools, many with old facilities, that serve influences religion, culture, terrain, equipment ponent on food and health. Perhaps, too, schools 850,000 meals a day—the largest such operation and tools. Vermont was also where Jorge Collazo could take advantage of little used spaces, large in the country. He is the first to hold the title, first analyzed school “meal patterns”—free, and small—window boxes to grow herbs, a a position he attributes to Mayor Bloomberg’s reduced or paid, based on family income. farm like the one at John Bowne High School in pledge to make all city agencies more efficient With a solid knowledge of best practices in the Queens, an empty classroom that might be turned and fiscally accountable. private sector and years of experience, his hiring into a center for hydroponics. Better advocacy Chef Collazo sits in a big, no-frills office in by Schools Chancellor Joel Klein could not have and marketing, including more attractive signage LIC, a large man given to a slow smile and care- been better timed. The country was becoming on cafeteria food lines, would also be desirable. ful articulation of his mission. A box of whole increasingly concerned about obesity in children Chef Collazo would also like to see wider use grain Raisin Bran sits on a ledge behind him, and about the relationship between nutrition and of local produce, greater attention to minimally the elimination of artificial colors and sweeteners, alongside chick pea curry and dehydrated water. academic performance. Going from Vermont processed foods and batch cooking, so that cooks whole milk, white bread and meat taken mechani- Attractive posters dot one wall, and his desk is to NYC, of course, was quite a change. Here, don’t always have to start from scratch, and a cally from the bone, now include zero trans fats. covered with evidence of his constant activity to 70-75 percent K-12 receive free or reduced-cost couple of policy changes at the USDA, including Of course, there are still no breakthroughs on streamline even further the selection, distribution food, while all students receive free breakfast. allowing for more local produce and for soy milk broccoli yet, the chef reports, but he’s hoping. . . and marketing of food and an enhancement of Attending to such large-scale needs requires as a reimbursable item. Meanwhile, NYC’s tough as Kermit from Sesame Street would say it’s not contract services. Born in Cuba, but resident in extraordinary organization, including coordinat- nutritional standards, including low sodium and easy being green.#

School Nutrition We look forward to making your New Year’s Resolutions for better in New Jersey Health & Fitness happen! By Lisa K. Winkler 2007. Covering pre-K– 12th grade, the policy School districts nationwide are scrambling to limits fat and sugar contents in foods offered in a improve student health and nutrition, many in la carte lines, snack bars and vending machines, response to state mandates and corporate incen- school stores and fund-raisers. tives. Through catchy slogans, All the k–2 students enrolled celebrity posters, interactive at Virginia Road Elementary Park Avenue teaching materials, and school School in Valhalla, New York, wide competitions, schools are received lessons in the “Eat Well, adopting programs designed Be Well,” program that addresses Nutrition Spa to educate students about why fitness, nutrition, lifestyles and proper eating and exercise health education. Organized by Integrative Nutrition, affects health—and why they staff from Blythedale Children’s should care. Hospital and funded through The “Eat Right, Move More” a $175,000 grant from Kohl’s Acupuncture, Reflexology & Massage campaign, recently launched Department Stores, the pro- in Lodi, New Jersey, features gram included classroom visits. posters of New York Jets Principal Ada Jimenez-Parker, Try our pure Omega 3 for better offensive tackle D’Brickashaw while praising the school’s food Ferguson telling students, New Jersey Governor service for eliminating junk food emotional balance & metabolism “When I have a healthy meal, Jon Corzine and offering healthy food choic- it helps me play my best. Your es, noted that at this young grade school cafeteria has a variety of nutritious foods level, “children eat what parents give them.” She to keep you going all day long. So get up, eat hopes the PTA will offer a parents’ workshop right and move more!” Joined by Gov. Jon S. to reinforce the lessons. Holiday and birthday Corzine and NJ Agriculture Secretary Charles celebrations poise additional problems, she told M. Kuperus, Ferguson appeared at Columbus Education Update. “It’s very difficult to tell Elementary School in late November to introduce parents not to bring in cupcakes. We haven’t said the program. they can’t and I don’t see us doing that this year,” Children in the K–5, 270 student school have she said. responded enthusiastically, Principal Vince The Women’s Heart Foundation, based at DiChiara told Education Update in a telephone Rutgers University, established “TEEN ESTEEM, interview. The district’s suppliers increased the “geared towards adolescent girls attending Trenton Lisa Caron Cohn, MMSc., MEd, RD amount of low carbohydrate, reduced fat snacks Central High School. About 125 sophomore girls offered for purchase. The school’s physical edu- annually are participating in a three year study 1108 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10128 cation teacher introduced a variety of activities ending in June, 2007. In addition to classes on and lessons that tie in with nutrition. “When I nutrition and exercise, the girls receive intensive went to school, it was kickball everyday. Now health screenings and monitoring for cardiovas- 212-831-7900 kids can do lots of different types of exercise that cular and pre-diabetic conditions. Funded by the will hopefully keep them interested in good eat- state and the Horizon (BCBSNJ) Foundation, the www.ParkAveNutrition.com ing and health,” he said. program emphasizes how improved health leads New Jersey requires all schools to implement to improved self-esteem, which in turn impacts the new school nutrition policy by September, school attendance and performance.# 12 13 Nutrition & Schools: A 2007 Plan Corporate Contributions to Education 2007 EDUCATION UPDATE | JANUARY 2007 JANUARY 2007 | EDUCATION UPDATE

NY Life Gives CCNY $10 Million to Expand Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies Photos: Lois Wadler Schilling/ New York Life Insurance

A cohort of Colin Powell Fellows

business leaders on China’s economic develop- tools and the relationships that will allow them (L-R) Sy Sternberg, Chairman & CEO, New York Life; General Colin Powell, Fmr. ment and its impact on global markets, and Brad to make a meaningful difference in the future of Secretary of State, United States of America Walrond, ’06, is currently a Faculty Fellow at their neighborhood, their city and their nation.” Columbia University, where he’s working on Sternberg also revealed that the $10 million grant By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D. support for the students who will benefit from his Ph.D. in political science. Other Leadership to the Colin Powell Center represents the largest It’s not every poor kid from the city who grows the endowment: “Now that I’m in retirement Fellows have taught in a school for Rwandan single grant ever provided by the New York Life up to be U.S. Secretary of State. But if you listen again, I’m pleased that I can spend more time and orphans, developed a website for the Small Foundation. to General Colin Powell, who attended CCNY energy at the Center to do for a new generation Business Administration, and worked as a legis- And CUNY Chancellor Dr. Matthew in the fifties, went on to build his career in “the of New Yorkers what was done for me,” stated lative intern. Goldstein, yet another CCNY alumnus who only American institution that was integrated by Powell, who recently donated his own $1 million New York Life Chairman and CEO Sy Sternberg, grew up a poor kid in lower Manhattan and law, the U.S. Army,” and ultimately served as leadership gift to the Center (established in 1997). also a City College alumnus (“I arrived for my then Brooklyn, applauded the charitable efforts President George W. Bush’s Secretary of State Each year, 21 scholarships will be provided at the first day at school with nothing more than a fierce of General Powell and Sy Sternnberg “to from 2001-2005, many more African-American Colin Powell Center, 16 for undergraduates and desire to learn…and enough money for subway provide the most diverse student population students will now have a vibrant opportunity five for graduate students, as well as eight sum- fare back to my parents’ home in Bensonhurst, anywhere access to public policy opportunities to prepare for national and international policy mer internships. A Leader-in-Residence program Brooklyn”), noted that this initiative represents a that will strengthen the very fabric of our pre- careers. The impetus: a $10 million grant from will bring to the City College campus top leaders double win for the African-American communi- cious democracy.” Looking into the audience, New York Life Insurance Company which will in African-American issues. ty: “It is a ‘win’ because it provides young people filled with the young, expectant faces of the create an Endowment for Emerging African- The Powell Center has already shown that it with a college experience that is, by any measure, next generation of Colin Powell fellows, Dr. American Issues at CCNY’s Colin Powell Center has the potential to turn out leaders who think one of the nation’s finest programs leading to a Goldstein challenged the group to think big: for Policy Studies. broadly about global issues: Trevor Houser, ’06, career in public service. And it is a ‘win’ because, “There may be the next President in this audi- At a December press conference on the CCNY now works as an analyst the China Strategic after they have been through the program, these ence. There may be the next Secretary of State campus, an eloquent General Powell pledged his Advisory where he advises policymakers and young people will acquire the resources, the among us!”#

olin owell ellow hares nsights ABy LizaC Young Pstudies, and Latin American studies F as well. S IEU: Do you feel you got a good education Therese Collins, originally from the West there? Indies, is a 22-year-old Colin Powell fellow. EU: Do you do things together as a cohort, TC: I did. It was very strict and rigid, but I as a group? look back now and think the discipline that I got Education Update (EU): What do you feel TC: The group I’m in was chosen in November. there has enabled me to focus and really make that the Colin Powell Fellowship program is We will soon have our first official meeting, but things happen for myself. I wouldn’t be where I doing for you; how is it helping you? some us know each other from other areas, am today without the support of my teachers and Therese Collins (TC): For me, its going to and we’ve done things together, we worked on the staff there. give me the support that I need, not only finan- projects together; some of our interests are com- cial support, but academic and moral support to pletely different. EU: Did you come to the States on your get to the next level in my career, get to the next own? step. The hands-on experience that I’m going to EU: Does your center help you to get some of TC: I did. My sister and grandfather live here. get because of the center’s financial gift to me these internships and the experiences you’ve It’s been a journey, but the school has been very and other students is going to be invaluable. This spoken about? supportive. gift is going to allow me to use summer funding TC: The center might not help us to get the to intern somewhere, at another consulate here internships, but they’ll work with us, for example EU: Who would you like to be ten years in the U.S., or a consulate abroad, or a law firm, on how to conduct an interview, and look through from now? get my hands dirty, get myself involved in policy. our resumes to make sure that it’s on point. They TC:: I spoke to one of my friends the other And I’m an undergraduate student; by the time are going to be preparing us for the next step. day and we had a competition in the summer, I get to graduate school, I will have picked up They’re going to make sure that we go out, face where are you going to be ten years from now, resources and opportunities that many graduate the challenge, see what it’s like, force us to take and I don’t know, but I’m OK with not knowing. students will not have had. So for a center to that next step, to push ourselves to get things that Therese Collins I’ve done so much here during my two years at be able to make those opportunities available to we want to get, but knowing that we have their City College. I’m in my third year now and I’ve undergraduate students, regardless of policy inter- support, and somebody to turn to, to say, “Well, can you tell us about your educational back- accomplished so much. My first semester I went est is amazing. There are ten of us here today and I have this interview, these are the questions, do ground? to Israel and Poland through a City College pro- we’re interested in a wide range of interests. I’m you think I can handle it correctly?” TC: I have been here for two years; this is gram, and I recently returned from a City College an international studies major. Roy is a political my first undergraduate experience. I went to a funded trip to the Dominican Republic. It’s been science major. Mario is majoring in international EU: Having come from the West Indies, Catholic High School in the West Indies. a great learning experience.# 14 COLLEGES & GRADuate Schools ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ January 2007 Education Update ffers hotonicsJanuaryrai 2007n Issueing for iddle chool igh CCNY O P P.O.T #: 18471 M S , H laboratory training on basic photonics and photon- encourage them to present their work and partici- School & College Students ics technology such as Fluorescence Spectroscopy; pate in national competitions such as the INTEL 5 3 City College’s renowned photonics centers tion and methods for sensing and5 imaging⁄8 x 7 of⁄8 the Raman Spectroscopy; Streak Cameras; Laser Talent Search Competition. Students in the Pilot are offering two exciting training programs that earth and the environment. Dr. Manuel Zevallos Crystal Growth; Terahertz Spectroscopy; and Ti: Program will receive a small stipend. For further are designed to encourage and enable students is the Technical and Administrative Coordinator Sapphire Ultrafast Laser Technology. information, e-mail Mr. Daniel Moy at: dmoy@ from middle school through college to pursue of NASA-COSI. To further inspire students, the program will sci.ccny.cuny.edu# careers in science, technology, engineering and DoD-CNP was established at mathematics. A special focus of both programs CCNY under a grant from the U.S. is to encourage underrepresented minorities and Department of Defense. Its mis- women to enter these important fields. sion is to advance photonics at The programs are: A Research and Education the nanoscale by combining pho- Pilot Program offered by City College’s NASA- tonics and nanotechnology in order COSI and DoD-CNP Photonics Centers that to keep the U.S. at the forefront “What I learned is geared to high school and middle school of these cutting-edge technologies. students; and CCNY’s NASA-COSI Photonics Dr. Taposh Gayen is the Technical Training Program (NASA-COSI PTP), which and Administrative Coordinator of is aimed at high school and college students. DoD-CNP. at Bank Street Both training programs benefit from the multi- About the Pilot Program disciplinary faculty and staff, and state-of-the- The Pilot Program for high art photonics instrumentation, at the research school and middle school students facilities of City College’s NASA University integrates research and education Research Center for Optical Sensing and through hands-on training. Students continues Imaging (NASA-COSI); and CCNY’s DoD are offered training by scientists Center for Nano Photonics (DoD-CNP). Both involved in research programs that programs are under the direction of Dr. Robert develop and use cutting edge instru- R. Alfano, Distinguished Professor of Science ments and data analysis techniques to inspire me and Engineering at City College. that bridge the gap between science NASA-COSI was established at City College and engineering. The program is under a grant from the National Aeronautics and offered during the academic year on Space Administration. Its mission is to develop a flexible schedule. in my own enabling optical technologies, laser instrumenta- The program includes lectures and

School of Visual Arts classroom.” by Sandra Edmonds & Samantha Hoover The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) provides a hands-on learning environment in which student teachers can research and explore education issues and topics as well as develop their own ideas and continue with their own artwork. One of the more unique MAT courses offered is the Curriculum for Special Populations, a practicum course that exposes graduate art education students to a population that is not commonly experienced as a group; the homeless. While homeless children often attend public school, they are generally not identified — A BANK STREET ALUMNA as such and as a result their issues can be easily conflated with those of other special needs children. While there are commonalities, there are also important differences and successful teaching results from a deep understanding of students and their lives. The course gives SVA students the opportunity to learn about the causes and effects of homelessness on young children. It meets at Icahn House, a private, non-profit service provider that is a part of the New York City shelter system. Students design and implement evening art classes for children between the ages of 5 and 14, working directly with the children and then analyzing the results. The ability to transform theory into praxis and to interpret theory through the lens of praxis gives the students an unusual educational perspective. It is a highly successful program that is rewarding for Graduate School Open House the SVA students as well as the children at the shelter. School of Visual Arts in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in Tuesday, January 9, 5:15PM the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose. The College grants Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in advertising, animation, cartooning, computer Bank Street College Graduate School of Education art, film & video, fine arts, graphic design, illustration, interior design, photography, and visual and critical studies (beginning fall 2007). Master of Fine Arts degrees are granted in art criticism and 610 West 112th Street, New York, NY 10025-1898 writing; computer art; design; design criticism (beginning fall 2008); fine arts; illustration as visual INNOVATION IN essay; and photography, video and related media. Master of Professional Studies degrees are offered in art therapy and digital photography (beginning fall 2007) and a Master of Art in Teaching in art www.bankstreet.edu 212.875.4404 TEACHING AND LEARNING education. To find out more visit www.sva.edu or 212.592.2000. January 2007 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ COLLEGES & GRADuate Schools 15

Landmark College A “Bridge Semester” for College Students with Executive Function Disorder By Christina Herbert and struggled because of their AD/HD, function ers or panels on a variety of pertinent topics. cohort and continue to track the results. Colleges & Benjamin L. Mitchell at a high cognitive level, and would like to return One key aspect of the EF program is the EN all over the country are currently struggling When Landmark opened its doors in the fall of to their colleges after getting the tools they need 105 class, taught by Ricia Gordon. Ricia explains, with the question of how to support the bright, 1985, the diagnosis of AD/HD was just barely from Landmark. “My class, EN 105 (Critical Process and Writing talented student who struggles with Executive coming into use. As the years have passed, The fundamental philosophy of the program is Theory), is composed of two sections of new Function. Traditional supports for students with our knowledge of AD/HD and the number of that the key to addressing executive function dif- students, who, for the most part, have come to learning disabilities—note takers, books on tape, our students with AD/HD has increased expo- ficulties is for these students to become the lead- Landmark from other colleges. The focus of my extended time—are ineffective because these nentially. Over the past 10 years, during which ing experts about their own situation. Our goal class is to explore executive functioning as it students often have such strong academic skills. Landmark College has actively recruited students is to help them understand themselves as fully as applies to writing. Students read about AD/HD, To clearly define the problem and to explic- with executive function difficulties (also often possible, in a supportive and intellectually stimu- the brain, executive functioning, and written out- itly discuss strategies and systems in support referred to as ADD, AD/HD, Executive Function lating environment. Landmark provides them put. They address these issues in their journals, of Executive Function heralds a new direction Disorder) we have been able to define some of with a “menu” of options that they will have as well as in formal essays. The final project is in support services for college students. Every the best practices and most effective strategies to available to face the challenges as they arise. a research portfolio, in which students develop student struggles to one degree or another with support students of this profile. Students are expected to be open to trying new an academic self-portrait, drawing support from the radical transition from high school to college; For many of these students, it is enormously ways of dealing with old problems and to begin what they have read throughout the semester. The the students with diagnosed AD/HD are only the frustrating to comprehend and fully connect with to forge more successful ways of doing things. course introduces a variety of strategies for pro- most pronounced. We believe that helping stu- the ideas in the curriculum, only to find time Backsliding and mistakes are welcomed and ducing timely written work. Students experiment dents to understand their challenges and develop and time again that they are in academic trouble accepted in the program, with the expectation with these on an ongoing basis.” ways to address them has significant potential because of this maddening and hidden disorder of that they provide fodder and fuel for continuing Students from that Spring 2006 group were for all students making this transition, with or AD/HD: not planning, not getting to classes, not to seek better ways of doing things. given a pre-assessment questionnaire asking without a diagnosis. finishing homework, not turning in work even The cornerstones of the EF program are a daily them to rate themselves in a variety of areas At Landmark College, we find that once our when it’s finished, not being able to complete group advising session and a specialized English on a scale of 1(poor), 2(fair), 3(good), 4(excel- students have practice in capturing all of their papers or projects, etc. In other words, it’s not class. The group advising sessions were designed lent). The results of this assessment showed sig- various projects and commitments into a system about being able to do the work, it’s about doing so that students could meet in a group of five nificant overall progress, particularly in the areas that is understandable and doable, they begin to it. They have been told throughout their lives each day during a scheduled block. The group of: keeping course mats organized; submitting change the way they view the world. Rather than how bright and full of potential they are if they advising session is a place where students can papers and assignments on time; understanding constantly being behind, desperately trying to only applied themselves. Often students may start check in daily with their advisors and peers in the ways in which AD/HD has the potential to put out fires, and overwhelmed by all the broken a semester and do well, only to fall into a deep order to stay mindful of their goals and patterns. have a negative impact on academic perfor- promises, students use their newfound strategies dark hole where they begin to feel they will never It is a time when they can support each other to mance and life in general; working on long-range and systems to keep track of their executive catch up and thus avoid going to class or office stay on track. Students in the program are often assignments well before the due date; taking thinking, so they don’t have to try to carry it all in hours. To add to the frustration, one hallmark of extraordinarily skilled at offering support or advantage of appropriate campus resources and their heads. For many, this heralds the beginning AD/HD is inconsistency, so at times students will compassion when it is most needed or a reality services; and using specific strategies to manage of an extremely productive period, where for the complete the long paper or task or get an “A” in a check when old patterns of denial begin to return. ADHD effectively. first time they are able to work at a level that is class, only to fail the next paper or class. These group advisors often use a group advising Although spring 2006 was a small pilot semes- much closer to the potential of which they had Consequently, last January Landmark initiated session to explore facets of executive functioning ter, the results demonstrated the undeniable value always sensed they were capable.# a “Bridge Semester” for group of students new to or to allow students time to organize and plan of our new approach with this elusive popula- Christina Herbet is the Lead Faculty for the EF the college. The criteria for acceptance was that ahead or get started on work. All of the advising tion of students. This spring Landmark College Program. Benjamin L. Mitchell is the Director of these students had enrolled at another college groups meet together once a week to hear speak- hopes to increase the number of students in this Admissions.

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Thanks to $2 Million in New Federal Grants, Adds David Gerwin, an education professor at Holder of patents in the field of analgesia, Dr. His wife, Diane Winter Sunshine, a former Queens College is Training History Teachers In Queens College: “Textbooks only offer bare-bones Sunshine was the benefactor of the Abraham member of the Teachers College Alumni Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn summaries of events, but don’t address why the Sunshine Associate Professorship in Clinical Advisory Board, has requested donations How many of us ever heard of the Battle of events happened—which could explain historians’ Medicine at NYU School of Medicine. be made in his name to The Robert A. Golden Hill, an encounter that took place in New distrust of them. ‘Inventing the People’ encourages Dr. Sunshine received his BA and MA in Kyle Hematologic Malignancies Fund at the York City on January 19, 1770 and precipitated the students to broaden their perspectives and learn Zoologyart_ed_ad from the10/31/06 University 10:28 of Wisconsin AM Page and 1 Mayo Clinic.# American Revolution six weeks before the Boston history by going beyond the memorization of facts Massacre? 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According to Joseph Salvo, Director of the Population Division in the NYC Department of City Planning (whose grandparents immigrated from Italy), there are panel (L to R): Hector Cordero-Guzman, Alan Kaplan, Sapna Pandya, Michelle Buono Azadeh Khalili more immigrants in our city today, both in real numbers and percentages of the total popula- more important now than they ever were. In the headphones wired into third party translators, but tion, than any time in recent history. Indeed, the knowledge economy of the twenty-first century, it’s still relatively rare. And NYC City Council city’s 2.9 million foreign-born (i.e. immigrant) newcomers [with limited language skills] hit the Member John Liu, who was born in Thailand, individuals represent 37 percent of the total NYC wall of economic advancement more often than added that language barriers, coupled with the population, double that of 1970. Even more they did fifty years ago.” fear of deportation, cause victims of crime who startling is the fact that two-thirds of the city’s Speakers in all service delivery sectors agreed are immigrants to refuse police protection or population is either foreign-born or has foreign- that the language barrier is wreaking havoc on even cooperation: “This endangers not only the born parents (first generation Americans). Unlike the city’s essential services—education, health immigrant community, but it endangers all of us the U.S., where Mexicans top the immigration list and safety. Michelle Buono, an outreach worker because we need strong communication between (they represent over 30 percent of all immigrants at the nonprofit Goddard-Riverside Community the police and the community,” added Liu. Joseph Salvo nationwide), the city’s largest immigrant groups Center, argued that public education is suffering The picture was not all grim: Azadeh Khalili, are from the Dominican Republic (11.5 percent), since many parents cannot help their children Deputy Commissioner in the Mayor’s Office of of the approximately 500,000 undocumented China (9.7 percent), and Jamaica (5.5 percent), with homework due to language barriers. Buono Immigrant Affairs, noted that Mayor Bloomberg immigrants in NYC from taking advantage of the with Mexican immigrants representing only five claimed that some parents who are not literate in has underscored the importance of these issues services to which they are entitled, particularly percent of NYC’s population. their primary language are being turned away from by elevating her office to cabinet-level. There’s a education, public health, and public safety. While the contributions of our immigrant popu- ESL (English as a Second Language) programs, new “311” phone line, available 24/7 to foreign- Among the litany of additional challenges fac- lation are immense – their labor force participa- and “the waiting lists for those who do qualify are speaking residents, that identifies the language of ing today’s immigrants, conference participants tion is greater than that of native-born individu- endless.” Buono called on the city to make a firm- the caller and connects him or her to municipal cited safe and affordable housing, legal services, als—their challenges are significant. One by er commitment to expanding ESL programs and agencies, a project that “the mayor personally and economic security. With 42 percent of the one, speakers pounded home the message that to provide translation services, not just in Spanish, cares about,” according to Khalili. Her office has city’s workforce comprised of immigrants and the greatest challenge facing today’s immigrants at all school levels. Sapna Pandya, representing recruited more bilingual workers and provided total numbers of foreign-born residents increas- is the language barrier: according to Salvo, the nonprofit NYU Center for Immigrant Health, cell phones to front-line workers so they can call ing each year, the City Club’s message came “one-fourth of all New York City residents have noted similar language barriers when immigrants a third party translator if needed. Although all through loud and clear: planners and service some problem with English…[yet] we can’t try to access hospitals. A new technological device immigrants have access to city services regard- providers must find better ways to help new gen- meet the demand for English language classes.” is on the horizon that allows the provider and less of their immigration status, Khalili added erations of immigrants find their version of the Salvo explained that “English language skills are foreign-speaking patient to communicate through that language barriers and fear prevent many American dream.#

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PROFILES IN EDUCATION Lawrence Mandell, President & CEO, United Way of NY Targets Education by Sybil Maimin several exciting and sorely and make the students comfortable…The school accreditation standards. Recognizing the value of Lawrence Mandell, president needed programs including is stronger if local grass-roots organizations inter- early childhood development and education read- and CEO of United Way of New Community Achievement act with it.” Enhancement programs designed to iness, the United Way initiative provides training, York City, has a master’s degree Project in the Schools strengthen academic achievement and contribute technical support, and consultation to improve in social work. “Being a social (CAPS) to stem the drop- to personal growth supplement CAPS. A liter- centers and increase the number of accredited worker and running United Way out rate in city high schools, ary and arts initiative brings artists-in-residence facilities. In another initiative, a pilot program have not always been the case. Quality New York to ensure to participating schools and sponsors a student in the Bronx, Safe Schools, Successful Students, We were a fundraising orga- school readiness, and a small showcase at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. A science adult members of a school community are trained nization first. Now we focus pilot program that addresses talent initiative funds school science departments to deal constructively with disruptive students. on community.” His focus is to disruptions and safety in and encourages school science fairs. Improved Rather than resorting to often inappropriate mea- “influence what happens in the schools. “The top priority attendance has been greatest among students who sures such as suspension or transfer to a psychi- city in the area of helping the in all education initiatives,” participate in enhancement programs. atric facility, staff is trained to knowledgeably poor.” He muses, “People see explains Ayala, “is to reach Quality New York was established to meet a address the needs of students with behavioral social workers as having big children in temporary hous- glaring need. Only five percent of New York issues, often with the assistance of skilled social hearts and soft heads. We have Lawrence Mandell, ing, or shelters, and then City’s licensed childcare centers met national workers and mental health experts.# to be more hardheaded” and get those in foster care or group President & CEO, United “measurable results.” And that homes, and finally, victims Way of NYC is exactly what United Way of of abuse or neglect.” New York City is now doing CAPS focuses on poor National Symphony Orchestra under the stewardship of Mandell. attendance as an indicator of future dropout, an Long associated with a unique and highly epidemic which has reached 47 percent in New successful model of raising funds directly from York City public high schools. School dropouts Introduces Performing Arts To Children employees of a wide range of companies through have poor job prospects and can be a financial The National Symphony Orchestra always has “We hope Maestro and his friends will bring regular payroll deductions, United Way has tradi- burden to society. Recognizing that underlying something special for children, and arriving just joy to young readers and music lovers for years tionally funneled the money to hundreds of non- problems can create barriers to attendance, last in time for the holidays is the release of Maestro to come and will help interest children in the profit agencies for the fight against poverty. In an year United Way worked with the New York Mouse and the Mystery of the Missing Baton as wonderful work of symphonies, musicians and attempt to be more effective and more involved, City Department of Education and 55 community part of its 75th anniversary season. Popular chil- composers and encourage children to learn to three years ago United Way became focused organizations in 114 schools to implement inten- dren’s authors and husband-and-wife team Peter play instruments themselves.” in its choice of fund recipients and goals and sive counseling, family involvement, and aca- and Cheryl Barnes have written an engaging Maestro Mouse and the Mystery of the Missing expectations of measurable results. Five areas demic support. Fifty percent of potential dropouts and educational tale in which young readers can Baton will retail for $16.95 plus shipping & han- of concentration were established: education, (those who had missed between 27 and 75 days of learn about and discover the National Symphony dling and is available from the Kennedy Center homelessness prevention, access to health care, school) remained in school. Mandell explains the Orchestra in the nation’s capital. Gift Shop, 202/416-8343 or online at www.ken- building economic independence, and strength- success citing his organization’s ability to “take it When Maestro Mouse loses his baton right nedy-center.org/giftshop. The four-color hard- ening NYC nonprofits. At least one annual major to scale,” or manage large and broad programs. before the start of the concert, the audience wor- cover book is appropriate for children ages 5 initiative in each area was promised. United Way “What we’re doing is more and more informed ries that the show might not go on. The children to 8. administers the initiatives by choosing commu- by best practices. We rely on smart people in the in the audience help him find his baton and save Peter and Cheryl Barnes are a husband nity-based organization partners (CBOs), setting field who seem to have the most effective mod- the concert. It is a quest that leads children in an and wife writing/illustrating team specializing goals, ensuring all parties meet responsibilities, els.” Praising the CBOs, Mandell notes school exploration of the instruments of the orchestra. in educational books for children. They are and assessing results. Referring to the crucial job improvement initiatives have typically taken place Filled with vibrant illustrations, Maestro Mouse creators of the best-selling Woodrow, the White of recognizing good partners from among many only within schools. “There has not been a voice captures every detail of an orchestra including House Mouse, which introduced children to the applicants, Juanita Ayala, senior director of edu- for schools interacting with their communities.” the stage, the musicians, their instruments and White House and the job of the president, and cation, says, “We are big time marriage brokers The CBOs have been crucial because “they rep- the look of the concert hall. other books about special and historic places. with lots of potential spouses.” Education, which resent a different culture than what goes on within “The commissioning of this book is an exam- Peter, who played the trumpet as a child, is a has been a United Way focus since 1991, has the school. They often look more like the kids ple of the ongoing commitment of the National former journalist and broadcaster who reported Symphony Orchestra and The Kennedy Center on public policy issues in Washington, D.C., for to introducing the performing arts to children CNBC and other news organizations. Cheryl, as early as possible,” explains NSO Executive who was a choral singer in high school and Director Rita Shapiro. “In our 75th season, we college, is an illustrator with a background in Calendar of Events January 2007 felt it important not only to celebrate our past, architecture. Their work has been recognized but to try to get young children excited and inter- by U.S. News and World Report, C-SPAN, ested in learning about symphony orchestras.” National Public Radio, CNN, Child magazine, Camp Fair Events “We are proud and honored to have worked the National Council for the Social Studies and RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, INC., is EMPIRE state college - state university of new york with the talented leadership and staff of the other news and educational organizations. In sponsoring the Twenty Second Annual Special Camp Fair featuring Wed., January 24, 6 p.m.; Wed., February 7, 6 p.m. day and sleepaway camps and summer programs specifically for or 325 Hudson Street (corner of Vandam). Fifth Floor Kennedy Center and the NSO in the creation 2004, they received a Capital Book Award for accessible to children with special needs. 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Logos Bookstore’s Recommendations Review of Best Practices By H. Harris Healy, III, President, Logos Bookstore In Gifted Education: 1575 York Avenue (Between 83rd and 84th Sts.) An Evidence-Based Guide NY, NY 10028 By Merri Rosenberg children enter school earlier, having them skip a (212) 517-7292 Best Practices In Gifted Education: An grade, or otherwise accelerate them; offer career Evidence-Based Guide education to help students explore possibilities Fax (212) 517-7197 by Ann Robinson, Ph.D, Bruce M. Shore, Ph.D., that might otherwise never have occurred to www.logosbookstorenyc.com and Donna L. Enersen, Ph.D. them; develop worthwhile and productive men- Published by Prufrock Press, Inc, (Waco, Texas ) for the torship programs, as well as provide additional National Association for Gifted Children. 2007. 286 pp. opportunities inside and outside school.. The authors also dedicate space to thoughtful Figuring out how to best meet the needs of explorations of the role gender differences some- February House narrative history of a bygone era of creative per- gifted children, whether at home or at school, can times play in gifted children (and why girls may by Sherill Tippins sonalities, writers, actors and musicians. be a challenge for even the most dedicated parent need extra encouragement to try out for the math Mariner Books, $13,95 On January 8, 2007 at 7 P.M., the Sacred and teacher. team, or science competition). Similarly, they pay Texts Group led by literary agent Richard The situation is often made worse in many pub- careful attention to the need for both classroom As a new year begins, it is a good time to Curtis will discuss Jesus and the Sermon on the lic school settings because teachers and staff are teachers and principals to look for multiple intelli- remind people of the monthly activities at Mount. Rafael Cortes, noted pianist and teacher also trying to meet the needs of an entire class, gences in children, especially those who come from Logos Bookstore. One in particular is the Kill will present a work in progress on spirituality whose abilities may range from the supremely low-income or otherwise disadvantaged homes. Your TV Reading Group (KYTV) which meets called “Spiritual Betrayal: A Path To Truth” On gifted to the struggling. The ultimate goal, of course, is for these gifted the first Wednesday of every month. This month Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 7 P.M. This valuable resource, based on scholarly children to enhance and develop their natural on January 3, 2007 at 7 P.M., KYTV Reading Children’s Story Time led by Dvorah contin- investigation of what really works (and what skills by exposure to a variety of stimulating Group will discuss The Heart Is A lonely Hunter ues every Monday at 3 P.M. after the opening doesn’t) in various educational settings across the intellectual experiences–practice with critical by Carson McCullers. Last month KYTV meeting of the New Year at 3 P.M, Wednesday, country, would be a worthy text for professional thinking, creative projects, languages (such as Reading Group discussed February House by January 3, 2007. development. Although the division of chapters Latin, starting in the 4th grade, according to some Sherill Tippins. There is an ongoing 50% off boxed and indi- into a discussion targeting parents, the classroom experts), challenging math and science curricula. February House is a fascinating account of an vidual Christmas and Hanukkah cards the first and the school strikes me as somewhat squishy One key point, for example, is that “administra- experiment in communal living in a Brooklyn half of January and a 30% of sale on select books and artificial, on the whole this works very well. tors need to recognize that talented readers do brownstone during World War II that featured as well. Come top Logos to these events, enjoy Among the topics: how teachers can identify not need to jump the hurdles of the grade level at different times the writers Carson McCullers, the sales and buy some Valentine’s Day cards. and develop a gifted child’s talents; use parents reading curriculum.” already known as the author of The Heart Is appropriately in the classroom; model social Given the pressures on schools to be sure that A Lonely Hunter, Paul and Jane Bowles, W.H. Upcoming Events At Logos skills that may be lacking in a cognitively preco- there is ‘no child left behind’, it’s sometimes Auden, Erika and Klaus Mann and Richard Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at 3 P.M. cious student to help her successfully manage easy, unfortunately, for the needs of gifted chil- Wright, the composer Benjamin Britten, the Children’s Story Time with Dvorah, subsequent peer relationships; compress and differentiate dren to go unmet. This book is a much-needed singer, Peter Pears, the performer, Gypsy Rose meetings will be at 3 P.M., Mondays curriculum to challenge gifted children; having antidote to that prevalent trend.# Lee, who became a mystery writer while resident Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at 7 P.M., KYTV in the house, and George Davis, fiction editor at Reading Group will discuss The Heart Is A lonely Harper’s Bazaar who obtained the lodging and Hunter by Carson McCullers. ymbols of ew ork set up the whole living arrangement. The height Monday, January 8, 2007 at 7 P.M, The S N Y of this experiment was during the years 1940- Sacred Texts Group led by Richard Curtis will B. The State 1941, but George Davis continued to lease the discuss Jesus and The Sermon On The Mount. A Quick Quiz (1) What figures appear on the New York State house until 1945 when it was torn down to make Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 7 P.M., Compiled by Chris Rowan flag? way for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Rafael Cortes, pianist and teacher will present A. The City (2) What does one of the figures have at its feet

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February House. February House is a wonderful Bus (York Ave.), M15 Bus (1st & 2nd Aves.) nificant? A Children’s Book Reviews Have a Happy New Year With Do Re Mi: If You Can Read One Of The Happiest Of Joys... Music, Thank Guido d’Arezzo By Susan L. Roth met with more open minds. It took a long time, but finally Guido had his epiphany and a system READING! Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, for writing and reading music was born. by selene vasquez POETRY: AGES 4 THRU 8 Thank Guido d’Arezzo Victoria Bond, an American composer and PICTURE BOOK: AGES 4 THRU 8 The Moon by Susan L. Roth conductor, has been commissioned by the Max’s Words by Robert Louis Stevenson Houghton Mifflin; January 2007 Associazione Culturale Amici del Convitto by Kate Banks Illustrated by Tracy Campbell Pearson Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele di Arezzo to set Illustrated by Boris Kulikov Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 32 pp., $16.00 Imagine a world in which music belonged only Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 32 pp., $16.00 in the present tense. It could never be replicated d’Arezzo to music. Scored for a children’s cho- A picture book depiction of Stevenson’s famous or taught and passed down through the genera- rus and soprano soloist and accompanied by Max’s older brothers are serious coin and stamp 12-line poem, which begins “The moon has a tions. Without the genius and determination of the organ, the music is drawn from the actual collectors whereas Max inexplicably decides to face like the clock in the hall”. Luminous ink a man named Guido d’Arezzo, this would have Gregorian chant first written by Guido d’Arezzo. accumulate words! A clever homage to the writ- and watercolor illustrations evoke the beauty of a been a reality. On December 16, 2006, Maestro Angelo ten word that will inspire kids to cut and paste moonlit night shared by father and son. Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Mafucci, the artistic director of the Amici del their own creative stories. POETRY: AGES 8 THRU 10 Guido d’Arezzo is the story of the man who Convitto Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele di Arezzo, PICTURE BOOK: AGES 8 THRU 10 Mr. Ferlinghetti’s Poem invented the first system for reading music, and will be conducting the premiere of the music in One Potato, Two Potato by David Frampton in doing so enabled us all to enjoy and replicate the historic Cathedral d’Arezzo in Arezzo, Italy. any notes we choose. Susan Roth’s captivating torn-paper illustra- by Cynthia Defelice CIP, 32 pp., $18.00 Illustrated by Andrea Uren Take a journey back to the Arezzo, Italy, of tions bring Guido and his quest to life. Children Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 32 pp., $16.00 The novelties of life in a New York City of one thousand years ago and uncover the fascinat- of all ages will love learning about this little- long, long ago...doctors making house calls and ing story of Guido d’Arezzo, a young man who known beginning to the musical system we all Kindly Old Mr. and Mrs. O’Grady subsist on children lying on the floor listening to the radio. enjoyed singing in his local choir but was con- take for granted. Above all, Do Re Mi: If You Can a single potato all of their hard scrabble soil Exuberant woodcuts in tribute to the beat icon sumed by his quest to develop a written system Read Music, Thank Guido d’Arezzo sends a pow- years, until they find a magical pot that comi- Lawrence Ferlinghetti. for teaching and learning music. His passionate erful message of perseverance through adversity cally duplicates its contents. Cartoon style draft- Selene Vasquez is a media specialist at pursuit of this goal alienated him from his neigh- and the importance of following your dreams . . . ing is as wonderfully funny and energetic as this Orange Brook Elementary School in Hollywood, bors and sent him to the quiet of a Benedictine You could change the world!# familiar tale. Florida. monastery, where he might work in peace and be JANUARY 2007 MetroBEAT Educcontinuedation on pageupd 29 ate • 21 New Programs Will Combat A Split Decision For Our Kids By Randi Unfortunately, this month also brought us the Weingarten final court decision in the Campaign for Fiscal Poverty and Homelessness This month brought both Equity case. By Mayor its funding and redirect the money to where it can a real high and a low for In that case, parents, educators and community Bloomberg do the most good. public school students. The activists asked the state to give New York City This is a special time of The second step we took last week was high mark came a day before enough resources to provide students with a year for New York City. No to establish a Citywide Office of Financial Election Day in the form sound, basic education. Governor Pataki fought it other place in the world can match the excitement Empowerment under the Department of of a tentative two-year con- for years, but Governor Eliot Spitzer has repeat- on our streets or the holiday festivities in all five Consumer Affairs. This office will make New tract between the United edly indicated he wants to settle the case quickly boroughs. And this holiday season, we have a lot York the first major city to institutionalize Federation of Teachers, which represents New by providing the city with the dollars in state to celebrate: Our economy is surging ahead, our the critical mission of educating, empowering, York City’s 100,000 public school educators, education aid that previous court decisions said schools are getting better, and we’re continuing to and protecting workers with low incomes so and the City of New York. This is great news for our city school students deserve. Also, Mayor drive crime to historic lows. they can make the best use of their financial teachers and bodes well for the future of educa- Bloomberg has embarked upon a capital con- Yet, despite these gains, too many New resources. It will help low-income individuals tion here. struction plan that should help address the issues Yorkers—many of them hard-working people— and families to save hundreds of dollars a year For one thing, the agreement—which still of class size and school safety by providing addi- are still struggling to make ends meet. And tragi- by taking such simple steps as opening a low- must be ratified—is unprecedented in that it was tional space in modern, technologically advanced cally, some people in our city will be spending or no-fee bank account through a credit union. reached 11 months before the current contract and secure buildings. the holidays in a homeless shelter or even out on And it will also help to safeguard New Yorkers expires, making it the earliest contract agree- While the court said the Legislature and the gov- the streets. against the predatory lenders who target people ment ever reached between the city and the UFT. ernor must appropriate more funds to New York There was a time in New York’s history when with lower incomes. Settling almost a year early brings stability and City’s school children it significantly reduced the people thought it was impossible to do anything Our third step—one that will immediately ben- certainty, particularly after two bitter contract amount—to $1.9 billion from the $4 billion to $6 about poverty and homelessness. But over the efit New Yorkers—is something we’re calling fights. It will allow educators—for the rest of the billion all of us thought was needed. last few years, we’ve made real progress on both “Project Welcome Home.” Over the next 100 mayor’s term—to focus on student achievement There are many important needs, but none as fronts, and during this past week, we’ve taken days, the Department of Homeless Services will and success and let our union fight for essential crucial as lowering class sizes—which are 10 three more key steps. be welcoming 100 homeless veterans to their new education reforms, including reducing class size, percent to 60 percent higher here than in the rest First, we’ve committed more than $150 mil- homes. We owe our veterans a debt of gratitude. improving student discipline and full-day univer- of the state. Study after study shows that kids lion in public and private money to fund over 30 And to ensure that those who risked their lives sal pre-kindergarten. in smaller classes outperform children in large initiatives to help our fellow New Yorkers move for “peace of earth” can find peace themselves, Another important aspect is an across-the- classes. There are fewer discipline problems in out of poverty and have the opportunity to realize we are collaborating with the U.S. Department board pay raise that will boost the salary of the smaller classes and kids in those classes are more the American Dream. $100 million of that money of Veterans Affairs on an ambitious campaign most experienced educators to the $100,000 likely to graduate high school and go on to col- will be put in a special “Innovation Fund.” The to end veteran homeless in New York City once mark —a milestone that veteran educators in lege than students in big classes. Still, our classes Innovation Fund will pay for the implementation and for all. many surrounding suburbs already earn. It also are bulging. For example, in the rest of the state of strategies recommended earlier in the year by A few months from now, 100 formerly-home- includes a longevity increase for educators who there are 20 kids in a class in Sequential Math I, our Commission for Economic Opportunity. And less veterans will be enjoying the stability and stay in the system for five years, providing a Regents class; in New York City, it’s nearly 33 it will also fund some experimental approaches dignity that comes with waking up in their own another way to improve educational stability and students. That’s 63 percent larger! to reducing poverty that have never before been beds in their own homes. And by this time next continuity for students. Governor Spitzer has said he remains com- tried in this country. year, more of our lowest-paid workers will have All of this means that between 2002 and 2008 mitted to providing more than what the Court of We know that just throwing money at the prob- the skills they need to get better jobs, while some teacher salaries in New York City have become Appeals ordered because he—like many teachers, lem won’t work. That’s why the Innovation Fund low-income families will find that they have a far more competitive—having risen 40 percent. advocates and parents—knows that amount is not will be run the way they do it in the business little more money in the bank. That’s what we’re As a result, we are in a better position to attract— nearly enough to give the system the real reform it world: If we find that a certain initiative isn’t working to achieve to keep New York the greatest and keep—the best and brightest teachers for our needs and give our children the kind of education producing measurable results, we will terminate city in the world. # kids. The city’s willingness to help our teachers they deserve. Now it’s time for the governor and approach parity with the suburbs—without again the Legislature to find a way to give our children demanding they work longer hours—conveys a the kind of education they richly deserve—and FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT’S SEAT sense of respect for teachers and a commitment turn this good news/bad news month into one that to education. Honoring teachers by providing is strictly good news.# better compensation boosts morale among the Randi Weingarten is the President of the United Planning for Travel with the Children workforce and shows the rest of the world we put Federation of Teachers in NYC. By Dr. Carole G. Hankin with Many resorts offer educational children’s pro- a real value on public education. Randi T. Sachs grams that include games, nature exploration, and Over the past ten years even trips off site. my immediate family (my Of course, traveling with seventeen people oannie anielides eceives husband, our three children, requires planning. We have found that our most J D R and their spouses) has grown successful trips are those spent at an all-inclusive with the addition of nine destination that has activities and food that appeal STAR Award grandchildren. to everyone, from infant to grandparent. Save Joannie Danielides, President and Founder As an educator, I strongly the whirlwind sightseeing trips for your smaller, of Danielides Communications, Inc., recently believe that there is noth- immediate family trips. A childcare program is received the New York Women’s Agenda Star ing that compares to travel always on our list, but with the number of adults Award. This award celebrates the accomplish- as an educational and a growing experience for we have it’s not always necessary to utilize it. ments of outstanding women who represent the children. Traveling to different climates, various We can even have the luxury of spending time spirit of New York, who provide leadership in regions of the country, and of course outside the with just one grandchild at a time. It’s wonder- business and in the community, and who are U.S., teaches children many different things, and ful to be able to get to know each child as an role models for other women. Danielides, a these are the kinds of lessons they don’t forget. individual this way. My oldest granddaughter veteran public relations executive known for her The travel process itself affords many educa- especially appreciates a little time away from the bold and sophisticated ability to empower her tional opportunities. Tracking a trip on a map eight younger ones. All together, we can learn clients through positive image change, founded makes geography truly meaningful and answers new dances, practice swimming, and try our hand Danielides Communications, Inc. more than to “are we there yet?” can include math lessons at different sports such as archery and sailing. two decades ago. Since then, Danielides has and explanations of time zones. Math skills can The key to success is to be aware of the many worked diligently to represent women in both also be strengthened by giving your children a stress pitfalls and plan around them. Talk together the entertainment and corporate industries, hav- souvenir budget, or involving them in figuring and agree on how to organize your time. Because ing worked as press secretary for former New Donna Hanover & Joannie Danielides out restaurant bills and other costs. it’s almost impossible to have seventeen people York City First Lady Donna Hanover and cli- Traveling with your children enables the whole agree to the same activity at the same time, we ent counsel for such clients as Emmy-award On the corporate side, Danielides has represent- family to take a break from daily routines and don’t attempt it. We try to meet at meal times, winning Susan Lucci and broadcast journalist ed the Hyatt Corporation, Citibank, Greenwich allows you to concentrate on one another without but agree to remain flexible. Another source of Deborah Roberts. Recognized as one of New Hospital, AOL, Columbia-Presbyterian Eastside, distractions. Play and explore together. Now is the stress can be trying to experience all that your York City’s leading women in communications, Judith Leiber, LLC, Hudson Street Press, Scribner, time to build that sandcastle and inspire a future vacation spot has to offer. Our advice: forget it. Danielides served as President of New York Lands’ End, and Stuart Weitzman, to name a few. architect or photograph your trip and write funny Enjoy what you’re doing at the moment and don’t Women in Communications (NYWICI) as well Her forte in image making has been a decisive captions together to create a memory album. worry about what you’re missing on the activity as President of NYWICI’s Foundation, which tool as she has designed public image campaigns Each vacation place offers its own unique les- schedule. The important thing is that you’re mak- is one of the country’s leading communications for launching and branding new businesses in a sons on natural resources, culture, and language. ing lifelong family memories together.# industry organizations. variety of industries from healthcare to finance.# New York City • January 2007 For Parents, Educators & Students • 22

profiles in medicine An Athlete’s Worst Dr. Jane Aronson Nightmare: Tearing the ACL By Lisa K. Winkler and has organized an orphan soccer league. This By Ty Endean, D.O. Most people with a torn ACL will experience For Jane Aronson, being an infectious dis- summer, five New York high school students will Bryce was playing the game of his life in his instability, which will usually lead to additional ease specialist isn’t enough. Neither is being a become junior Orphan Rangers there, conducting senior season…his team was winning in the damage. Most athletes with a torn ACL are pediatrician whose practice is totally devoted to recreational and enrichment activities, including fourth quarter when he ran across the middle of unwilling to give up their sporting activities orphans and adopted children. Nor is founding teaching English, art, music, dance and sports. the field catching a pass only to be hit hard by and also have a strong desire to prevent further a multi-million dollar foundation, Worldwide Removing the stigma of AIDS continues to be a the safety and the cornerback. He made the catch damage. Therefore, most athletes elect to “recon- Orphans that has programs in a dozen coun- major hurdle WWO faces. “A lot of people think but something was just not right in his leg. As struct” their ACL. tries and has helped thousands of children. Jane all we have to do is give medicine. The public he fell to the ground he felt a “pop” and had a Patients must choose between using an auto Aronson wants to improve the health and educa- in these countries needs to be educated the way giving way sensation. While laying on the field graft (tissue taken from one’s own body) or tion of all children, particularly those inflicted we’ve been educated here,” said Aronson. WWO and being attended to by the trainers, his college allograft (cadaver tissue) for the procedure. with HIV/AIDS. works at bringing people into clinics, and show- scholarship opportunities ran through his mind. Drawbacks to auto graft use are that it causes Being a pediatrician empowers her to focus on ing that children can live meaningful, healthy “Will Rutgers still offer me my scholarship? Will additional damage to the knee and takes a long a child’s “holistic” health, she said in an inter- lives. People infected with HIV/AIDS must tell Michigan honor their offer of a scholarship?” He time to heal. The donor site can become a source view with Education Update. Providing medicine their stories, “one person, one village at a time,” came off the field with the assistance of the train- of pain, scarring, weakness, and can even perma- isn’t enough if children are without proper food, said Aronson. ers only to be told by the team doctor that he felt nently reduce motion. shelter, and education, she contends. Aronson At its second gala fundraising event this past he had torn his ACL. Allografts are advantageous because they do studied medicine after teaching high school biol- October, WWO raised over $1 million and has The ACL or anterior cruciate ligament is one of not cause additional damage to the knee and ogy for 10 years and built her Manhattan-based attracted attention from celebrities such as Bill four ligaments in the knee. These ligaments work stronger grafts can be used. Donors are screened practice around treating children who’d been Clinton and Angelina Jolie. Aronson, while wel- together to stabilize the knee. Unfortunately, tears extensively by tissue banks and are tested for bac- adopted from overseas. She assesses medical coming the attention, insists that the mission of the ACL are common with twisting activities teria, fungus and infectious diseases. However, records of children in overseas orphanages, vac- remain focused on helping children live better (skiing, basketball, and soccer) and direct blow there is a slight risk of disease transmission cinates adults collecting children from abroad, lives around the world, noting that she’s discuss- injuries (football, rugby and wrestling). When through allografts. Current sterilization technol- and counsels families of adopted children. ing plans to extend WWO’s services in Ecuador athletes tear their ACL it is usually a sudden ogy is available to avoid these risks. Yet despite the success of her practice, she and Guatemala. event and it has no significant capability of heal- Using sterilized tissues for your procedure is a knew there was more she could do. In 1997, Aronson cringes at the amount of “greed ing, thus the ligament function is lost, an athlete’s good way to assure the safest, quickest recovery she founded WWO, to address the needs of and lack of compassion” that pervades society. worst nightmare. continued on page 23 thousands of children living in orphanages who From an early age, she’s instilled in her three weren’t being adopted. Through the foundation, adopted children the Jewish tradition of char- Aronson established training programs for health ity, Tzedakah, and involves them in community professionals and orphanage caregivers in coun- service. Growing up in Long Island, she watched tries in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. 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January In History MOVIE REVIEW Compiled by Chris Rowan January 1, 1959 Fidel Castro came to power A New Year in Cuba. Since ancient times, the beginning of a new January 6, 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt Spider Writer: Charlotte’s Web year has been celebrated as a time to mark the gave a speech describing “four freedoms” as beginning of the harvest. The month of January is essential: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, named after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings. freedom from fear and freedom from want. Janus had two faces, one for looking backward, January 7, 1927, the first transatlantic commer- the other for looking forward. cial telephone service began between New York Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil rights leader and London.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, January 10, 1901, the first great oil strike Photo by: Lisa Tomasetti 1929. On January 20, 1986, Martin Luther King, occurred in Texas. Jr. Day was observed as a national holiday for the January 16, 1979 Muhmmad Reza Shah Pahlavi first time. The holiday falls on the third Monday was forced to leave Iran during the Iranian Islamic in January. Revolution, On January 16, 1991 “Operation Firsts: On January 5, 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross Desert Storm” began—the first Persian Gulf war became the first woman governor in the United in which U.S. forces were involved. States when she became governor of Wyoming. January 24, 1848, gold was discovered in The first Presidential inaugural in January California. was held on January 20, 1937 when President January 27, 1973 a cease fire ended participa- Franklin D. Roosevelt (born January 30, 1882 in tion by American troops in the Vietnam War. Hyde Park, New York), was inaugurated to his January 28, 1986 The Space Shuttle Explorer second term. exploded after takeoff, killing 6 astronauts and a January 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln school teacher, Christa McAuliffe.# issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

BANK STREET COLLEGE Museum Dakota Fanning (pictured) as Fern in “Charlotte’s Web.” Paramount Pictures and Walden Media present a Kerner Entertainment Company / Nickelodeon Movies Education Students Collaborate with Production “Charlotte’s Web.” Guggenheim on Smith Retrospective by Jan Aaron of voices including Julia Roberts (Charlotte); by Barbara Loecher harlotte’s Web, the beloved 1952 novel Steve Buscemi (Templeton, The Rat); John Spiraling up the ramp and into the tower galleries of the Guggenheim Museum last winter and spring, an by E. B. White about friendship and Cleese (a sarcastic sheep); Oprah Winfrey (a gos- exhibition of more than 120 welded metal sculptures by pioneering American artist David Smith gave visi- tors a unique sense of how complex and diverse, yet interconnected, his work is. The exhibit, “David Smith: salvation has been turned into a movie sipy goose) and 10-year-old Dominic Scott Kay A Centennial,” commemorated the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late artist, who is widely viewed as full of humor and wonder. Director Gary Winick in the key role of Wilbur, the wide-eyed pig. the greatest sculptor of his generation. and screenwriters Susannah Grant and Karey Dakota Fanning, is terrific as spunky Fern, who Arranged downstairs, in the gallery of the Museum’s Sackler Center for Arts Education, a complementary Kirkpatrick have respected their source and cap- prevents her father (Kevin Anderson) from elimi- exhibition of photographs of the artist and his work, and quotations from Smith, art historians, and crit- ics, offered visitors unique insights into who the sculptor was and how he created and viewed his art. The tured its essence. nating the runt of the litter, with his axe. When exhibition, “From Concept to Contemplation: David Smith at Work,” was spearheaded by Kim Kanatani, the This new screen version (there was a 1973 the little pig she’s named “Wilbur” becomes too museum’s director of education, with the help of four Museum Education students at Bank Street. traditional animated version) uses realistic com- big for the house, she finds an adoptive home for Bank Street’s Museum Education Programs place heavy emphasis on developing projects such as the puter animation to render two characters, the rat him at the Zuckerman farm. Here the naive new- Sackler exhibition, in collaboration with museums. One of the goals of the Programs is to prepare students to create exhibits that engage and resonate with museumgoers of diverse backgrounds, interests, and ages. and the spider, which blends flawlessly with the comer learns from the other animals that a spring “Museums are realizing that they’re not going to survive if they don’t reach out to new audiences, and people and the animals. pig usually doesn’t live to see the winter snows. one way to do that is to make exhibits feel user-friendly, engaging, and accessible,” explains Nina Jensen, Another plus for this version is the superb cast (They grace holiday tables.) director of the Programs. Looking for nothing less than a miracle, he The students who contributed to the Sackler exhibit—Alison Cupp, Kathryn Daley, Ariel Feinberg and finds an ally in Charlotte, the barn’s spider and Cindy Furlong—were enrolled in the Museum Education Programs’ Exhibition Development and Evaluation class, a required course taught by Janet Landay. social misfit. Articulate and artistic she spins Smith, who once worked on assembly lines welding cars, trains, and tanks, pioneered American Abstract Athelete’s Nightmare messages describing him as “some pig,” “terrific” Expressionist sculpture. Prolific and ever innovative, he created works that ranged from open, Cubist- continued from page 22 “and radiant” and makes him famous, Fans flock inspired “drawings in space” to nearly Minimalist assemblages of highly polished, stainless steel geometric process possible. One example is the Clearant to save him. forms. He often photographed his works in the fields surrounding his Bolton Landing, New York, home and studio, taking multiple shots of works in progress, from various vantage points, to evaluate them. Process, a unique sterilization method that safely Shot in Australia, the film magically distills Early in the process of creating the Sackler exhibition, the Bank Street students surveyed visitors and inactivates bacteria and viruses to virtually elimi- America of the 1950’s with clapboard barns, vin- would-be visitors to the Guggenheim (friends, relatives, colleagues, schoolchildren), showing them photos nate the risk of infection while preserving func- tage cars and appliances and fashions. of Smith’s work and asking what they’d like to know about it and about him. Midway through the process, tional viability of the graft. Like White’s book, the movie follows the the museum students did a follow-up survey, showing people the photos, sketches, and quotations they were considering mounting, to make sure these resonated with a wide range of potential viewers. As an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in forces of nature observing the seasons passing Kim, in consultation with the Smith Estate and her curatorial colleagues, made the final call on which ACL reconstruction, I encourage you to ask your seasons. Dealing with the cycle of life, death and photos and quotations would be included, and how they would be presented. “The final exhibit, though, treating physician several questions: What are my birth, the film comes to a tremendously moving captured the essence of what the students’ plans were—it had the same themes, and many of the photos and treatment options? What are my graft choices? conclusion. the quotations that the students selected,” Janet says. In addition to insightful quotations, the Sackler exhibit included more than two dozen photos of the artist, If you choose allograft where do you get your To tie this film to proactive activities for today’s many of them self-portraits. Some photos showed Smith arranging, on the floor of his studio, the often-mas- tissues from? Do you use sterilized tissue? How youngsters, “ Finding Inspiration In Literature & sive metal pieces that would ultimately comprise a work; hoisting component pieces aloft; and welding one often do you treat ACL injuries? What is your Movies” (F.I..L.M.) has developed a program to another. Others depicted Smith’s sources of inspiration. complication rate? (Less than 5% is industry stan- related to it. Check out www.youthFILMproject. For Kristine Funk, a sculptor who teaches art at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, dards) Are you fellowship trained in arthroscopic org, for complete info and free activity guides. the exhibit struck a chord. “I really enjoyed seeing how he laid his work out and how he photographed it from different angles to help him figure out what worked best,” says Kristine, who saw the show last April. procedures? When can I return to play?# For college age and older audiences, Pan’s “I do that with my sculpture, too.” Ty Endean, D.O., Orthopedic Surgeon, Sports Labyrinth by gifted Mexican director Guillermo To complete their coursework, Alison, Kathryn, Ariel, and Cindy developed an independent exhibit that Institute of Tucson serves as the team physician Del Toro is well worth seeking out. It’s a riveting was larger than the Sackler show and included several interactive elements. At the end of the semester, they for the Arizona Heat, a professional female fast coming of age story about 12-year old girl who and the other students in Janet’s class—who did similarly impressive projects for the Tenement Museum, The Children’s Museum of Manhattan, and a proposed museum in Montverde, Costa Rica—presented their pitch league, and as a medical consultant for ventures into a labyrinth where, within its walls, she exhibits to their classmates and the museum staff with whom they collaborated. the United States Rugby Team. He also treats meets a faun who tells her she is a princess of a long “It was so wonderful to see some of our ideas realized,” says Cindy. “And I was very grateful that Kim both high school and professional athletes, in his forgotten kingdom. For the details, see this compel- acknowledged our work on the project.” Tucson-based practice. ling dark fairy story for sophisticated film goers.# Barbara Loecher is a freelance writer.

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