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www.EDUCATIONUPDATE.com AwardAward Volume IX, No. 10 • New York City • JUNE 2004 Winner FORFOR PARENTS,PARENTS, EDUCATORSEDUCATORS & STUDENTSSTUDENTS Part III Arts In Education U.S. POSTAGE PAID U.S. POSTAGE P ittsfield Permit No.137 PRSRT STD. PRSRT , MA 01201 , MA GRADUATION CELEBRATION: FDNY 2 EDUCATION UPDATE ■ FOR PARENTS, EDUCATORS & STUDENTS ■ JUNE 2004 THE Studio Museum IN Harlem VOLUNTEERS’ NIGHT OUT! VITAL EXPRESSIONS: Tuesday, June 8, 7pm PERFORMANCE @ SMH Calling all Volunteers: Active and Inactive! Many of you are already on board, and we want to thank you! Many of you with T.S. MONK SEXTET have been busy, and we want to get you involved. Come out Thursday, June 17, 8pm and party, mix and mingle with other volunteers and sign up For more than a decade and counting, SMH has served as a to help at our upcoming programs and special events. host site for the noted JVC Jazz Festival. This year the T.S. SMH has grown and so has our need for volunteers. MONK SEXTET - led by first-rate drummer and son of legendary There are many opportunities at SMH that are important to pianist Thelonious Monk - will keep the pulse swinging. Other continuing the Museum's overall operation and success and members of this phenomenal group include: WINSTON BYRD, WE WANT YOU! trumpet; DAVE JACKSON, bass; BOB PORCELLI, alto sax; HELEN SUNG, For answers to your immediate questions, please contact Carol Martin, Assistant to Education & Public Programs/ Volunteer Coordinator at 212.864.4500 x 258 or by piano; and WILLIE WILLIAMS, tenor sax. email at [email protected]. Pre-registration is required. Please call $15 (at the door, general public), $12 (in advance, members, seniors and stu- 212.864.4500 x264 to RSVP. dents). Pre-registration is required. Space is limited and available on a first- come, first-served basis. Please call 212/864-4500 x264 to register. The JVC Jazz POETRY @ SMH Festival is presented by George Wein and Festival Productions, Inc. Fred Wilson Explored! HOOFERS' HOUSE Friday, June 11, 7pm Friday, June 25, 7pm Don't miss this evening of poetry and prose as Cave Canem SMH is a new home for hoofers! Tap dancers - elders and poets DURIEL HARRIS, DAWN MARTIN and RONALDO WILSON also known young people alike - are invited to take the floor at these as the Black Took Collective - a group of experimental black quarterly jam sessions! This spring session will be hosted by poets – share work thematically related to the ideas and issues AYODELE CASEL, who legendary figure Gregory Hines once called presented in our spring 2004 exhibition. "one of the top young tap dancers…in the world today." Free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Please call 212.864.4500 x264. Space/seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. The Studio Free! Space/seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Museum in Harlem is proud to offer this program in collaboration with Cave Canem. FAMILY PROGRAM ARCHITECTURAL J U N E T E E N T H C E L E B R A T I O N ! WALKING TOURS C O M M U N I T Y A R T J A M with JOHN REDDICK Saturday, June 19th, 11AM-3PM Saturday, June 12, 10am The Museum comes alive with special exhibition tours, Explore Harlem with architectural preservationist and Harlem performances and dancing! Kids can have their faces painted, resident JOHN REDDICK. Participants will go on an intimate tour make artwork and play games. FREE PRIZES-raffles take place of Harlem. These tours will highlight many of the ideas and throughout the day! This program is FREE and open to all themes in Fred Wilson's artwork, while focusing on Harlem's ages! rich history. Community Art Jam is a part of Expanding the Walls: Making Connections between $20 (general public), $15 (members, seniors and students) Please call 212.864.4500 Photography, History and Community. This program is generously supported by funds x264. Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Pre-registra- from the Nathan Cummings Foundation. tion is required (early registration is encouraged). Starting location will be provided upon registration. YOUTH PROGRAM ON VIEW thru July 4, 2004 W O R D S - I N - M O T I O N O P E N M I C FRED WILSON: Theme of the Day: Identity Objects and Installations: 1979-2000 Saturday, June 19th, 6-8PM Calling all Teen Poets! Use the mic or pass the mic! Share COLLECTION ININ CONTEXT your original poems, raps, songs, or freestyle on the spot about your perceptions of identity in America. VENI VIDI VIDEO IIII Registration is required. Please call 212.864.4500 x264. Space/seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. HARLEM POSTCARDS SPRING 2004 For more information or to register, please call 212.864.4500 x264. 144 West 125th Street, New York City www.studiomuseum.org JUNE 2004 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS 3 REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENT SERIES: Great News from DR. KATHLEEN CASHIN, REGION 5 NY Studies Weekly! By JOAN BAUM, Ph.D. The first Studies Weekly was published in 1985 when a ally starting with K-6 and then adding a grade fourth-grade teacher named Paul Thompson needed lesson “Dynamo” hardly begins to describe the at a time. Central in her efforts have been the resources to teach his students about their state’s history. He focused, fast-talking, dedicated “workaholic”— Scholars’ Academy, attracting gifted children reasoned, “What we need is a weekly newspaper that’s all about the word she uses to describe her assistants—but who apply and go through a rigorous admis- our state.” He knew that many teachers were seeking materials clearly the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. sions process, and the Channel View School for state history, and believed they would support the idea. For Region 5 Superintendent, Kathleen Cashin, for Research (also for grades 6-12). Also in the Thus, Utah Studies Weekly was born. One good thing led to another and Studies Weekly the energy level starts high and accelerates as she works, thanks to collaboration with Borough eventually grew into a large family-based company that talks of changes she has been able to bring about President Helen Marshall, says Dr. Cashin, is a specializes in producing standards-based classroom periodicals. in only one year as regional superintendent, but CUNY Satellite school, which will have social Today, Foxridge Publishing Company publishes the Studies it’s clear she draws on vigorous and efficient studies as its concentration. Weekly products for the Northeastern Region, with New leadership she has exercised in previous positions The Scholars’ Academy is a particular source York products leading the way. Mike Burrow, Paul’s nephew, as teacher, staff developer, consultant, program of pride for Dr. Cashin since it attracted 500 par- and his wife Shellie founded Foxridge Publishing Company in 1998 when they published their first product, New York manager, and principal in city schools, and then ents at an open meeting, 90 percent of whom are Studies Weekly, for fourth grade students. After two years as superintendent of Community School District non-white. Many parents of successful applicants of overwhelming support from New York teachers, Foxridge 23 in Queens. Such is her enthusiasm and impa- sign a “contract” pledging regular support. They expanded the New York Studies Weekly Series to include tience to turn things around that it’s not always Dr. Kathleen Cashin know they have something special. In addition to World Communities for third graders, and United States, immediately apparent what time frame she’s in: interdisciplinary study starting with ancient civi- Canada, and Latin America, for fifth graders. Many other plans become part of a present-tense onslaught she wants and is determined to get it…now. lizations this fall, there will be four different lan- state papers have followed, and the Studies Weekly series now includes more than sixty publications nationwide. Other on complacency. Only one of the 102 schools “Restructuring,” she says, has made the differ- guages studied as part of a cycle, beginning with classroom publications include world history, geography, U.S. under her aegis (including 12 high schools), ence, small schools made out of large, unwieldy American Sign Language. Dr. Cashin, a life-long history, science, and technology. for example, was labeled problematic, though ones. But imagination is also at play—the new athlete, is also a strong believer in sports, par- What’s new for 2004-2005? The New York Studies many of the schools because of low socio-eco- entities have and will have special themes, such ticularly non-traditional sports such as Lacrosse, Weekly Social Studies series has bloomed…to full color that is. nomic conditions, neglected for so long, might be as civil rights, world health, the arts—and part- possible sources for college scholarships. Our traditional black and white products are now more exciting thought of as inevitable candidates for the endan- nering with the Teacher Center, for example, has All the schools under Dr. Cashin’s purview than ever, and students and teachers have written to let us know they really love the change. gered list. The superintendent ticks off some of made possible the “most unbelievable profession- will reflect her passion for a New York State Other new features include: A bonus issue, Historical the areas served by Region 5, among them The al development,” new arrangements with CUNY standards-based core curriculum that is also Documents of the United States (fourth grade); Rockaways, Beach Channel, Broad Channel, and more subject specialists serving as “liaisons” interdisciplinary and that will involve portfolio Economics, a new weekly feature in the U.S., Canada, East New York, Brownsville, then points out that to individual schools.