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March 2016: The social practice of letting go and meeting people where they are/
While developing curriculum for the Bowers Museum and the Pacific Symphony a few years ago, I created a set schedule for 8-week and 4-week classes, which were planned for 50+ students. At that time, I found comfort in keeping a strict schedule; I liked having control over my days by having my lessons and dates lined up. I've also worked closely for lengthy periods of time with a handful of obsessive-compulsive individuals, and witnessed how their tightly-scheduled agenda resulted in their monumental accomplishments. (You know who you are, and you are just as much crazy as you are appreciated and loved! :)
When beginning the program at Heninger Village, which houses a large Latino and Vietnamese population, my detailed schedule did not go according to plan. At all. These seniors have busy lives with constant appointments, and many of them are isolated and disengaged like many of our elders, and this makes it challenging for them to open up to new experiences, which can include making time to attend class. I was a guest in their home, and so I felt it important to begin by taking part in their communal activities.
Then sprouted my fervor for Lotería, a Mexican Bingo of sorts, which helped me brush up on my Spanish vocabulary and allowed me to spend time doing the things that they enjoy. (And what they really enjoy doing is hustling me out of my laundry quarters!) During breaks, the residents eat together, and this is when I find joy in the eavesdropping as part of my Spanish lesson. (The other day, there was a lot of drama being discussed, but all I could make out was that there was a dog involved.)
[As I write this, mariachi trumpets blow out of the speakers at a local coffee shop.]
It had been a challenge organizing the class, and getting them to accompany me to the museum, which was planned as part of their program. I began feeling defeated. And then I had to rethink the situation. I was brought on board to engage in social practice first and foremost, a practice of connecting with the community. The goal was for me, the artist, to engage and collaborate with the residents of Heninger Village, in whichever form the process takes. I had to remind myself that it is foremost about the connection and stirring up a creative movement within the community. The art and sharing would find its way in, but the trust and the relationships would have to come first.
It was time to put the idea of *human first* into practice and apply it to the work that I would be doing with the Heninger Village. My art-making has always been the byproduct of my wanting to connect with life and all its details, with the people I love, with the past and the present, and with the ideas that swish around in my head like a steady tide. My work has been a documentation of the search and a means to the discovery. Such should be the same approach to working with the elders, yes?
And so I revisit the idea of social practice, think about what it means to me, and ponder upon the intention of it all, with some notes:
1. Building trust foremost through the connectivity and engagement with those in my community.
2. Learning to let go of the ideas that I have about what art is, how it should be created, and how the method "should work". Instead, allow relationships grow organically and trust that the process will take form on its own time, in its own way, and varying with each individual.
3. The success is in quality of the relationships made, the way in which residents interact and come together, and how the time spent with one another brings light to their community. I will have faith that the art will find its role in this collective mission.
4. That my being welcomed into the Heninger community is a beautiful thing. And although the art projects are slow to come, we are indeed being creative together as we build these new relationships, and strengthen existing ones. After all, living life, and sharing our life with others, is one of the most creative things we can do, yes?
5. There is so much for us to learn from one other, and learning takes time. We are on our own time, and Time has been good to us. We're all still here living life, aren't we?
A quote by Howard Thurman, Educator, Philosopher, Theologian, and Civil Rights Leader, which I think sums it up beautifully ...
We can also say the same for one's own life. One's own life cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers and sisters. Thank you, Community Engagement, Grand Central Art Center, and neighbors, for coming into my life and walking with me on this journey!
February 2016: Recentering
Grand. Central. Art. Centered in downtown Santa Ana, I am working with the senior residents of Heninger Village. My project's mission is to engage with this community through autobiographical art workshops in conjunction with oral histories to help the elders document their stories to leave with their succeeding generations, with the help of the format used by the Vietnamese American Oral History Project.
We now are proud residents of Grand Central Art Center, where the street is named after the trees that shelter our walkways. Equipped with four galleries, a theater, a flamenco studio, a wood shop, a cooking studio, a café, clusters of artist studios, and sharing a seven-minute-walk-radius with over a dozen other galleries, this is a place where artists are set up to thrive, succeed, and get inspired, be inspired, and stay inspired.
On any given day, we will be greeted with gallery-wandering guests, artists working through their installations, young painters en plein air, residents tending to their gardens, and sometimes with a knock on our door handing offerings of homemade lemon curd, spring salad, or freshly baked cookies. I must confess that as much as I've always wanted to be, I've never been neighborly. Even as a child, life always felt too busy for me in my little world, which carried on to my adult life, and I never made time to engage much more than with a sheepish wave hello. Now, living among 27 artist neighbors in a communal living quarter, the warm sense of home and neighbor has me making an extra cup of tea on most days.
When Mother came to visit, she wandered wide-eyed and in awe of what we had been granted as we gave her a tour of our quarters. She said, "Ti, this is your dream". But the truth is that I could not have ever thought this up to dream of it. I've been given this gift of creativity, and now I'm being equipped with a very kind, and most supportive team of collaborators to help me share this gift in service to the community? Now that's some over-the-rainbow, way-up-high, where-blue-birds-fly type Goodness. (Except here in Orange County, it's where green parrots fly. We wake up to them some mornings as they squawk their way through the neighborhood.)
As these hands have worked tirelessly through the years, it is those who are committed to community work and their organizations that have opened doors to continue stressing to me the importance of community service, and to show me what heights can be achieved while working together. Their dedication to focus on the importance of education, of putting people first, and bringing art to the community, have helped mold me into an active participant, helping life unfold further into one of fulfillment and meaning. One of the truest blessings in Life is that we will always be given an opportunity to be a blessing to others, yes? (*Rest in Peace, Dear Prince.*) I do want to be this for my neighbors, and I'm so grateful to have this chance to do so, to be given the abundant resources to help me, in a new community in which we all are learning together.
November 2015: Asking Boldly
I've never been claustrophobic, but its mass came over me, as my heart looked to Co Be's chattering typewriter to find a steady pace, and every cell inside of me wanted to burst out of my body to gulp some new air. Even the safety of my own bed was no comfort to me. For eight months, I carried the density of these letters as burdens, and these inherited memories of a thick, humid jungle suffocated me. The birds were sent as our protectors, but their shrieks could not call off the bombs in the distance. We were deafened by the chaos and the silence, blinded by the night. The damp soil swallowed our feet whole and sipped from the blood, a foreboding that we would once again become part of the earth.
This is the weight that art, and love, sometimes must bear.
I have frequent conversations with God. Sometimes, it's to ask for help with the simple things. God, please help me get there safely on time. And sometimes, it's for the more important things. God, please help me be more patient with people. God, please be with Mother. She needs You right now. God, please help us get through this. And sometimes, it's just to give thanks. God, Thank You for always providing. God, my plants are so happy right now. Thank you for flushing them with life!
But on this day, defeat, frustration, and anger draped heavily over me like a blood-soaked blanket as I sat in our tiny little apartment in Long Beach, feeling isolated from our community. I cried out to God. Pled, whined, and shouted.
Just a few days later, I received a Call to Creatives from a friend, an opportunity that seemed much too good to be true, but in fact, was true. Community Engagement, a new non-profit, was searching for dedicated artists to help make lasting impacts upon underrepresented communities through art and social practice.
Sometimes, it's not enough to wish. Sometimes, we just have to ask boldly.


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January 28th 2017
Doors open 8:00 a.m.
Farewell by 10:00 p.m.
Our Lady of Lourdes
Catholic Church
980 Huffman Rd.
Birmingham, Al 35215
Our theme this year is for Newcomers! Those new to the SCA! We are asking all the SCA folk coming to the event to bring someone along who has never been to an SCA event. (Please try to help them with garb if you can. We do have a decent sized Gold Key, but not enough to loan to half of the attendees.)
Better yet, there is NO TROLL FEE for this event. No fee?!? That's right, NONE! ZILCH! ZIP! NADA! While the troll must have their paperwork and waivers, the exchequer's hands won't be reaching into your coin pouch. Yes, really… FREE!
- CLASSES will be diverse and aimed to help new SCA members, but there will be plenty of interest to 'the old salts' as well. (CLICK HERE FOR THE CLASS SCHEDULE)
- FUNDRAISER LUNCH will be available for just $5! (Ok, so that's not nothing, but it's better than fast food.) It will consist of
jambalaya, orange slices, homemade cookies, sweet/unsweet teaIngredients: kielbasa, onion, bell pepper, celery, garlic, Cayenne pepper, salt and pepper, rice, chicken stock, bay leaves, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, and olive oil
- SHOPPING with our merchants is always a great way to enjoy the time between classes.
- JOYOUS REVEL in the afternoon. How better to set a happy mood for…
- ROYAL COURT (should TRM so choose)
- AMAZING FEASTING will be provided by our own famous Lady Siobhan for just $8 for adults, $3 for children 10 and under, ages 3 and under free. (PLEASE remember to pre-reserve if you want to enjoy the feast! That's the only way we'll know how much food to prepare. If we don't know you'll be there we can't cook for you, now can we?)
- FEAST MENU (May vary slightly, depending on feast reservations):
Bread, butter and cheese
Potato soup (potatoes, milk, butter, celery, onions, flour, eggs)
Roast (beef, tomatoes, onions, carrots, mushrooms, rosemary, thyme, possibly potatoes)
Honey cinnamon chicken with rice (also contains butter and bread crumbs)
Pork and sauer kraut (pork, cabbage, vinegar, spices)
Fruit tarts (fruit TBD)
- FEAST MENU (May vary slightly, depending on feast reservations):
RESERVATIONS: Make your feast reservation checks payable to SCA Inc, Shire Des Forges, and mail to:
|Lady Cerridwen Verchivor
c/o Carol Crews
4659 Trussville Clay Road
Trussville, AL 35173
- Autocrat: THL Sean O'Neill (Conrad Crews) / 205-515-5290 (No calls after 9pm CST please)
- Feastcrat: Lady Siobhan Fitzpatrick of Waterford (Robin Barron) / 205-482-6696 (No calls after 9pm CST please)
- Merchant Coordinator: Lady Macha Drake (https://www.facebook.com/macha.drake)
DIRECTIONS: Take your best route to I-59, exit 134 (Roebuck Pkwy, to Hwy75). At the light at the bottom of the ramp turn toward the McDonalds, Go through 7 traffic lights (approx. 1.4 miles) and you will see Parkway Christian Fellowship church on the right. Go one half block past Parkway Christian Fellowship and turn right into Our Lady of Lourdes parking lot. (If you pass Sonic on the right or Wendy's on the left you went too far.) Click here for a map.

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Computing and Business
Curriculum Information
Welcome to the ICT Department at George Pindar School. We are creative and forward looking, teaching students ICT and Business skills needed for the 21st Century. The Department's main strengths are engaging the students, and using innovative technologies and media to communicate in different ways, such as:
- Podcasting
- Game Design
- Video Editing
- Graphic Design
We also teach office applications giving students a broad range of skills that can be used in the workplace covering:
- Spreadsheets
- Desk Top Publishing
- Word Processing
- Databases
We are well supported by our Network Manager whose role is to develop the network and keep it running smoothly to meet the technological demands that are part of education today.
Courses on Offer
At key stage 3 Computing is designed around encouraging all the students to solve problems using a wide range of software.
During Year 7 and 8 students participate through a range of project based scenarios that focus on students being able to tackle problems and develop key skills in the ability to program.
At key stage 4 students participate in the BCS Level 2 ECDL Certificate in IT.
This course is geared to key sector requirements and is very popular with schools and colleges because it suits such a broad range of learning styles and abilities.
Business Studies
During key stage 4 students also have the opportunity to study GCSE Business.
The business world comprises an enormous variety of different careers. The course aims to provide you with appreciation of what "being in business" entails and it will help you to develop the understanding and competency needed when considering entering employment in this sector.


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From the age of ten, I wanted to be a newspaper reporter, and I had the good fortune to do just that. Although I transitioned into public relations after about 15 years, I still work and live according to the same values and skills required for getting the facts, accurately telling a story and providing information to a broad audience. Much of my work today involves crisis communication, which frequently puts me on the opposite side of aggressive journalists who are looking for as much information as they can get, and in many cases from people who aren't accustomed to dealing with the press. The tug of words can sometimes become hostile as I work to ensure my clients are correctly represented. My purpose can sometimes be in direct contradiction to a reporter's interests.
But never for a minute do I minimize the need for and value of a free press. Never.
Competition, the endless digital channels and a less engaged public have all contributed to pushing journalists to adjust and evaluate how they function. It's unavoidable. I admit that I get great satisfaction carrying on about how media outlets should more introspective and examine how they gather and report. But I stand firm that a free society requires news media that aggressively investigate to keep the public informed and free.
There is a reason our Constitution's FIRST amendment establishes and protects free speech and a free press. The first amendment exists for every citizen, but it's the work of journalists that hold accountable government, business and a myriad of other institutions.
Newsrooms certainly have less muscle than they once did due to budget cuts and people choosing partisan resources for information rather than outlets that aggregate varied perspectives and thought. The anti-press culture that our president-elect is pushing to create is not just unpatriotic and shameful, it is reckless. When journalist friends share that they've received death wishes and threats simply because their job is to report the news, I am sickened. Only someone who fears learning could think such things.
Sometimes news media get it wrong, forego context and balance; they do. But the truth is, they want and work to get it right in order to shine a light on government and all the other critically important aspects of daily life for those of us who are just living our lives. Organizations often change for the better because some enterprising reporter asked a question, and another and another. Brave and relentless journalists unraveled these stories and told us about Vietnam, Watergate, Jerry Sandusky, Anthony Weiner, the Oakland "ghost ship" warehouse fire, Detroit's toxic water system, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and prostitution. Who else would have shared the heroic stories about rapid responders to the Pulse Nightclub shooting, improved treatments for HIV-AIDS and war veterans? That's right, members of the free press.
Just as we expect journalists to get it right, we as members of a democracy need to do the same. We have a press that is allowed freedom to pursue, dig, inform, enlighten and uplift. That's what has always made and keeps America great.


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Instrument Cleaning Brushes
Cheiron Healthcare's range of Instrument Cleaning Brushes has been designed to assist you to clean and care for your surgical instruments, as well as your department.
Being an Australian manufacturer, we are able to adapt to meet the ever-changing and complex
requirements of Australian sterilising departments, working with you to ensure you are able to effectively clean and care for your valuable assets.
It is for this reason that we stock the most comprehensive range of cleaning brushes, available in a full range of sizes, styles and bristle materials; each specifically manufactured so you can match the right brush to the right task at hand.


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See Some Extended Scenes And An Alternate Ending From 2013's EVIL DEAD
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The remake looks to be launching a rebooted franchise. [click for more]
The horror remake proved too muchfor the ratings board. [click for more]
Awards Pictures plans to try and continue the franchise have been struck down. [click for more]
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5. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
20 year old Chicagoan Chance The Rapper embraces the rules of hip hop but only after framing them in a background of pure jazz. Acid Rap is sultry. The album flows beautifully and its 13 tracks comprise the first rap album that's not too long since... well, forever. Chance's cadence is entirely his own and his youthful sentiment is the perfect balance of the sacred and the profane. Top Track: Favorite Song (Listen)
4. Ludovico Einaudi - In A Time Lapse
Ludovico Einaudi returns in 2013 with his 11th full length release and has again somehow managed to sculpt another celebratory but haunting signature classical sound. He is a true master of simplicity. In A Time Lapse carries with it a great cohesion. With a new but familiar palate of sounds Einaudi has again defined timelessness. This is music you feel like you've heard a thousand times before. Top Track: Brothers (Listen)
3. Atoms For Peace - Amok
Thom Yorke is my religion. Amok is a new and glorious glimpse into the vulnerable but unshakeable sonic world that lives inside his body. It is intensely beautiful and full of an underlying angst that somehow makes perfect sense coming through the ethereal landscape of Yorke's voice. A distinctly hypnotic and penetrating drum section dances with the driving roundedness of Flea's bassment and is all tied together masterfully by the '6th' member of Radiohead, Nigel Godrich. Top Track: Dropped (Listen)
2. Múm - Smilewound
Analoge sythesizers, picturesque female vocals, whirlingly hooky melodies and a depth of creative authenticity. The ingredients of Smilewound fall together to make a startlingly captivating and playful trip around a diverse range of tempos, instruments and ideas. In all its striking dynamic, and even after keeping you on your toes the entire time, there is an honest feeling on this album from start to finish. It is indeed one big smile. Top Track: Girls Collide (Listen)
1. James Blake - Overgrown
There is nothing like James Blake. Overgrown is a complete masterpiece and marks the culmination of Blake's maturity into a sound that no one else could ever touch. He sings from a volcano of love with a voice made of warm wet clouds. His Electronic uniqueness takes the strides of dubstep and gives them root. The rhythms stick to your bones and the melodies tie the earth to the heavens. Overgrown is sharp and smart. It goes best in dark candle-lit rooms with loud speakers. Top Track: Retrograde (Listen)
Honorable Mention:
Nils Frahm - Spaces, Earl Sweatshirt - Doris, Maya Jane Coles - Comfort, Emancipator - Dusk To Dawn, Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City.


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Extravagant Life of The World's Richest Monarchs
Extravagant life of the world's richest monarchs.Collection of 5,000 cars or castle with 1,800 rooms.When talking about monarchs and royal houses, we think automatically jewelry, castles and, in general, very large fortunes. And like this is. But no crowned girls did not escape the economic crisis, so, according to Forbes wealth of the richest monarchs in the world fell in 2010 with 9% from a year earlier. This mean, in money, lost nearly $ 10 billion. And yet, everything stayed rich.In a top of the richest monarchs in the world, conducted by Business Insider, the first position to keep the kings of Arab countries, except the first, although their fortunes have declined because of the crisis.
1. Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand – 30 billion dollars
In addition to being the richest monarch in the world Adulyadej is the second longest, keeping it in power since 1946.His fortune fell 35 billion, as was in 2008, mainly because of declining stock markets and real estate market.Owns over 14 square miles of land around Bangkok's and three aircraft from a Boeing 737-800 and Airbus A319 one. Has also two custom-made sedans.Adulyadej also has the largest polished diamond in the world, 545 carats, which was given by Henry Ho at the 50th anniversary of the coronation.
2. Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei – 20 billion dollars
Much of his wealth comes from selling oil and gas.The palace in which he lives has 1788 rooms and 257 bathrooms and is the second largest palace in the world after the Forbidden City in Beijing. The ballroom can fit over 5,000 people.The garage can fit 110 of the 5,000 cars that it owns Sultan. The 200 horses for polo parties are in a stable air-conditioning.Among the cars they own include 350 Rolls-Royce's, eight McLaren's F1, six Dauer 962 LMS, safe Mercedes CLK-GTR to right hand drive, a Lamborghini Diablo Jota, two Jaguar XJR-15 and several models Ferrari .
3. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, UAE leader – 15 billion dollars
Much of the wealth comes from investments Sheikh of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. The world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa, built in honor of Sheikh, received its name, given that it invests in architectural and commercial complex in Dubai.Currently, it builds a building with seven floors in the island that holds archipelago of Seychelles, on a mountaintop.
4. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Prime Minister, Sheikh Dubai – 4.5 billion dollars
The monarch has been hit by the crisis, his fortune dropping to 7.5%, as was last year. In the previous year, it lost $ 6 billion.It is a horse racing enthusiast and spends huge sums on horses. Recently spent several hundred million dollars on the largest race track in Australia.It is also passionate about boats. King of Dubai owns the second largest yacht in the world after the Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich's who and achizitioant last year.After learning that .Abramovich has bought a bigger yacht as his, Sheikh has ordered manufacturers to lengthen and it's a few meters.
5. Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein – 3.5 billion dollars
Prince of Lichtenstein, who was in power since 1989, is the richest monarch in Europe. It is a passionate art collector and spends millions of dollars on parts cancel collection.In 2004, the royal family spent about 28 million dollars for renovation of the Palace of Vienna, the Prince has exhibited art collection.Collection, the second largest private collection in the world, consists of 1,600 paintings and sculpture, including Hals, Raphael, Rembrandt and Van Dyck.Residence Vaduz Castle is a royal family, situated on top of a hill, built in the 12th century and extended several times the lugul years.


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Why Don't We Naturally Make Good Decisions? Stanford Executive Brief with Ron Howard
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Program Highlights
- The endowment effect, the conjunction fallacy, and anchoring--natural human tendencies that lead to bad decisions, every time.
- Why we tend to disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty.
- How impatience, stress, willpower and empathy influence action.
Decision making cuts across all human activities. Yet we rarely study--much less apply--the fundamental thinking processes that should be undertaken before we make important decisions. Most of us can't stop our emotions from ultimately having more sway than our rational deliberation. Dr. Howard has spent much of his career studying this struggle between instinct and logic, and provides insights as well as practical suggestions for improving the quality of our decision making.
Dr. Howard describes the elements of high-quality decisions: proper framing, clear alternatives, appropriate information, considered preferences, and the logic necessary for an uncertain world. By understanding the critical distinction between decisions and outcomes, and using effective decision analysis tools, we can increase our clarity of action in the personal and professional decisions that shape our lives and organizations.
Dr. Ron Howard is a professor of management science and engineering and is also a professor by courtesy in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he was one of the founders of decision analysis as an academic discipline.


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The American education system from pre-K through graduate school is a mess. Countless problems abound, and rarely do I hear policymakers propose new or creative solutions to the problem.
Their proposals are typically warmed over standbys like more accountability provided through standardized testing (which can produce mind numbingly boring classes aimed at getting students to memorize information that will appear on the tests).
The most "innovative" recent idea may be the campaign led by the former journalist Campbell Brown and others to end teacher tenure and provide merit based pay. While I think an end to tenure and the transition to merit based pay is a great idea, I can't stand these groups.
They pretend as though ending teacher tenure will magically fix our education system and transform inner-city public schools. In reality, tenure reform is only one element of a comprehensive solution.
By itself, ending tenure will just allow localities to cut high salaried teachers, and replace them with cheaper, less experienced teachers (though they'll assure you that that isn't why the teachers are being let go) every time the local populace is angry about tax levels, or costs go up elsewhere (local politicians aren't any more courageous than national ones).
But the end of tenure as part of a total rethinking of our educational system might offer hope. As such, I offer my prescription based on 25 years inside of classrooms as a student and teacher.
1. Abolish tenure— too often everyone from administrators to students to teachers to parents knows who the bad teachers are. I had high school teachers in 2001 or 2002 who were still using tests from the 1970s.
Once when I asked a teacher who was a former union official about bad teachers, he replied, "we know who they are, but the job of the union is to defend them." This sort of tone deaf thinking explains why teacher's unions and tenure, which serve very valuable functions, have gotten such a bad rap.
2. Dramatically increase teacher salaries and tie pay to teaching quality— I'll offer one possible method for increasing salaries in a separate blog later today, but I don't see how we expect to attract the best and brightest in society to teaching if teachers are paid less than just about every other type of professional.
There is no substitute for attracting our best minds to teaching, because these people are more likely to be creative and think outside the box, instead of teaching to the test and offering the sorts of boring classes that we all hated in grade school.
3. Less testing— I'll share a story. I had fantastic Spanish teachers in high school. We learned tons of Spanish. But they used a method that involved tons of pop quizzes and produced all sorts of stress. As such, when I got a 5 on the AP Spanish exam, and placed out of my college language requirement, I said hasta la vista to Spanish.
Who needed the stress and rote memorization? (I can see some of you out there shaking your heads, and thinking that I need to toughen up, but teaching someone something, and getting them invested in and passionate about a subject are two different things).
Standardized tests take valuable educational time away from students and teachers. They have their place, especially in elementary school when we need to ensure that all students learn the basics of reading, mathematics, science, and history.
Nonetheless, we have so overdone testing, as to potentially cripple our best teachers' ability to engage students (ask some really great teachers what they think about standardized tests if you don't believe me).
4. More creative teaching and less one sized fits all education— the problem with so much testing is that it produces boring classes. It's easier to drill students on content than to let them blog, or to have them perform exercises that put them into the shoes of historical figures to evaluate their decisions.
But drilling and memorizing are unlikely to spark a passion for the subject matter. Additionally, there is only so much content that can be memorized, and over time, much of it slips away. We ought to be focusing on producing creative, adaptive thinkers, who can read critically, write well, and apply knowledge to new situations.
Far better are methods that recognize the individuality of each student and offer them the opportunity to learn the same skills through real world experiences.
If you force everyone into the same box, you risk losing students who might not be all that stimulated by the traditional course tracks, but who might be captivated by equally rigorous classes on different subjects, or by different ways of learning.
What do I mean? Philadelphia's Workshop School (http://www.workshopschool.org and http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/07/22/327062946/getting-things-done-at-the-workshop-school) is a perfect example of a place that gets it.
Students have some traditional classes. But they also learn traditional subjects through experiential, project based learning (for example turning a closest into a recording studio, or building a miniature solar panel). Students generate their own questions and work together to solve them.
To provide an example of my own, students who are passionate about food could build a business plan for a restaurant, grow their produce in the school garden, learn cooking techniques, etc. This exercise could involve skills from the traditional english, math, computer science, home economics, biology, and environmental studies classes.
The downsides of this model are that it could be quite expensive, and it doesn't lend itself to traditional metrics like pen and paper tests. Financially, if such education, at least at the high school level, produces a more creative populace, it's not inconceivable that it might lead to a more robust economy, which would in turn produce greater tax revenue.
It might also require reexamination of our government spending. Some programs might need to be cut. But, again, we spend millions each year on programs designed to solve problems caused by our failed educational system, so we might save money in the long run.
In terms of evaluation, I'm puzzled by the use of pen and paper examinations in general. They aren't how we're evaluated on a day to day basis in life. So why not create more realistic assessments?
Why not ask local professionals to contribute to schools by assessing students' projects in the way lawyers judge moot courts? To return to the example above, a local chef, an advertising executive, and a farmer might evaluate the work done by the students.
What I know for sure is that the classes that most excite my college political science and history students are not the ones where I lecture at them. They are the classes where students get to do activities that make them think and debate, and that often help them to learn about the political process by experiencing it.
5. Regionalize school funding. Do we really expect students to succeed in schools without libraries, nurses, guidance counselors, and countless other essentials? Some suburban school districts may spend 1.5-2x as much per student as urban school districts do.
To give examples from my own area, in the last year we have data, 2011-2012, suburban Lower Merion, Radnor, and Cheltenham spent $22,140, $18,117, and $17,922 respectively per pupil, while Philadelphia spent $12,351, in spite of having more impoverished students who often need more educationally because of deficits brought about by poverty)
Given the historical reasons that variances in property tax bases developed between cities and suburbia (white flight, redlining, restrictive covenants, and all the legal machinations tied to them—see Kevin Kruse's White Flight and Tom Sugrue's Sweet Land of Liberty among many others for details on these processes), this disparity in per pupil spending is immoral, and fails to reflect the fact that suburbanites take advantage of the city around which they live.
6. Stop viewing charter schools as the solution to urban education problems. I like the general concept of charter schools. But the current model is broken. They divert funding from traditional schools without reducing costs for those schools (for example, if each school in a district lost 25 students to a charter school, they would likely still need to offer the same number of classes, but without the funding attached to those 25 students).
Additionally, charter schools should be used solely to experiment with innovative models and methods (for example something like the workshop school discussed above, or a performing arts high school).
But regular schools run by private charter school companies just make traditional schools try to do more with less. That's not to say that mismanagement isn't a problem in schools. It is in many places. But charter schools don't solve that problem. At most they are putting a band on a gash that really needs 10 stitches.
7. Get corporate America more involved. Companies put their names on everything from stadiums to subway stops. Why not invest in schools? Lots of companies could use the positive PR boost from donating to local schools and/or buying naming rights to parts of a school. It's one method to generate more funding for our schools without raising taxes.
Is this prescription perfect? No. But if we gave teachers more latitude to innovate and paid them at a level commiserate with what other professionals make, I suspect that we would solve many of our educational problems.
It's mystifying that we so dramatically under compensate a profession doing one of society's most important jobs (which is why I'll devote an entire separate blog to one potential solution).
It's also odd that so many of our educational methods remain static even as we see that creativity and innovation are the keys to success in 21st century (i.e. Apple and Google).


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Numerous characters in "Sleeping Beauty Wakes," as per Deaf West Theater's company style, are acted and signed by one thesp while being spoken and sung by another. The melding of performances is seamless; it's the narrative that suffers from a split-personality disorder. Show resembles children's theater, but dual plotlines uneasily coexist to produce an overlong fairy tale too confusingly structured and diffuse for kids' attention. Pleasures are to be found in the fusion of sign language and the spoken or sung word, and in Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda's score, itself an appealing fusion of pop, rock and jazz.
Librettist Rachel Sheinkin ("The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee") initially offers the Sleeping Beauty tale straight up with a twist. All the Charles Perrault ingredients are here: princess's christening; uninvited Bad Fairy (a sultry, understated turn by Faye Dunaway look-alike Deanne Bray and superb singing partner Erika Amato); cursed spindle; pricked finger; hundred-year snooze.
Twist is that one look at her blue-velvet-wearing, Elvis-impersonating Prince (Troy Kotsur) puts Beauty (Alexandria Wailes, more than meriting the moniker) out again for the better part of a millennium, only to wake in the present day with disorientation similar to Robert De Niro's in "Awakenings." Prepped by the encyclopedia and back issues of People, she explores the 21st century with her beloved (an utterly winning Russell Harvard), the castle's erstwhile gardener reincarnated as a hospital Candy Striper.
Ah yes, that hospital. Equal time is allotted to the fantasy and the here-and-now, but the stories are seriously unbalanced. As long as the show sticks to the Sleeping Beauty theme and variations, it's captivating and funny.
But once the King (Clinton Derricks-Carroll) transports his still-buzzsawing daughter to an unaccountably American sleep-disorder clinic, a quartet of sufferers make us suffer through indistinctly written, overacted roles and tedious subplots involving their ongoing ailments. And Bray's clinic director is neither villainous nor sympathetic; the character is a cipher.
Judiciously pruning these scenes would relieve the exhausting running time and allow themes of the dream-state of life and the timelessness of true love to come through more clearly.
Plot missteps aside, there's something primal and deeply satisfying about the Deaf West acting style, featuring nonstop signing from all, while voices emanate unpredictably, sometimes from offstage and other times from within the ensemble. The result is a uniquely collective act of storytelling. Scenes that would play to unexceptional effect in a conventional production, such as the latenight motorcycle ride of Beauty and her beau, become hypnotically affecting in this context.
Scene transitions aren't yet crisp, but in his third company show, helmer Jeff Calhoun has become a master orchestrator of singing, signing, speaking and dance. Show boasts no American Sign Language-related coup like the sudden cessation of accompaniment during "Waiting for the Light to Shine" in the company's "Big River," but Calhoun takes full advantage of the expressive power of signing to music.
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Husband-and-wife composers Milburn and Vigoda, two-thirds of the performing trio "Groovelily," apply a fine, uncluttered lyric sense to their beguiling melodies. Their specialty is character songs: Bray and Amato out-wicked "Wicked" in just two menacing numbers, "Uninvited" and "Wheel Goes Round." Stand-alone ballads, especially "Everything Changes but You" and "You Make Me Feel Awake," have commercial potential, while serving the love story perfectly.
If the score mostly impresses as a concept album (a two-CD set at that, given 26 songs and reprises), it's because of a certain sameness that creeps in eventually, as well as a tendency for songs simply to end without a proper musical-comedy button. But as an album, it'd be worth playing over and over, and keyboardist Milburn and electric violinist Vigoda — who voice the romantic leads and accompany the cast with percussionist-thesp Shannon Ford — should remain on the radar as both scribes and performers.
Tobin Ost's two-tiered unit set undercuts shifts between legend and contempo life; despite magic provided by Michael Gilliam's lighting and projections, the environment is too modern and metallic to support the fairy-tale elements. Rickety-looking castered stairs fail to alter the stage space materially in their many lateral moves, rising to a catwalk whose gates, flopping open carelessly, make one nervous for Vigoda up there singing, acting and fiddling away.
Maggie Morgan has designed a triumphant velvet-and-feathers cape for the Bad Fairy, and Wailes is stunning in a series of white frocks, but the modern clothes seem unnecessarily cheap and drab. The King's rumpled gold shirt makes him look like a dealer in a cheesy casino; over 1,000 years, couldn't he have come across an iron?


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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
I'm All In ... Again
Today's special is an aptly timed take on writing and poker. I first posted this one on April 22, 2007 and it was titled ... I'm All In.
So there I was yesterday playing in a Texas Hold 'Em Poker tournament with the slowest bunch of players I've ever encountered. And as always when I have time to just sit and think, my mind turned to writing.
Now playing poker and not giving the game your fullest attention can often be an early ticket to poverty, but like I said, this particular tournament's pace was excruciatingly slow and when your dealt deuce seven as your down card you have no choice, but to fold and wait for the hand to play out.
So how does this relate to writing? Follow me on this because what made since last night amidst a thick cloud of cigar smoke and half a dozen frozen mugs of Shiner Bock might be somewhat of a stretch this fine Sunday morning. (You'll have to pretend you're reading this on a Sunday)
Poker, like writing, and the sea is a steady up and down tide that you must follow and be aware of in order to get where you wanna go. One hand you draw pocket aces, and everything looks good so you raise when the bet comes to you. A good story idea fills your mind so you raise the stakes and start plotting character and jotting down plot points and sketching out chapters.
But then the flop comes nine, ten, queen -- all hearts and your aces are a diamond and a club. Now you have to worry about a straight, a flush, or somebody with pocket queens or two pair. Things didn't work out the way you hoped. You're still holding a pretty good hand, but no longer is it a sure thing. (Like there is ever a sure thing in publishing , unless your name is Rowling, King, or Grisham.) Suddenly you've gone from happy to doubtful, but you plunge on and write the story anyway, because you still believe in your hand, your manuscript.
For arguments sake lets say the turn card is a three of diamonds - no real help to any one. You go ahead and bet just to see the hand played all the way out. The equivalent to finishing your novel. Now to play devil's advocate I'll present two different scenarios for the last card, better known as the river.
Now you can drown in the river. That is to be ahead and have the best hand only to have that last card get you. For our game lets say the river comes an eight of spades. The flush is dead, but anybody with a king as one of their downcards just hit a king high straight which beats you pair of aces. They got you on the river. The better your hand the worse getting beat on the last card hurts. If you just mailed off a single page query and get rejected you're really not surprised. After all, it's not like they even looked at your actual writing. A partial hurts a little more, but you can still fool yourself, The first few chapters just need punched up. If only that agent would have read a bit more. And there there is the full manuscript rejection. The poker equivalent of having pocket aces and getting beat by three twos.
Or that river card could be a third ace. the possibly you could still be beat is there, I don't want to make the scenario a sure thing since that does not jive the realities of the publishing world, but three aces is a solid hand, as is a well thought out out, nicely written novel with ample conflict and a sympathetic interesting characters.
You win a pot, you win a contest, an agents send you a form rejection, you lose half your chips. either way you have to deal with the cards you're dealt and get ready for the next hand. Spend too much time counting you chips or cursing yourself for being stupid and the game will pass you by.
My advice -- ride out those waves of emotion and don't be afraid to Go All In when you believe you've got a winner.
For those non poker players out there hope this doesn't come across as mindless dribble. And for the curious I managed to come in first out of forty nine players, the third tournament in a row I've won which just means I'm waaaay over due to lose. (That was a damn prophetic statement as I haven't won one since, but I have high hopes for this week.)
Wish I could say it was one of those million dollar tourneys they show on TV, or even a high stakes game at the Bellagio but alas I am merely the reigning Texas Hold'em champ of the local Moose Lodge. (Not anymore I finished 12th out of 65 players at their last event)
15 comments:
- spyscribbler said...
I LOVE this post! I love Texas Hold 'Em. My poor husband: he loves poker. He spent a year devouring every book out there, practicing online for HOURS, etc. He's played regular poker for years. He even knows all the mathematics and everything.
I, on the other hand, just overheard when he babbled. And when we went to Atlantic City, I final-tabled in my first two tournaments. When I mentioned it was my first day playing poker EVER, everyone at the table scoffed and thought I was lying, which I found hilarious.
He did not final table. I was rather pleased with myself.
I'm not much of a gambler, though, which is why tournaments work for me, because I've already paid my money. DH will win in a table game any day, because he's more comfortable playing with "real" money as opposed to tournament money.
- July 15, 2008 at 12:38 AM
- spyscribbler said...
PS: GOOD luck!
- July 15, 2008 at 12:39 AM
- Mary Witzl said...
I owe my existence to a game of poker. My father would have been in the wrong part of a ship if he hadn't consented to joining a game; because of saying yes to poker one fateful night, he wasn't on the side of the ship that got blown up, and thus went on to help create me.
But I can't get poker for the life of me; I don't even know the difference between spades and clubs. My husband despairs.
I got all your writing references, though, and I agree: writing is a lot like a game of poker, and can easily be seen as a big gamble. So for what it is worth, I'm in. Hope I'm on the right side of the ship -- eventually.
- July 15, 2008 at 6:51 AM
- Clair Dickson said...
mary-- spades are shovels and clubs are the clovers. =)
Great post, and great analogy, Travis.
- July 15, 2008 at 7:00 AM
- angel, jr. said...
Yay, you get to go to Las Vegas!!
- July 15, 2008 at 9:51 AM
- grace said...
I'm baaaaaack. ;)
just couldn't stay away.
I remember when you first posted this! haha. I always picture you playing Texas Hold 'Em behind a pair of creepy sunglasses, like the pros. with greasy hair.
- July 15, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- Robin said...
Remember Travis, it's a "dry" heat (don't you just want to hit someone when they say that crap?!)
Have fun and win big, sounds like you're overdue! We're keeping the rain and humidity here in the Panhandle so you can have an "aha" moment when you get home.
I'm not "all in" as of yet, tidying up my bastard baby to send out into agent world but my "legitimate" baby is forming up on the storyboard and my brain...then I'll go all in and cover my eyes...
- July 15, 2008 at 10:31 AM
- Charles Gramlich said...
You're breaking up. Breaking up. Say again, all after "frozen mugs."
- July 15, 2008 at 11:25 AM
- Patti said...
i am not a gambler, so when i read this i imagined it was like when you read about dresses on my site. what i'm trying to say is we are now even.
- July 15, 2008 at 12:39 PM
- Cheryl Wray said...
Excellent post!!! I think that there is a lot of similarities between poker and writing/getting published. Great way of putting it!
- July 15, 2008 at 3:52 PM
- yellowdog granny said...
now i know where the expression 'shit or get off the pot' came from
- July 15, 2008 at 7:17 PM
- Chick said...
That's the way to live I think...ALL IN : )
- July 15, 2008 at 8:53 PM
- Bea said...
I hope you come home with lots of $$$$$, and not wearing a barrel! Good Luck!
- July 15, 2008 at 9:46 PM
- Barbara Martin said...
Poker is good for the player who can keep his thoughts off his face.
- July 15, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Awesome! Have a great time!
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