Paid Academic Mentoring and Youth Leadership Development opportunity

Hello and Happy New Year,

Brothers on the Rise (BOTR) is hiring for an Academic Mentor for Frick Middle School in East Oakland.  The craigslist job posting link is http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/npo/2162224400.html

It is an 11.25 hour a week position, 5 days a week after school.  Mon, Tues, Thurs and Fridays 2:30-4:45 PM and Wednesdays, 12:45-3 PM.  On Wednesdays, instead of Academic Mentoring (H.W. Club facilitation with some academic instruction), the Mentor helps facilitate BOTR's after-school leadership program.  The pay is $15/hr. and the position goes from 2/1/11-6/10/11.  At least 48 college credits are required, or taking and passing the school district's Instructional Aide exam, as well as negative TB test results and a passing a live scan criminal background check.

Please contact the person below with any further questions:

Jon Gilgoff, L.C.S.W.
Executive Director
Brothers on the Rise
1470 Fruitvale Avenue
Oakland, CA 94601
www.brothersontherise.org
jon@brothersontherise.org
Phone: 510-599-3582

Teaching ASL in Elementary School EU190

Hello class,

late update on our ASL project. We finally made to St. Elizabeth Elementary, shot and edited this short piece with these lovely kids. Sharing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOcwLOda66k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shlc9uNF1lQ


Happy Holidays,
Lynn

ED190 Fall 10 Retreat Photos--287 pics

Hello Class,

Sorry being late posted; check it out!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/117927974584563712672/ED190RetreatFall10?authkey=Gv1sRgCMP6-KHVmIfXdA#

Have a great holiday and keep studying hard : p

Best,
Lynn

Tim Wise-The Pathology of White Privilege

Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ8xQPdjJfM&feature=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlqLijhxT_M&feature=related
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQWP7fUSPJU&feature=related
Part 4:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o13Lr6Sr_cU&feature=related
Part 5:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VuA_wXi02I&feature=related
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRo_jYssnXQ&feature=related

its kinda long but its definately worth it

Limits to creativity outside of the school

During our class' final presentations, I noticed how a lot of us, including myself, have emphasized the importance of creativity in the classroom--creativity and freedom in expression, in thought, and in dialogue. Some students were able to utilize the creative-promoting space of our final to share their final projects with the class, such as through the band performance, Shiva's poem, and Jamie's music list. However, even if some chose to write the traditional paper for their final, those papers were not very limiting. Instead, we were encouraged to build connections between what we've learned in class and what we hoped to learn more about; there was creativity in connection and in dialogue within our writing.

In one of my Media Studies courses, we cover the rights to creativity. In the following video, Lawrence Lessig makes an argument for the future generations and their claims over creativity and expression via the Internet http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html#

So if not in the school, then where do we find our spaces for creativity and expression, and in what ways can we utilize these spaces?

Good luck with finals and in performing for the test, but please never forget to think outside of, to test, to try, to deconstruct, and to redesign the limits and parameters that these tests and assignments create for us. 

--Steph