Meeting

Just a reminder, we have a meeting on Monday (tomorrow) in Lourdes classroom.

Please bring a calendar so you can start signing up for Scholastic Book Fair shifts, as well as actvities/read alouds at SYC.

Scholastic catalogs should be in as well!

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Puzzlethon

$10 donations are due Friday! $50+ will get you a t-shirt!

Donations can be made in person or online: http://asconn.myetap.org/fundraiser/puzzlethon5/team.do?participationRef=4786.0.28692 536 

Show your support - decorate a puzzle piece for 50 cents and wear the pin!  Pass along the message to everyone!  

Invite everyone you know to take five minutes out of their Friday to work on a puzzle!

Raffle prizes will be given away periodically during the event such as:

-T-shirts

-Puzzle Books

-Books

-Tote bags

The top participants at the end of the event will win: 

Top: $50 Mobil gift card & tote bag

2nd: 2 tickets for "Race to Nowhere"

3rd: $15 Contours Spa gift card & spa pack

4th: Tote bag & book pack

*participants must be present to win prizes*

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE!

Here's our link for ANYONE and EVERYONE to purchase tickets for Race to Nowhere!


http://www.racetonowhere.com/screenings/saint-joseph-college




Here's the trailer: http://www.racetonowhere.com/home


 BE SURE TO INVITE EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

Puzzlethon

Please sign up for what time you can come to the Puzzlethon!


We need 5 people to set up from 9:30 - 11.


We need at least 4 people here during the entire Puzzlethon. Members are required to be here for at least 1/2 hour for this, whether it is set up, clean up, or during.  You are more than welcome to stay longer, actually you are encouraged to.  Please let Hayley know if there is a conflict.


We need at least 4 people for clean up 3 - 3:45.




Please comment when you will be here :)

Race to Nowhere

We will be hosting a screening of the documentary Race to Nowhere on March 10, 2011 at Saint Joseph College at 6:30 PM in Bruyette.  Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.  

ABOUT THE FILM

Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people across the country who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and worried that students aren’t developing the skills they need, and parents who are trying to do what’s best for their kids, Race to Nowhere points to the silent epidemic in our schools: cheating has become commonplace, students have become disengaged, stress-related illness, depression and burnout are rampant, and young people arrive at college and the workplace unprepared and uninspired.

Race to Nowhere is a call to mobilize families, educators, and policy makers to challenge current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens.

In a grassroots sensation already feeding a groundswell for change, hundreds of theaters, schools and organizations nationwide are hosting community screenings during a six month campaign to screen the film nationwide. Tens of thousands of people are coming together, using the film as the centerpiece for raising awareness, radically changing the national dialogue on education and galvanizing change.

Featured in the film:

• Dr. Madeline Levine, Clinical Psychologist and author of the best-seller, The Price of Privilege
• Dr. Wendy Mogel, Clinical Psychologist and author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
• Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, Adolescent Medicine Specialist, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• Dr. Deborah Stipek, Dean of the School of Education at Stanford University
• Dr. Denise Pope, Co-Founder, Challenge Success, Stanford University
• Sara Bennett, Founder, Stop Homework

US | 2010 | DCP | 85 mins | PG13 | English, Spanish and Mandarin subtitle

Movie Night

Movie Night will be February 24, 2011 at 8:30 PM - Location is still TBA.

Here's the choices: 

• Freedom Writers
• Assigned the thankless task of teaching freshman English at a gang-infested Long Beach, Calif., high school, a 23-year-old teacher resorts to unconventional means of breaking through to her hardened students in director Richard LaGravenese's adaptation of Erin Gruwell's best-seller The Freedom Writer's Diaries: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. Her students had been written off, and her chances of succeeding scoffed at, but Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) wasn't about to go down without a fight. In using the writings of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo, Gruwell was able to teach her students not only the basis of the English language, but compassion and tolerance as well. 
• Stand and Deliver
• Based on a true story, Stand and Deliver depicts a rebellious math teacher who transforms his seemingly hopeless, apathetic students into the top-scorers in the state. Their achievement is so remarkable that the school board accused the Latino students of cheating. Just imagine this story in our test-obsessed age of NCLB.
• Mr. Holland's Opus
• Classical musician Glenn Holland assumes that teaching will leave him plenty free time to compose his classical masterpiece. Instead, he finds his life’s passion in musical education. Mr. Holland’s Opus reminds us that, even when it seems frustrating and futile, teaching will can change lives – both your students and your own.
• Lean On Me
• Morgan Freeman has played a limo driver, a U.S. president, a prison inmate and even God, but he takes on his most challenging role in Lean on Me. Freeman’s radical principal wanders the halls with a baseball bat, locks troublemakers out of school and refuses to accept any excuses. His extreme approach shocked teachers, students and the school board, but ultimately changes the lives and learning of his students. (Trivia: Freeman also had a small role in 1984’s Teachers)
• Dangerous Minds
• Despite the Coolio connection (or maybe because of it), Dangerous Minds has become an iconic movie for the fish-out-of-water teacher. Ex-marine Louanne Johnson wins over her rebellious students with candy bars, karate and Bob Dylan. It may be trite, Hollywood and a cliché of “the great white hope,” but it is also shows compelling connections between a teacher and her students. Either way, no list of teacher movies would be complete without it.
  
  
  They say I gotta learn, But nobody's here to teach me.
  If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?
  I guess they can't,
  I guess they won't,
  I guess they front,
  That's why I know my life is out of luck, foo!
• To Sir With Love
• Sidney Poitier, who in 1955 played a student in a tough inner-city high school, portrays a teacher assigned to a similar institution in To Sir, With Love. Unable to find work as an engineer, Poitier accepts a teaching post in London's East End slums. To reach his sullen, rebellious students, Poitier throws away his textbooks and endeavors to reach them as human beings--and as the adults they're going to become. It's an uphill climb, but gradually the students are won over. They begin referring to Poitier as "Sir," not out of blind obedience but as a gesture of genuine affection. Not that there aren't obstacles to overcome: in addition to trying to get through to hardcase student Christian Roberts, Poitier must face down the resistance and hostility of his fellow teachers. The sweetly sentimental finale amply displays the vocal talents of Lulu, who trills the title song. Based on the novel by E. R. Brainwaite, To Sir, With Love was one of the biggest moneyspinners of 1967 (with this film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night, Sidney Poitier had quite a year). In 1996, a belated made-for-TV sequel was produced, briefly reuniting To Sir with Love co-stars Sidney Poiter, Lulu and Judy Geason, none of whom looked a day older. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
• Dead Poet's Society
• Robin Williams gives a shockingly understated, touching portrayal of a teacher who brings inspiration to the lives of his straight-laced prep school students. A little saccharine but mostly sincere, Dead Poets Society is guaranteed to infuse poetry into the most prosaic days.

STAND AND DELIVER IS THE CHOICE!

PLEASE COMMENT IF YOU ARE BRINGING A SNACK OR DRINK!

Puzzlethon

Education Club Members -

Please start collected puzzles for any age group and have them labelled with your name and initials.  If you can store them in your room until the day of the event, great!  If not please contact Katelyn Mike (kmike@sjc.edu) and drop them off with her (ASSUMPTION 207)!  We need as many puzzles as we can get!

Also, you are encouraged to raise $10 for this event.  If you raise over $50, you will receive a Autism Awareness T-Shirt.  The top fundraiser from Education Club will also win a prize!

Please be sure to sign up for a shift to sell puzzle pieces and pins && be sure to have at least a half hour to be at the puzzlethon next Friday!

**PLEASE BRING YOUR DONATION ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT.

Meeting Today!

Hi Ladies,

Just a reminder we have a meeting today!  Please bring scissors!

Let's Try Out the Blog

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Leave a goal you have for yourself this semester as a comment!  

Knowing what each other is striving for will help us support one another!

The trouble with not having a goal is that

you can spend your life running up and down

the field and never score.

- Bill Copeland

First Meeting of the Semester!

The Education Club's first meeting will be on Monday, January 24, 2011 in McGovern Lounge!


Returning and new members are encouraged to come!


We will be planning our semester's events and activities.  


Bring your calendars, ideas, and a writing utensil!


Questions?  Email Hayley Brown at educationclub@sjc.edu


See you Monday :)