Education

Burlington School Commissioners' Corner: The Making of the Budget 01/07/2016

Miriam Stoll, South District School Commissioner, hosts District Superintendent Yaw Obeng for a discussion on how the Burlington School District Budget is being developed. For more information visit the district web site: www.bsdvt.org

Vermont State House - Act 46 Update 01/05/2016

Senate Committee on Education - Act 46 Update Sec. Rebecca Holcombe - January 5, 2016.

Partnership for Change: English Language Learning Student Programs 01/05/2016

Partnership for Change Executive Director Hal Colston hosts Miriam Ehtesham-Cating, BSD English Language Learner Director, and Lynda Siegel, ELL Teacher in the STEP Program (Studying Toward English Proficiency).

For more information: www.partnershipvt.org

Burlington Ward 4 and Ward 7 NPA Meeting 12/16/2015

Neighborhood Planning Assemblies (NPAs) are grassroots, neighborhood organizations that were established in each of Burlington's seven Wards to empower citizen participation in City government. Working as neighborhood advocacy groups, Neighborhood Planning Assemblies facilitate communication between the citizens of Burlington and city government through regular meetings scheduled in each Ward. Wards 4 & 7 meet the third Tuesday of the month. Meeting place: Robert E. Miller Community Center 130 Gosse Court.

More on Redistricting: http://www.burlingtonvt.gov/CityCouncil/Ward-Redistricting/

On the Waterfront: Peter Gilbert - Vermont Humanities Council 12/16/2015

Host Melinda Moulton speaks with Peter Gilbert, Executive Director of the Vermont Humanities Council.

More information on the Humanities Council: www.vermonthumanities.org

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/VermontHumanities

Parent University 2nd Annual Graduation Ceremonies 12/15/2015

Parent University, a program of the Burlington School District works with parents to help them be engaged and involved advocates for their children attending Burlington public schools.

Burlington Ward 6 NPA Meeting 12/03/2015

Meeting place: Greek Orthodox Church 600 South Willard Street

Partnership for Change: Creating a Learning Community 12/01/2015

Guest host Barrie Silver speaks with Josepha Austin, a special education teacher at Burlington High School, Sparks, Director of Equity for the Burlington School District, Ella Causer, a junior at Burlington High School, and Key Nguyen, a junior at Winooski Middle/High School on an October 2015 trip by 24 educators and students from Burlington and Winooski High Schools to New York City on an education innovation tour sponsored by the Partnership for Change and facilitated by I.D.E.A - the Institute for Democratic Education in America. The goals for the tour were for participants to: (1) see "examples in action" of school programs, systems, and learning environments similar to those we are aiming to develop in Winooski and Burlington; and (2) bring back ideas, resources, and insights to share and apply in our own school communities. The tour was designed with the aim of creating a learning community among participants so that they can support each other in bringing what they experience back home.

For more information: www.partnershipvt.org

The Flowers of Rojava: A Feminist Revolution in Northern Syria 11/19/2015

Janet Biehl, author of a newly published book about Vermont social ecologist Murray Bookchin (Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin), speaks about her recent visit to Rojava, Kurdistan where Kurdish men and women have organized themselves into a democratic autonomous region based in part on principles advanced by Bookchin.

Burlington Ward 4 and Ward 7 NPA Meeting 11/18/2015

More on Redistricting: http://www.burlingtonvt.gov/CityCouncil/Ward-Redistricting/

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CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!