Instructional Technology & the Environment

South Bronx Food & Film Expo!

mathjosi — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:11:57 -0800

Dec 5th @ Noon:

http://www.thepoint.org/events.php?event=72

School Gardening & Composting

AMAZING SOUTH BRONX YOUTH VIDEO

mathjosi — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:48:23 -0700

Greetings!

Please watch the you tube video link below featuring amazing South Bronx Youth helping to feed 400 families daily while cultivating minds and harvesting hope and awareness across the Bronx. This program was initially started with 17 students who had 40% daily attendance and in the process, achieved 93% daily attendance and 100% graduation rates and has taken off across the Borough and NYC. Please help us celebrate and validate the ability to move youth from being "apart from" everything to becoming "a part of" the local solution!

Please feel free to forward/post/imbed the video to any and all sites/pages/spaces so we can spread awareness and create coalition. For those of you who tweet on Twitter, please pass on as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgGL6mz3dBY

To learn more about the Bronx teacher involved, see the link below and write to getinvolvednyc@gmail.com

http://www.bronx.com/news/local/515.html

Watch for news about our amazing live, star studded event on Saturday afternoon and evening, November 14, 2009 at The Point Community Development Center - 940 Garrison Avenue - Village of Hunts Point, South Bronx NYC.

Thanks kindly,

Stephen Ritz
917 873 6449

School Gardening & Composting

NWF Report: How an "indoor childhood" affects classroom performance

mathjosi — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:43:39 -0700

This message was sent to me recently and I found it fascinating!!       Subject NWF Report:  How an "indoor childhood" affects classroom performance         (1)                                                                           

Dear Colleagues,

As American childhood has steadily moved indoors in the past 12 to 15
years, outdoor play is increasingly rare.   The weekly indoor-outdoor
time ratio is now about 10 to one on the indoor side.   We wondered what
effect this modern "indoor childhood" is having on the quality of K-12
education and the average student's readiness to learn in the classroom.

In this back-to-schools time period -- Research shows children are less
fit, have shorter attention spans and are less ready to be
high-performance learners without a greater emphasis on regular outdoor
time such as a daily Green Hour.

Our new NWF report: Time Out: Using The Outdoors to Enhance Classroom
Performance is available at:
http://www.nwf.org/nwfwebadmin/binaryVault/Time%20Out%20with%20BOT%20Activities1.pdf

Best,

Kevin C.
 (See attached file: Time Out Press Release 9-2-09.doc)

Environmental Education

UFT Green Schools Meeting on Tuesday, Dec 16th at 4pm

mathjosi — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:23:36 -0800

“Collaborating On-line:
Together We Make Schools Green”

Join us for Educating Tomorrow and
the UFT Green Schools Committee monthly meeting.

Who:        People interested in “greening” NYC schools
What:       Network; take part in a discussion on collaborating on-line with a “green” community, plus we will hear from CENYC's Teen Speakers Bureau, a group of high schools students will present on what they do to get the message out about school recycling.
When:     Tuesday, December 16, 4–6:00pm
(networking from 4-4:30)
Where:    UFT Headquarters
50 Broadway, New York, NY 10004

Please RSVP: info@educatingtomorrow.org

Coquille Houshour & Micki Josi founded Educating Tomorrow to help realize successful school recycling programs in all NYC schools. They are working with other teachers to form a UFT Green Schools Committee. Find out more at www.educatingtomorrow.org.

"Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
-Margaret Mead

School Gardening & Composting