Individual Giving Workshop

April 9, 2008

10:00 am-11:30 am: No Man is An Island: A Guide to Individual Giving - Morning Lecture

12:30pm-2:00pm: Transforming the Dialogue with Individuals of Wealth – Interactive Dialogue

Location: The Center

RSVP to: Mark Crusante

Take part in an exciting dual-part session including an interactive dialogue like you’ve never experienced!  Discuss issues and opportunities around what it takes to build active and sustainable partnerships with individuals of wealth. Find out what motivates wealthy individuals to invest in social change and how the non-profit sector must break through traditional thinking with regard to building active partnerships with wealthy individuals. Participants and panelists include:

• Jade Netanya Ullman, Threshold Foundation, Resource Generation, Young Donor Organizing Alliance
• Barbara Meyer, President, Bert & Mary Meyer Foundation
• Clare G. Holzman, Ph.D., clinical psychologist in private practice.
• Margherita Vacchiano, Associate Director, Be Present, Inc.
• Lillie P. Allen, Executive Director, Be Present, Inc.
• Patty Kennedy, Principal, Kennedy Spencer, moderator

9:00am -12:00pm

Location: The Center

Deadline: April 21, 2008

Contact information, RSVP to: Aretha Miller

In addition to administering interim assessments, a key strategy to raising overall student achievement involves the close examination of student work. By closely examining student work, teachers and administrators are able to determine if: students are meeting or making significant progress towards grade level benchmarks; assignments reflect state standards; and, teachers are evaluating student work against grade level performance indicators.

Since looking at student work is integral to raising student performance, the Center will host a two part workshop that addresses this topic.  In the workshop, participants will learn strategies for:

• Implementing an effective Looking At Student Work protocol in their school
• Using the information gathered from the Looking At Student Work process to identify strategies that teachers can use to reteach concepts and skills that students did not learn
• Using the information to evaluate the efficacy of the implementation of their curricula
• Engaging in conversations about the meaning of academic rigor in their schools 

Annual Charter School Lobby Day
May 6, 2008
Location: Albany, New York
Contact information, RSVP to: Jeff Maclin
Tuesday, May 6, 2008, is Charter School Lobby Day. The Center is asking each New York City public charter school to participate by sending at least one school official (leader, trustee, staffer) or parent leader. As in the past, the Center is partnering with the New York Charter Schools Association to assist schools with scheduling, agenda items and talking points.

Establishing and maintaining relationships with state legislators and other political allies is critically-important to our survival as a movement. These annual treks to Albany are a way of engaging lawmakers on the positive impact charters are having in the communities they serve while also keeping them informed and educated on charter school issues and the needs of individual schools.

As Lobby Day draws near, the Center will provide participating schools with additional information and a full itinerary. There are no better advocates for schools than parents, so we encourage you to reach out to them and ask them to participate. The Center will provide free transportation and meals to all those who attend.