ESI Update – Week of February 24th

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ESI Update

Week of February 24

 

Welcome back Principals and ESI Team Members!

On Thursday, February 27th there will be an ESI Young Men’s Gathering at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 515 Malcolm X Blvd in the Langston Hughes Theater from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. It’s Halftime will provide the “Let’s Talk About Money” seminar to our young men.

Based on the ESPN award winning “30 for 30” documentary Broke, founder and president Leonard Adams, who was born in Queensbridge public houses, one of NYC’s poorest neighborhoods, will lead an interactive discussion with the young men and will share 6 core concepts (commitment, honor, awareness, nurturance, growth and evolution) to prepare them for sustainable success. To enrich the experience, there will also be a guest speaker from the NY Knicks front office.

Each schools can bring up to 30 young men to the show  (Limited seats remaining). If you are interested and would like to reserve your seats, please email Paul Forbes.

In this issue you will find the following features:

  • Opportunities: Google Science Fair, TCC Paid Internship, Opportunity with ESI New School Design!
  • Program Spotlight: Research Alliance 
  • Did You Know? How Opening Up Classroom Doors Can Push Education Forward!
  • Shout Outs: Channel View School for Research!

 

Opportunities

For Students

Carolina Rice Scholarship Opportunity

Since 1987, Carolina Rice in partnership with Univision Communications offer high school seniors in the New York – New Jersey area who wish to attend college the chance to win a two thousand dollar prize by writing an essay. Since its beginning, the program in partnership with Mahatma Rice has awarded more than $1,500,000 to college-bound high school seniors. In order to be considered for one of five, two thousand dollar cash awards, each competitor must be a high school senior and complete an essay that answers the following question: What is your plan for college and what are the choices you will make to earn the degree or degrees that will assure you a fulfilling job in your chosen career?

To start an application, download and complete the entry form here. Completed applications including the essay must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2014. For more information about the Carolina Rice Scholarship, click here.

Google Science Fair 2014

The Google Science Fair 2014, in partnership with Virgin Galactic, LEGO Education, National Geographic and Scientific American, is now LIVE!

Students aged 13 – 18 from around the world are invited to submit a science or engineering project online for the chance to win once-in-a-lifetime experiences, scholarships and real-life work opportunities. Check the Official Rules for eligibility requirements.

Teachers can find out more by clicking here to access FAQs, resources, and lesson plans. Students can use the Idea Springboard to come up with ideas for their project. You can also follow the Google Science Fair 2014 on Google+, Facebook, and Twitter to stay up-to-date.

Teen Career Connection at West Side YMCA Paid Summer Internship

Many teenagers cannot find work throughout the summer. The majority of employment opportunities that are available to teens are in fast food and retail and do very little to build their resumes or their skill sets. Often times, only those teens that are fortunate enough to have connections through their family or school are able to find summer jobs that provide growth and skill-building opportunities and most of these jobs are not paid placements. The West Side YMCA has developed a program to address this need with Teen Career Connection. The goals of Teen Career Connection at West Side are to help to develop and improve teens skills and expand their networks, to improve teens chances for success by stressing the importance of education, discipline and responsibility, and professional behavior in the workplace, to provide a support system to help teens with challenges that arise in the workplace, making them better prepared for college and their careers, as well as to help to create a more diverse workforce and uplift communities that are caught in the cycle of poverty.

Last year, 47 of the brightest most qualified individuals were selected out of over 3,400 applications from teens throughout the city. They were placed in top New York City companies and nonprofit organizations such as Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel as well as nonprofits such as The Clinton Foundation, Children’s Brain Tumor Institute, Susan G. Komen for the Cure NYC, Alvin Ailey Dance Company and numerous other outstanding organizations.

HOW IT WORKS

  • 8 week internship in a related career field of interest: marketing, legal, arts, nonprofit, media, veterinary, and technological companies
  • $1,250 stipend
  • $300 clothing stipend
  • MetroCard for internship period

HOW TO APPLY

Current high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors are eligible to apply. You can find the TCC application here: http://www.teencareerconnection.org/#!appy

Notes about the application:

  • ONLY ELECTRONIC VERSIONS OF THE APPLICATION WILL BE ACCEPTED. You cannot resume a partially completed application form. Students are encouraged to download and read the pdf form located here so that they are prepared to answer the questions. Prior to starting the Online version of the application you should have already prepared:
    •    Responses stating your interest in the TCC program
    •    Your objectives and expectations of an internship through TCC, and how these relate to your future goals
    •    A schedule of your summer availability.
    •    A list of activities, extra-curricular, interests, skills, volunteer work.
    •    Two references

For any additional questions, email: info@teencareerconnection.org

For Staff Members

ESI New School Design Collaboration: Curriculum Writing Opportunity

ESI Design Fellows are seeking colleagues (educators, practitioners, and administrators) to collaborate as writers in the development of ELA and Math curriculum units that meet a set of rigorous criteria in a common format – Common Core aligned, culturally responsive, opportunities to individualize learning, inclusion of scaffolds, integration of technology, mastery-based assessments and real world transfer of learning.

What do you get?

●  Compensation $$$ for curriculum development and consultation

●  Guidance in the articulation of curriculum units and feedback from experts/peers

●  Opportunity to digitize and share promising curriculum units with a larger community of schools

●  Opportunity for collaboration and professional networking

●  Opportunity to learn about the ESI new school design project

What do you give?

●  20 to 30 hours of paid time outside of school hours for authoring of ELA and Math units between March and May

●  Required participation in multiple workshops with ESI Fellows and curriculum designers to learn criteria and format and to review and revise units

Who are we looking for?

Educators with excellent curriculum development skills who are inspired to collaborate and improve the postsecondary outcomes of black and Latino students

How do I connect?

Email john.clemente@esinyc.org for more information.

Slavery by Another Name: Digital Storytelling

On February 25, The New Educational Project from tpt National Productions funded by the Open Society Campaign for Black Male Achievement will present a clip of the documentary Slavery by Another Name followed by an online discussion. Based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name deconstructs the cherished assumption that American slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Produced by tpt National Productions and directed by Sam Pollard, Slavery by Another Name was a selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and aired on PBS that same year as part of Black History Month.

Led by Felicia Pride of Pride Collaborative, the hour-long presentation on February 25 will include a screening of a 30-minute clip of the film, presentation of the existing educational resources available, and then an introduction of the new initiative in development. Partners from the Open Society Foundation, Expanded Success Initiative, Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color and Eagle Academy will be online to share information about their programs as well.

Slavery by Another Name documents how after the Civil War, repressive labor practices and laws pulled thousands of African Americans in the South back into new forms of slavery that lasted well into the 20th century. It shows how the forced labor of generations of African Americans has created long-lasting racial and economic divisions that persist to this day. The goal is to introduce male African American and Latino students as well as their teachers to this little-known chapter in American history so they can understand how this historic period impacts the world we live in.

When: 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. February 25, 2014

Click here to view more information about the screening and to RSVP.

Black History Program at East Bronx Academy

The faculty and staff at East Bronx Academy would like to invite staff and students from ESI schools to attend their annual Black History Program on Thursday, February 27. For more information about the event, please click here.

 
 

Program Spotlight

*This feature is intended to give you insight into what is happening in ESI. We hope you enjoy your “visit”!

Research Alliance

Earlier this month at the ESI Leadership Meeting at the Hispanic Federation, Adriana Villavicencio, Research Associate at Research Alliance, presented to principals and assistant principals in attendance on the research group’s findings from the first year of data reporting as well as plans for upcoming research activities this spring.

Research Alliance, our external program evaluator, has furnished data reports to ESI schools on student progress toward college and career readiness benchmarks.  Additionally they have released Moving the Needle and Preparing Black and Latino Young Men for College and Careers, two larger reports about the challenges faced by ESI schools and the strategies schools are employing to increase student success.

Some of the key research findings that were highlighted at the meeting were how schools have changed with regard to academics, youth development, and college and career going culture in response to ESI. Over half of ESI schools have expanded college supports to help create a college and career-going culture, particularly for 9th graders. More specifically this has entailed increasing communication to students about benchmarks related to college and higher academic standards so that students are on track from the 9th grade and prepared to succeed in college by the time they graduate.

Research Alliance is in the midst of Year 2 evaluations, meeting with principals, assistant principals, and ESI Design Team members to compile data for next year’s reports. Schools have been contacted to schedule visits. For further questions regarding the work of Research Alliance please contact Adriana Villavicencio at arv228@nyu.edu.

 

  

How Opening Up Classroom Doors Can Push Education Forward

What if teachers embraced the idea of transparency as a form of activism, a way of shining light on what works in the classroom?

 

  

Shout Outs

Shout out to Channel View School for Research for engaging in Culturally Responsive Education training with Professor Michelle Knight!

Staff are engaging in a dialogue about what it means to build a culturally responsive, college-going culture at their school.

If your school is interested in participating in a four-part CRE training with Professor Knight, please contact her at MKnight9@schools.nyc.gov.

Do you have a strategy, teacher, or program at your school that you wish to highlight? If so, send an email to rhaynes6@schools.nyc.gov for inclusion in our ESI Weekly Update.

 

 
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