Day 23 Just Dots (Thoughts)

Source:

Rubio-Cortes, G.(2010). Educators make the case for community engagement. National Civic Review. DOI: 10.1002/ncr2011

What is Sacred:

What I thought I was going to get was an insight in what it takes to make a meaningful school-community bond. I sort of did but it was not anything I can immediately implement and not anything that I didn't already know.

The big ideas:

Schools are a valuable community resource
Schools can be more successful if they educate and involve the entire family
Community dreams can result from school leadership
Schools play an important role in promoting youth civic engagement and preparing youths for their global role in solving society's challenges

The rest of the article gives examples from the author's work in this engagement as well as other principals. It also gives big props to Met Life for helping.

Connections to Current/Future Work:

I think sometimes dots are not really connected. They are just dots. What it does make me think about is the huge school and community project that my colleague, Dr. Stephanie Kamai did when she was a vice principal at Alvah Scott elementary. They created a ceramic peace wall. Hopefully her paper on that story will come out soon.

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An open letter to my Boy 3, Tom Kalamapono

These young men are Pono'I and Pono B. My son is on the left. He is a freshman at Reed College in Oregon and I just saw a post on Instagram that he is feeling homesick. As a mother of a Native Hawaiian boy, this is alarming to me. The statistics on our Native Hawaiian students who get into universities or community colleges is pretty good. We can get them in. But the percentage of Native Hawaiian students who drop out after their freshman year is atrocious. We have about a 60% drop out rate after their freshman year. So this is just my letter to him.
Dear Pono,
I just got a newsletter in my inbox from Reed and I was drawn to the article written by Mylion Trulove, your Dean of Admission. He is the one that called and invited you and talked us through the process.
This is what I found out. There were 5,705 applicants (including you) who applied. Maybe for some this was not their first choice, but I know that Reed was your first choice. They accepted 357 of you. I think Milyon pers…

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