November 28, 2009
REMEMBERING ALICE SELETSKY
Alice Seletsky died Wednesday, November 11th. Some of you knew her. Many of you did not. She was a memorable teacher of children and of adults. Alice was a founding teacher at Central Park East 1 in New York, where she worked with fifth and sixth graders - "the big kids" she called them - and later, with beginning readers. She taught at Brooklyn College, she supplied many of us with book titles, and she studied ancient Greek. And she loved Jane Austen.
Alice's long association with Prospect started during the summer of 1974 or 1975 when she was part of a group of teachers, administrators, and researchers who began to plan what was to become Inquiry Into Meaning, a study of children learning to read. From then through the 1990s Alice participated in summer institutes, where she made major contributions to Prospect's thought and works (and humor.) She worked on the development of the Reference Edition of the Prospect Archives, and was a member of Prospect's Board of Trustees for many years.
We invite you to write your remembrance of Alice and to post it in comments to this entry. We will collect these and give them to Alice's family.
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September 30, 2009
PROSPECT CENTER'S 2009 FALL CONFERENCE
THE LONG VIEW OF THE CHILD THE BIG VIEW OF THE CLASSROOM Saturday, November 14th and Sunday, November 15th We hope you can be there! Please continue reading. Download file
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We announced the following in our letter of December, 2008, and published it on our weblog on May 25th, 2009: "The Prospect Board recently approved a project, with full agreement and involvemnt of Special Collections at Bailey/Howe Library [at the University of Vermont] to digitize the Reference Edition of the Prospect Archives. This step will greatly expand access to this rich resource for educators at all levels, for historians of American education, and for researchers from a variety of disciplines." This digitization project has begun. The University of Vermont is the only entity permitted to digitize slides from the Reference Edition. Slides from the Reference Edition of the Prospect Archives can be rented from The Prospect Center, prospectcenter@sover.net . Prospect's telephone number is 802 442 8333. Posted by lstrieb at 9:56 PM
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THE LONG VIEW OF THE CHILD, THE BIG VIEW OF THE CLASSROOM PROSPECT CENTER'S 2009 FALL CONFERENCE Saturday and Sunday, November 14th and 15th
at Wisdom House, Litchfield, CT We hope you can be there Program and registration form will be available in September for download in PDF. Posted by lstrieb at 11:46 AM
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August 20, 2009
IMPORTANT: DIGITIZING SLIDES FROM THE REFERENCE EDITION
August 18, 2009
SAVE THE DATE FOR PROSPECT'S FALL CONFERENCE
