July 27 - August 1, 2008 Benninngton, VT SUMMER INSTITUTE ON DESCRIPTIVE INQUIRY July 27 - August 9, 2008 Bennington, VT To download the flyers and applications in pdf, click on "Institutes" in the menu to the left.]]>
The current issue of The Prospect Review (#29) is now posted under Prospect Review (link is on left hand menu). The following are Editors' Notes by Betsy Wice and Cecilia Espinosa. We again thank both the writers and our wonderful editors. Warmly, Lynne Strieb
Editors’ Note:
"And here we are, twenty or thirty years later, coming to this work. The
school is closed. The child is grown up. Whether we are seeing it for the first
time, or the fourth or twentieth time, we come to it fresh with a new group.
There is always more to see and know and question. There is a relationship to
create, with the work, with the child, with one another. There is, in this
collaborative looking and describing, new knowledge created and new work, as
fresh and powerful as the child's work. This is always true, but takes on added
importance in these times."
With these words, Joan Bradbury speaks of the immediate relevance of the
Prospect Archives of Children's Work.
This issue of The Prospect Review lets us in on the thoughts of a special
education teacher in New York City (Lariza Martell), a third-grade teacher in
Illinois (Eve Richards), and a middle-school teacher in Vermont (Nancy
Mildrum). Each of them tells how the Prospect Archives have enriched her
classroom life.
How did the Prospect Archives come to be? Pat Carini tells some of the history
in her essay "Made by Hand," where she also explains the descriptive process
for studying a child's work. How can we get access to the works in the Prospect
Archives? The FAQ fact sheet below answers this and other practical questions.
We hope this issue of The Prospect Review will inform current teaching and
connect more of us with this rich resource.
Sincerely,
Cecilia Espinosa and Betsy Wice, co-editors
What are the Prospect Archives?
What is The Reference Edition of The Prospect Archives?
What is available from the Prospect Center Office?
What kinds of support are available for people who want to use The Reference Edition?
What can I find at the University of Vermont and how do I get access to it?
What is at the University of North Dakota?
What about copyright?
To find answers to these questions, Download file
]]>We are pleased that many people have registered for this year's Fall Conference. Because Wisdom house can accommodate additional people, we are able to extend the final date for registration to Monday, October 22, 2007.
Our cancellation deadline remains November 2, 2007. Until November 2nd we will be able to refund money, subject to a $50 cancellation fee.
After November 2nd, in the event of a cancellation, we cannot give refunds for any reason because Wisdom House will have been paid in full.
Betsy Wice and Paige Bray, Conference Co-chairs
]]>Saturday, November 10th and Sunday, November 11th
We hope you can be there! Please continue reading.
FALL CONFERENCE READINGS:
The Vermont Design for Education http://www.prospectcenter.org/docs/vtdesignfored.pdf
The Bigness of Education by Patricia Carini Download file
A Call for Slow Schools by Susan Ohanian http:// www.vsse.net/node/252
The first two of these readings will be sent in hard copy after you register.
This year, for your convenience, you can pay for your registration with a major credit card
IMPORTANT: If you want to request financial aid, you should do so BEFORE you send in your registration form, since you will need that information when you register. The procedure for requesting financial aid is on the registration form.
Prospect Center’s Descriptive Processes are introduced and taught.
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Topic: Planning a Unit: Fifth Grade Writing
Presenter: Joanne Donahue
Chair: Rhoda Kanevsky
Place: Masterman School
17th & Spring Garden, (Fairmount)
Parking lot on Brandywine betw. 16th & 17th
267 235 7510
October 25
Topic: Restorative Practices: One way of establishing a whole-school community
Presenter: Gill Maimon & Chris Powers
Chair: Susan Shapiro
November 1
Topic: Meeting Individual Needs Within
Whole-Class Instruction: Singapore Math
Presenter: Christina Puntel
Chair: Erica Young
November 8
Descriptive Review: 2nd Grader
Presenter: Gill Maimon
Chair: Rhoda Kanevsky
November 15
Topic: Where Am I In My Work?
Chair: Betsy Wice
November 29
Topic: Planning Meeting
Chair: Lisa Hantman
Place: PTLC TeacherSPACE*
Rear of Wissahickon Charter School
4700 Wissahickon Ave,
For complete directions go to www.ptlcteacherspace.blogspot.com
215- 247-7364
December 6
Topic: Descriptive Review of Student Work: Kindergarten Child
Presenter: Amy Silverman
Chair: Lynne Strieb
Meetings start at 4:45 and end at 6:45. Come early for conversation and refreshments.
*TeacherSPACE also invites you to Open House most Wednesdays until December 12, 4:00 to 8:00.
Closed Halloween and Thanksgiving Wednesdays. www.ptlcteacherspace.blogspot.com
"We welcome Jennifer Rea, Elaine Replansky Smith, and Dr. Olga Winbush to this issue. Their pieces are generous. Each writer lets us in on her personal experience to deepen our understanding of how our students learn and grow. Jennifer Rea makes a thorough, concrete and reasoned argument in support of Kindergarten play as essential to literacy....Elaine Smith brings us into the life of a 'special needs' teacher in a public school in the year 2007, bringing her particular perspective as a “special education” graduate herself....In her warm, hopeful account of Deena learning to read and write, Dr. Olga Winbush uses her experience as an African-American educator to examine the strengths she and Deena draw from their shared culture. This story of the partnership between Deena and Dr. Winbush becomes a shining resource for all of us, regardless of our home culture (and Dr. Winbush also provides a powerful bibliography)."
]]>Here's the URL for an article about the events in the Burlington Free Press: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703220307
I hope others who were there add their comments. Margaret
Dan and Carole Burack President’s Distinguished Lecture
by Patricia F. Carini, Co-founder of the Prospect School and Center
March 22, 2007, 4:30 pm
Celebrating the gift of the Archives of the Prospect Center, North Bennington, VT
to the University of Vermont, Special Collections, Bailey/Howe Library, Burlington, VT
Waterman Memorial Lounge, University of Vermont, Reception following
The lecture introduces the Archives, relating its contents and Prospect’s philosophy to Vermont’s progressive educational history and to current issues confronting education in Vermont and nationwide.
]]>MADE BY HAND is a workshop for teachers and others interested in a hands on experience with collections of children’s drawings, constructions, writings, arranged by children, and spanning up to nine years of a child’s school life.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
8:30 am to 12:30 pm, followed by lunch
UVM Lafayette Hall, Room 207
Patricia F. Carini, Co-founder of the Prospect School and Center and members of Prospect Center will lead the workshop.
The workshop introduces processes developed at Prospect School and Center for describing children’s works and provides an opportunity to explore the value of these collections for the challenging issues confronting teachers and schools today.