For over 20 years, IRT has been dedicated to supporting the work by and for the Deaf. The Emerging Deaf Artists Festival will feature an array of exciting new talent during the first week of June, 2009. The centerpiece of the festival will be a presentation of Willy Conley's play "Broken Spokes," performed by students from RIT/NTID (Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf), June 5-7, 2009. After the show on June 5th there will be talk back with Willy Conley.
Details of the week:
June 2nd- 7pm A talk back with Ann Marie"Jade" Bryan, Owner/CEO/Producer of Jade Films and Entertainment
June 3rd- 8pm Open Mic Deaf Jam
June 4-7pm Film Screening of the RIT/NTID performance of Othello and live performance
June 5-8pm Show..Broken Spokes-after the show talk back with Willy Conley
June 5-7-Show..Broken Spokes-Friday/Sat.8pm Sunday 3pm
If you are interested in being a part of the Open Mic night please contact Renee Pena rpena@irttheater.org
To purchase tickets for Broken Spokes contact Theatermania all other events are $5 suggested donation at the door-
http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/155297
or call
Tickets by Phone: 212-352-3101
866-811-4111(toll free)
IRT
154 Christopher St.,Suite 3B
New York,NY 10014
212-206-6875
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
AWOL
I know I have been awol! However, I am back and stronger than ever! I will post three times a week.
Friday, April 17, 2009
An Event that must be Shared!
Fund For Public School is having their 2nd Annual Madison Ave Gallery Walk!
Here is the event's details:
What: 2nd Annual Madison Avenue Gallery Walk, including guided tours of participating art galleries, a children’s art scavenger hunt and artist talks
Admission: Free!
When: 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Saturday May 16, 2009
Where: Walking tours will depart from two event Information Centers, one located at East 57 Street & Madison Avenue, and the other at East 78 Street & Madison Avenue
Contact: Matthew Bauer, President of the Madison Avenue BID at 212-861-2055 or via e-mail at mbauer@madisonavenuebid.org for more information
Here is the event's details:
What: 2nd Annual Madison Avenue Gallery Walk, including guided tours of participating art galleries, a children’s art scavenger hunt and artist talks
Admission: Free!
When: 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Saturday May 16, 2009
Where: Walking tours will depart from two event Information Centers, one located at East 57 Street & Madison Avenue, and the other at East 78 Street & Madison Avenue
Contact: Matthew Bauer, President of the Madison Avenue BID at 212-861-2055 or via e-mail at mbauer@madisonavenuebid.org for more information
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Life Update
I will be away for a few days so there won't be any Weekend Happening as well as other post for a while. Happy Passover and Easter!
Sharing is Caring
As a product of New York Public Schools I found this article interesting. Check it out:
The Sudden Charm of Public Schools
The Sudden Charm of Public Schools
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Weekend Happenings April 3rd-5th, 2009
In New York City:
Discovery Programs (www.discoveryprograms.com) in Hippo In the Park are doing a (drumroll please)
Puppets in the Park
All Ages are Welcome, but its best for 1 to 5 years old
April 4th,2009
1st show at 10:30am
2nd show at 11:30am
It's Free!
Hippo Park is 91st Street and Riverside Drive!
and
In Philadelphia
At the Please Touch Museum
April is Celebrate Stories Month:
Join them at the Please Touch Playhouse at 11Am, 1 and 3pm to hear "There is Something Under My Bed"
to check out details go to www.pleasetouchmuseum.org
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Sharing of Inspiration
I found this information on Thriving blog and wanted to share this with my readers because there is so much food for thought, it's so insightful. Enjoy!!!
In recent years, IDEO has spent a lot of time and effort thinking about education. The firm’s work with Ormondale Elementary School, in Portola Valley, California, helped pioneer a special “investigative-learning” curriculum that inspires students to be seekers of knowledge. We spoke to Sandy Speicher, who heads the Design for Learning efforts at IDEO. Her insights provide powerful lessons for architects and designers creating the schools of tomorrow:"
1. Pull, don’t push. Create an environment that raises a lot of questions from each of your students, and help them translate that into insight and understanding. Education is too often seen as the transmission of knowledge. Real learning happens when the student feels the need to reconcile a question he or she is facing—and can’t help but seek out an answer.
2. Create from relevance. Engage kids in ways that have relevance to them, and you’ll capture their attention and imagination. Allow them to experience the concepts you’re teaching firsthand, and then discuss them (or, better yet, work to address them!) instead of relying on explanation alone.
3. Stop calling them “soft” skills. Talents such as creativity, collaboration, communication, empathy, and adaptability are not just nice to have; they’re the core capabilities of a 21st-century global economy facing complex challenges.
4. Allow for variation. Evolve past a one-size-fits-all mentality and permit mass customization, both in the system and the classroom. Too often, equality in education is treated as sameness. The truth is that everyone is starting from a different place and going to a different place.
5. No more sage onstage. Engaged learning can’t always happen in neat rows. People need to get their hands dirty. They need to feel, experience, and build. In this interactive environment, the role of the teacher is transformed from the expert telling people the answer to an enabler of learning. Step away from the front of the room and find a place to engage with your learners as the “guide on the side.”
6. Teachers are designers. Let them create. Build an environment where your teachers are actively engaged in learning by doing. Shift the conversation from prescriptive rules to permissive guidance. Even though the resulting environment may be more complicated to manage, the teachers will produce amazing results.
7. Build a learning community. Learning doesn’t happen in the child’s mind alone. It happens through the social interactions with other kids and teachers, parents, the community, and the world at large. It really does take a village. Schools should find new ways to engage parents and build local and national partnerships. This doesn’t just benefit the child—it brings new resources and knowledge to your institution.
8. Be an anthropologist, not an archaeologist. An archaeologist seeks to understand the past by investigating its relics and digging for the truth of what was. An anthropologist studies people to understand their values, needs, and desires. If you want to design new solutions for the future, you have to understand what people care about and design for that. Don’t dig for the answer—connect.
9. Incubate the future. What if our K–12 schools took on the big challenges that we’re facing today? Allow children to see their role in creating this world by studying and creating for topics like global warming, transportation, waste management, health care, poverty, and even education. It’s not about finding the right answer. It’s about being in a place where we learn ambition, involvement, responsibility, not to mention science, math, and literature.
10. Change the discourse. If you want to drive new behavior, you have to measure new things. Skills such as creativity and collaboration can’t be measured on a bubble chart. We need to create new assessments that help us understand and talk about the developmental progress of 21st-century skills. This is not just about measuring outcomes, but also measuring process. We need formative assessments that are just as important as numeric ones. And here’s the trick: we can’t just have the measures. We actually have to value them.
In recent years, IDEO has spent a lot of time and effort thinking about education. The firm’s work with Ormondale Elementary School, in Portola Valley, California, helped pioneer a special “investigative-learning” curriculum that inspires students to be seekers of knowledge. We spoke to Sandy Speicher, who heads the Design for Learning efforts at IDEO. Her insights provide powerful lessons for architects and designers creating the schools of tomorrow:"
1. Pull, don’t push. Create an environment that raises a lot of questions from each of your students, and help them translate that into insight and understanding. Education is too often seen as the transmission of knowledge. Real learning happens when the student feels the need to reconcile a question he or she is facing—and can’t help but seek out an answer.
2. Create from relevance. Engage kids in ways that have relevance to them, and you’ll capture their attention and imagination. Allow them to experience the concepts you’re teaching firsthand, and then discuss them (or, better yet, work to address them!) instead of relying on explanation alone.
3. Stop calling them “soft” skills. Talents such as creativity, collaboration, communication, empathy, and adaptability are not just nice to have; they’re the core capabilities of a 21st-century global economy facing complex challenges.
4. Allow for variation. Evolve past a one-size-fits-all mentality and permit mass customization, both in the system and the classroom. Too often, equality in education is treated as sameness. The truth is that everyone is starting from a different place and going to a different place.
5. No more sage onstage. Engaged learning can’t always happen in neat rows. People need to get their hands dirty. They need to feel, experience, and build. In this interactive environment, the role of the teacher is transformed from the expert telling people the answer to an enabler of learning. Step away from the front of the room and find a place to engage with your learners as the “guide on the side.”
6. Teachers are designers. Let them create. Build an environment where your teachers are actively engaged in learning by doing. Shift the conversation from prescriptive rules to permissive guidance. Even though the resulting environment may be more complicated to manage, the teachers will produce amazing results.
7. Build a learning community. Learning doesn’t happen in the child’s mind alone. It happens through the social interactions with other kids and teachers, parents, the community, and the world at large. It really does take a village. Schools should find new ways to engage parents and build local and national partnerships. This doesn’t just benefit the child—it brings new resources and knowledge to your institution.
8. Be an anthropologist, not an archaeologist. An archaeologist seeks to understand the past by investigating its relics and digging for the truth of what was. An anthropologist studies people to understand their values, needs, and desires. If you want to design new solutions for the future, you have to understand what people care about and design for that. Don’t dig for the answer—connect.
9. Incubate the future. What if our K–12 schools took on the big challenges that we’re facing today? Allow children to see their role in creating this world by studying and creating for topics like global warming, transportation, waste management, health care, poverty, and even education. It’s not about finding the right answer. It’s about being in a place where we learn ambition, involvement, responsibility, not to mention science, math, and literature.
10. Change the discourse. If you want to drive new behavior, you have to measure new things. Skills such as creativity and collaboration can’t be measured on a bubble chart. We need to create new assessments that help us understand and talk about the developmental progress of 21st-century skills. This is not just about measuring outcomes, but also measuring process. We need formative assessments that are just as important as numeric ones. And here’s the trick: we can’t just have the measures. We actually have to value them.
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