Government Innovators Network: SEED School, 2005-07-27 11:57:20 SEED made the concept of an urban boarding school a reality by creating a partnership among washington, DC 20006 Phone 202785-4123 Fax 202-785-4124 http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/awards.html?id=7498
The Little Class That Could | Csmonitor.com at the SEED school of washington, DC, an unusual urban public boarding school boarding school is not for everyone, he says, but he and Mr. Vinnakota http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0615/p11s01-legn.html
CBS News | John Kerry, Teen Outcast | April 7, 2004 00:18:43 Haven Pell, a St. Paul s graduate and washington financial adviser who Unfortunately for Kerry, his boardingschool comrades regarded ambition as a http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/06/opinion/main610517.shtml
Extractions: Toward the meal's end, the class president, a Boston lawyer named Lloyd Macdonald, rose to give a toast. He wanted to celebrate his classmates who had devoted their careers to public service. As he ticked off the names - FBI Director Robert Mueller; the State Department's top lawyer, Will Taft; federal Judge Alvin A. Schall - the sexagenarians bathed the room in loud applause. But, when Macdonald uttered the name of the junior senator from Massachusetts, the response was somewhat different. According to witnesses, only scattered boos broke the silence. Kerry didn't leave boarding school a popular man. Forty-two years after the fact, many of his classmates still mock him. They chide him for being a teachers' pet and a selfish hockey player. ("What you need to remember," says Macdonald, "is that John never passed [the puck].") In fact, they dislike him so much that they've frequently helped his political opponents. Haven Pell, a St. Paul's graduate and Washington financial adviser who raised cash for William Weld's 1996 race against Kerry, told me, "It was very interesting, the number of the St. Paul's class of 1962 who went out of their way to be supportive of Bill Weld."
Extractions: The most important and impressive boarding school graduation ceremony in the country took place Saturday in Anacostia, one of Washington, D.C.s lousiest neighborhoods. The school has no massive endowment, no secret society, no mahogany paneling and no posh headmasters house. There are no alumni. Thats because the SEED Public Charter School s commencement ceremony was its very first.
VPP | SEED Foundation: Fact Sheet SEED s model is unique not only in that it is a boarding school for public school students, In addition to overseeing The SEED School of washington, DC, http://www.venturephilanthropypartners.org/portfolio/seed/facts.html
Extractions: Former management consultants Eric Adler and Rajiv Vinnakota founded The SEED (Schools for Educational Evolution and Development) Foundation in 1997 as a nonprofit organization dedicated to partnering with urban communities to provide innovative educational opportunities. As a first step toward this mission, The SEED Foundation developed the SEED school model, which integrates academic training with life skills and enrichment to prepare students for college, all the while providing holistic services in a stable and nurturing boarding school environment. SEED is changing previous practice by creating a new service delivery model that harnesses resources from the public and private spheres to build a comprehensive program that provides underserved urban students with the stability and services they need to succeed. The SEED School is a financially sustainable institution and serves as a model for the creation of additional SEED schools in the Washington, DC area and around the country.
VPP | SEED Foundation: Investment Summary The SEED Foundation and The SEED School of washington, At the present time, there are no other successful urban boarding school models. http://www.venturephilanthropypartners.org/portfolio/seed/summary.html
Extractions: Please note: this Investment Summary represents VPP's perspective at the time of the business planning agreement, June 2005. The first phase of this investment partnership will focus on business planning. VPP will provide $350,000 in funding and strategic assistance to enable the Foundation to engage leading experts in the fields of strategic planning and outcomes design to help it develop a comprehensive, multi-year business plan. This plan will guide SEED toward achievement of its aspirations to serve an additional 600 youth in the region and become a national model for other communities wanting to establish urban boarding schools. Based on the successful completion of the business planning phase, we would enter into a multi-year investment agreement. OPPORTUNITY The SEED Foundation and The SEED School of Washington, DC have demonstrated a successful educational model. The investment in SEED has the potential to expand a unique approach that offers students an educational enrichment opportunity they would otherwise not have, thus breaking the cycle of poverty. At the present time, there are no other successful urban boarding school models. The leadership, management, and board of The SEED Foundation and School feel strongly that expanding this model in the DC area will lead to its replication in several other major city locations and inspire increased national political support. To that end, their aspiration is to:
Meet The School Counseling Group Staff A washington, DC native, Mr. Sturtevant attended the Potomac School and Landon School Mr. Walpole has served as president of the Small boarding School http://www.schoolcounseling.com/scgpersonnel.html
Extractions: Peter A. Sturtevant, Jr. became Director of the School Counseling Group in 2000, after eighteen years in independent schools. From 1992-2000, Mr. Sturtevant served as Head of School at, first, The Gunston School and, later, Gunston Day School in Centreville, Maryland. Previously, Mr.Sturtevant worked for ten years at the Maret School in Washington, DC, teaching English and humanities, coaching, advising seniors in the college admissions process, and serving as Senior Master of the Upper School. A Washington, DC native, Mr. Sturtevant attended the Potomac School and Landon School before receiving his B.A. from Bowdoin College and his M.A. from Middlebury College. He is a member of WISER, ACCESS and NACAC. Ethna Brennan Hopper, MA, IECA, CEP Ethna Hopper has 45 years of experience in the field of education. After receiving a B.A. from University College in Dublin, Ireland she earned an M.A. in Guidance and Counseling from Catholic University in Washington, DC. She has served as the coordinator of Special Instruction at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, and before entering private practice she was a teacher, counselor and Director of Testing at Purnell School, a boarding school in New Jersey. Her sixteen years of teaching include extensive work with learning disabled children. Mrs. Hopper co-founded and is currently a member of WISER. Jenifer T. Rideout, IECA
Boarding Students Learn Outside Class 15 in washington. St. Margaret?s, a boarding school for girls in grades 8-12, has for two years implemented a curriculum that aims to build good character http://www.sms.org/edweek01.htm
Extractions: Published: January 5, 2005 Private Schools Some boarding schools are becoming more deliberate in directing what students learn outside the classroom. Boarding schools efforts to formalize what their students learn in residential life range from requiring students to participate in extracurricular activities such as community service, athletics, and clubs to mandating that teenagers carry out personal wellness plans. George McDowell, the dean of faculty at St. Margarets School in Tappahannock, Va., led boarding school administrators in a discussion about how to create an out-of-class curriculum at the most recent annual conference of The Association of Boarding Schools, or TABS, held Dec. 1-5 in Washington. St. Margarets, a boarding school for girls in grades 8-12, has for two years implemented a curriculum that aims to build good character. In designing the curriculum, the schools faculty and staff tried to answer the question: What do we want our students to be by the time they graduate? They decided that St. Margarets graduates should be intellectually honest, respectful, responsible, engaged, self-motivated, flexible, and confidentand they came up with objectives and a plan to help students acquire those character traits.
Wampum: Red Lake Teachers Return To School She connects the boarding School past (which is very present) with the present in washington last September. We knew them already from boarding school. http://wampum.wabanaki.net/archives/001870.html
Extractions: Progressive Politics, Indian Issues, and Autism Advocacy Main Wampum's readers have put $300 on our blanket (via PayPal) for the Red Lake Condolence Fund. We're going to tansfer the funds next week, so there is still time to give via a link click. Also, RezNet has gotten a blog together at Red Lake Rez. Skip Atrios today and read it. The URL is http://www.reznetnews.org/news/050331_blog/ , and reading RezNetNews is always a good idea. Brenda Child, Red Lake Ojibwe, has a piece in the Star-Trib . She connects the Boarding School past (which is very present) with the present (which also contains the past). Since it is a subscription site, I've copied it into the extended area. Professor Child is associate professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota and author of "Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families: 1900-1940." Dear Sir, It is with a feeling of sorrow that I write you telling of the death of your daughter Lizzie. She was sick but a short time and we did not think her so near her end. Last Wednesday I was called away to Minneapolis and I was very much surprised upon my return Saturday evening to find she was dead, as they had given us no information except she might live for a number of months. Those that were with her say she did not suffer, but passed away as one asleep. I am very sorry that you could not have seen your daughter alive, for she had grown quite a little and improved very much since you let her come here with me. If we had known she was going to live but so short a time, we would have made a great effort to have gotten you here before she died.
The Pilot Newspaper - Local News Pinehurst Student Graduates from Virginia boarding School 9 in washington, DC. Themed The Legacy of American Leadership, JrNYLC introduces young http://www.thepilot.com/news/080505PhstGrads.html
Critical Mass - A Public Boarding School? A public boarding school? Yesin washington, DC Listen to this fascinating NPR segment, which discusses both the benefits of an innercity charter school http://www.erinoconnor.org/archives/2004/12/a_public_boardi.html
Extractions: A public boarding school? Yesin Washington, D.C. Listen to this fascinating NPR segment , which discusses both the benefits of an inner-city charter school that boards seventh- through twelfth-graders, and the difficulties of a venture that costs taxpayers about four times what a day school costs and that kids must win a lottery to attend. posted on December 15, 2004 03:59 PM Hmmm, public boarding schools actually have been around for awhile. I went to NCSSM in Durham, NC, which is a public boarding school for 11th and 12th graders drawn from the entire state and graduated its first senior class in 1982. Some other states copied the idea... I know Illinois has IMSA, which runs from 10th-12th grade. Posted by: meep at December 16, 2004 03:59 AM That's right - I've met some graduates of Maine's school. And I knew some people who went to NCSSM because we had an awesome art studio. Everyone had to take the same 3 years' worth of science in 2 years, and math every semester, in addition to humanities requirements. I would say a large percentage of those who went to NCSSM ended up majoring in something completely other than math or science, and probably don't work in those fields at all. It was a solid, all-around education. Still, I spent most of my time with math, because that's what I liked.
Reading English American Culture In Washington In the spring of 1999, Maple Falls Grade School in washington closed. Can you guess how a boarding school nearly wiped out the traditions of the http://internationaleflcafe.com/reading-english-american-culture-in-washington.h
Extractions: Home Reading English American culture Washington Click a picture for a larger image, credits, and additional information General information In 1853, the Washington Territory was formed from part of the Oregon Territory. Named in honor of George Washington, Washington was the 42nd state to join the Union, in 1889. Its coastal location and Puget Sound harbors give it a leading role in trade with Alaska, Canada, and the Pacific Rim. The state has two major mountain rangesthe 7,000-foot Olympic Mountains surrounded by temperate rain forest on the peninsula west of Puget Sound, and the more majestic Cascade Range, which boasts the 14,410-foot Mount Rainier and the volcanic Mount St. Helens, which erupted twice in the 1980s. Although the capital is Olympia, most people live in the metropolitan areas of Seattle-Everett and Tacoma. The state tree of the "Evergreen State" is the western hemlock, and the flower is the western rhododendron. The Centennial Trail
Anglicans Online | USA Education boarding School Review Need to locate a boarding school in the States? washington Episcopal School, Bethesda. Coeducational, Nursery school through http://anglicansonline.org/usa/edu.html
Extractions: Anglicans Online News Resources Basics ... Worldwide Anglicanism Anglican Dioceses and Parishes New this Week News Centre A to Z Start Here ... Official Publications B The Bible B B B B B Help support AO B B B B B B B B This page last updated 22 September 2005 Anglicans Online last updated 25 September 2005 THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE USA (ECUSA) is the American branch of the Anglican Communion. In addition to this page, you'll find these areas in our USA section:
Academic - Academic Access WashingtonWashington State Government Information and Services schools Online The Association of boarding schools Homepage provides information http://schoolcenter.nsd.org/education/dept/dept.php?sectionid=2154
[ Home Page :: The Academy Of The Sacred Heart ] New Jersey, Missouri, Maryland, washington State, and washington, DC. The Director of the boarding School and three houseparents care for each http://www.ashcoteau.org/admissions/admissions.html
DAR | National Society - Work Of The Society DAR erected a memorial bell tower at the washington Memorial Chapel in the Founded by DAR member Martha Berry as a boarding school for deprived rural http://www.dar.org/natsociety/workSociety.cfm
Extractions: Work of the Society For more than a century, the members of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution have dedicated themselves to historical preservation, promotion of education, and encouragement of patriotic endeavor. These goals are as relevant in today's society as they were when the organization was founded in 1890. Most of DAR's volunteer work is accomplished under a committee system comprised of a national chairman appointed by the President General and locally appointed state and chapter chairmen. The national chairmen direct and supervise the activities of their committees with the assistance of the national vice chairmen. The committees are grouped based on the above-mentioned goals and objectives. To learn more about the work of the DAR please read on. Historic Preservation Commemoratives and Memorials World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C.: DAR contributed more than $500,000 toward the construction of the new memorial on the Mall.
Assimilation's Agent - University Of Nebraska Press My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian boarding School System Cary C. Collins has a PhD in history from washington State University and is a public http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bookinfo/4552.html
Extractions: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System By Edwin L. Chalcraft Edited and with an introduction by Cary C. Collins "Editor Collins provides a very comprehensive look not only at Chalcraft's memoir, but also in his introduction an illuminating, important overview of federal Indian education and assimilation policies. . . . Chalcraft's memoir . . . Adds a valuable voice to the historical discussion on the providence of federal Indian policy in general and, more specifically, federal programs intended to bring about complete cultural assimilation by way of education." CHOICE "This book, written with a great deal of grace, explains an enormous amount of what happened duirng that shameful time [of forced assimilation]. Collins' extensiveand heavily researchedintroduction offers a large amount of heretofore unavailable information. This is a book that illuminates and taps into the emotions. It will make you angry at timesnot at the book but at the tactics the government used in aid of an unsupportable cause." Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon)
Embassy Of Sri Lanka - Washington DC, USA It was the first girls boarding school in Asia. The American Mission started the first printing press in the north in 1820 and in 1841 the island s second http://www.slembassyusa.org/srilanka_us_relations/historical_context.html
Extractions: HISTORICAL CONTEXT Although formal diplomatic relations between the governments of newly independent Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) and the United States of America was established in 1948, contacts between the peoples of the U.S.A and Sri Lanka are nearly 200 years old . In 1789, the year that the USA adopted its Constitution, New England sailors first anchored in the harbours of Sri Lanka. From ancient times Sri Lanka enjoyed commercial relations with distant foreign countries and empires such as Greece and Rome, Arabia and China. As the Orient and the Occident began mingling with each other, sheltered ports of Sri Lanka like Galle was no less frequented by the merchant seamen of America. August 31st, 1789 The next American visitors in the early part of the 19th century came not in search of trade but of souls. As early as 1813, Rev. Samuel Newell, a New England clergyman, who later worked and died in India, spent some months laboring in missionary activity in Sri Lanka. He was, in a sense, a forerunner of the American missionaries who came to the Jaffna Peninsula to preach the words of Christ. With enormous self-sacrifice, these missionary families spread knowledge of the Bible; but in a uniquely American way also sought practical benefits for the people they proselytized and served.
Amnesty Magazine Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is interim coordinator for the boarding School Healing Northwest Museum of Arts Culture/Eastern washington State Historical http://www.amnestyusa.org/amnestynow/soulwound.html
Extractions: Government officials found the Carlisle model an appealing alternative to the costly military campaigns against Indians in the West. Within three decades of Carlisle's opening, nearly 500 schools extended all the way to California. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) controlled 25 off-reservation boarding schools while churches ran 460 boarding and day schools on reservations with government funds. Rampant sexual abuse at reservation schools continued until the end of the 1980s, in part because of pre-1990 loopholes in state and federal law mandating the reporting of allegations of child sexual abuse. In 1987 the FBI found evidence that John Boone, a teacher at the BIA-run Hopi day school in Arizona, had sexually abused as many as 142 boys from 1979 until his arrest in 1987. The principal failed to investigate a single abuse allegation. Boone, one of several BIA schoolteachers caught molesting children on reservations in the late 1980s, was convicted of child abuse, and he received a life sentence. Acting BIA chief William Ragsdale admitted that the agency had not been sufficiently responsive to allegations of sexual abuse, and he apologized to the Hopi tribe and others whose children BIA employees had abused.
Extractions: Washington State University Home Colville Indian Reservation Chronology and Avery Project Bibliography : Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) created under the War Department : BIA moved into the Department of the Interior : Treaty between Territorial Governor Stevens and several eastern Washington tribes led by (Yakima) Chief Kamiakin established several large reservations; Congress ratified the treaty in 1859 : Hostilities between Col. Steptoe and Coeur d'Alene, Spokane, and Palouse tribes : Colville Reservation created; original eastern boundary went to the 118th meridian and included good agricultural land, but the line was shifted west to the middle of the Columbia River; about 3,400 Indians lived on or near the reservation : St. Francis Regis Mission School, an industrial boarding school located near Fort Colville, and a day school, also run by Catholic missionaries, open; their combined capacity was 85 students : Chief Joseph led Nez Perce (NP) flight from Wallowa, OR (1877); after surrendering, the NP were incarcerated (until 1879) at Fort Leavenworth, KS and settled in Oklahoma (until 1885); because of local white opposition to settling Joseph's band of
