New Orleans Students and Grow Dat Youth Farm

This is a good article about high school students learning about healthy foods, farming, and social innovation. Grow Dat Farm

Tulane Establishes Five Endowed Social Entrepreneurship Professorships

Tulane's new Social Entrepreneurship Professors are:

Nghana Lewis - The Louise and Leonard Riggio Professorship

Byron Mouton - The New Day Professorship

Laura Murphy - The Carnegie Corporation of New York Professorship

Aaron Schneider - The Jill H. and Avram A. Glazer Professorship

Carol Whelan - The Paul Tudor Jones II Professorship

To learn more about these professorships, visit the Tulane website at  http://tulane.edu/socialentrepreneurship/2011-professors-in-social-entrepreneurship.cfm.

Congratulations to the MSP NOLA SMILE TEACHERS!

NOLA SMILE (Science and Mathematics: Inquiry, Learning and Exploring)Teachers from the New Orleans area public and private schools just completed the third year of their interactive and exciting professional development project. Vincent Fouchi was recognized for perfect attendance, completing more than 360 hours of work to improve his teaching of math and science. Many other teachers completed from 120 to 340 hours. Go to the following link to see some pictures and videos of teachers and Tulane instructors teaching and learning together.


Year 3 - 2010-2011


Summer Institute Video Clips

• Summer 2010 Institute
•  http://www.flipshare.com/view.aspx?nRecipient=&nFrame=NTRlYjcwMjItZGM0OC00OWE4LThlZjMtYjM5NjNmN2EyZGUz&nMedia=MmEwZmMzOTUtM2IxYS00Mjg3LTgzMzgtMDEyNjA0OTliZDIw&emailThumbnail=single&nT=

 

Year 2 - 2009-2010

• http://nolasmile2009.shutterfly.com/

Year 1 - 2008-2009

•  http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.107982532587177.6455.100001262937311
• Year 1 Slideshow Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=783424726728627558
• Teacher Comment: Mary Berges Video Comments on Field Trip to Ligo http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2000039583583158321 
• NOLA SMILE IN THE NEWS: http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/073108_nola_smile.cfm

Many teachers shared how NOLA SMILE has helped them improve their teaching and learning with examples of their own and their students' work.

Martha Panzeka - Foldables in Math - Newman Elementary

Ben Legrand - TV News Broadcast at ARISE Academy - Using Flipcams

Christine Sozek - Lusher Charter School students connecting with students from England and sharing video Q&A using the flipcam

Barbara Burrell - Coghill Elementary: Video Book reports, math

journals with foldables, and graphing.

Link to Dr. Rosenheim's Presentation at http://www.tulane.edu/~brosenhe/Japan_Earthquake_Tsunami.pptx

NOLA SMILE teachers also have a facebook page for the group.

Please post your comments about any of the projects or share what you are doing.

Cowen Institute E-Newsletter - March 27th: RE Tulane Students Supporting Public Education

See the Cowen Institute Newsletter and read about what is going on in New Orleans schools at Cowen Institute's E-Newsletter - March 27, 2011.

Zachary Shraberg's Threw Dat Disc Golf Project at Banneker

Read about Zach's new project. He is a local hero at Banneker Elementary and Middle School in New Orleans! Tulane New Wave Article

More Tulane students receive notification of funding

Social Innovation in Education Ideas – Spring 2011 (Presented on March 7, 2011 and notified about the  funding on Thursday, April 14th, 2011)

Congratulations to the following students for receiving Youth Venture Awards!

---- Hope Barnard, Yvonne Payne, and Elly Birnbrey Project: Ladder to the Sky Literacy Program (Providing literacy program for middle school students)

----Meridith Massey and Colette Bolton: Inclusion Buddies (Pairing Tulane students with special education students in the inclusion classrooms)

----Joe Eichner, NO Limits Community Theatre (Connecting Tulane's Theatre Program and the school to provide opportunities for theatre activities with students interested in theatre in middle school)

Students, faculty, teachers, parents are welcome to post their ideas and comments about these projects and others that you have identified. Please share your thoughts....

Student Projects from the Education in a Diverse Society Class

Social Innovation Ideas  - Ed in a Diverse Society, Fall 2010

Students and their projects:

Jason Winnikoff -- Margaret Spacapan - Laura white  (Youth Venture)
        Banneker/Tulane Choir Connection—

Kelly McGuire Ann Quilio  - Healthy School Lunch and Exercise Promotion in Schools—

Megan O'Connell -- gifted prog for Sci-tech Charter School (Youth Venture)
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Brandon Lee -- Bullying issues and APPLIKI 
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Patrick Schreiber - Dev. of a podcast site for careers and post hs choices
for kids
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Zachary Schraberg and Crystal Pennuto - "who threw dat - disk golf" (Youth Venture)

Heidi Zansler -Urban Studies and Your New Orleans (Urban Innovation Challenge)

Phoebe Ferguson -- Legacy Lessons - ( Plessey & Ferguson Foundation)

Megan Stanger - Swim for Success Video (Continuation and expansion of Laura White's Youth Venture Project)

I invite all of these students and others to comment on how your project ideas are going and what being involved in learning about social innovation in education has impacted your thinking and work. Please share!