Environment and Elections-Lesson Plans for Earth Day and Beyond

As Earth Day approaches, lesson plans on the Flint Water crisis provide an interesting perspective

Flint Water Crisis 

Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center has a lesson plan on Progressive City Planners
http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/progressive-city-planners  with these objectives:

Objectives:

Students will:

• Consider how our society is divided by race and class and consider the stark differences in treatment within communities
• Evaluate previous biases against people of color and working-class communities.
• Analyze the impact of environmental racism on the health and well-being of communities of color
• Create a vision of a more just and equitable society

Another environmental lesson plan was included in this blog's post

http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2009/04/earth-day-research-project.html

The Teachable Moment

The Teachable Moment a project of the Morningside Center

has the following lesson plan  and readings specifically on the crisis

http://morningsidecenter.org/teachable-moment/lessons/flint-water-crisis-environmental-racism-work

Elections 

The Teachable Moment also has lessons on the current elections
http://www.morningsidecenter.org/search/node/elections%20type%3Ateachable_moment_lesson

Teaching Tolerance has lesson plans on past election and voters' rights concerns
http://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources?keys=elections&type=All&topic=All&grade=All&domain=All&subject=All

For more lesson plan websites and other materials   check this bibliography
http://www.njcu.edu/guarini/department/EdServiceBib/LessonPlans.pdf

New Jersey School Board Elections-4/27/11-VOTE

VOTE

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Annual School Board (and School Budget) Elections



Call your School BOARD for Polling Times

More Information at http://www.vote411.org



Don’t forget to Vote on the Public Questions TOO!



JERSEY CITY RESIDENTS

VOTE

7am-9pm

Information for Jersey City Residents

Candidate Links

http://www.hudsoncountyclerk.org/elections/default.htm

( Scroll down for Jersey City )

Six 2011 Board of Education candidate interviews from Talking
Politics
http://www.channel125.com/tp12.htm

JCBOE forum at Historic Paulus Hook Association April 7, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/user/followjcboe

Jersey City Independent

http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2011/04/19/meet-the-school-board-candidates-amanda-khan-and-suzanne-mack/

http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2011/04/18/meet-the-school-board-candidates-vidya-gangadin-and-carol-harrison-arnold/

http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2011/04/18/meet-the-school-board-candidates-vidya-gangadin-and-carol-harrison-arnold/

http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2011/04/21/meet-the-school-board-candidates-aury-masa-nunez-and-frances-o-thompson/

http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2011/04/22/meet-the-school-board-candidates-hiral-patel-and-nabil-youssef/

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/04/meet_the_hudson_county_school.html

All of the candidates are on Facebook


AND READ A FEW BOOKS on NEW JERSEY EDUCATION


Framing equal opportunity : law and the politics of school finance reform / Michael Paris.
KFN2190 .P375 2010

Other people's children : the battle for justice and equality in New Jersey's schools / Deborah Yaffe.
KFN2190 .Y34 2007

Church and school in the immigrant city : a social history of public education in Jersey City, 1804-1930/ Barbara Burns Petrick.
LA333.J4 .P48 2000

Putting the children first : the changing face of Newark's public schools / edited by Jonathan G. Silin, Carol Lippman ;foreword by Gloria Ladson-Billings.
LA333 .N4 P88 2003

The wasted years : American youth, race, and the literacy gap / James McCabe.
LC151 .M274 2003

In plain sight : simple, difficult lessons from New Jersey's expensive efforts to close the achievement gap / Gordon MacInnes.
LC213.22 .N5 M33 2009

School Board Elections in New Jersey

On April 20th, New Jersey voters will have an opportunity to vote for members of their school boards and the school budget in their districts.

You can vote by mail! Fill out the application. It has to be received by the Board of elections by tomorrow! http://www.hudsoncountyclerk.org/elections/default.htm


Locally, Jersey City voters will elect three new Board of Education members.

All Jersey City residents and taxpayers, parents and caregivers are welcome to learn about the issues and meet the candidates at two free Board of Education forums.

The candidates will present their platforms after which audience members will have an opportunity to ask questions directly to the candidates.

First Forum
Date: Tuesday April 13th, 2010
Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: PS16 Auditorium – 96 Sussex Street
Hosted by: The HPHA

Second Forum
Date: Thursday April 15th, 2010
Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: PS11 Auditorium – 886 Bergen Avenue
Hosted by: JCFBS and JC PTO Coalition


and you can check:
http://www.talkingpolitics.net/
for streaming videos of some of the Jersey City candidates

Results can be found here
http://njculibrary.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/2010-new-jersey-school-boardbudget-elections-results/

School Board Elections-April 21, 2009-VOTE!

Don't forget to vote in the School Board Elections held on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 in New Jersey!

Jersey City Residents can find information on candidates here:

The Powerhouse Arts District site
http://www.padnajc.org/
has questionnaire responses for the majority of candidates

School Board Panel Debate report
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wires/2009/04/10/school-board-candidates-i_ws_185608.html

Talking Politics- JC Board of Ed Candidates
Click on JC Board of Ed Candidates to watch video interviews with 4 of the 12 candidates
http://www.channel125.com/tp12.htm

Jersey City Independent
Interview with 3 of the 12 candidates
http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2009/04/10/meet-the-school-board-candidates-william-derosa-moshe-rozenblit-and-tom-wilen/

Coverage of panel
http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2009/04/10/school-board-candidates-introduce-themselves-at-community-forums/


Candidate websites:
Three of the candidates have a website with their biographies,mission and other information
http://www.jceen.org/