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I hope that your upcoming conferences, either tomorrow or Monday, are fruitful. If you are on the verge of having your first student-led conference, this is the beginning of a period of great growth and confidence building for your child. Enjoy!
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As per usual, as we approach Thanksgiving various segments of the community are engaged in projects to support organizations that feed the hungry and homeless.
- The second graders have embarked on their annual canned food drive. This drive supports the good work of the Saint John’s Food Pantry, an organization with which LREI has had a relationship for many a year. The canned food drive also represents a significant piece of the second grade math program. The canned food drive also represents a significant piece of the second grade math program which was featured as the cover article in the latest issue of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics journal Teaching Children Mathematics, written by our math specialist Debra Rawlins and second grade teachers Tasha Hernandez and Bill Miller. Well done! Second graders will be collecting cans until 11/21, in boxes located in the Sixth Avenue lobby and throughout the building. Please no rust, dents, nor expiration dates later than 12/18.
- The Parents Association Community Service Committee is collecting donations of food to be made into 32 Thanksgiving baskets to support the work of Project Renewal and The New York Common Pantry. From November 5 through November 15 we will be collecting these nonperishable items to contribute toward local families in need for the holiday. A collection box is in the Sixth Ave. lobby.
- The High School Student Government is collecting donated cans at Charlton Street which will also support the work of Project Renewal and The New York Common Pantry. High school students can bring cans directly to the Charlton Street building.
This week’s push page comes with an ask — an ask born from the deep gratitude that we hold for you as partners in learning. Whether helping to support classroom projects, sharing life expertise and experience, or inviting students into your places of work for visits or internships, these connections enrich the learning experience at LREI.
We believe that at its core, learning is about connections. These connections are to be discovered, nurtured and extended. They exist both in the world of ideas and between the people engaged in this most important work. As a community, we understand the value of stewardship and the cultivation of progress grounded in shared values. We know that no one person can bear the full burden of this work. So we “share the well.”
The Wellspring is an invitation to bring the expertise, passion and inspiration that flows through our community into the design of learning experience for LREI students. It is one way that we seek to better align the living that takes place in school with the living that takes place in the spaces beyond the schoolhouse. It is an invitation to help narrow that distance as we endeavor to “take students out of the classroom and into the world — and bring the world into the classroom.” By sharing the well, we create the conditions for creativity, collaboration and consequence.
To that end, we invite all community members to contribute to this “well” so that teachers can more easily “invite you in” and create “journeys out” to learn with and from you. It is worth stating clearly that we believe that all members of the community have something important to contribute to the learning at LREI. This expertise may draw on both formal and informal preparation and is grounded in a deep respect for the dignity of labor that calls on many to work with their hands as well as with their heads. It draws on the wisdom that comes from experience, and the intersections of our many identities that reach into our past and present.
With gratitude for all that you do each day for the community, we hope that you will join the effort to “add to the well.”