<div class="gmail_quote"><br><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">Spread the word!<div><br>--- On <b>Fri, 8/3/12, Santiago Rincon Gallardo <i><<a href="mailto:rinconsa@gmail.com" target="_blank">rinconsa@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px"><br>From: Santiago Rincon Gallardo <<a href="mailto:rinconsa@gmail.com" target="_blank">rinconsa@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: *Call for community organizers - Apply by August 10th! - Spread the word!<br>
To: <br>Date: Friday, August 3, 2012, 10:57 AM<br><br><div><div>Dear friends,</div><div><br>The Institute for Democratic Education in America (IDEA) is looking for community organizers to catalyze change, reframe the narrative, and grow a movement to reclaim and reinvent public education in the US. Please find our call for organizers attached and our most recent newsletter below. Help us spread the word to your networks and consider joining us as an
organizer!<br>
</div><div>Warmly,</div><div>-- <br><div>Santiago Rincon-Gallardo</div><div>Ed.D candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education</div><div>Board President, Institute for Democratic Education in America</div><div>Secretary/Treasurer, AERA Educational Change Special Interest Group</div>
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Join the 2012-2013 IDEA Organizing Team!</h2>
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If you’re ready for a different story to be told about education -- a story about education that is by, for, and with young people, educators, families, and communities -- then we’d love for you to apply to be an IDEA Organizer.<br>
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Community organizing is a time-tested model that we believe can be well utilized, along with digital organizing, to generate a powerful catalytic effect in the lives of folks most directly experiencing challenges and wanting change. For the past two years, we’ve been privileged to work with organizers who are teachers, students, parents, digital changemakers, and community leaders.<br>
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This year, we’ve designed a new structure for the organizing teams. Seven teams will focus on specific groups in education (such as young people and schools), and three additional teams will focus on digital organizing, planning IDEC 2013, and advancing work in specific regions where IDEA has a presence.<br>
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We asked <a rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" href="http://democraticeducation.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=76ab7f1806398c95db421ccdc&id=764e8b221a&e=c70b466f44" target="_blank">2011-2012 IDEA Organizers</a> what worked well this year, and here are a few of their responses:<br>
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<i>“Having the opportunity to connect with folks from different places and struggle through what it means to develop relationships with really different perspectives. To be part of trying to build something new and holding relationships in new ways.”<br>
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“I appreciated having a group with a common value set working across differences.”<br>
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“I feel activism can be isolating and it was great to connect with the group. It can difficult going, and it was renewing to have a network of ready-made folks that have your back.”<br>
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“I really enjoyed our time together at IDEA Camp. It was good to get to know other folks doing work on the ground. I enjoyed the diversity of the group, to have it include teachers, principals, digital folks, community organizers -- a strong team.”</i><br>
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Please share our call for organizers widely, and consider applying yourself!</p>
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Correction to Previous Newsletter</h2>
In our previous e-newsletter’s story about IDEA members, we shared that staff from Nuestra Escuela had attended a workshop at the Opal School in Portland, and we mistakenly referred to the “Portland Children’s Museum Wonder of Learning exhibit.” The exhibit is from Reggio Emilia, Italy, and is currently hosted by the Portland Children’s Museum. We regret the error, and we thank Susan McKay, the Museum’s Director of the Center for Children's Learning, for the correction.<br>
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Apply to Be an IDEA Intern!</h4>
We seek applicants who want experience working with educational research, consulting, community organizing, social media, communications, development and/or non-profit administration. Interns may apply on an ongoing basis, but applications received by August 15 will receive first consideration for fall of 2012. <a rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" href="http://democraticeducation.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=76ab7f1806398c95db421ccdc&id=f9c50dd344&e=c70b466f44" target="_blank">Download the intern description here</a>.<br>
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What's on Our Radar</h4>
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<a rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" href="http://democraticeducation.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=76ab7f1806398c95db421ccdc&id=b72e9c0380&e=c70b466f44" target="_blank">The Depth of a Simple Solution</a>, Daily Kos<br>
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<a rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" href="http://democraticeducation.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=76ab7f1806398c95db421ccdc&id=4c3863dcce&e=c70b466f44" target="_blank">Should States Be Sued for Providing Low-Quality Schools?</a>, Huffington Post<br>
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<a rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" href="http://democraticeducation.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=76ab7f1806398c95db421ccdc&id=1d32cfa61a&e=c70b466f44" target="_blank">Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century</a>, National Academies Press<br>
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From the Eduvation Library</h4>
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<a rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" href="http://democraticeducation.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=76ab7f1806398c95db421ccdc&id=4cc6fc0450&e=c70b466f44" target="_blank">Zero Tuition College</a>, a strategy and an online community for giving yourself an affordable, effective, and adventurous education without college<br>
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<a rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" href="http://democraticeducation.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=76ab7f1806398c95db421ccdc&id=3b1a82cca7&e=c70b466f44" target="_blank">Spark Action</a>, an online journalism and advocacy center by and for the child and youth field<br>
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