Discover flamenco by taking a FREE trial class at Flamenco Latino in midtown Manhattan!The first Monday of every month, first time students at Flamenco Latino (both adults AND children included) may take a flamenco class free of charge. For June 2010, the next free trial night for first time students is June 7th atFlamenco Latino Studio244 W 54th Street, 4th floor (bet. B-way and 8th Ave.)Adults:Monday 7:00-8:30 PM- Basic Beginner Flamenco w/ Aurora ReyesChildren:Monday 4:30-5:30 PM- Flamenco/Salsa w/ Aurora Reyes, Ages 5 and UpPlease wear comfortable clothes and shoes with a hard sole. For ladies, pumps are preferred.Call with questions and to reserve: 212-399-8519 flamlat@verizon.netwww.flamencolatino.com

Join the Gen I revolution and fight financial illiteracy. This workshop will help teachers supplement investor education for middle and high school students through the online gaming world of Learning, Earning, and Investing®. The online game is set in fictional world, not unlike ours, going through a similar financial and economic crisis. Players work with a team of characters to provide personal financial advice and financial power to the people. This workshop will show educators creative ways to implement this online game into any standard personal finance curriculum.

Closing the Achievement Gap Series 2009-2010Office of Curriculum, Standards and Academic EngagementDivision of Teaching & LearningNew York City Department of EducationClosing the Achievement Gap:Essential Steps for Preparing All Students to Go to CollegeA Conversation with Dr. Lorraine MonroeWednesday, June 9, 20105:00pm – 7:00pm (doors open 4:30 pm)The Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureThe Langston Hughes Auditorium515 Malcolm X Boulevard (at 135th Street), New York, NY 10037

Acquire the tools and principles to create learning projects that weave together math, science, art, language, social studies, and technology. See our website: www.salvadori.org

Come and explore why globalization has been important throughout U.S. history by using New York City as a backdrop for student learning. This workshop will help middle and high school educators supplement their existing history, economics, and other social studies lessons through the Council for Economic Educations publications Focus: Globalization and Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History. Participants will go on a walking tour of the Lower East Side to experience first hand the creative ways lessons can be enhanced by utilizing the living history surrounding their students in New York City and beyond.Presenters: Tawni Ferrarini, Director, Center for Economic Education, Northern Michigan UniversityAudience: Grades 6-12 recommendedParticipants receive: The Focus: Globalization and Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History publications, refreshments, creative lesson ideas, and networking with colleagues

Study urban structures in ways that make abstract math concepts accessible and enduring. See our website: www.salvadori.org

On June 10th, spend an evening with Behind the Book and two major talents: acclaimed authors David Goodwillie and Aryn Kyle.WHAT: The Behind the Book Reading SeriesWHEN: Thursday, June 10th, 7:00-9:00pm – FREE WHERE: KGB Bar, 85 East Fourth Street(btwn Second & Third Aves.; take the F/V to Second Ave. or the 6 to Astor Place)CONTACT: info@behindthebook.org or http://www.kgbbar.comWHO:David Goodwillie is the author of the novel American Subversive, which The New York Times calls “a hip and quick-paced literary thriller [about] what motivates radicalism” that “excels at jet-black social satire in a style reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis.” His debut book, the memoir Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, earned him a “Best New Writers of 2006″ honor from the literacy association, PEN American Center. David is a regular contributor to The Daily Beast, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and web sites, including New York, The New York Times, The New York Post, and The Rumpus. He has also played professional baseball, worked as a private investigator, and been an expert at Sotheby’s auction house. He lives in New York City.Aryn Kyle is the author of the newly published short story collection Boys and Girls Like You and Me. Her debut novel, The God of Animals, was an international bestseller and the winner of an American Library Association’s Alex Award, a PNBA Award, an MPIBA Award, and others. The God of Animals was named by Amazon as the Number One Fiction Debut of 2007, and was chosen as a Book Sense Pick and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers title. Aryn’s short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories 2007, Best New American Voices 2005, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Award and a National Magazine Award in fiction. She lives in New York City.MORE:Behind the Book is a literacy nonprofit working with low-income students in NYC public schools. Our mission is to excite children and young adults about reading. Working in the 1st -12th grades, we bring authors and their books into individual classrooms to build literacy skills and a new generation of book readers. www.behindthebook.org

A Romantic Sunset Dinner in the Wake of an Ever-Nearing FutureA Fundraiser and Dinner for School of the FutureJune 11th from 7 -10pm at Solar One (E. 23rd St. @ the East River)School of the Future an intergenerational free school that will open this July for one month in Brooklyn. Everything will seem insignificant next to the sunset by the river and will reverberate off of the FDR, including: Live music, djs, optimism, tamales, summer salads and sangria will be served while the sun sets along the East River in Stuyvesant Cove Park. SLIDING SCALE/ MAXIMUM ENJOYMENT:$0 Old school hip hop, folk songs, a sense of community, a marching band, and sunset on the river$5 All of the above plus sangria and a view$10 All of the above plus hot tamales, summer salads and a view$20 gets you all of that PLUS homemade ice cream and infinite gratitudeTo learn more about how to support and get involved in School of the Future please visit www.schoolofthefuture.org

There will be free sports clinics, health screenings and nutritional counseling well as games and prizes for the whole family.For more info about the event check out www.bodysculpt.org.Event Contact: www.bodyscuplt.org or (718) 346-5852

Interview in New Jersey & New York!Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit organization that starts and manages outstanding urban charter public schools that close the achievement gap and prepare low-income students to graduate from college. Uncommon builds uncommonly great schools by developing and managing regional networks that are philosophically aligned and highly accountable. Uncommon currently manages sixteen schools serving approximately 3,000 students in New York City, upstate New York, and Newark, New Jersey. Nine new schools will open within Uncommon in the fall of 2010. Uncommon will grow to include nearly 30 schools serving 8,000 students within five years and, ultimately, more than 30 schools, serving 11,000 K to 12th grade students. Uncommon has achieved outstanding academic results based on internal assessments, statewide exams, and graduation milestones. Its schools consistently outperform their district schools and are among the highest-performing urban schools in their cities and states.To learn more about Uncommon Schools, please visit www.uncommonschools.org. Are you an EXPERIENCED teacher interested in Brooklyn and New Jersey based schools? Uncommon is interviewing applicants for positions in• Special Education• Secondary Science• Elementary• Secondary ELAFor interviews in New Jersey from 6/13-6/14, send your resumes and position of interest to newjersey@uncommonschools.org.For interviews in New York at the end of June, send your resumes and position of interest to newyork@uncommonschools.org As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

The Center for New York City Affairs presents:Putting Principals to the Test:Transforming NYC Schools in the Age of Data-Driven AccountabilityThe Bloomberg administration has introduced a radical new system of school management, giving principals more freedom in exchange for the promise of better test scores and graduation rates. Crucial to this are new test-based accountability systems, which focus attention on struggling learners. But the traditional oversight by superintendents is gone. Does this strategy build better schools? What has been gained, lost and learned? And what does the future hold?At the forum, the Center for New York City Affairs will release a new report analyzing these influential and controversial reforms.Introductory remarks by Merryl Tisch, Chancellor, New York State Board of RegentsMs. Tisch will then join in a discussion with:John Garvey, Former Dean of the Teacher Academy and Collaborative Programs,City University of New YorkRamón González, Principal, MS 223, The Laboratory School of Finance and Technology, Bronx, NYShael Polakow-Suransky, Deputy Chancellor for Performance and Accountability,NYC Department of EducationJacqueline Wayans, member, Community Education Council, Bronx District 10Moderated by Clara Hemphill, Senior Editor, Center for New York City AffairsAdmission is free but you must reserve a seat by clicking on the registration button aboveor calling 212.229.5418.Light breakfast will be available beginning at 8 am.Supported by the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the New York Community Trust, the Sirus Fundand the Ira W. DeCamp Foundation

Don't miss the World Premiere of YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE as teen filmmakers turn the camera on their own lives and invite audiences to experience the world as they do – as a Kenyan teenager living in Africa's second largest slum, as a 15-year-old girl in India who needs to chose between supporting her family or getting an education or as a 14-year-old Afghan seeking asylum after his father was killed by the Taliban. Film program run time: 72 min. Discussion with filmmakers from Kenya, United Kingdom, Los Angeles, San Antonio and New York to follow. Adobe Youth Voices presents the World premiere of YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE, an innovative program of youth-produced short films from across the globe showcased with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Eleven films will be shown this year, selected from over 250 international submissions.2 SCREENINGS:Friday, June 18, 2010, 7pmFilm screening, and discussion with youth filmmakers. Reception to follow. Saturday, June 19, 2010, 1pmFilm screening, and discussion with youth filmmakers.All screenings at Film Society of Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theater: 165 West 65th Street, Upper Level (Between Broadway and Amsterdam) Special Offer: BUY ONE TICKET for $8~ GET ONE FREESelect the "YPC Special" online and receive a 2nd complimentary ticket at the Walter Reade Theater box office. This offer is subject to availability and only good for the YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE screenings in the HRWIFF10. For group tickets please email ypc@hrw.org

Don't miss the World Premiere of YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE as teen filmmakers turn the camera on their own lives and invite audiences to experience the world as they do. Discussion with filmmakers from Slovenia, Kenya, Los Angeles, San Antonio and New York to follow. Saturday, June 19, 2010, 1:00pmFilm screening, and discussion with youth filmmakers.Film Society of Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theater:165 West 65th Street, Upper Level (Between Broadway and Amsterdam) Special Offer: BUY ONE TICKET for $8~ GET ONE FREESelect the "YPC Special" online and receive a 2nd complimentary ticket at the Walter Reade Theater box office. This offer is subject to availability and only good for the YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE screenings in the HRWIFF10. For group tickets please email ypc@hrw.org

To welcome the Asian Heritage Month, we are very excited about the opportunity to introduce the divine performance of Shen Yun Performing Arts to your members. Click below links to see the performance review: http://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/multimedia. Please click our e_card to find out the tichets' details: http://njfalundafaassociation.cmail1.com/T/ViewEma il/r/50DDF50DCBAB3CD4. Shen Yun puts on an exhilarating and wholesome production that celebrates the splendor of classical Chinese culture through dance, music and songs. The performance draws inspiration from the legends, values, and spirit that defined China for centuries before its erosion under decades of communist rule. In this performance the audience will discover a lost artistic and cultural heritage. In its 2009 season, Shen Yun Performing Arts toured over 20 countries on 5 continents, bringing its message of beauty and hope to over 800,000 live audience members around the world. Its shows have been hailed by critics as “superb,” “resplendent,” “inspired,” and “wonderfully positive.” We are confident that Shen Yun will greatly enhance the membership experience for your organization.

Join us for flamenco, salsa, live music and song from our talented students! Featuring both adults and children studying at our home studio and also at our partner sites.Sunday, June 20, 20104:00pm - 6:00pmatFlamenco Latino Studio244 W 54th Street, 4th fl. (bet. B'way and 8 Ave.)NYCTickets: $10 Adults, $5 Children/Seniors.Includes light refreshments.For Info/Reservations: Call 212-399-8519 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting         � �    212-399-8519      end_of_the_skype_ highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting         � �    212-399-8519      end_of_the_skype_ highlighting or email flamlat@verizon.netCredit/Debit cards accepted.www.flamencolatino.com

Regal Short Pump Cinemas Free G & PG rated movies for Children & Tweens Stop by and say hello to Tutor Doctor.

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Selected G or PG movies start at 10:00am every Tuesday and Wednesday during the festival. Tickets and seating are first-come, first-served and are limited to theatre capacity.

The Family Reunion event is a free event for all NYC families. It is a day where families can participate in various sporting activities and arts and crafts events.The purpose of the event is to provide families the opportunity to do fun and engaging activities together.