The Research Alliance for New York City Schools is hosting a colloquium on middle schools on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at New York University. The impetus for the colloquium is to help inform Chancellor Walcott's new middle school initiative, which he proposed in his policy address at NYU last fall. The colloquium will convene a diverse group of stakeholders, including researchers, funders, policymakers, practitioners and advocates to identify what we know, and what we need to know, about various aspects of improving middle schools. Panel sessions during the colloquium will focus on some of the key issues in middle grades education, including: How do you create an effective learning environment that fosters positive behaviors and academic routines in the middle grades? What are the contexts that support effective teaching in the middle grades? What does effective leadership in the middle grades look like? What are the challenges and opportunities in the middle grades curriculum? We hope you will join us at NYU's Kimmel Center for this timely and important conversation. Space for this event is limited.

For American students to succeed in science, we must reverse the trend that has cut science learning time. Join us for an event to explore how schools and their community partners are increasing student proficiency and interest in science by expanding and improving science learning. Speakers include Policy Analyst Kumar Garg of the White House Office on Science and Technology Policy and Ron Ottinger of the Noyce Foundation. Attendees are invited to visit the museum's Creatures of Light exhibit. Event is free but pre-registration is required.

All Schools: Free Educator Event About Online Portal for Museum’s History CollectionsDeadline: April 3, 2012 Event: April 4, 2012 Contact: EY Zipris at ezipris@mcny.org or 917-492-3356Educators are invited to the launch of the online collections portal of the Museum of the City of New York. Participants will receive a tour of the Museum’s newly renovated research facilities, see key pieces from the collection, and learn how to research the over 100,000 images and documents available online.Participants will receive a 10% discount when booking a History Lab School Program, which allow K-8th grade classrooms to visit the Museum to see collections on a range of urban history topics and create group projects to reflect on the content that they learned.

Math Encounters is a public presentation series celebrating the spectacular world of mathematics and presented by the Simons Foundation and the Museum of Mathematics.Experience the elegance and wonder of the world of mathematical proofs as Dr. Gunter M. Ziegler, winner of a 2001 Leibniz Prize, recipient of the 2008 Communicator Award, and organizer of Germany's 2008 Year of Mathematics, shares some old and new pieces from his collection.Dr. Günter M. Ziegler - Proofs from THE BOOK: Putting Pieces Together | Math Encountershttps://in.momath.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&i d=38

The Expo is a wonderful opportunity for parents, teachers, and principals to meet representatives from over 60 education organizations, find resources for your students, and bring new and innovative programs to your schools.

Registration Meetings for our 2012 Youth Financial Education Institute are now available. Eligible children are ages 7 - 18.Empower a child's life and legacy. Allow your children...... or children that you know..... to have a sound financial education.Please spread the word to your network, your child's school's Parent Coordinator and Guidance Counselor....or to the parent of a child that you know.Your Next Step? For complete details and enrollment locations and information, please click the link to attend Registration Meeting. Your 2012 Registration begins with a CLICK below...Now!!http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?l lr=zj6g7qbab&oeidk=a07...

Are you ever frustrated by the behavior of your students or your own children? Ever frustrated by your reaction to their behavior? Feel like you don’t want to yell but don’t know what else to do? Wish you could spend more time on content and less on classroom management?The Compassionate Classroom (and Living Room) workshop will give you tools and techniques to keep your students engaged through cooperation rather than control. You will learn to communicate in a way that shows compassion and respect for all children, and use powerful strategies to create an environment of mutual trust.Our goal is to provide all children with a sense of internal discipline, and offer teachers and parents alternatives to punishment methods that engage children rather then ostracize them. Avoid unnecessary conflict and power struggles with your students and you’ll be amazed at how much time you can dedicate to learning.Visit www.littlefloweryoga.com for more informationADVANCED REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED

"The Happiness Circle" is an eight-week coaching group to offer Social & Emotional Support for 'Tween Girls. Themes of learned optimism, resilience, motivation, communication, and respect will be explored together to strengthen positive self-esteem and school engagement: http://www.cliftoncorner.com/clifton/the-happiness -circle.html

It is our great pleasure to present the 9th Annual Young Child Expo & Conference 2012 - a joint project of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education and Los Niños Services. Our goal is simple – to provide useful information to professionals and parents in order to help all young children learn, grow and reach their full potential. Our conference brings over 1000 people together across all kinds of programs, disciplines, and interest areas from speech pathologists to parents, to those working in children’s museums, day care centers, preschools, and those working with children who have autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or other special needs. In one unique event, this conference integrates learning about typically developing children as well as those with special needs, including autism.

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. Lighting up the stage with state-of-art backdrops and masterful choreography, audiences will see graceful dancers in gorgeous costumes, experience the thundering battle drums of ancient warriors, all accompanied by a live orchestra that combines the best of Chinese and Western musical traditions.Please see the web site for videos and tickets information: http://sypi.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/2465A040 AA50BA9E. Regards,Larry an

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. Lighting up the stage with state-of-art backdrops and masterful choreography, audiences will see graceful dancers in gorgeous costumes, experience the thundering battle drums of ancient warriors, all accompanied by a live orchestra that combines the best of Chinese and Western musical traditions.Please see the web site for videos and tickets information: http://sypi.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/2465A040 AA50BA9E. Regards,Larry an

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. Lighting up the stage with state-of-art backdrops and masterful choreography, audiences will see graceful dancers in gorgeous costumes, experience the thundering battle drums of ancient warriors, all accompanied by a live orchestra that combines the best of Chinese and Western musical traditions.Please see the web site for videos and tickets information: http://sypi.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/2465A040 AA50BA9E. Regards,Larry an

My Time Inc Presents:1st Annual Autism FairDate April 21stPlace: Holy family Auditorium9719 Flatlands AveBrooklyn NY 11236Time: 10AM-1PM

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. Lighting up the stage with state-of-art backdrops and masterful choreography, audiences will see graceful dancers in gorgeous costumes, experience the thundering battle drums of ancient warriors, all accompanied by a live orchestra that combines the best of Chinese and Western musical traditions.Please see the web site for videos and tickets information: http://sypi.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/2465A040 AA50BA9E. Regards,Larry an

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. Lighting up the stage with state-of-art backdrops and masterful choreography, audiences will see graceful dancers in gorgeous costumes, experience the thundering battle drums of ancient warriors, all accompanied by a live orchestra that combines the best of Chinese and Western musical traditions.Please see the web site for videos and tickets information: http://sypi.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/2465A040 AA50BA9E. Regards,New Tang Dynasty Television

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. Lighting up the stage with state-of-art backdrops and masterful choreography, audiences will see graceful dancers in gorgeous costumes, experience the thundering battle drums of ancient warriors, all accompanied by a live orchestra that combines the best of Chinese and Western musical traditions.Please see the web site for videos and tickets information: http://sypi.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/2465A040 AA50BA9E. Regards,New Tang Dynasty Television

NYU Wagner's Dean Ellen Schall, Professor Mitchell Mossand members of the esteemed Rice Familycordially invite you to the2012 Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum featuringJohn White, EMPA '11Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Monday, April 23, 20125:30pm - Reception6:00pm - DialogueJohn White is the Louisiana State Superintendent of Education. From May 2011 through December 2011 he served as Superintendent of the Recovery School District, the state-run school district charged with transforming failing schools in Louisiana. Prior to that he served for four years on the senior management team at the New York City Department of Education, where he was most recently Deputy Chancellor for Talent, Labor, and Innovation. He began his career in education as an English teacher in Jersey City, New Jersey and later worked as Executive Director for Teach For America Chicago and Teach For America New Jersey, where he also served on the organization's national Strategy Committee. White holds a BA in English from the University of Virginia, and earned an Executive MPA from NYU Wagner.

You are cordially invited to attend April’s Closing the Achievement Gap Series entitled SUPPORTING YOUNG MEN OF COLOR IN THEIR PURSUIT FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: Fulfilling President Obama’s 2020 Goal for College Achievement. National speaker and Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali will be the keynote speaker, with more dynamics speakers to be added.Opening Remarks by Dr. Dorita Gibson – NYC Deputy Chancellor for Equity and Access.Keynote Speaker: US Department of Education Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights - Russlynn AliMs. Ali was appointed assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education by President Barack Obama on March 18, 2009, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 1, 2009. As assistant secretary, Ali is U.S. Secretary of Education Duncan's primary adviser on civil rights and is responsible for enforcing U.S. civil rights laws as they pertain to education—ensuring the nation's schools, colleges and universities receiving federal funding do not engage in discriminatory conduct related to race, sex, disability or age.

In 2003, under the leadership of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chancellor of Schools Joel Klein, New York City (NYC) implemented the Children First initiative—a sweeping wave of educational reform that has been one of the most complex and far-reaching urban reform efforts in the country. In 2009, several foundations came together to organize the New York City Education Reform Retrospective to document this reform effort and to identify lessons for consideration by local and national stakeholders. The Retrospective project brought together an exemplary group of researchers to review key reform areas associated with the initiative, including, among others, the DOE’s approach to managing and governing schools, reforming high school education, creating instructional change, and implementing new teacher and principal recruitment and retention policies. In this illustrated presentation, Dr. Jennifer O’Day will discuss the concept and approach to the New York and similar urban education reviews and highlight key findings of the retrospective. She will be joined by several other authors, including Sean Corcoran, Jeffrey Henig, James Kemple, Leslie Santee Siskin, and Leanna Stiefel. For more information, visit the website: http://www.nycretrospective.org/

Join Dr. Adrian Sannier, SVP of Learning Technologies at Pearson, as he explores the challenges facing American education. For more than two decades technology has been "on the verge" of transforming education, yet from pre-K through higher education, for the most part school has remained unchanged. Is it possible that the force that has continually improved nearly every other facet of modern life will ultimately have no fundamental impact on education? Or are we finally at the brink of real change?Can't make it? Sign up at http://generalassemb.ly to stay in the loop of future events and classes.

Join Tribeca Film Institute to watch THE REVISIONARIES, a documentary film chronicling a Texas Board of Education debate about the theory of evolution and a re-write of US History in text books used country wide. Using the film as a guide, teachers will examine their own experience in the classroom and design innovative ways to approach curriculum mapping, the drafting of lesson plans and engaging students and their community, while remaining in line with standards and testing expectations.

Appetizers, beverages and libations will be served.Since being elected in 2006, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, a product of the New York City public schools, has been a staunch advocate for the City’s students and parents. Committed to the belief that New York’s future depends on the strength of its schools, the Borough President has fought to save teacher jobs and to have new schools constructed. Toward this end, he has convened “War Room” meetings over the years with parents, Department of Education and other elected officials, to create new Manhattan schools including P.S. 151 and P.S. 452. In 2011, he established a task force with parents and other elected officials to reform Community and Citywide Education Councils, and to ensure that parents have more meaningful engagement opportunities in their children’s education and the school system at-large. He continuously draws attention to the City’s failure to address its growing student population, and has lead the fight to change the current, flawed system used to project the number of children entering our City's school system. To support his positions, Borough President Stringer has issued over forty policy reports designed addressing many of Manhattan’s most important challenges and issues, including: introducing comprehensive reform and empowerment measures to Manhattan’s Community Boards; leading the fight to maintain and create new affordable housing units and schools across the borough; and empowering parents. Prior to his election to Borough President, he served for thirteen years and six terms in the State Assembly, from 1992 until 2005. Borough President Stringer resides on Manhattan's Upper West Side with his wife, Elyse Buxbaum, and son, Maxwell.

TEDxNYED is an all-day conference focusing on empowering innovation in education. TEDxNYED is independently organized by New York educators. At TEDxNYED, live speakers and TED Talk videos combine to spark deep discussion and connections. TEDxNYED presenters are invited to share their insights and inspire conversations about the future of education. Attendees of the conference participate via networking sessions where they educate one another and, in the spirit of TED, help spread these ideas.

The science conference is from 8 am to 3 pm. Registration begins at 7:30 am.There are three workshops, an exhibition area, and a guest speaker who is also presenting two workshops.The keynote speaker, Michael A. DiSpezio will be lecturing on Brain Sense: Learning About the Brain Through Puzzles, Illusions and Hands-on Activities.For more information check out the website at:http://www.sconyc-ny.org/WebPages/AnnualConference /Overview12.pdfCost: $35 for teachers$20 for college students

Does your kid have Olympic dreams? Fulfill them at the Youth Jamboree at Icahn Stadium! Kids of all ages can run, throw, jump, and enjoy friendly competition.Bring your Usain Bolt wannabe to the world-famous Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island, an Olympic-quality facility where the renowned sprinter set a world record in the 100 meters in 2008. At this exciting outdoor event, kids can run races ranging from 100 to 800 meters, plus team-building relays and exciting field events, like the shot put and the long jump.Events for younger kids (grades K-5) will be held from 9:00am-1:00pm. Events for older kids (grades 6-12) will be held from 1:45pm-4:00pm. A 55-meter dash for pre-K children will be held at 1:30pm. Event-day registration opens at Icahn Stadium at 7:45am.

Ramapo supports teachers to be effective classroom and behavior managers. Many administrators have asked us, “How can we sustain a professional learning community that practices the strategies Ramapo teaches?” Now we are offering a workshop to give you the strategies with which to support your teachers in creating a positive climate in their classrooms.At the conclusion of this workshop, school administrators will be able to understand and demonstrate the essential skills for supporting teachers in:-Being positive leaders-Building healthy teacher-students relationships-Structuring diffcult situations-Coaching social skills acquisition-Intervening actively and assertively when necessary, without escalation