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Desert Empires: Wonders to Behold

Bucket lists form early. When I was, maybe, 10, flipping through books in my grandfather’s house I came across a photograph of the Great Mosque at Djenné in Mali, West Africa, and thought, this is the strangest, most wonderful, most outer-space building I’ve ever seen. Beige-color and turreted, it was as soft-edged as a sand castle, but huge, dwarfing people in street. I wanted to go there.

I eventually did — stood, rapt, gazing at the Great Mosque’s walls in sunlight and moonlight. And on a visit last week to the exhibition “Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I felt a little like I was there again, but now with other extraterrestrial sights to take in, including sculptures as sublime as the mosque itself.

Sahel derives from the Arabic word for shore or coast. It was the name given by traders crossing the oceanic Sahara centuries ago to the welcoming grasslands that marked the desert’s southern rim, terrain that now includes modern Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal. On the evidence of art from the Sahel, the culture that travelers encountered must have looked like a rich but bewildering hybrid. The art still does, which may be one reason it stands, in the West, somewhat outside an accepted “African” canon.

The West has always viewed Africa narrowly, categorically, as a way of exerting control. So African art means carved-wood or metal sculpture in stand-alone “tribal” styles that never change. Or it means riffs on forms borrowed from somewhere else — Renaissance Europe, say, or the greater Islamic world. One way or the other, African art is a thing. You can recognize it instantly, and put it by itself in a case with a label.

The Met show demonstrates otherwise. One look around tells you that the story here is variety within variety, difference talking to difference. New ideas spring from local soil and arrive from afar. Ethnicities and ideologies both collide and embrace. Cultural influences get swapped, dropped, and recouped in a multitrack sequencing that is the very definition of history.

To assert that the art of Africa has a history, or histories, is very much the show’s goal. And if the history of art from the Sahel is difficult to map that’s because so much has disappeared. Nature and ideologically driven destruction have seen to that. Much has been displaced by amateur digging and looting. Untold amounts of material still lie hidden in the ground.

Given all that, the 200 hundred objects gathered at the Met are, simply by being here, a wonder to behold. And the show’s organizers — Alisa LaGamma, curator in charge of the department of arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas; associate curator Yaëlle Biro; and research associate Hakimah Abdul-Fattah — have skillfully shaped that wonder into a linear narrative.

It’s introduced by two sculptures that are among the oldest on view and feel monumental in very different ways. A seven-foot-tall megalith, dating from the 8th- 9th century A.D. is by far the show’s largest work. But with its russet surface and plump V shape it has a hunkering delicacy. The second sculpture is much older — pre-2000 B.C. — small: pebble-size. But with a few lightly incised tweaks a resourceful artist has conjured an icon of procreative female power.

What the intended meaning or ritual use of these objects actually was, we don’t know. But they provide a baseline of antiquity for the curators to build a history on. And so they do, plotting it almost diagrammatically, by dates and themes, in two rows of mini-galleries with a wide path between. And they line the path with a kind of honor guard of a dozen equestrian sculptures in terra-cotta, metal and wood.

The cavalcade is a beautiful idea. The images, produced over a wide time span, from the 3rd and 19th centuries, by cultures in present-day Mali and Niger, are widely varied in media, style and probably function, but lined up together they suggest a kind of symbolic solidarity, an affirmation of the integrity and complexity, past and present, of something called the Sahel.

A major invasive event during that time span was the coming of Islam, which hit the Sahel shores in the 7th century, and stayed, and spread. Because Islam introduced literacy, it had pervasive and subversive impact. But, maybe in an effort to correct an old view that Islam was responsible for Sahel culture’s vitality, neither it nor any other outside trans-Saharan force is given a center stage in the show.

(A traveling exhibition called “Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa,” organized by the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, addresses these interactions. The show is at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto through Feb. 23, and moves on to the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.)

The focus instead is on indigenous art that either predated the widespread adoption of Islam in the Sahel, or remained relatively untouched by it.

Textile fragments from the Bandiagara region of central Mali, which are some of the oldest to survive in Africa, fit into this description. So does the extravagantly filigreed disk known as the “Rao Pectoral,” a Senegalese national treasure that is also a glowing advertisement for the genius of African goldsmithing.

But it is sculpture, and specifically some 20 terra-cotta and wood Middle Niger figures, that forms the visual and emotional heart of the show. At least one of these pieces is world-famous: a half-reclining terra-cotta figure, androgynous, headless, superbly detailed, and found by the archaeologists at the site of Djenné-Djeno, an ancient city in what is now Mali that was mysteriously abandoned around 1400 A.D.

Whatever the crisis — political? or economic? environmental? — that led to the city’s demise seems to have affected that entire region. And it was preceded by an almost convulsive surge of artistic creativity that generated some of the moving sculptures ever made, including those seen here.

In one, a figure of ambiguous gender presses its head to the earth as if in grief or prayer. In another, a woman folds her arms across her bare chest in a gesture of devotion or self-protection. In a third, a tall, curving wood-carved figure with hermaphroditic features has the en pointe grace of a Chartres saint. Some forms are nearly abstract; worshipers with tuning-fork bodies reach up beseechingly toward the sky. And some exhibit a kind of pathological realism, as in the case of a terra-cotta figure whose body sprouts tumor-like knobs. (Like most ritual clay figures of the time, this one was probably made by a woman.)

The exhibition concludes with still more Sahel sculpture, a magnificent ensemble of large-scale figures carved from wood by the Bamana people of Mali in the 18th through 20th centuries. Together they represent a type of “African art” we’ve been accustomed thinking of as typical, or “classical.” Yet by the time you’ve arrived at this end point in the show you’ve learned that, in the culture of the Sahel, there is no “typical,” no one style, no one “Africa,” and that’s an invaluable lesson.

And, these days, the Met’s gorgeous show is the place to learn it. Vast areas of the Sahel, specifically Mali, are politically turbulent, and difficult, if not impossible, to access. (Recent United States government travel advisories have declared northern and central part of the country, which includes Djenné, a no-go zone for tourists. “Do not travel to Mali due to crime, terrorism, and kidnapping,” is how they put it.) It won’t be that way forever. I can’t wait to go back. It’s still on my must-see list. I’ll never take it off.

Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara

Through May 10 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan; 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org.

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National Math Festival Celebrates Math, Culture and Community

MIND was honored to take part in the 2019 National Math Festival on May 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. This free, public event brings together mathematicians, educators, organizations and families to inspire and challenge all ages to see math in new and unexpected ways. The National Math festival takes place every two years and involves the collaboration of many organizations and individuals.

What Goes into a Math Festival?

Organized by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), and National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath), the math festival is a large project with a lot of moving parts! Other major contributors include Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival, Natural Math and Math On-A-Stick, The Bridges Organization, and The Young People’s Project (YPP) in addition to MIND Research Institute.

This year’s National Math Festival started with a special preview day on May 3rd, where schools were invited to bring their PreK-8 students. Groups of up to 150 students rotated between each major activity presenter and their activities.

Mathematicians were assigned to each group to explore and play alongside students, getting to know students and sharing the human side of mathematics.

MIND Research Institute shared our MathMINDs Games: South of the Sahara, a suite of storybook board games that combine math, literacy and history in a highly connected experience. Through each story, you learn and play games as you explore real events from the game's country of origin.

Students playing Gulugufe, a game from Mozambique.

Families Connect with Math

On May 4, the festival was open to the public and families of all sizes and from near and far explored the exhibits. The festival provided a variety of activities for families with kids of all ages and abilities to experience math in different ways.

Family reading the Gulugufe storybook to learn to play.

At the MIND area, families were invited to pull up a chair, open a storybook and read together.

Not all families are accustomed to doing math together; but many families read together. Starting with the story allows families who may have negative connotations with math a way to engage without fear. Through the story, families learned how to play the game. In five to ten minutes, they were making decisions, thinking logically and thinking multiple steps ahead.

Family plays Gulugufe, which means “butterfly.”

Explore Math Though Games

Why are games so engaging at events like this?

Games offer a unique opportunity to play and explore mathematical concepts. They help students develop creative problem solving skills.

In Achi, for example, players must take turns placing and then sliding their pieces on the board so that three of them add to 15. Students are solving missing addend problems with up to three addends, but there’s no worksheet or written word problems. Students understand and manipulate the problem using the game pieces, and the board and the other players provide informative feedback!

Lots of games @NatMathFestival! MathMINDs Games @MIND_Research and Santorini @gamesbygord! #boardgames #math #2019NMF pic.twitter.com/awnMr1RkTz

— Calli Wright (@CalliWrights) May 3, 2019

Cultural Connections

In addition to the cultural connections to various places in Africa through the storybooks, we partnered with other local organizations to build an even more connected experience. The International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) shared art from children in Ghana and invited students to engage in an art activity: what does your favorite math concept look like?

Patterning activity from the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art shared replicas of the gold weights, which inspired the Achi story! They also shared patterns of textiles from Ghana, allowing students to explore and build beautiful patterns.

It was so powerful and heartwarming to see entire families engaged together connecting math to the world around us. I am so grateful to ICAF and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art for helping to make the human and cultural connections in South of the Sahara even stronger. We are very grateful to the National Math Festival for providing a venue that shows math is from everywhere, in everything and for everyone.

-Brandon Smith, MIND Research Institute

Thank you to everyone who helped create and enjoyed the festival; it takes many people and organizations to build these connected experiences.

Interested in learning more about MathMINDs Games?

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Friends of American University of Afghanistan Annual Benefit Dinner

Prominent Philanthropist and Humanitarian Lady Jamileh Kharrazi Whose Recent Efforts Focused on Women’s Education in Afghanistan is Attending the 2017 Annual Friends of the American University of Afghanistan (FAUAF) Benefit Dinner in Washington, DC. Washington, DC [June 15, 2017] – Lady Jamileh Kharrazi, Founder and Director of the Toos Foundation, an organization working to transform the lives of millions of children in developing countries by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education — will be attending the 2017 Benefit Dinner in support of the American University of Afghanistan honoring His Excellency Yousef Al Otaiba, United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the United States The Unites States Army General David H. Petraeus The Honorable Niki Tsongas, Representing the 3rd Congressional District of Massachusetts The Honorable Susan Davis, Representing California’s 53rd Congressional District. In a career spanning over five decades, Lady Kharrazi’s philanthropic initiatives in developing countries have focused on improving the lives and well being of children, helping to alleviate the issues of hunger and extreme poverty while increasing access to education. “We Believe that World Change Starts with Educated Children, we envision a world in which all women and children can pursue a quality education that enables them to reach their full potential and contribute to their nations and the world.” Lady Jamileh Kharrazi will be available for interview throughout the week in Washington DC, for more information please contact Leyla at 917-456-7007. Education will prevail American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) is a central pillar of the educational community in the embattled country and lies in Kabul, the capital. It enrolls more than 1,700 full and part time students. The new government of Afghanistan has come to increasingly rely on the power of education to capture the hearts and minds of its citizens. March 2017, The American University of Afghanistan reopened its doors following the 2016 terrorist attack that left 13 students dead last August. In April 2017, AUAF announced the appointment of the new President Dr. Ken Holland, a respected academic whose help implemented grants at Afghan universities to aid with their growth and worked to improve higher education in the war-torn nations. He was received in a school that centers its mission on academic excellence and gender parity. Notably, AUAF has increased the number of women attending the campus. The incoming class is composed of 44 percent women and they have produced 29 Fulbright scholars. What: Lady Jamil Kharrazi Available to Discuss her upcoming initiatives in Afghanistan, Jordan, and Uganda When: Available for Interview June 14-17, 2017 Where: Washington DC

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A QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE

3RD QUARTER 2018 PROGRESS REPORT

Congratulations to the more than 2,000 members of the SJUSD Class of 2018, as well as their parents, families, mentors, teachers and others who supported the students and helped to make their proud walks across the stage possible!

A very heartfelt thank you also to the 3,000 employees who teach and support our kids; transport & feed them; offer counseling, keep their schools & grounds clean, well maintained and safe; and run this giant operation smoothly and efficiently.

Along with improved outcomes for Latino male students and promoting our school district's strengths to the community, improved Special Education Services has been one of the three areas of emphasis for the board this year. After a long and careful search, Seth Reddy recently was hired as the district's new Director of Special Education (SPED). This hiring signals the district and board's renewed commitment to highly effective, empathetic and efficient delivery of SPED services. In his previous role as an administrator for strategic projects, Mr Reddy had spent much of the past year reviewing and assessing the district's SPED policies and practices, talking with parents, educators and service providers, and creating strategies that will lead to greater success for our students and higher satisfaction for our families. Please join me in welcoming Seth to his new, vital role in our district.

Board of Education meetings now feature an enhanced focus on student achievement through receiving reports on how schools are meeting benchmarks for K-3 literacy, 8th grade math and high school honors courses. We are working to promote an environment in which school principals feel supported in their work and comfortable bringing forth challenges, as well as successes, so that solutions can be collectively identified. We welcome the opportunity to engage with our schools and gain a deeper understanding of the unique issues each individual school must address. This effort will also allow board members to make more informed and effective decisions that will drive greater student success.

District staff is currently developing a spending plan for Measure Y funds in the 2018-2019 school year, in close coordination with our school site staffs and employee bargaining units. Click here to review a preliminary draft of the plan, which has been presented to the Board of Education and the district's Budget Advisory Committee during public meetings. A final spending plan will be submitted for the board's approval at our meeting on June 28, 2018.

Finally, in my continued commitment to engagement and transparency, what follows is my assessment of the developments in the 5 areas that defined my "Quest for Excellence" in my 2014 campaign for this office.

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Community is everything! I was proud to be on hand at the grand opening of a new Farmers' Market in the parking lot of Lincoln High School and pleased that I was able to play a small role in facilitating a partnership between the school district, Shasta Hanchett Park Neighborhood Association (SHPNA), West Coast Farmers Market Association largely under the dominant leadership and persistence of community activist Alex Shoor. Our public school facilities should be used to the greatest extent possible during non school hours and should benefit our communities. Can't think of a better use than one that allows folks to gather on a weekly basis, enjoy healthy foods and support local vendors. Join us Saturdays from 10am - 2pm.

Members of our CSEA bargaining unit (the wonderful clerical workers, secretaries and other staff members who make sure our schools run smoothly every day, greet our families and ensure that everyone feels supported at school) raise funds every year to provide scholarships to students of their members. This year the recipients are both seniors at Leland High School (San Jose, California). A special thank you, Jacquelyn Dreher and Sharon Calhoun, for your lovely presentations! The generosity of CSEA and enthusiastic support for your members' children is inspiring.

Local Kiwanis clubs distributed dozens of $1,000 "Turnaround scholarships" to high school seniors who have overcome significant challenges and are now poised to begin college in the Fall. Students from several San José Unified School District high schools were recognized, including some from Lincoln and the Lincoln Plus Program! All students briefly (and bravely) shared their stories of perseverance as they took the stage to be recognized for their tremendous accomplishments. Listening to their stories was emotional and humbling and I marveled at every one of them for achieving significant goals in the face of tremendous obstacles.

SCHOOL LINKED SERVICES

A significant contributing factor to the opportunity gap is the divide between children who have had at least 1 year of preschool prior to kindergarten and those for whom kindergarten is their first formal educational environment. Through legislation passed last fall, the Individualized County Childcare Subsidy Plan now allows counties to determine their own eligibility criteria instead of relying on state criteria. The new county-specific threshold takes into account the exceedingly high cost of living in our region and provides more families with early education. San José Unified is one of ten public school districts participating in a pilot program to expand access to preschool for low income families. I'm proud of the work our district is doing not only to close the opportunity gap but to prevent it from ever taking hold in the first place. Find more information and eligibility criteria here.

Our Coordinated School Health Collaborative has approximately 320,000 dollars from LEA funds, that we can award for use on special projects within our district. Our funding priorities for the next year include additional: education and resources for district staff on student health and mental health, mental health counselors, and behavior support for our students.Approximately 75% of our funds will be used on our top funding priorities, and the remainder of our funds can be used on any project within our district. Past grants that have been awarded include: $209,000 for additional mental health counselors, $67,000 for Family advocacy programs through the Bill Wilson Center and $5,000 for Recess 101 programs at Olinder Elementary and Almaden Elementary Schools.

CHARTER AND NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL COLLABORATION

On March 15, our board approved the renewal of Downtown College Prep's El Camino middle school. DCP is working to improve outcomes for their students and support their efforts as they move from middle to high school and then onto college.

In compliance with a court order, district staff is working to present a facilities proposal to Promise Charter School. Promise's charter was approved at the state level with the significant revision that it operate as a K-8 rather than a K-12 school. The high school program was not approved. Staff will work with Promise, as it does with every charter operator, to identify a facility that conforms to the law and meets the same quality standards as any of our own 41 schools. When a lease is signed, I will share that information on my Facebook page.

As a trustee, I am committed to ensuring that students who live in our district boundaries have high quality options for public education. This is one of the reasons our district is, in fact, a "district of choice" and parents may request to send their children to schools other than their own neighborhood schools when they desire particular options that aren't available at their "home schools" - for example (a non-exhaustive list of examples):

Horace Mann, Peter Burnett and San Jose High School offer the globally prestigious International Baccalaureate program

Hacienda offers an Environmental Science specialty program

Hammer Montessori offers a unique developmental program

RIver Glen offers a 2 way bilingual program for every student in grades K-8 (plus 10 school offer 2 way bilingual program strands for students who choose that option)

Trace, Hoover and Lincoln offer a nationally recognized visual and performing arts strand

Gunderson High School has a strong visual & applied arts program

Leland High School offers a nationally recognized and award winning speech and debate program

Pioneer High School exposes students to service learning through a strong sophomore year program

A number of high schools offer mock trial programs

9 of our elementary schools offer an ALA (academic language acquisition) program for native Spanish speakers

12 of our elementary schools house preschool programs for eligible students

San Jose High School offers Project Lead the Way, a four-year program designed to prepare students for engineering and design careers through a hands-on project and problem-based approach, adding rigor to traditional technical programs and relevance to traditional academics

All of our high schools partner with Strive San Jose, which provides year round job shadow and summer paid internship opportunities

Broadway High School offers a program with high quality child care for students who are also parents

Liberty High School offers flexible learning schedules for students for whom the typical comprehensive high school schedule isn't an option

STUDENT SAFETY

Homelessness is one of the most urgent crises in our community. In our district alone, more than 200 students report being homeless or unstably housed (which includes living in cars, sleeping on friends' couches and sharing apartment units with multiple families). I am deeply appreciative of the strong partnership between the Bill Wilson Center and San José Unified School District. In the past school year, BWC helped to house 70 students and their ongoing dedication to supporting our students and their families is invaluable. Students can't thrive or even think about academic success if they don't know where they will do homework, eat or sleep that evening. I will continue to strengthen our partnership and advocate for affordable housing solutions for our community.

Check out SJUSDs dedicated Immigration Services page

See here for important Teen Dating Violence resources

Kids of all ages are swiping and scrolling, totally transfixed by screens of all sizes. Welcome to the new frontier of parenting. If you have questions on how to take control of, or at least keep up with, the technology in your kids' lives, check out Common Sense Media.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Our 41 schools celebrated the best of the best at the SJUSD Employees of the Year Ceremony and Reception in May. Congratulations to the employees and teachers of the year from Trustee Area 2 schools:

Lincoln High School Rashada Melendez, teacher; Moramay Cortez, Instructional Aide

Burnett Middle School Jelani Canser, Teacher; Kari Barton, School Secretary

Hoover Middle School Mark Hartung, Teacher; Steffany Carrabino, School Secretary

Bachrodt Elementary School Nydia Arauz, Teacher; George Valenzuela, Custodian

Grant Elementary School Elizabeth Rotolo, Teacher; Gina Romeo, Clerical Office Assistant

Horace Mann Elementary School Clare Maeda, Instructional Coach; Hortencia Martin, School Secretary

Trace Elementary School Amber Stagi, Teacher; Reina Baca De Silva, Campus Supervisor

I was happy to attend a dinner celebration for our classified employees at the Old Spaghetti Factory. It was an awesome opportunity to recognize and show appreciation to the many, many folks who keep our schools running every day!

We are always hiring! Contact our Human Resources Department and job portal here.

BEYOND THE BOARDROOM

Many of my personal efforts serve to inform my role as a trustee, build relationships, and think strategically about how best to improve outcomes for all SJUSD students. I am actively participating in a number of projects related to education policy and social justice:

As many of you know, I declared my candidacy for Santa Clara County Supervisor in 2017. I am very pleased to share that I was the top vote getter in the June 5, 2018 primary, thus securing a spot in the top two finishers who will move on to the general election this November. It is the poignancy of the economic divide in our community which led me to seek the Supervisor seat. I see so many kids in our district who are struggling, not because of academic challenges, teacher quality or even class size, but because they are unstably housed, inadequately nourished, have not received consistent health care services, did not have access to high quality early childhood education programs and more. While SJUSD places an extraordinary amount of time and resources in partnership with organizations that do address these challenges, we are at the heart an educational system and can't fully address the roots of these socio-economic challenges. Those levers are at the County level and, should I be successful in November, I will continue to focus at that level on the needs of struggling children and families. When we invest in those populations, outcomes are better for everyone: we see safer neighborhoods, a better educated workforce and a more stable economy.

My move to the general election does mean that I will conclude my time as a school board member when my term concludes in December, 2018. It has been an absolute privilege to have a hand in this important work for four years and I do believe that we are stronger than we were in 2014: our graduation rates are higher, more students are meeting key performance measures, programs have expanded, we've secured additional funding, improved communication, built new partnerships, and our district has become a model to school districts throughout the state in several areas, including our progressive maternity/family leave policy, our teacher evaluation system, our implementation of the LCAP. We are actively lobbying at the state level for increased funding and greater equity. We are exploring options for teacher housing. There is so much more work to do, but we've accomplished a great deal in the past four years and I look forward to supporting whatever new trustee is installed next winter.

If you are interested in learning more about my campaign for County Supervisor, please visit my website www.susanellenberg.com or follow my campaign on facebook.

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Chantal says: <blockquote>We are “selling” copies of this book at all our shops. Our former shop manager Sara Scodeller illustrated it and Rococo is featured in it. We’re giving 100% of the proceeds to the non-profit Grenada Community Library for every copy sold. What started as a charity fundraiser for the community library in Grenada unexpectedly gained several awards in Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2017. We can be very proud of Sara’s input and the work that the community library are doing.</blockquote> <a href='http://ift.tt/2tgjln1'><img width="495" height="371" src="http://ift.tt/2ue7cfu" class="attachment-big-size size-big-size" alt="" srcset="http://ift.tt/2ue7cfu 495w, http://ift.tt/2tgx8ty 256w" sizes="(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px" data-attachment-id="15341" data-permalink="http://ift.tt/2tgjln1" data-orig-file="http://ift.tt/2ue7cfu" data-orig-size="495,371" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot SX520 HS","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1495754585","copyright":"","focal_length":"9.322","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.005","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="img_5959" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://ift.tt/2ue7cfu" data-large-file="http://ift.tt/2ue7cfu" /></a> <a href='http://ift.tt/2udRj8V'><img width="1050" height="700" src="http://ift.tt/2tgf96D" class="attachment-big-size size-big-size" alt="" srcset="http://ift.tt/2tgf96D 1050w, http://ift.tt/2udL0Ca 600w, http://ift.tt/2tgcR7H 296w" sizes="(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px" data-attachment-id="15342" data-permalink="http://ift.tt/2udRj8V" data-orig-file="http://ift.tt/2ue2L4e" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 6 Plus","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1495283190","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.15","iso":"64","shutter_speed":"0.058823529411765","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="carissa-cadissa-kiskadee-and-tyler-gcl-young-writers-1" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://ift.tt/2tgoQBS" data-large-file="http://ift.tt/2udGWlp" /></a> <a href='http://ift.tt/2tg4LvG'><img width="300" height="206" src="http://ift.tt/2udUehE" class="attachment-big-size size-big-size" alt="" srcset="http://ift.tt/2udUehE 300w, http://ift.tt/2tgthNm 256w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-attachment-id="15340" data-permalink="http://ift.tt/2tg4LvG" data-orig-file="http://ift.tt/2udUehE" data-orig-size="300,206" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot SX200 IS","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1375059648","copyright":"","focal_length":"14.689","iso":"160","shutter_speed":"0.0025","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="img_8834" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://ift.tt/2udUehE" data-large-file="http://ift.tt/2udUehE" /></a> <a href='http://ift.tt/2udXBVX'><img width="300" height="300" src="http://ift.tt/2tgo9ZF" class="attachment-big-size size-big-size" alt="" srcset="http://ift.tt/2tgo9ZF 300w, http://ift.tt/2udKggd 256w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-attachment-id="15338" data-permalink="http://ift.tt/2udXBVX" data-orig-file="http://ift.tt/2tgo9ZF" data-orig-size="300,300" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="choco-book-cover" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://ift.tt/2tgo9ZF" data-large-file="http://ift.tt/2tgo9ZF" /></a> On May 27th the Grenada Community Library’s first publication, The Grenada Chocolate Family, was awarded BEST IN THE WORLD in the Charity and Fundraising category at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Yantai, China. Additionally, on May 28th, The Grenada Chocolate Family also won “Best in the World” (3rd place) in two more categories – Caribbean Cookbook World Cuisine, and Chocolate (tied with Paul A. Young’s UK publication, Sensational Chocolate). The Grenada Chocolate Family is the only book among the 97 finalists that won in three separate categories. On top of these great honors, the <a href="http://ift.tt/2tgjkzt">Grenada Community Library</a> was selected as the fundraising cause of the Awards by Gourmand and Altos Tequila of Mexico, who raised 4,200.00 Yuan (US$600) at their bar on the final afternoon; this was announced this at the end of the Awards ceremony.The Grenada Community Library with Edouard Cointreau, who was very supportive of the publication. Representing Grenada amongst 211 competing countries (the Olympics have 205 countries), the book had already won four Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for the Caribbean and Grenada: Best Caribbean Cuisine Book, Best Children’s Food Book, Best Chocolate Book and Charity & Fund Raising, and had been nominated in an unprecedented four categories in Gourmand’s “Best in the World” Awards.The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards is considered the “Oscars” of cookbook awards, inspired by the spirit of the Olympic Games. Its President, Mr. Edouard Cointreau, personally invited the Grenada Community Library to enter The Grenada Chocolate Family into the international cookbook competition, calling the book “very special,” and his passion for libraries and diverse publications and goodwill seems to champion this book and cause. The Grenada Chocolate Family, produced in collaboration with the Grenada Chocolate Fest, is edited by the library’s co-founder Oonya Kempadoo and Richardo Keens-Douglas and illustrated by Sara Scoddler in consultation with Grenadian artist, Stacey Byer.The Grenada Chocolate Family, a children’s colouring story book, was written in the Grenada Community Library’s creative writing program, in a group-writing workshop with over 15 children, ages (6-12), facilitated by Oonya Kempadoo, developing a narrative using discussions on the process of chocolate making, local knowledge and uses of cocoa – in collaboration with the Grenada Chocolate Festival. It is the first children’s book written by children of colour in a cocoa-growing country about chocolate making, and shows how children’s contributions to literature and educational material matters and how their voices can influence an industry and increase fair trade.Putting Grenada on the map. The non-profit Grenada Community Library serves a community that is economically challenged by very high levels of unemployment, youth poverty and disenfranchisement, and low levels of functional literacy. All of the Library’s services, which along with the creative writing program include a children’s and general collection, adult literacy classes, numeracy and creativity programs, remain free of charge. It opened its doors in 2013 through the efforts of acclaimed Caribbean and internationally-published author Oonya Kempadoo, a faith-based organization, Mt. Zion Full Gospel Revival, and a social-action collective Groundation Grenada, all of whom recognized the urgent need for a public library with the sentiment “Can you imagine a nation without a public library?” The Grenada National Public Library was closed in 2011, since it was damaged by a catastrophic hurricane. The Library keeps its doors open through the support of the Grenadian community, both local and in the diaspora, combined with international supporters, through generous financial and book donations and the dedication of its volunteers. The Library is grateful to corporate and non-profit Partners for Literacy, Friends of the Library, and many wonderful volunteers.The Grenada Chocolate Family, written by the children of the Grenada Community Library.All proceeds from the sale of The Grenada Chocolate Family support the continued operation of the library as a free public service. 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Chantal says:

We are “selling” copies of this book at all our shops. Our former shop manager Sara Scodeller illustrated it and Rococo is featured in it. We’re giving 100% of the proceeds to the non-profit Grenada Community Library for every copy sold.

What started as a charity fundraiser for the community library in Grenada unexpectedly gained several awards in Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2017.

We can be very proud of Sara’s input and the work that the community library are doing.

On May 27th the Grenada Community Library’s first publication, The Grenada Chocolate Family, was awarded BEST IN THE WORLD in the Charity and Fundraising category at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Yantai, China. Additionally, on May 28th, The Grenada Chocolate Family also won “Best in the World” (3rd place) in two more categories – Caribbean Cookbook World Cuisine, and Chocolate (tied with Paul A. Young’s UK publication, Sensational Chocolate). The Grenada Chocolate Family is the only book among the 97 finalists that won in three separate categories.

On top of these great honors, the Grenada Community Library was selected as the fundraising cause of the Awards by Gourmand and Altos Tequila of Mexico, who raised 4,200.00 Yuan (US$600) at their bar on the final afternoon; this was announced this at the end of the Awards ceremony.The Grenada Community Library with Edouard Cointreau, who was very supportive of the publication.

Representing Grenada amongst 211 competing countries (the Olympics have 205 countries), the book had already won four Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for the Caribbean and Grenada: Best Caribbean Cuisine Book, Best Children’s Food Book, Best Chocolate Book and Charity & Fund Raising, and had been nominated in an unprecedented four categories in Gourmand’s “Best in the World” Awards.The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards is considered the “Oscars” of cookbook awards, inspired by the spirit of the Olympic Games. Its President, Mr. Edouard Cointreau, personally invited the Grenada Community Library to enter The Grenada Chocolate Family into the international cookbook competition, calling the book “very special,” and his passion for libraries and diverse publications and goodwill seems to champion this book and cause.

The Grenada Chocolate Family, produced in collaboration with the Grenada Chocolate Fest, is edited by the library’s co-founder Oonya Kempadoo and Richardo Keens-Douglas and illustrated by Sara Scoddler in consultation with Grenadian artist, Stacey Byer.The Grenada Chocolate Family, a children’s colouring story book, was written in the Grenada Community Library’s creative writing program, in a group-writing workshop with over 15 children, ages (6-12), facilitated by Oonya Kempadoo, developing a narrative using discussions on the process of chocolate making, local knowledge and uses of cocoa – in collaboration with the Grenada Chocolate Festival. It is the first children’s book written by children of colour in a cocoa-growing country about chocolate making, and shows how children’s contributions to literature and educational material matters and how their voices can influence an industry and increase fair trade.Putting Grenada on the map.

The non-profit Grenada Community Library serves a community that is economically challenged by very high levels of unemployment, youth poverty and disenfranchisement, and low levels of functional literacy. All of the Library’s services, which along with the creative writing program include a children’s and general collection, adult literacy classes, numeracy and creativity programs, remain free of charge. It opened its doors in 2013 through the efforts of acclaimed Caribbean and internationally-published author Oonya Kempadoo, a faith-based organization, Mt. Zion Full Gospel Revival, and a social-action collective Groundation Grenada, all of whom recognized the urgent need for a public library with the sentiment “Can you imagine a nation without a public library?” The Grenada National Public Library was closed in 2011, since it was damaged by a catastrophic hurricane.

The Library keeps its doors open through the support of the Grenadian community, both local and in the diaspora, combined with international supporters, through generous financial and book donations and the dedication of its volunteers. The Library is grateful to corporate and non-profit Partners for Literacy, Friends of the Library, and many wonderful volunteers.The Grenada Chocolate Family, written by the children of the Grenada Community Library.All proceeds from the sale of The Grenada Chocolate Family support the continued operation of the library as a free public service.

Source: “The Grenada Chocolate Family” Wins Best in the World Prize – Petchary’s Blog

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The Best of Brownie featuring the Atlanta Speech School (VIDEO)

In celebration of Brownieland’s 10-year anniversary, we are featuring the #Best of Brownie series where we look back through the years spotlighting a client and their mission.

This month, in honor of National Get Caught Reading Month, we are featuring “The Promise,” a video Brownieland Pictures produced in partnership with the Atlanta Speech School. This video, shown at a White House conference on education, presents children asking the viewer to make a promise that will forever shape their lives.

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The mission of the Atlanta Speech School’s Rollins Center for Language & Literacy is to fulfill the 2020 Promise that by the year 2020, every early childhood educator in Georgia will have the skills to effectively prepare each of our children to meet or exceed grade level reading requirements by the end of 3rd grade. The Rollins Center for Language & Literacy currently provides free online courses on their Read Right from the Start Cox Campus to empower and support all who guide and work with children to adopt language and literacy practices that build the foundation children need to be great readers and pursue their own destinies.

We caught up with Kate Fleetwood, Birth to 3rd Grade Facilitator for the Atlanta Speech School, to discuss how the video, “The Promise,” has made an impact on the organization.

Tell us a little bit about the project Brownieland produced a few years ago.

The project was called "The Promise". It was a video that featured Pre-K children talking to teachers about how critical talking with them is, every day. The children ask the teachers to make a promise that they will talk with them to help them become who they are meant to be.

How did you feel video could best capture the message you were trying to convey in the project?

Only 1/3 of our nation's children read proficiently by the end of 3rd grade. We have to work together to change that and it all starts in early childhood. This video conveys how important it is that we engage children as our conversational partners so that we can build the foundation children need to become great readers and pursue their own destinies.

How was the video used and/or what did you hope the impact would be?

“The Promise” video is the first video our teachers watch when they begin training on Cox Campus. We want people to understand from the beginning what our work is all about. When you engage in this work with us, you make a promise to engage each and every child as your conversational partner and give them the language and literacy skills they need to decide their future. This video delivers that message in a honest and empowering way.

Was there something in particular that stood out to you about Brownieland and working with a company solely focused on nonprofits?

We have been working with Brownieland for more than 6 years now. There is a reason for that. Brownieland truly partners with us and believes our mission just as much as we do. They know they play a key role in helping us reach our 2020 goal and do everything possible to help us achieve it. They work with us to bring our vision to life and always exceed our expectations.

What are you up to now?

We continue to work with the amazing folks at Brownieland. Currently we are wrapping up our last infant and toddler course and then will be working on our K-3 Cox Campus content.

Additional thoughts or comments:

We love Brownieland! :)

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7th Annual Hip-Hop Literacies Conference feat. Toni Blackman, Mahogany Browne, Dr. Todd Craig, E the EMCEE, Dr. Chris Emdin, DJ Lynneé Denise, Dr. Treva Lindsey, Dr. Emery Petchauer, Dr. Elaine Richardson & Leo Yankton Organized by Drs. Crystal Endsley, Elaine Richardson, and Carmen Kynard Hosted by John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York March 31st-April 1st, 2017 The Graduate Center | 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 Admission: $10 Get the conference schedule and registration information at: http://www.hiphopliteracies.com/#sthash.845Q5vIW.dpuf For more information, email [email protected] or call 212.817.2076

This year's Hiphop literacies conference compels us to ask: What is Hip-Hop's ongoing (re)vision and (re)valuing of Black life and culture in the Third Post-Reconstruction? How do Brown and Black peoples who are threatened by Trump's walls get ready to respond to and resist through Hiphop culture? How does Hiphop stand with Standing Rock and stand against colonization set in motion centuries ago? What are the hetero-patriarchal scripts that Hip-Hoppas will now rewrite? How will we sustain, maintain, and thrive as a legacy of our cultural survival? The purpose of the Hiphop Literacies conference is to bring together scholars, educators, activists, students, artists, and community members to dialogue on pressing social problems. This year our working conference theme is Hiphop Justice (Hiphop in the 3rd Reconstruction). Participants of the Hiphop Literacies Conference join a community of those concerned with African American/Black, Brown and urban literacies who are interested in challenging the sociopolitical arrangement of the relations between institutions, languages, identities, and power through engagement with local narratives of inequality and lived experience in order to critique a global system of oppression. Literacies scholars who foreground the lives of Hiphop generation youth see Hiphop as providing a framework to ground work in classrooms and communities in democratic ideals.

Toni Blackman is an international champion of hip-hop culture, known for the irresistible, contagious energy of her performances and for her alluring female presence. She's all heart, all rhythm, all song, all power, a one-woman revolution of poetry and microphone. An award-winning artist, her steadfast work and commitment to hip-hop led the U.S. Department of State to select her to work as the first ever hip-hop artist to work as an American Cultural Specialist. She recently toured Southeast Asia with Jazz at Lincoln Center's Musical Ambassador program and has shared the stage with the likes of Erykah Badu, Mos Def, The Roots, Wu Tang Clan, GURU, Bahamadia, Boot Camp Clic, Me'Shell NdegeoCello, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Jill Sobule and even Rickie Lee Jones. Her first book, Inner-Course was released in 2003 (Villard/Random House).

Mahogany Browne The Cave Canem, Poets House & Serenbe Focus alum, is the author of several books including Redbone (nominated for NAACP Outstanding Literary Works), Dear Twitter: Love Letters Hashed Out On-line, recommended by Small Press Distribution & About.com Best Poetry Books of 2010. Mahogany bridges the gap between lyrical poets and literary emcee. Browne has toured Germany, Amsterdam, England, Canada and recently Australia as 1/3 of the cultural arts exchange project Global Poetics. Her journalism work has been published in magazines Uptown, KING, XXL, The Source, Canada's The Word and UK's MOBO. Her poetry has been published in literary journals Pluck, Manhattanville Review, Muzzle, Union Station Mag, Literary Bohemian, Bestiary, Joint & The Feminist Wire.

Dr. Todd Craig As a product of Ravenswood and Queensbridge Houses in Queens, New York, Dr. Todd Craig is a writer, educator and DJ whose career goal involves meshing his love of writing, teaching and music. Craig straddles the genres of fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry, with texts that paint a vivid depiction of the urban lifestyle he experienced in his community, and listened to in hip-hop music. However, his formal academic training allows him to express the hope and infinite possibilities people of color have in their daily lives. Craig completed his doctorate in English at St. John's University where he was selected as the Hooding Ceremony Student Keynote Speaker and awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. Craig's research interests include composition/ rhetoric, hip-hop pedagogy, African-American literature, multimodality in the Composition classroom and creative writing pedagogy and poetics.

E the EMCEE will represent Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S. at the Hiphop Literacies 2017 conference. Science Genius BA.T.T.L.E.S. is an initiative that is focused on utilizing the power of hip-hop music and culture to introduce youth to the wonder and beauty of science. The core message of the initiative is to meet urban youth who are traditionally disengaged in science classrooms on their cultural turf, and provide them with the opportunity to express the same passion they have for hip-hop culture for science. Concurrently, the project aims to display the interests of science enthusiasts who have a passion for hip-hop, and introduce both hip-hop and science to a wider audience. Together, Chris Emdin and Rap Genius sponsor Science Genius. For more information, click here. Dr. Chris Emdin is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education. The creator of the #HipHopEd social media movement and Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S., author of the award-winning book Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation and the New York Times Best Seller, For White Folks Who Teach In The Hood and the Rest of Ya'll Too. Emdin was named the 2015 Multicultural Educator of the Year by the National Association of Multicultural Educators and has been honored as a STEM Access Champion of Change by the White House under President Obama. In addition to teaching, he served as a Minorities in Energy Ambassador for the US Department of Energy. DJ Lynneé Denise For the past decade, DJ Lynneé Denise has worked as an artist who incorporates self-directed project based research into interactive workshops, music events and public lectures that offer participants the opportunity to develop an intimate relationship with under-explored topics related to the cultural history of marginalized communities. She creates multi dimensional and multi sensory experiences that require audiences to apply critical thinking to how the arts can hold viable solutions to social inequality. Her work is informed and inspired by underground cultural movements, the 1980s, migration studies, theories of escape, and electronic music of the African Diaspora. She's the product of the Historically Black Fisk University with a MA from the historically radical San Francisco State University Ethnic Studies department. Dr. Treva Lindsey is an Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Her research and teaching interests include African American women's history, black popular and expressive culture, black feminism(s), hip hop studies, critical race and gender theory, and sexual politics. Her first book is Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington D.C. She has published in The Journal of Pan-African Studies, Souls, African and Black Diaspora, Transnationalism, Urban Education, The Black Scholar, Feminist Studies, Signs, and the edited collection, Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance Beyond Harlem. She is the inaugural Equity for Women and Girls of Color Fellow at Harvard University (2016-2017). She is also the recipient of several awards and fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Andrew W. Mellon. Dr. Emery Petchauer is Associate Professor of English and Teacher Education at Michigan State University where he also coordinates the English Education program. His research has focused on the aesthetic practices of urban arts, particularly hip-hop culture, and their connections to teaching, learning, and living. He is the author of Hip-Hop Culture in College Students' Lives (Routledge, 2012), the first scholarly study of hip-hop culture on college campuses, and the co-editor of Schooling Hip-Hop: Expanding Hip-Hop Based Education Across the Curriculum (Teachers College Press, 2013). Nearly two decades of organizing and sustaining urban arts spaces across the United States inform this scholarly work. Dr. Petchauer also studies high-stakes teacher licensure exams and their relationship to the racial diversity of the teaching profession. Dr. Elaine Richardson Cleveland, Ohio native, Dr. Elaine Richardson is currently Professor of Literacy Studies at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, where she teaches in the Department of Teaching and Learning. Her books include African American Literacies, (2003, Routledge) and Hiphop Literacies (2006 Routledge). Her urban education memoir, PHD (Po H# on Dope) to PhD: How Education Saved My Life, (2013, New City Community Press) chronicles her life from drugs and the streetlife to the award-winning scholar and university professor, art activist: Richardson has also co-edited two volumes on African American rhetorical theory, Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations (2003, Routledge) and African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2004, Southern Illinois University Press). She was Fulbright lecturing/researcher in the department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Leo Yankton from the Lakota Nation. We want to keep the momentum rolling forward from previous conference themes where we have examined the intersections of Hiphop, critical education/literacies, the current BlackLivesMatter movement, activism-artistry, social stratification, globalization, popular culture and technology.

Dr. Todd Craig, E the EMCEE, Dr. Chris Emdin, DJ Lynneé Denise, Dr. Treva Lindsey, Dr. Emery Petchauer, Dr. Elaine Richardson & Leo Yankton Organized by Drs. Crystal Endsley, Elaine Richardson, and Carmen Kynard

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Desert Empires: Wonders to Behold

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