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INSIGHTS Just In ... February 2010
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Site visits play important role in TFIM
District leadership team engaged community
Student leaders help raise awarness of dating violence
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Brownsville students at CMU CMU's CREATE Lab hosts site visit with TFIM team
 
A team of students from Brownsville Area High School got a hands-on opportunity to learn about Gigapan photography during a visit this month to Carnegie Mellon University's Community Robotics Education and Technology Empowerment (CREATE) Lab. Their visit was just one of many on-site experiences students from high schools in 25 districts receive each year as part of their participation in The Consortium for Public Education's career exploration and student leadership program, The Future Is Mine (TFIM). To read more about what they learned and what other TFIM teams are doing, click TFIM.
Steel Valley logoCommunity outreach bears fruit for district leadership team
 
Following a community meeting last month that brought together organizations from the three municipalities that send students to Steel Valley School District, educators there are finding opportunities to establish the kinds of ties that make schools richer learning environments. The meeting, which the district's leadership team organized, already has stimulated ideas for possible community service venues for students and connected an elementary principal with a tutoring program he thinks can help shape one at his school. To learn more about the meeting and why leadership teams that The Consortium for Public Education supports find them valuable, click Steel Valley.
South Allegheny's Expect Respect Team Expect Respect program's student leadership teams all joined effort to raise awareness of dating violence

Students participating in The Consortium for Public Education's Expect Respect program pulled out the stops in February to make peers at their schools aware of dating violence. The month has been set aside nationally to focus on the problem and help students recognize unhealthy behavior patterns and relationships that put them or their friends at risk. To find out some of the creative ways students helped raise awareness, click Expect Respect.
ASCD Annual Conference Get out and vote!

Students participating in Steel Valley High School's The Future Is Mine team and classmates from the school's Environmental Club have been selected as finalists to receive $15,000 in funding to pursue their Extreme Home Makeover as part of the Voices of Youth/Youth Creating Change competition launched by The Grable Foundation and The Pittsburgh Foundation. The Consortium for Public Education applauds their milestone and the leadership of their TFIM advisor, Ryan Dunmire. We encourage you to help them along the next leg of the race. Community-wide voting takes place until Friday, March 12th. To learn more about the project these students developed to create positive change in their community and to cast your vote for them, just click vote.