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INSIGHTS Just In ... April 2010
In This Issue
Half-price passes for Kennywood Park
TFIM hosts 10th annual Student Leadership Conference
Leadership Design Team pulls communities together
Middle-High plans pilot
Consortium contest



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ASCD Annual Conference
Deep discounts on Kennywood passes
 
Thanks to a generous donation from the Charitable Fund Committee of Kennywood, The Consortium for Public Education is offering a limited number of deeply discounted day passes to the amusement park. Details for purchasing the tickets can be found by clicking  Kennywood.

Dollar Bank site visit

Conference gives TFIM students  a glimpse into the  world of work

 

Teams attending the 10th annual Student Leadership Conference hosted by The Consortium for Public Education's career exploration program, The Future Is Mine (TFIM), looked at the world of work through the eyes of employees at 14 different Pittsburgh companies and organizations. For a full story on what they saw, click TFIM.

Leadership Design Team helps unite municipalities behind Trinity Area School District

 

Despite a large geographic footprint that spans multiple municipalities, Trinity Area School District's Leadership Design Team has found creative ways to help residents feel they're all part of one school system with the same goals for all of their communities' children. To learn how, click Leadership Design.

Middle-High Forum discusses plans for pilot
 
The Consortium for Public Education will tap national models to develop a "gold standard" for individual learning plans and hopes to pilot these customized strategies for supporting students among some of the districts participating in its Middle-High Forum. To read more about the pilot and about the latest Middle-High Forum meeting, click Middle-High.

Enter our contest! We'll give you a penny for your thoughts...

 

We need your thoughts. In October, The Consortium for Public Education will kick off its 25th year working to ensure that all of our region's children start school ready to learn and go to schools that are ready to help them succeed.

 

These years have been a joy for us and so many of you have accompanied us on this remarkable journey. As we put together our report to the communities we serve, we'd like to share some tributes to the work we've done together. But we'd like to share these thoughts in your words, not ours. That's why we need to hear them from you.

 

We don't want this request to be too time consuming. In fact, we'd like this to be fun so we're turning it into a contest. We're offering the proverbial penny for your thoughts in the form of $25 Barnes & Noble gift cards for everyone whose answers are featured in our report.

 

To put your answer in the running, just tell us in 200 words or less (OK, more if you think that's too restrictive) how The Consortium's work has benefited you, your schools, your students or your community. Please email your answers by Tuesday, June 15 to our Communications Director, Pamela Gaynor, at pgaynor@tcfpe.org.