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Slow Dinner on March 28 // Local Foods to Celebrate Spring Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Elana Gulas is a CreateHere Fellow. With a great love for Slow Food, she brings us this update on an upcoming event.
It’s hard to sum it up in a short blog post, how great, all around the Slow Foods movement is. Started in 1986 in Italy, as a response to McDonalds wanting to open a fast-food restaurant near the Spanish Steps in Rome. The organization has since grown to more than 100,000 members. With the motto of “good, clean, and fair,” Slow Food focuses on the importance of preserving and promoting local food products.
One of the things that Slow Food is known for is their “Slow Dinners.” On March 28th at 2pm, folks that live in and around the Chattanooga region will have a chance to taste the various flavors from Williams Island Farm and other local growers. For more information and reservations for this this meal and future meals email Avery Patten at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
When: March 28th
What: Lamb & Goat Roast + Children’s Handmade Sweet
Where: Ashland Farm in Flinstone, 124 Patten Place, Flinstone, Georgia 30725
Cost: $8.00 adults, $3.00 childrenPosted by in Culture in Environment
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TEACH/Here: A Residency Program for Math & Science Teachers
Due to a major shortage of Math and Science teachers in Hamilton County, TEACH/Here, a highly selective teacher residency program, has been born.
Teacher residency is an exciting new concept in teacher recruitment, preparation, and support that provides an effective method of recruiting teachers for hard-to-fill positions and gives them a strong year of “on-the-job” training, similar to medical residency. With a focus on science and mathematics, the program will operate in Chattanooga and Knoxville public school districts in partnership with the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
TEACH/Here combines classroom-based apprenticeship and rigorous university training. Over the course of one year, participants will earn both a Master’s degree and a Tennessee Teaching Certificate. Residents will spend four days a week in the classroom with a mentor, and on Fridays, they will take courses, meet in seminars and reflect on the practical learning they are gaining. Once they graduate, they will then be placed in a full-time teaching position at a middle or high school in either the Chattanooga or Knoxville public school systems. In addition to earning their Master’s degree and teaching certificate in one year, they will also receive a competitive stipend and health insurance. This is an affordable and innovative route into teaching!
TEACH/Here is designed for those persons who want to become exemplary teachers of science or mathematics, serving middle and high school students in priority schools within one of two public school districts that are on the cutting edge of reform in Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee. We seek applicants who have demonstrated excellence in professional and/or academic endeavors and are eager for culturally diverse challenges. Applicants may be recent college graduates, career changers or young professionals. Please visit our website at http://teachhere.org or follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/teachhere to read more.
If you are interested in learning more, please join us this Friday at 8:00 AM at Joe Friday’s (825 Houston Street) in the upstairs room. Cheri Dedmon, Director of TEACH/Here, will be available to share more information about the program and answer questions. -
World Town 2.0: March 12 featuring New York’s DJ Sabo Tuesday, March 09, 2010
This Friday, March 12 marks the second installment of WorldTown, a musical exchange project organized by Phillip Allen (aka DJ k7), a 2009 MakeWork grant recipient. The event features the Latin Carnival sounds of New York-based Will ‘Sabo’ Sabatini.
The event will begin at 7:00 pm at Camp House (1427 Williams Street) with a brief lecture and discussion over Sabo’s DJ career, which has taken him from Brazil to France and all across the United States. Following the discussion will be a Q&A session and a chance to mingle with the guest DJ.
The party begins at 9:00 pm with a back to back set from K7 and the multi-talented sculptor Isaac Duncan, aka DJ Flux. What’s more, there will be live Latin drumming and percussion from Nashville-based Ivan Garcia. Immediately following, Sabo will take Chattanooga on a journey through new Latin/Caribbean sounds, rocking the house with his signature “funky music to make you feel good” style.
Admission is $10, and the event is 21+. French Broad brewery in Asheville, NC will provide beer for $4 a cup. For the non-drinkers, there will be a selection of fine teas on deck.
RSVP here to let Allen know you’re attending. This event will be streamed on Ustream, starting at 7:00 pm.
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Stand & Deliver: Education // Thank You! Wednesday, March 03, 2010
After one full month of competing in Pepsi’s Refresh Project, CreateHere is pleased to announce that although Stand & Deliver didn’t get funded, the project stayed in the top 25 all the while, thanks to local support. We couldn’t be more pleased to announce that the project will continue as promised, with citizen summits still expected in October, 2010.
Stand & Deliver starts with the production and distribution of ground-setting documents—infographics, best practices, Chattanooga Stand data, and local interviews. These research pieces will be widely available in several formats, and will play a major role in engaging 1000+ people in two 24-hour citizen summits. During these summits, citizens will pitch potential projects, produce asset maps, connect with diverse skills sets, and act on the needs, and strengths, of local education.
Stand & Deliver competed for $50k to revitalize education for the Chattanooga region. Slated against proposals from some of the country’s leading advocacy groups, non-profits and businesses, the project sustained momentum during an aggressive month-long vetting process.
Even before March 1, the day winners were announced, we realized: there’d be no check in the mail. But we were happy to recognize something more important had happened over the course of the month.
For us, it began with a City Share luncheon on February 3, featuring David Boehnke of Minneapolis’s Experimental College, starting a conversation on citizen-owned education. Shortly after, delegates from around the world came to Chattanooga to problem-solve, and we tested out some of our methods for facilitating group innovation. We saw it outside of our doors, too: people with great ideas, interested in launching them into the community. The Half Campaign, which encourages regular volunteerism in community schools, was just one of many.
Chattanoogans came out to support education as a community, be it private, public, parochial, religious, higher, or life-long. You showed us just how much you care, and we heard you loud and clear. Stand & Deliver is for Chattanoogans, by Chattanoogans, and now more than ever, owned by Chattanoogans.CreateHere is committed to facilitating a change process that improves education locally, and to consulting, supporting, and bolstering existing organizations making huge strides in this area. Stay tuned for details on what that process looks like, and how locals can get involved.
