Education & Support
How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance (book) & consult
- Item Number
- 571
- Estimated Value
- 500 USD
- Opening Bid
- 50 USD
Item Description
How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance (book -$25 value) & consult by author, Jacqueline Von Edelberg
I've consulted with parent groups and community organizations all over the country on how to improve neighborhood schools from the ground up. Across Chicago, many NPN Parents are hard at work fixing the school on their corner-- and many more parents are considering the prospect. Happy to sit down with a group of any size over a cup of coffee, a martini, or anything in a cup and help strategize.
How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance, with a Foreword by Arne Duncan, and an Afterword by Rahm Emanuel, has a very simple message: Every kid, in every community, deserves a great neighborhood public school. I led eight moms in a Chicago diner to make our dreams come true (check out this great overview by Pearson).
Here's our story: When my girlfriend and I ventured inside Nettelhorst, our neighborhood’s underutilized and struggling public elementary school, the new principal asked what it would take for us to enroll our children. Stunned by her candor, we returned the next day armed with an extensive wish list. The principal read our list and said “Well, let’s get started, girls! It’s going to be a busy year…” We were eight park moms who galvanized neighborhood parents and then organized an entire community to take a leap of faith, transforming a challenged urban school into one of Chicago’s best, virtually overnight.
If eight park moms and one visionary principal could pull our little neighborhood school out of its twenty-five year nose-dive, surely others could do the same. If you're in the throws of your own revolution, or even just thinking about it, I'm happy to share our experience, and offer our best advice.
To learn more please check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59pbjTY08ac
Item Special Note
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- Expires May 5, 2015
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