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Apply for a trip to study Abraham Lincoln

If you love United States’ history, especially presidents like Abraham Lincoln, then now’s the time to take advantage of a rare opportunity offered by The Horace Mann Companies.  Applications are now being accepted for 2008 Horace Mann-Abraham Lincoln Fellowships.  If you are chosen as a 2008 Fellow, you’ll study the life and legacy of our nation’s 16th president for five days in his hometown this summer.

Horace Mann and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM) have hosted more than 100 educators in Springfield, Ill.  The curriculum, designed by ALPLM education department, incorporates behind-the-scenes access to historians at Lincoln’s Home, Lincoln’s Tomb, New Salem and more. 

Horace Mann, the provider of the NEA Homeowners Insurance Plan and the nation’s largest multiline insurance company focusing on the financial needs of education employees, offers background information about the annual Fellowships online, including applications, at www.horacemann.com Click on Resources then Fellowships.

Application deadline:  February 22

 

TEACH ENGLISH AND TRAVEL IN CHINA

Posted 1/21/2008 Teach English in China this summer.  Bridges For Education, a nonprofit organization <www.bridges4edu.org> is again looking for volunteer teachers including retired teachers, college students and high school students to participate in a three week conversational English immersion camp in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province. Also included is a week of travel.  Many teachers from the Columbus area have participated in BFE programs in Eastern Europe and recently China, during the past ten years.  No specific foreign language skills are required. Program costs are reasonable and cover all expenses including flights, meals and housing.  For more information, contact Gary or Pat Huss at (740 ) 881-9656 or [email protected]
 

Sing to "Let it Snow."
 
As at Ohio stops we're arriving,
Putting trust in Rich's driving.
There's just one thing to know:
Will it snow, will it snow, will it snow?
 
At RockyShoes and Boot we're stopping
To eat and do some shopping.
We all still want to know:
Will it snow, will it snow, will it snow?
 
As we proceed on our way,
The snow in the air did appear.
It continued on through the day,
But Rich drove on with no fear.
The Greenbrier was exciting
With poinsettias and trees so inviting.
And now we surely know:
It did snow, it did snow, it did snow.
 
The dinner was so sublime.
It was a dressy affair.
Napkins were placed in our laps
And we were helped with our chair.
 
The meals were really yummy.
And tables of ten were chummy.
With concert songs ringing in our heads,
We returned to our flower-walled beds.
 
The breakfast buffet was divine.
All of us ate our fill.
The food has been so good,
The memory lingers still.
 
We all took a trip to the bunker.
We felt like a spelunker.
A secret hidden in plain view.
Someone told and they don't know who.
 
A reporter spilled the beans
And the bunker's a secret no more.
Now you can see the rooms
And go through the hidden door.
 
Through the halls our way we're making
And pictures we are taking.
Then shopping we did go.
Through the snow, through the snow, through the snow.
 
On Tuesday, at eleven a.m.
For the Tamarak we set out.
Everyone likes to shop.
Of that there is no doubt.
 
The Ripley comfort stop
Rates right at the top.
Mc Donald's was well endowed
With enough potties for the crowd.
 
At our pick-up points we arrived
And our familiar cars we spied.
We're very glad to know:
There's no snow, there's no snow, there's no snow.
 
(you don't have to sing this part)
 
Our trip to the Greenbrier was lots of fun.
We thank Marilyn, Jeanne, and Rich for the great job you've done.

Posted 11/22/2007 ColumbusReads is a tutoring and mentoring program for kindergarten students in seventeen Columbus City Schools. Retirees needed. Click on Volunteers.

Where were you during the 1974-1975 school year? During that fateful year, Columbus Education Association members went on strike for a week-- the only teacher strike in the history of Columbus Public Schools.

Phil Hayes is working on a historical piece detailing the events of the 1974-1975 school year and CEA strike. He is interested in conducting interviews with teachers and members of the community about the event. He is also looking memorabilia from the time (old newspaper clippings, school/ CEA publications or personal photographs) that can be loaned to the project for research purposes.

If you are interested being interviewed for this piece, please contact Phil Hayes at [email protected] for more information. All interviewees will have the option of not being personally identified in the final publication.

Mr. Hayes Social Studies Teacher Legacy Small School on the Brookhaven Campus 4077 Karl Road Columbus, Ohio 43224 Voice:(614) 365-5985 Fax: (614) 365-6965 http://misterhayes.homestead.com/ http://projectovercome.homestead.com/

CEA President Rhonda Johnson wants us to participate in this project.  So, if you were teaching in Columbus in 1975 or if you know another retiree who was teaching in CPS please contact them, too. Please share what you remember, no matter how much or how little. It will be interesting to read the various comments and recollections of our CPS teachers.  Please do not hesitate to call. CEA-R Pres. Judy Valentine is aware of this, too. THANKS  Joan.  

 

part-time K-3 LACES tutors needed in Columbus schools posted 9/7/2007

The schools that still have openings are Binns, Broadleigh, Cassady, Columbus Africentric, Deshler, Linden, South Mifflin, Valley Forge, Windsor, Arlington Park, Cedarwood, Como, Fair, Fairmoor, Fairwood, Forest Park, Heyl, Maybury, Moler, Scottwood, Siebert, Watkins, Avalon, Burroughs, Clinton, Columbus Spanish Immersion, Georgian Heights, Highland, Northtowne, Trevitt, and Valleyview.

The position is 15 hours a week for 25 weeks. The sessions will be 30 minutes and will have 3-5 students in each session. The Harcourt StoryTown Intensive Intervention program will be used and all tutors will be trained.  Applicants will submit a cover letter, resume, and references to the principal at each individual school of choice.

Thanks,

Virgie Homeny, Supervisor
ColumbusReads
Columbus Public Schools
Northgate Center
6655 Sharon Woods Boulevard
Columbus, Ohio 43229
phone (614) 365-5253
fax (614) 365-8422
e-mail: [email protected]

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