The
AEROx conference in Bethel, CT, from April 6-8 is nearly sold out. They told us they
have room for 5-10 more people, The deadline is midnight Monday,tomorrow, March 19th.
The regional conference is part of the events leading up to this year's AERO conference. For example the founder of North Star Self-Directed Learning for Teens, Ken Danford, will be participating in the AEROx with many of this students. Ken will be one of the mini-talk presenters at the AERO Conference in June.
Conference Coordinator Peter Berg says, "
If you have not been to Workspace Education and even if you have you are in for a real treat. We could not have self -designed a more perfect host for an AEROx event.
You can still register this week at the early bird rate for the AERO Conference
HERE. A
deposit can hold this rate.
Fair Warning! Early Bird Rate Ends March 31st!
When we were about to previously end the early bird rate, several people said they needed more time to arrange funding. So this time you are being given fair warning: The early bird rate ends March 31st!
You can still register this week at the early bird rate for the AERO Conference
HERE. A
deposit can hold this rate.
Limited Edition AERO T-Shirts Now Available!
For the first time in five years AERO is producing a limited edition t-shirt. There are three ways you can get it:
This offer will end when these shirts sell out. We see people still wearing the ones from 5 years ago!
Don't forget that we'll be having an alternative schools fair. Every registered school will get a table space.
You can still register this week at the early bird rate
here! A
deposit can hold this price.
Enough! A Million Students Walk Out of Schools to Demand Action on Guns in Historic Day of Action
In a historic day of action, more than a million students from over 3,000 schools walked out of classes to protest gun violence on Wednesday. Walkouts occurred in all 50 states as well as some schools overseas. The nationwide student walkouts occurred one month after 17 students and staff were shot dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. At many schools, students walked out for 17 minutes-one minute for each person murdered in Parkland. The students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are now organizing a massive March for Our Lives on March 24 in Washington, and solidarity marches are planned across the country. We air moments from marches in New York and talk with Luna Baez and Citlali Mares, two students in Denver, Colorado, who helped organize their school's walkout for gun reform Wednesday.
In the most dramatic display of civic activism by American students in recent memory, tens of thousands walked out of their schools Wednesday and took part in somber, politically charged demonstrations marking the Feb. 14 shooting that killed 17 educators and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
Some events were solemn and at times silent remembrances of the lives lost, while at other demonstrations participants demanded stricter gun control measures and vowed repercussions for elected leaders who failed to heed the call.
It started last month as a writing exercise on the 1963
Birmingham Children's Crusade, when more than 1,000 students skipped school and marched to demand civil rights. Then the class assignment mushroomed into a plan - hatched by 10- and 11-year-olds - to stage a little civil disobedience of their own.
So on Wednesday morning, the students in Craig Sampsell's fifth-grade class at Case Elementary School in Akron, Ohio, will pick up posters they drew and walk out of their classrooms, joining many thousands of other students in a nationwide protest against gun violence after
the killing of 17 people in a Florida high school last month.
Local Students Organize Concert for Florida Victims
High School students from Port Washington here on Long Island Organized a benefit concert to raise funds for the victims of the shooting in Florida. The local theater donated the venue. It cost $17 and had 17 student acts, in honor of the 17 victims. Performers and organizers ranged from age 9 to 17. It was sold out!
How to Keep Kids Excited About School
By Valerie J. Calderon
US. schools face an ongoing challenge: As students get closer to high school graduation, their enthusiasm for school falls. Gallup has discovered that fifth graders are the most engaged with school, while 11
th graders are the least.
These findings are from the
Gallup Student Poll, which explores four elements: students' engagement with school, hope for the future, entrepreneurial aspiration and career and financial literacy.
Since the Student Poll's launch in 2009, Gallup has observed a steep school "engagement cliff" that occurs during the middle school years and continues through high school. For example, while 74% of surveyed fifth-graders are engaged with school, just 32% of surveyed 11
th-graders are engaged. The latest Student Poll results are drawn from more than 3,000 schools that opted to participate in the survey in 2016.
Please send us feedback on this issue. also, we would like to have more articles written by AERO members and about AERO school and organizations.
Thank you for your ongoing support. With your help, we will make learner-centered alternatives available to everyone!
In Service,
Jerry Mintz
Executive Director
Alternative Education Resource Organization
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