Saturday, February 26, 2011

Global Citizenry class - Gaza video conference this Tuesday!

We are so excited to be taking part in our first video conference of the year with youth in the Palestinian Territory of Gaza.

When: Tuesday, March 1st at 7:00 AM
Where: Mercy Corps Action Center, downtown at 45 SW Ankeny St 97204.
How: Students can meet Ken at Trillium by 6:25 AM (!) to ride down on the MAX, or make their own way to Mercy Corps by 7:00.
Why: Because we can! The early hour (our time) is to ensure the safety and security of our Gaza partners, because it is late (their time).

Questions: Call Ken.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Solidarity with Wisconsin - Two Events

*REPORT BACK FROM THE CLASS WAR IN WISCONSIN*
From Egypt to Wisconsin: The Crisis of Capitalism and Resistance from Below
Thursday, February 24th, 7pm
Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union Room 327

Around the world, economies are being wrecked by crisis. In addition to the trillions of dollars handed over to Wall Street, the governments of Ireland, Greece, and Portugal required similar bailouts while Spain and Italy are seek a way out of the financial crisis. In poor countries, anger over unemployment and rising food prices is helping fuel revolts and revolutions as evident from the recent events in Tunisia and Egypt.

Of course, working-class people everywhere are being forced to pay for the crisis, through joblessness, wage-cuts, and the slashing of social services. Though these cuts have been less severe in the United States, the same political and economic dynamics provoking resistance in Europe and North Africa are at work here.These dynamics have begun to play out in the recent struggle in Wisconsin against Governor Walker's draconian anti-union legislation. Join the International Socialist Organization and Adam Sanchez, a member of the Portland Association of Teachers and ILWU Local 5 who has spent the last few days in Wisconsin and will be reporting back on the struggle. Come discuss the evolving crisis, the resistance to austerity, and the Wisconsin turning point for US Labor.

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Stand with Wisconsin: An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!
Friday, February 25, 4pm
Director Park (SW Yamhill and SW Park) - map

Please distribute widely!

Join us this Friday, February 25, at 4pm as we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Wisconsin as well as Ohio, Indiana and other states where attacks on working people are happening. Wear red (Wisconsin color). Bring your banners. Bring your signs of solidarity. More info on the Jobs with Justice website.

What else can I do?

Here are a couple of ideas. Sign the We are Wisconsin petition and check out the videos. Donate a pizza from Ian's for the demonstrators in Madison. Ian's reports orders from 45 states and 12 countries including Egypt. The number to call is 608-257-9248.

More on Wisconsin

In Wisconsin, workers, students, faith, immigrant rights groups, LGBT groups, women's groups, all sectors of labor, environmental groups, and more continue to occupy the state capitol and more in numbers that are climbing to over 80,000 people.

In states across the country, workers are fighting back against corporate-backed lawmakers who are trying to use state budget problems as an excuse to gut workers’ rights and benefits, when in fact it was Wall Street’s gambles and broken promises that have hurt taxpayers and the middle class—not workers. CEOs are trying to shift the blame for high unemployment and rising poverty levels away from themselves and onto workers and our unions.

The fightback in Wisconsin is historic -- please join us on Friday.

Steve Snyder
Portland Jobs with Justice

School Closure Information

Trillium follows PPS school closure policies. Closures and delays are announced on the PPS inclement weather page.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Cheer Trillium and Co. on the Big Screen

Exclusive movie premiere!

Lessons from the Real World

Produced by Robert Gliner and featuring Portland-area students, teachers, and schools

Thursday, March 10, 2011, 6pm

Doors open and reception at 5:30pm

The filmmaker will attend and take questions after the screening


Hollywood Theatre
4122 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland
Free admission and light refreshments. All ages are welcome.

Seating is limited to the first 220 people.
Please call the PSU Box Office for reservations: 503-725-3307

A new documentary film featuring Portland-area schools will premiere at the Hollywood Theatre on Thursday, March 10. Lessons from the Real World, by filmmaker Robert Gliner, takes on negative perceptions about our schools and features successful innovative lessons conducted by Oregon educators at eight Metro-area schools.

Gliner’s answer to the recent documentary, Waiting for Superman, puts a positive spin on effective education practices that feature students working on projects outside the school in their communities. “Learning to read, do math and other subjects will come if students care about what they are learning, rather than drilling them with subject matter largely divorced from their real lives,” he says.

Schools featured in the 58-minute film include Trillium Charter School, Sunnyside Environmental School, Jefferson High School, Marshall Campus, Roosevelt High School, Atkinson Elementary, Sojourner in North Clackamas, and Portland State University.

For more information, contact: EDfilm@pdx.edu

About Robert Gliner:
Robert Gliner, PhD, is an award-winning documentary producer with more than 30 projects to his credit. His films have appeared on PBS stations throughout the United States and have also been viewed in a wide variety of university and public school settings and nonprofit organizations. His primary focus is social justice both inside the United States and throughout the world. He has filmed in Russia, Macedonia, Vietnam, India, Tanzania, Israel, Ecuador, and Cuba. He is involved in all aspects of the production process from initial stages of research to filming and editing. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at San Jose State University in California. www.docmakeronline.com

Sponsored by
Portland State University
Graduate School of Education
Center for Academic Excellence
President's Office

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

End of Term Course Assessments

Find the End of Term Self Assessment form for regular classes here.
Or you can use this link.
Or this one.
(Three are provided in case you are filling these out for different classes, or stopped in the middle of one and need to complete the rest of the answers.)

SENIORS, fill this survey out for Senior Project.

ADVISING, please fill out this survey.

PERSONALIZED PROJECTS (PLP's), please fill out this survey.

Get Massage. Trillium gets Money.

Hey Everyone,
I saw the great idea that another parent had to use their construction business to generate donations for Trillium and felt inspired to do the same. I have a small school of Traditional Thai Massage and Medicine, and a Thai Massage Clinic. Everyone doing Thai massage at the clinic is dedicated to deep study and the authentic practice of traditional Thai massage; we don't do any other modality, and we have all spent lots of time studying with masters in Thailand. I talked to the others and they all agreed that for the months of February and March, anyone who books a massage appointment and mentions Trillium, a 15% of the massage price will be donated to the school.

I love this idea of community supporting community; I love learning about businesses that other parents are involved in, and I love the idea that we can support each other's businesses at the same time as supporting the school.

You can schedule a massage using our online appointment scheduler. Please put "trillium" in the comments box in the signup form. If you are using a new version of Safari, please use Firefox or Google Chrome instead as we are having a problem with the new safari browser that we are trying to figure out.

Cheers,
-Nephyr

End of Term Self Assessment

Find the End of Term Self Assessment form for regular classes here.
Or you can use this link.
Or this one.
(Three are provided in case you are filling these out for different classes, or stopped in the middle of one and need to complete the rest of the answers.)

SENIORS, fill this survey out for Senior Project.

ADVISING, please fill out this survey.

PERSONALIZED PROJECTS (PLP's), please fill out this survey.