For the Middle School social studies class:
Origins of WWI video
Video on the Battle of the Somme
How europe has changed video
WWI Footage
Last American WWI survivor video
WWI Poetry
Great War on PBS
First World War.com
WWI on Wikipedia
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Mercy Corps/Global Citizen Corps Partnership
The excitement is mounting for Trillium's latest partnership with Mercy Corp's Global Citizen Corps. For those students who get into the 20 person class semester 2, we will spend Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons in GCC trainings down at the action center, design our own community projects, and partner with students from GCC partner countries, Pakistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Indonesia, Jordan, and the UK. Here and here are more information on some of the opportunities.
Exhibition Night is Friday the 28th
The Trillium High School Exhibition Night is Friday, January 28th from 6:00 to 8:00 and features short individual presentations from each member of the high school to a group of their peers and family members. Several exhibitions will be going on at any one time, taking place throughout the building. Attendees can expect to see students reflect on one or two areas in which they have shown growth or development over the last few months. Student presenters may reflect on projects or work in the areas of academic, artistic, political, or social-emotional. Presentation slots, including question and answer time, generally run under ten minutes apiece. Students prepare for Exhibition Night by selecting work that feels meaningful to them and developing concise, thoughtful presentations that represent their learning. High School Exhibitions take place at the end of every semester. This is the first year that the event has been moved to an evening slot to allow for greater family and community member participation. If you have any questions about Exhibition, please contact any of the high school Advisors, Jess, Ken, Sarah, or Will. We look forward to seeing you there!
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Trillium's Financial Need
Dear Trillium Community,
We are writing to you today unified in the goal of renewing our beloved school’s charter. Our upcoming renewal hinges on our ability to demonstrate our financial viability. This will likely not happen if we continue down the same path of relying primarily on the public funding we receive from the state.
There’s the long story and the short story of why we find ourselves in financial need. The shortest story is the one we all know: Trillium, like all charter schools in Oregon, receives substantially less funding for our students than traditional public schools.
The longer story is about how our community has responded to that reality, and how we are now choosing to evolve, organize, and empower ourselves.
We must blaze a new trail. In order to reach out to larger funding sources such as grants, we must demonstrate first that we have a community-based financial support network. Our financial commitment to our children and each other, combined with our dedication to our mission and staying involved is what will keep our children’s school open.
There are 2 ways to support Trillium’s charter renewal right now:
Tax deductible donation online: (your tax receipt is provided in an email)
CLICK this link: https://www.ticketturtle.com/index.php?contribution=trill
Donate the amount you can, or set up a recurring donation (it’s easy!).
OR
Send a check:
Trillium Charter School
Attn: Genevieve Bouwes
5420 N. Interstate Ave.
Portland, OR 97217
Please consider asking your employer if they will match your tax deductable contribution to a 501(c)3 non-profit such as Trillium.
Thank you for your continued support of Trillium.
Genevieve Bouwes-Executive Director, Trillium Board of Directors, Together For Trillium
--
Genevieve Bouwes
Executive Director
Trillium Charter School
We are writing to you today unified in the goal of renewing our beloved school’s charter. Our upcoming renewal hinges on our ability to demonstrate our financial viability. This will likely not happen if we continue down the same path of relying primarily on the public funding we receive from the state.
There’s the long story and the short story of why we find ourselves in financial need. The shortest story is the one we all know: Trillium, like all charter schools in Oregon, receives substantially less funding for our students than traditional public schools.
The longer story is about how our community has responded to that reality, and how we are now choosing to evolve, organize, and empower ourselves.
We must blaze a new trail. In order to reach out to larger funding sources such as grants, we must demonstrate first that we have a community-based financial support network. Our financial commitment to our children and each other, combined with our dedication to our mission and staying involved is what will keep our children’s school open.
There are 2 ways to support Trillium’s charter renewal right now:
Tax deductible donation online: (your tax receipt is provided in an email)
CLICK this link: https://www.ticketturtle.com/index.php?contribution=trill
Donate the amount you can, or set up a recurring donation (it’s easy!).
OR
Send a check:
Trillium Charter School
Attn: Genevieve Bouwes
5420 N. Interstate Ave.
Portland, OR 97217
Please consider asking your employer if they will match your tax deductable contribution to a 501(c)3 non-profit such as Trillium.
Thank you for your continued support of Trillium.
Genevieve Bouwes-Executive Director, Trillium Board of Directors, Together For Trillium
--
Genevieve Bouwes
Executive Director
Trillium Charter School
Friday, January 14, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
American education has peaked
Some radical ideas on how to reshape schools from Marion Brandy's Washington Post piece.
Friday, January 07, 2011
Snowdays Again!
We are thrilled, pleased, and tickled to be partnering once again (for the sixth year running!) with the Snowdays Foundation. Snowdays volunteers will be picking us up in tomorrow morning, Saturday, January 8th and providing an absolutely free day of snowboarding to the lucky 15 students whose names came out of the hat, the majority of which have never been snowboarding before. Thank you, Snowdays.
If you are one of the lucky boarders tomorrow, and seem to have misplaced the proper information, here it is:
Here is the letter to parents.
Here is the Snowdays waiver and release form.
Be at Trillium by 7:30!
If you are one of the lucky boarders tomorrow, and seem to have misplaced the proper information, here it is:
Here is the letter to parents.
Here is the Snowdays waiver and release form.
Be at Trillium by 7:30!
Thursday, January 06, 2011
DRAFT of S2 schedule and catalog
Here is the DRAFT of the catalog for S2.
Here is the DRAFT of the schedule for S2.
We will work through any bugs in these in the next week, and do sign up after that.
Here is the DRAFT of the schedule for S2.
We will work through any bugs in these in the next week, and do sign up after that.
Congratulations to Alex L!
We are most excited to learn that Alex L has been accepted to the World Affairs program to study in Serbia later this year. Congratulations, Alex!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Study in Serbia!
Hi Will and Ken,
We have pushed back the deadline for student applications for the American Exchange to Serbia to this Friday, December 17th. So far we have not had any applications from Trillium students. If you know of any students who were interested, or who would be strong candidates, it would be great if we could get them on track to completing an application. We would love to further the connections made during the Serbian exchange. If anyone has any questions, or if they may have difficulty completing the application by the current deadline, please have them contact me and we can work something out.
Program info and applications are still available on our website: http://www.worldoregon.org/events/registration/serbian_youth_exchange.php
Thanks again for all of your help,
Andrew Neal
World Affairs Council of Oregon
1200 SW Park Avenue, Third Floor
Portland, OR 97205
Office: (503) 306-5216
Cell: (971) 227-3954
andrew@worldoregon.org
We have pushed back the deadline for student applications for the American Exchange to Serbia to this Friday, December 17th. So far we have not had any applications from Trillium students. If you know of any students who were interested, or who would be strong candidates, it would be great if we could get them on track to completing an application. We would love to further the connections made during the Serbian exchange. If anyone has any questions, or if they may have difficulty completing the application by the current deadline, please have them contact me and we can work something out.
Program info and applications are still available on our website: http://www.worldoregon.org/events/registration/serbian_youth_exchange.php
Thanks again for all of your help,
Andrew Neal
World Affairs Council of Oregon
1200 SW Park Avenue, Third Floor
Portland, OR 97205
Office: (503) 306-5216
Cell: (971) 227-3954
andrew@worldoregon.org
Intensives Cancelled.
Dear Families and Staff,
Tomorrow night's Intensives Meeting is cancelled. In fact, the January Intensive this year are also being cancelled. The staff met on this topic last week and voted.
A letter detailing the decision will be available soon. Thanks SO much to all of the folks who were considering helping on this all-school project.
Sincerely,
Intensives Committee
Tomorrow night's Intensives Meeting is cancelled. In fact, the January Intensive this year are also being cancelled. The staff met on this topic last week and voted.
A letter detailing the decision will be available soon. Thanks SO much to all of the folks who were considering helping on this all-school project.
Sincerely,
Intensives Committee
Friday, November 26, 2010
Intensives! Hurray!
November 17th, 2010
Hello Trillium Parents & Community,
As you may or may not know we will be having intensive classes once again at Trillium. They take place Monday through Thursday the week of January 31st – February 3rd. These are classes offered during the whole day from 9:00 to 3:00 and can be any sort of focus that a teacher decides upon. Depending on our offerings this year, there is a possibility of running a half-day intensive, then handing off the second half of the day to a teaching partner (this can make schedules easier to manage). To make intensives successful we ask that parents share their talents, skills and interests by teaching a class.
With your involvement we can have small group sizes and opportunities to use the time more effectively than with a larger group. So we need your help! If you want to be involved please come to ONE of these two sessions (3:30 pm or 6:00 pm) on Wednesday, December 15th.
Some past offerings have been swimming, bowling, cultural exploration, fitness, working with horses, hands on science, claymation, hiking, acting, cooking, arts and crafts, music, RPGs, strategy games, social justice education and so much more. You may:
Teach an intensive class based on a skill, talent, focus or activity that you are eager to share with kids (that's ideally from 9-3, M,T, W and Th)
OR
Team up with another parent or teacher to offer an intensive that shares your similar interests
OR
Help with an intensive on days that work for you
OR
Help with driving, since some of them require transportation to get kids to the class locations
OR
Help with supplying/facilitating snacks
All you need to do is send a description of what you would like to teach to Kirk Ellis at kirk@trilliumcharterschool.org
IF you know what you would like to offer, or if you have offered something in the past and would like to do it again, please send the following information..
Your description should include:
Class title
Brief description of the class and what will be learned
Age of students for which it would be appropriate (it can be kindergarten to grade 12, or any smaller grouping in between)
Number of students that would be best for your class
Any additional cost for supplies
Will it be on-site or off-site?
If you are able to support an intensive or be a driver please contact Kirk as well. However, we will have a separate transportation coordinator.
We have some expectations as well:
Attend information night
Complete background check (or have on file at school)
Ideally have a partner/other adult to assist with intensive and be present
Fill out a provided assessment form about the students who participate
Commit to the entire week
Communicate needs (transportation, supplies, space etc.) at least one week prior to intensives
Thanks for helping to make Trillium an amazing place to learn!
The Intensives Committee
Hello Trillium Parents & Community,
As you may or may not know we will be having intensive classes once again at Trillium. They take place Monday through Thursday the week of January 31st – February 3rd. These are classes offered during the whole day from 9:00 to 3:00 and can be any sort of focus that a teacher decides upon. Depending on our offerings this year, there is a possibility of running a half-day intensive, then handing off the second half of the day to a teaching partner (this can make schedules easier to manage). To make intensives successful we ask that parents share their talents, skills and interests by teaching a class.
With your involvement we can have small group sizes and opportunities to use the time more effectively than with a larger group. So we need your help! If you want to be involved please come to ONE of these two sessions (3:30 pm or 6:00 pm) on Wednesday, December 15th.
Some past offerings have been swimming, bowling, cultural exploration, fitness, working with horses, hands on science, claymation, hiking, acting, cooking, arts and crafts, music, RPGs, strategy games, social justice education and so much more. You may:
Teach an intensive class based on a skill, talent, focus or activity that you are eager to share with kids (that's ideally from 9-3, M,T, W and Th)
OR
Team up with another parent or teacher to offer an intensive that shares your similar interests
OR
Help with an intensive on days that work for you
OR
Help with driving, since some of them require transportation to get kids to the class locations
OR
Help with supplying/facilitating snacks
All you need to do is send a description of what you would like to teach to Kirk Ellis at kirk@trilliumcharterschool.org
IF you know what you would like to offer, or if you have offered something in the past and would like to do it again, please send the following information..
Your description should include:
Class title
Brief description of the class and what will be learned
Age of students for which it would be appropriate (it can be kindergarten to grade 12, or any smaller grouping in between)
Number of students that would be best for your class
Any additional cost for supplies
Will it be on-site or off-site?
If you are able to support an intensive or be a driver please contact Kirk as well. However, we will have a separate transportation coordinator.
We have some expectations as well:
Attend information night
Complete background check (or have on file at school)
Ideally have a partner/other adult to assist with intensive and be present
Fill out a provided assessment form about the students who participate
Commit to the entire week
Communicate needs (transportation, supplies, space etc.) at least one week prior to intensives
Thanks for helping to make Trillium an amazing place to learn!
The Intensives Committee
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Sign Up for Conferences Right Here!
Hi all,
It is fall student-teacher-parent conference time! Upper school advisors host conferences in the weeks following Thanksgiving break. This should give families time to reflect on the midterm progress reports which should arrive in the next few days before conferences.
Please sign up with this form by clicking right here.
Happy Thanksgiving/Genocide Awareness Day.
Peace,
Ken
It is fall student-teacher-parent conference time! Upper school advisors host conferences in the weeks following Thanksgiving break. This should give families time to reflect on the midterm progress reports which should arrive in the next few days before conferences.
Please sign up with this form by clicking right here.
Happy Thanksgiving/Genocide Awareness Day.
Peace,
Ken
Introducing Jacob Jonas-Closs, student teacher
November 22, 2010
Dear parents and guardians of Explorers and Resistance Daily 1 students,
Hello! My name is Jacob Jonas-Closs. I have been observing and interacting in
your student’s classroom since the beginning of the school year. I have very much
enjoyed watching them learn and grow. Following Thanksgiving Break I will be
working with your students as their primary teacher for the rest of the school year.
I look forward to meeting all of you. For now, I would like to take a bit of space
to introduce myself. I am a student at the Lewis and Clark Graduate School of
Education working toward a Master of Arts in Teaching degree and an Oregon
Teaching License in Middle and High School Social Studies. Prior to entering
graduate school I attended Earlham College, a small Quaker Liberal Arts College
in Indiana, where I received a Bachelors degree in Human Development and Social
Relations, and a minor in both Education and History. After I graduated I was
pretty sure I wanted to teach but wanted to try other jobs before I went back to
school. I spent a year working in Human Services at two group homes, one for
adults with Mental Retardation and another for Children with Autism; I did these
jobs in my hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. During this year I began to apply
for programs and noticed my favorite program was the one offered at Lewis and
Clark, and I had heard that Portland was an excellent city to live in, so decided to
attend this program. I love to teach and learn, and am excited to be making this
journey alongside this great group of students.
To start things off in December we will be analyzing Current struggles of
American Indians before we delve into Celilo Falls in January. Please feel free to
express any of your questions or concerns about this change to Ken and to me, our
contact information is listed below.
I am greatly looking forward to working with this group of students!
Sincerely,
Jacob Jonas-Closs
jjonascloss@lclark.edu
Ken Gadbow
gadbow@gmail.com
Dear parents and guardians of Explorers and Resistance Daily 1 students,
Hello! My name is Jacob Jonas-Closs. I have been observing and interacting in
your student’s classroom since the beginning of the school year. I have very much
enjoyed watching them learn and grow. Following Thanksgiving Break I will be
working with your students as their primary teacher for the rest of the school year.
I look forward to meeting all of you. For now, I would like to take a bit of space
to introduce myself. I am a student at the Lewis and Clark Graduate School of
Education working toward a Master of Arts in Teaching degree and an Oregon
Teaching License in Middle and High School Social Studies. Prior to entering
graduate school I attended Earlham College, a small Quaker Liberal Arts College
in Indiana, where I received a Bachelors degree in Human Development and Social
Relations, and a minor in both Education and History. After I graduated I was
pretty sure I wanted to teach but wanted to try other jobs before I went back to
school. I spent a year working in Human Services at two group homes, one for
adults with Mental Retardation and another for Children with Autism; I did these
jobs in my hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. During this year I began to apply
for programs and noticed my favorite program was the one offered at Lewis and
Clark, and I had heard that Portland was an excellent city to live in, so decided to
attend this program. I love to teach and learn, and am excited to be making this
journey alongside this great group of students.
To start things off in December we will be analyzing Current struggles of
American Indians before we delve into Celilo Falls in January. Please feel free to
express any of your questions or concerns about this change to Ken and to me, our
contact information is listed below.
I am greatly looking forward to working with this group of students!
Sincerely,
Jacob Jonas-Closs
jjonascloss@lclark.edu
Ken Gadbow
gadbow@gmail.com
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Vote Mercy Corps!
Mercy Corps is so close to getting the $150K. You can vote everyday by clicking here. (www.50daysofgiving.com).
Free Thanksgiving Celebration
From one our active high school students and his family:
Appreciate the Table of Thanksgiving, community style
Talented entertainment, fun volunteering, very good food, new and old friends on their best and most real behavior - How could we not come back to a table like that? It’s a beautiful thing and we hope to see you there:Thanksgiving Day: 12-4pm FREE
-Vegan and vegetarian options
-Donations: non-perishable Thanksgiving-related food items or paper goods
-Volunteer: pass out flyers, chef, prep food, set up, serve food, cleanup, and more
-General information call Michael at 503-936-3704
-Volunteers call Sara at 503-505-1298 | se habla Espanol
-Entertainers call Robin at 503-890-5393
info@properusa.net
We’ll be celebrating at Celebration Tabernacle at 8131 N Denver, next door to Po’Shines Cafe de la Soul - as the space has become just too small for our turnouts. Come out of your self, bring what you have to the Table of Thanksgiving: Music & Storytelling | Good Food | Community. Hope all is well with you and that we’ll see you there.
Appreciate the Table of Thanksgiving, community style
Talented entertainment, fun volunteering, very good food, new and old friends on their best and most real behavior - How could we not come back to a table like that? It’s a beautiful thing and we hope to see you there:Thanksgiving Day: 12-4pm FREE
-Vegan and vegetarian options
-Donations: non-perishable Thanksgiving-related food items or paper goods
-Volunteer: pass out flyers, chef, prep food, set up, serve food, cleanup, and more
-General information call Michael at 503-936-3704
-Volunteers call Sara at 503-505-1298 | se habla Espanol
-Entertainers call Robin at 503-890-5393
info@properusa.net
We’ll be celebrating at Celebration Tabernacle at 8131 N Denver, next door to Po’Shines Cafe de la Soul - as the space has become just too small for our turnouts. Come out of your self, bring what you have to the Table of Thanksgiving: Music & Storytelling | Good Food | Community. Hope all is well with you and that we’ll see you there.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Help Mercy Corps get $150,000
Trillium has partnered with Mercy Corps in numerous programs over the past years, most notably our direct student to student exchanges with youth in the Palestinian Territories and Iraq.
You can vote everyday for Mercy Corps to get $150K by clicking here. (www.50daysofgiving.com)
You can vote everyday for Mercy Corps to get $150K by clicking here. (www.50daysofgiving.com)
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