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Aug 27,2008
Presentation Leads Water Blogmistress to Strong Realization
by jenniferd
I had a really neat experience yesterday. I was invited to the adidas campus, located in North Portland, to talk about the excellent quality of Portland's tap water . The folks over at adidas have organized a group of "sustainability ambassadors," who are working to improve "green" practices at their company, from head to toe. The idea is that the ambassadors meet periodically and not only decide on changes they would like to implement company-wide, but also to learn information to transmit to co-workers. I spent about 1/2 hour talking to this group of people about Portland's great tap water and worked on dispelling many of the myths and fears that people have about drinking from the tap . I was delighted that they not only listened incredibly intently to my presentation, but they also asked some great follow-up questions. I could tell that this group was really thinking about what I had told them. They even invited me back for their health fair in October. T
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Aug 13,2008
Help Your Neighborhood School!
by pearlgirl
On Saturday, August 23, there is a fabulous opportunity to help your local school—and it won't cost you a dime! Bring your tools! Your support is needed to get Portland Public Schools ready for a new school year. Join your neighbors and local school communities and enhance and beautify school buildings and grounds. Volunteers will spread mulch and bark chips, trim bushes, edge grass, clean up litter and complete a number of other tasks to make the school more welcoming for incoming students and the communities around them. Bring your own tools: gloves, weeding tools, shovels, or anything else you have that would help the effort. Please make sure your tools are labeled! Water and snacks will be provided. For more information, click here .Neighborhood schools who need our help: North Portland Applegate Elementary Astor Elementary Beach Blanchard Education Service Center Boise Eliot Elementary Chief Joseph School Clarendon-Portsmouth Elementary George
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Aug 8,2008
We're back...
by shooter
It didn't have anything to do with the Neighborhood Notes website, one of our office computers crashed. All the data was recovered, nothing was lost except for the time to figure out what happened, reinstall the operating system, and then restore the data. Unfortunately, this took most of the day. When something like this happens it is a good reality check about back up. If you don't do it regularly, you should. Your life will be much easier when your computer crashes—and it will. I've been through it a few times. Sometimes it's not so bad, like today, where nothing was lost and everything was restored. Other times you lose important data.
Those are the worst.
If you don't have a back up plan, make one. On a Mac with Leopard, you can use Time Machine to automatically schedule backups. I'm sure there are more than enough applications on Windows to do something very similar. Hard drives are cheap, important data is priceless.
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Aug 5,2008
Most Portland Public Schools make the grade under tougher No Child Left Behind standards
by pearlgirl
From the desk of: Superintendent Carole Smith... Every August, under the federal government's No Child Left Behind law, the state rates each of our schools against dozens of standards that track student achievement in reading and math, attendance, graduation rates and how many students take the standardized tests. The ratings for 2007-08 came out today: More than 70 percent of PPS schools hit the mark, compared to 61 percent overall in Oregon. Once again, Portland students and schools were stronger than the Oregon average. It was unusually tough for schools to meet AYP for 2007-08, because 60 percent of students had to meet state reading and math standards, up from 50 percent the year before. That change alone tripped up many Oregon schools. Here are a few highlights of this year's results for Portland Public Schools: Our schools that serve students in elementary and middle grades continue to perform well, especially in comparison to their counterparts statewide. This y
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Jul 30,2008
Live Chat with Dean Debra Ringold at Willamette University
by pearlgirl
Join me and Willamette University Atkinson Graduate School of Management Dean Debra Ringold for a live chat on Wednesday. Debra will answer your questions about the Willamette MBA for Professionals . You may wish to inquire about the benefits of an in-class
education, why Willamette is an excellent MBA education choice or how you can complete the application process for an admission review for the September 2008 Cohort. Go to http://wu.acrobat.com/mbachat to see, hear and interact with Dean Debra Ringold anytime between 4:00pm and 5:30pm on Wednesday, July 30th. Thank you, Tina Alexander
Director, MBA for Professionals
ph: 503-808-9902 | fx: 503-808-9903 | cl: 503-367-9094
education, why Willamette is an excellent MBA education choice or how you can complete the application process for an admission review for the September 2008 Cohort. Go to http://wu.acrobat.com/mbachat to see, hear and interact with Dean Debra Ringold anytime between 4:00pm and 5:30pm on Wednesday, July 30th. Thank you, Tina Alexander
Director, MBA for Professionals
ph: 503-808-9902 | fx: 503-808-9903 | cl: 503-367-9094
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Jul 22,2008
Portland School Board takes steps to finance facilities and IT upgrades
by pearlgirl
The volunteer Portland School Board approved a resolution Monday that enables Portland Public Schools to move forward with the repair of its aging and deteriorating facilities and the needed upgrade of computers and software. The board authorized the district to reimburse up to $50 million in costs it might incur between now and the completion of subsequent debt financing. The board has voiced its intent to seek a capital bond to fund needed repairs, renovation or rebuilding of Portland Public Schools' 90-plus schools and other facilities, and better support the educational and technological needs of students. Portland Public School buildings are 67 years old, on average. Nationally, school buildings are an average age of 45 years old. Director David Wynde, the board's point person on the facilities work, said: "This decision gives us the ability to start tackling some of the needed improvements now. It will save money by allowing us to recover funds we may need to use i
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Jul 8,2008
Portland School Board Announces Steps to Fill Vacant Seat
by pearlgirl
Portland School Board announces steps to fill vacant seatApplication deadline July 31, 2008
Portland, OR, July 8, 2008: The Portland Public Schools Board of Education has announced the steps board members will take to appoint a new director to fill the current school board vacancy for Zone 4. The Zone 4 vacancy was created when former School Board Co-Chair Dan Ryan stepped down to become the executive director of the Portland Schools Foundation.
On July 7, 2008, the Portland School Board passed a resolution that outlines the steps that will precede the selection of a replacement. Under the resolution:
All candidates who wish to be appointed to the Zone 4 director seat should file an application by 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 31, 2008. To download the application, click here . Applicants will be invited to participate in a public meeting, which will be held on Tuesday, August 26, 2008, at 7 p.m., in the Blanchard Education Service Center,
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Jun 23,2008
PSU students go green in Pearl
by shooter
I remember a similar experience when I was doing my MBA. We did a project as a business looking to enter into a new market. At the end we presented our analysis to a group of industry professionals and received their feedback. It was incredibly insightful getting that commentary from people who are doing that kind of work in the real world.
Motivating these architecture students to think about sustainability now, and having their designs critiqued and challenged by industry professionals will have a lasting impression on them. Even if the critique was harsh, they will learn valuable lessons. Let's hope PSU continues to partner with local professionals to give their students a touch of real world experience. From the Daily Journal of Commerce : Before designing a building in the Pearl District, Jamie Tausen studied the site and created an artifact. "The artifact was used to explain our site concept, which we discovered in the site analysis," said Tausen
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Motivating these architecture students to think about sustainability now, and having their designs critiqued and challenged by industry professionals will have a lasting impression on them. Even if the critique was harsh, they will learn valuable lessons. Let's hope PSU continues to partner with local professionals to give their students a touch of real world experience. From the Daily Journal of Commerce : Before designing a building in the Pearl District, Jamie Tausen studied the site and created an artifact. "The artifact was used to explain our site concept, which we discovered in the site analysis," said Tausen
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Jun 11,2008
"Let's Rock' summer classes for kids
by nancy
Had a great conversation with the Portland Parks and Rec Site Director at MLC this afternoon. Sylvia Linington said that there's space in the summer classes that are scheduled for MLC (that's the Metropolitan Learning Center up on 2oth and Glisan) and that they'd love to fill the classes with kids from the neighborhood.
Looks like there are opportunities for music education for kids ages 10 - 18. It's also worth noting that this is a SUN ( Schools Uniting Neighborhoods ) program. SUN is a very successful Multnomah County program that helps to, well, bring neighborhoods together around neighborhood schools.
There's also a chance to get involved and make a difference for kids. Have any musical equipment around that you'd like to loan or donate? Looks like kids in this program will make great use of it.
Here's more information from a press release that they sent out.
"Let's Rock," Metropolitan Learning Center SUN Community School'
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Looks like there are opportunities for music education for kids ages 10 - 18. It's also worth noting that this is a SUN ( Schools Uniting Neighborhoods ) program. SUN is a very successful Multnomah County program that helps to, well, bring neighborhoods together around neighborhood schools.
There's also a chance to get involved and make a difference for kids. Have any musical equipment around that you'd like to loan or donate? Looks like kids in this program will make great use of it.
Here's more information from a press release that they sent out.
"Let's Rock," Metropolitan Learning Center SUN Community School'
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