Iranian Mission to the United Nations
622 Third Ave.
(3rd Ave & 40th Street)
New York, NY
Please join us in thought or person: Noon to 2 p.m.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
VIDEO: FREE SHANE AND JOSH
VIDEO: FREE SHANE AND JOSH
If you are a New Yorker...or have friends and family near NYC, please encourage each to show support in any way that is possible...attend the UN, visit their page on Facebook, buy a DVD of the documentary and spread this message.
First and foremost, we communicate to Shane and Josh that they are not alone...we hold them in our thoughts and hearts...we do what each can right here, right now to bring about their prompt release...
Come in body, mind, and/or spirit to the UN Friday 7/29 at noon to support our request to Iranian government: free our innocent global citizens now.
Shane and Josh ...you are not alone: We are with you through your release and arrival home!
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Theatre Festival: Call-out for Proposals ...come brainstorm on The Green
Being prepared!
This autumn, Palladio International hosts our second annual FAMILY THEATRE FESTIVAL in the Sheep Meadow at Central Park. Our first festival drew thousands -from as far north as the Adironack's, east from The Points (Orient and Montauk), west from the Delaware Water Gap, and as far south as Fredericksberg! We are preparing for our 2011 fest by doubling the theatre spots, platforms, and stages available to bring our theme to life: Hosting Habitual Happiness with Our Kids! ... What really helps when restructuring our less-than-best habits?
Proposal Writing Groups will flow from our first round of Brainstorm Groups (See Announcements for locations.). Skit limit: five minutes. Interactive Family Theatre: fifteen minutes. Number of performers: 1-3: SPOT, 4-10: Platform, 10+: Stage.
Submit as many skits or interactive theatre proposals as you wish, on as many relevant topics desired. Brainstorm Groups (to develop the issues, problems, and solutions) will gather during the third week of July (See Pacing Calendar 2011) in four locations on the Central Park Campus. Forums then are accessible, without crosstown traffic, to those traveling from four directions in the city and beyond. However, if you don't mind crossing town -or you're enjoying a weekend holiday of public transportation in the city -open seating is available at all four locations.
Palladio's sophomore class crafted the "focus teasers" below. Teasers help us"activate" memory banks, expanding access to experience relevant to this year's festival topic: Hosting Habitual Happiness with Our Kids...What really helps when restructuring our less-than-best habits?
1. Have you ever reached "The Wits End" with a youngster's behavior patterns?
2. Have you ever made a "big deal" out of an incident ... sitting kids down while laying out the law, emphasizing which new ways must replace the old, reminding everyone that tomorrow will be a new day ...only to find your own monitoring skills fell short very next day?
3. How often do you find yourself in your old pattern of overlooking our kids' needs because of a sundry reasons?
4. How often do we feel prepared to provide consistent Necessary And Sufficient Adult Follow-through (NASAF): future-pacing needed progress, situational prompting, specific guidance, modeling, supervising, reinforcing, celebrating?
5. Can you explain each of the steps of NASAF to your Global Parent partner right here? right now?
6. Are you up-to-date with Global Parent Research on habit reciprocity between adults and children?
7. How many reports (Lime Green and Autumn Gold list below) have you discussed in your monthly Research Support Circle?
HUMAN HABITS ... beyond the training needs of our four-legged friends
HAPPINESS HABITS ...for parents AND kids
WHEN KIDS HAVE HABITUATED
ADULT HABITS FIRST ... or "Get it in gear Turkey!"
SECURING OUR HABITAT FOR PROSPEROUS HABITUAL PERFORMANCE
TOP SECURITY: GETTING IN THE HABIT
HELPING NEW HABITS TAKE ROOT
FERTILE SOIL LESSENS TOIL
KIDS DO AS WE DO, NOT AS WE SAY
THE KISS PRINCIPLE ... AVOID ADULT LIP SERVICE
OUR HABIT AT HUMANITY
PEACE LIGHTING! (WHEN HABITS BECOME AUTOMATIC...CELEBRATE!)
Please bring your own chairs, blankets, refreshment and "refuse" bags. Naturally, all of our consciousness-raising groups gather in "Litter-free Zones." (Olmstead Ambassadors will be circulating from Upper School Armory with spare plastic bags for families to cart any and all refuse homeward later.) Please catch our ambassadors practicing newly learned civic skills and presentation styles. Olmstead Ambassadors will be wearing in their lime green tees, sporting the selected LZ slogan: "You can take it with you!"
This autumn, Palladio International hosts our second annual FAMILY THEATRE FESTIVAL in the Sheep Meadow at Central Park. Our first festival drew thousands -from as far north as the Adironack's, east from The Points (Orient and Montauk), west from the Delaware Water Gap, and as far south as Fredericksberg! We are preparing for our 2011 fest by doubling the theatre spots, platforms, and stages available to bring our theme to life: Hosting Habitual Happiness with Our Kids! ... What really helps when restructuring our less-than-best habits?
Proposal Writing Groups will flow from our first round of Brainstorm Groups (See Announcements for locations.). Skit limit: five minutes. Interactive Family Theatre: fifteen minutes. Number of performers: 1-3: SPOT, 4-10: Platform, 10+: Stage.
Submit as many skits or interactive theatre proposals as you wish, on as many relevant topics desired. Brainstorm Groups (to develop the issues, problems, and solutions) will gather during the third week of July (See Pacing Calendar 2011) in four locations on the Central Park Campus. Forums then are accessible, without crosstown traffic, to those traveling from four directions in the city and beyond. However, if you don't mind crossing town -or you're enjoying a weekend holiday of public transportation in the city -open seating is available at all four locations.
Palladio's sophomore class crafted the "focus teasers" below. Teasers help us"activate" memory banks, expanding access to experience relevant to this year's festival topic: Hosting Habitual Happiness with Our Kids...What really helps when restructuring our less-than-best habits?
1. Have you ever reached "The Wits End" with a youngster's behavior patterns?
2. Have you ever made a "big deal" out of an incident ... sitting kids down while laying out the law, emphasizing which new ways must replace the old, reminding everyone that tomorrow will be a new day ...only to find your own monitoring skills fell short very next day?
3. How often do you find yourself in your old pattern of overlooking our kids' needs because of a sundry reasons?
4. How often do we feel prepared to provide consistent Necessary And Sufficient Adult Follow-through (NASAF): future-pacing needed progress, situational prompting, specific guidance, modeling, supervising, reinforcing, celebrating?
5. Can you explain each of the steps of NASAF to your Global Parent partner right here? right now?
6. Are you up-to-date with Global Parent Research on habit reciprocity between adults and children?
7. How many reports (Lime Green and Autumn Gold list below) have you discussed in your monthly Research Support Circle?
HUMANITEA PARTY
OUR "HOBBITS" REVISITED
HUMAN HABITS ... beyond the training needs of our four-legged friends
HAPPINESS HABITS ...for parents AND kids
WHEN KIDS HAVE HABITUATED
ADULT HABITS FIRST ... or "Get it in gear Turkey!"
SECURING OUR HABITAT FOR PROSPEROUS HABITUAL PERFORMANCE
TOP SECURITY: GETTING IN THE HABIT
HELPING NEW HABITS TAKE ROOT
FERTILE SOIL LESSENS TOIL
KIDS DO AS WE DO, NOT AS WE SAY
THE KISS PRINCIPLE ... AVOID ADULT LIP SERVICE
OUR HABIT AT HUMANITY
PEACE LIGHTING! (WHEN HABITS BECOME AUTOMATIC...CELEBRATE!)
Please bring your own chairs, blankets, refreshment and "refuse" bags. Naturally, all of our consciousness-raising groups gather in "Litter-free Zones." (Olmstead Ambassadors will be circulating from Upper School Armory with spare plastic bags for families to cart any and all refuse homeward later.) Please catch our ambassadors practicing newly learned civic skills and presentation styles. Olmstead Ambassadors will be wearing in their lime green tees, sporting the selected LZ slogan: "You can take it with you!"
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Something Borrowed...a film worth viewing for Jane Eyre Sisterhood
Filmed in NYC, this romantic comedy has a very important lesson: sometimes we "borrow" a relationship...we don't know anything exists that is actually more powerful/authentic, convenience, flattery, boredom, status quo/expectations, to please someone else/not hurt an other's feelings.
Darcy borrows...Dex borrows...Rachel allows everyone to borrow from her, until she gets how wrong that becomes for everyone involved. All Palladio Big Sisters have several options this upcoming week for c-viewing and debriefing re use of this film as a resource with your little Jane Eyre sisters. Consortium and Council Circles have posted reflections and responses and suggestions for your facilitation.
Please, see their websites for further information.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Big Sisters of The Jane Eyre Initiative...great contributionsof merit
Re : Jane Eyre Sisterhood
Big Sisters of The Jane Eyre Initiative, know that your full summer weekly participation in this endeavor, continuing for one full year with multi-level group and individuals supports, grants you the Ccollaborative Contribution of Great Merit towards your graduation requirements. We know that many of you will discover ways while "at the wheel" to transform this silken weave into the gold of your future chosen careers. This will simply happen from natural human development ... as your knowledge and know-how accelerates, compounds, and extrapolates into your future becoming. You will become the one you are imaging now...as long as you continue to image HER!
Friday night's "Supper on the Green" launches Palladio International's very first multi-level initiative to enlighten our future young women of the world ... our Tweens! Charlotte Bronte's extraordinary tale of personal awakening, societal navigation, and discerning authentic love... that quality meriting life-generating marriage (vs. stagnation, suffocation, or simply subsisting) ... will be experienced for this entire summer upcoming!
How many women today -struggling through poorly pieced-together marriages (or worse consigned for life, or restabilizing senses from the "Bleaklands of Divorce") could possibly suspect that a young woman author from a cultural period more than one hundred and fifty years ago, could educate us fully today. Through Jane Eyre's character and consciousness (of internal and external experience) multiplied across her profound capacity for explicit articulation, Charlotte lays out the territory for every woman alive today.
For the casualties of non-true love, these questions crossed the threshold of your young inexperienced mind: "Is this true love?" Does he really love me, or am I simply useful to him?" "If I settle for less than, what are the costs to me and my children afterwards?"
Ladies, these questions cross all female minds. Many of us, in this planetary culture right here and now, have internalized the demands of our cultural training thus we do not value our innocence and altruism sufficiently to make the time and space and gain freedom from fear of naught to find real true answers to these typical questions of the female heart and soul.
Our younger readiest-to-learn sisters, our tweens, at the latest (unfortunately research notes that children are gender-acculturated by age five through cultural osmosis!) still have time to re-educate, re-inform, revise their concepts of who they are, what talents inform them, what they want for themselves and their children to come (if they choose to devote body, mind, and emotions to cultivating offspring.)
"Still have time" - that is, if we support them through our messages and "metal" at home, in school, with media and in marketplace! And at Palladio International we do. This is why our high school girls are "sistering" our middle school girls. AND OUR GLOBAL PARENTS MENTOR OUR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS (and their Guardians), and our Community Consortiums and Councils guide our global parents (and all Guardians), and our research teams are deconstructing longitudinal results and feeding our networks and developing retreat workshops!
How many women today -struggling through poorly pieced-together marriages (or worse consigned for life, or restabilizing senses from the "Bleaklands of Divorce") could possibly suspect that a young woman author from a cultural period more than one hundred and fifty years ago, could educate us fully today. Through Jane Eyre's character and consciousness (of internal and external experience) multiplied across her profound capacity for explicit articulation, Charlotte lays out the territory for every woman alive today.
For the casualties of non-true love, these questions crossed the threshold of your young inexperienced mind: "Is this true love?" Does he really love me, or am I simply useful to him?" "If I settle for less than, what are the costs to me and my children afterwards?"
Ladies, these questions cross all female minds. Many of us, in this planetary culture right here and now, have internalized the demands of our cultural training thus we do not value our innocence and altruism sufficiently to make the time and space and gain freedom from fear of naught to find real true answers to these typical questions of the female heart and soul.
Our younger readiest-to-learn sisters, our tweens, at the latest (unfortunately research notes that children are gender-acculturated by age five through cultural osmosis!) still have time to re-educate, re-inform, revise their concepts of who they are, what talents inform them, what they want for themselves and their children to come (if they choose to devote body, mind, and emotions to cultivating offspring.)
"Still have time" - that is, if we support them through our messages and "metal" at home, in school, with media and in marketplace! And at Palladio International we do. This is why our high school girls are "sistering" our middle school girls. AND OUR GLOBAL PARENTS MENTOR OUR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS (and their Guardians), and our Community Consortiums and Councils guide our global parents (and all Guardians), and our research teams are deconstructing longitudinal results and feeding our networks and developing retreat workshops!
Monday, May 9, 2011
Calling all High Roadies ...opportunity for a Contribution of Great Merit project!
Dear Stakeholders...
Our school community is accepting applications now for membership on the R&D Council. Mail applications to sb2822@columbia.edu. Parameters for the MICROLAB follow in a letter to Friends:
Friends,
I commend your leadership team for writing a clear and specific set of recommendations that seem well-linked to the data (I did not read the original report, nor of course seen the actual data, nor been privy to how the data was gathered). What I recommend to you is a most effective model that fosters collaborative on-going research and clinical practice by all stakeholders (faculty, administration, parents, and students):
- request a team assembled of all stakeholders (students, parents, teachers, administrators: only those intimately engaged with classroom learning and instruction)
- this team sets up a Clinic Classroom (CC) designed to model positive/cooperative practices by each population of the stakeholders
- the content of the classroom might be a course in study skills (pertinent to any content course)
- any teacher or administrator can use CC to model pedagogy (preceded by a brief written proposal/interview with team's "OK")
- any student can offer to participate in the planning, design, learning experience (preceded by a brief written proposal/interview with team's "OK")
- any parent, community adult, student, or teacher can observe CC practices (preceded by a brief written proposal/interview with team's "OK")
- CC would also provide any stakeholder an opportunity to gather students, design curriculum, and select pedagogy to experimentation/revision/instructional learning on an on-going basis.
- CC can begin small and grow organically as needed (i.e. take place during he lunch period times to allow for the greatest number of teachers and students to participate/create the CC climate and content
- CC becomes then a kind of MICROLAB for collaborative study of all stakeholders by all the stakeholders ...thus fostering unity, on-going research, and the truth about education:a collaborative process among all the stakeholders, rather than a "hierarchy" public education must acknowledge the essential interdependence among each stakeholder population, and that any human endeavor improves only overtime with concerted efforts that design-deliver-disassemble-design to deliver again!
- Education is all about learning and updating. The human climate must welcome risk-taking, respect for each, on-going dialogue and development of all stakeholders. It must be free of bureaucratic controls.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Pampered Chef Cook-off Weekend
Today's our final epicurean exchange of recipes, craft, and delicious indulgence! Gather from dawn to dusk today at Palladio High Grounds. Twelve tents stand tall, each in focus color*, drawing a resonance with that power from on-lookers.
Entres crafted from ingredients -intended by each chef team to cultivate a featured power -grace tables in each of the twelve tents. You've got to see it to believe it folks! (See preview pictures posted on Flicker...link is on my website.)
Read on for a rapid review:
On Friday night we enjoyed exposure to the AMAZING food prep tools developed by Pampered Chef and hosted by Kerry Grootenoff on the Delacorte Campus Kitchens. The winners in the APPETIZERS category: the chicken and the shrimp fajitas...some like poultry, some prefer seafood...we make room for both at Palladio!
Saturday's extravaganza hosted in canvas tents on the plaza of our Armory Campus became a cluinary version of the old Barnum and Bailey Three Ring Circus. Each of the three tents pulled in the crowds with its own fragrant focus:
INSALATES (Salads in Italian)
SUPPE (Soups in German)
SOPREMESAS (Desserts in Portuguese...naturally low-fat AND redeeming nutritional factors)
Praise to Professor BonTempo's exceptional dedication to collaboration-based leadership the diversity of Palladio "Rings" has expanded exponentially since August 2010. Our community commitment to the wise use of technology across all endeavors responsibly brought about esquisite unions of minds, knowledge, and know-how. Our students, parents, faculty, and council reps have managed to make a greenhouse (of some just right size and structure ) readily available to every kitchen on and off campus.
Greehhousing a myriad of vegetables and herbs throughout this school year, we experience now ultimate delight in the array of organic vegetables and flavors that became par for every course (Yes, pun intended!). Our students' recipe testing science program on each campus sprouted shoots of enthusiasm among our students' "resident families" for healthy food and vibrant lives generated from the inside out!
Ten new dishes today will win a feature setting on the Palladio menus for summer meals and further exploration. Cultural adaptations will show up on our breakfast, dinner, and supper tables across campus at-large for the upcoming fall, winter, and spring terms.
(Palladio Journalism Team, lead by Gustavo Multado, Seventh Year, Green Chef Apprentice Program)
* Dark Blue, Spring Green, Yellow, Pink, Purple, Light Blue, Gold, Silver, Olive Green, Orange, Russet, Red
Entres crafted from ingredients -intended by each chef team to cultivate a featured power -grace tables in each of the twelve tents. You've got to see it to believe it folks! (See preview pictures posted on Flicker...link is on my website.)
Read on for a rapid review:
On Friday night we enjoyed exposure to the AMAZING food prep tools developed by Pampered Chef and hosted by Kerry Grootenoff on the Delacorte Campus Kitchens. The winners in the APPETIZERS category: the chicken and the shrimp fajitas...some like poultry, some prefer seafood...we make room for both at Palladio!
Saturday's extravaganza hosted in canvas tents on the plaza of our Armory Campus became a cluinary version of the old Barnum and Bailey Three Ring Circus. Each of the three tents pulled in the crowds with its own fragrant focus:
INSALATES (Salads in Italian)
SUPPE (Soups in German)
SOPREMESAS (Desserts in Portuguese...naturally low-fat AND redeeming nutritional factors)
Praise to Professor BonTempo's exceptional dedication to collaboration-based leadership the diversity of Palladio "Rings" has expanded exponentially since August 2010. Our community commitment to the wise use of technology across all endeavors responsibly brought about esquisite unions of minds, knowledge, and know-how. Our students, parents, faculty, and council reps have managed to make a greenhouse (of some just right size and structure ) readily available to every kitchen on and off campus.
Greehhousing a myriad of vegetables and herbs throughout this school year, we experience now ultimate delight in the array of organic vegetables and flavors that became par for every course (Yes, pun intended!). Our students' recipe testing science program on each campus sprouted shoots of enthusiasm among our students' "resident families" for healthy food and vibrant lives generated from the inside out!
Ten new dishes today will win a feature setting on the Palladio menus for summer meals and further exploration. Cultural adaptations will show up on our breakfast, dinner, and supper tables across campus at-large for the upcoming fall, winter, and spring terms.
(Palladio Journalism Team, lead by Gustavo Multado, Seventh Year, Green Chef Apprentice Program)
* Dark Blue, Spring Green, Yellow, Pink, Purple, Light Blue, Gold, Silver, Olive Green, Orange, Russet, Red
Monday, January 17, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
"Wild Bill" returning with Venison supply for Greenhouse Munchies Catering Service
Professor Wild Bill's lean game hunting apprentices from High Road Academy jabbered just minutes ago with their liaison crew back here at Palladio Campus. News? We have venison for winter catering!
Professor Bon Tempo requested Venison experts on campus to research and email their favorite preparations. Dairy Charge Nurse, Kit Reilly, was a first responder! She emailed a slough of recipees gathered during her multicultural internship ...service work in Kotzebeue, Alaska.
Better yet, she appeared at his door an hour later with hot samples of the last sausage from her stored stock---spiced and smoked three years ago, in unison with Visiting Hunting Ambassador, Professor Tom in Colorado.
(Professor Tom arrived this fall from the School of Mines in Colorado... and he brought the goods with him! )
Catering, here comes the Lean Venizeen!
Professor Bon Tempo requested Venison experts on campus to research and email their favorite preparations. Dairy Charge Nurse, Kit Reilly, was a first responder! She emailed a slough of recipees gathered during her multicultural internship ...service work in Kotzebeue, Alaska.
Better yet, she appeared at his door an hour later with hot samples of the last sausage from her stored stock---spiced and smoked three years ago, in unison with Visiting Hunting Ambassador, Professor Tom in Colorado.
(Professor Tom arrived this fall from the School of Mines in Colorado... and he brought the goods with him! )
Catering, here comes the Lean Venizeen!
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Monday, January 10, 2011
The First Four Years ... Resource Text for Twelve Powers Girls
Twelve Power Girls, began Sunday evening with brief yoga centering activity led by Eduardo (Kim, his middle school Lil Sis, apprenticed). Harmony Brook followed with a "Power Point Appetizer," to introduce newcomers to key story elements from the winning resource text. Meanwhile, her Lil Bro Frederic guided his crew from Professor Bon Tempo's Greenhouse Munchies in the kitchen prepping healthy edible appetizers!
Harmony's powerpoint for The first four years, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, got all twenty-seven participants enthused, circulating, greeting, trying on outfits from Laura's time period, posing for pics, and forming chapter study groups around Harmony's new Medicine Wheel format. And the Greenhouse Munchies catering service had to be very creative to introduce foods from the story period that was balanced with lots of vegetables, fruits, and low healthy fat alternatives (instead of the legacy of lard like the Ingalls and pioneers generally consumed -and worked off- during such circumstances).
Editorial Post Script:
At closing, we collected oral and written feedback from all Twelve Powers Girls. Questions reviewed the text, the food, and the format. Those results will be ready by the end of the week...we sure enjoyed what we saw from our recording studio... Rahul and Nadja.
Harmony's powerpoint for The first four years, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, got all twenty-seven participants enthused, circulating, greeting, trying on outfits from Laura's time period, posing for pics, and forming chapter study groups around Harmony's new Medicine Wheel format. And the Greenhouse Munchies catering service had to be very creative to introduce foods from the story period that was balanced with lots of vegetables, fruits, and low healthy fat alternatives (instead of the legacy of lard like the Ingalls and pioneers generally consumed -and worked off- during such circumstances).
Editorial Post Script:
At closing, we collected oral and written feedback from all Twelve Powers Girls. Questions reviewed the text, the food, and the format. Those results will be ready by the end of the week...we sure enjoyed what we saw from our recording studio... Rahul and Nadja.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
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