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Announcing: Christine Sloan Stoddard Joins as Development Coordinator
Please join us in welcoming Christine to our growing team!
Christine Sloan Stoddard is a Salvadoran-American writer and artist creating books, films, plays, and more. She founded Quail Bell Magazine, the Badass Lady-Folk, and Quail Bell Press & Productions. She recently completed her first feature film, Sirena's Gallery, after directing several shorts, such as Bottled and Brooklyn Burial. Her books include Heaven is a Photograph, Naomi & The Reckoning, Desert Fox by the Sea, Belladonna Magic, and Water for the Cactus Woman, among other titles. Previously, she was the first-ever artist-in-residence at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in Manhattan and an AnkhLave Arts Alliance fellow at the Queens Botanical Garden.
Learn more about Christine:
What excites you about this role with The Kaleidoscapes?
I'm thrilled to be a part of a smart, passionate team and contribute to eco-theatre projects for and by diverse communities.
What's your "place of significance" or an ecosystem that speaks to you and has formed you as a person?
The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia definitely helped form the person I am today.
What makes you passionate about storytelling, collaboration with communities, and environmental justice?
Storytelling and collaboration are the tools I've known since childhood, and environmental justice is important work that affects everyone.
Follow along for more updates regarding our growing team and our program offerings. And don't forget to get tickets to our next BREAKWATER workshop!
Announcing: Leadership Model Changes to Co-Artistic Directors
Help us extend a warm welcome to Lizzy Guerra, joining staff as Co-Artistic Director.
Elizabeth is a theatre artist and actor born in Cuba and raised in Miami, Florida. She has a degree in theatre from Florida State University with focuses in performance, writing, and directing as well as a minor in Spanish literature. She has been acting and performing from a very young age and quickly found her home on stage and studying theatre at Florida State introduced her to a love of devising and creating art from scratch. As a storyteller and activist, her goal is to tell important stories that don't just explore the narratives of underrepresented individuals and social issues, but bring light to the powerful and vulnerable stories of strong women.
Get to know Lizzy:
This position is so exciting because it's truly a unique chance to connect art and earth. I feel so lucky to have the opportunity to explore and learn from like minded artists who trust in the power theatre has to promote environmental justice.
I was born on a small beach called Baracoa in Cuba, since I could walk my grandmother would take me snorkeling every day. Some of my earliest memories are of floating underwater exploring everything the ocean had to offer. This experience completely formed me into who I am, appreciating how truly small and insignificant we are.
Why are you passionate about art for social change, directing and theatre?
Theatre and acting have been my glue for my entire life, and now I hope to continue to share its powers with audiences everywhere as a director. Art has the potential to change minds, to heal, and to evoke true emotion. Theatre, at its core, is a reminder of what it means to be human.
Over the next few weeks, we will be learning more about Lizzy and why we are so excited to bring her to the helm of this company.
We also have more exciting announcements regarding team members that we cannot wait to share.
Stay tuned to this space and also to our Instagram @thekaleidoscapes to get the latest updates!
Book Club: Andrews
The Word for Woman is Wilderness
By Abi Andrews
I chose this book because it's fiction, released in 2019! The Word for Woman is Wilderness has been described in its marketing materials as "a new kind of nature writing ― one that crosses fiction with science writing and puts gender politics at the center of the landscape.
Erin, a 19-year-old girl from middle England, is traveling to Alaska on a journey that takes her through Iceland, Greenland, and across Canada. She is making a documentary about how men are allowed to express this kind of individualism and personal freedom more than women are, based on masculinist ideas of survivalism and the shunning of society: the "Mountain Man." She plans to culminate her journey with an experiment: living in a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, a la Thoreau, to explore it from a feminist perspective.
The book is a fictional time capsule curated by Erin, comprising of personal narrative, fact, anecdote, images and maps, on subjects as diverse as The Golden Records, Voyager 1, the moon landings, the appropriation of Native land and culture, Rachel Carson, The Order of The Dolphin, The Doomsday Clock, Ted Kaczynski, Valentina Tereshkova, Jack London, Thoreau, Darwin, Nuclear war, The Letters of Last Resort and the pill, amongst many other topics."
I enjoyed the way that the story is broken into smaller sections, so it's easy to read on a commute, outdoors, or in increments before bed. I also found myself chuckling at the tone and more than once saying, "Ooooh, ROASTED" aloud from the zingers spoken by the young protagonist. I agree with reviewer Elizabeth Wainwright, who wrote in The Ecologist that "The book is built on ideas that are non-dual, vastly intersectional, and highlight the non-constant complexity of life, which cannot always be ordered, or made productive and focused." This book is messy in the best way. It won't give you the dopamine of instagram--it will run you around and mix you up and leave your questions unanswered.
I'd recommend this book to feminists of all genders who are looking for a book to immerse them for a little while. I'd pack this book in a bag with a flashlight for a weekend with fresh air.
If you would like more book recommendations about climate justice and environmental justice check out the Book Club Tab on our blog or email gail@thekaleidoscapes.org to hear more ways to get involved.
Oedipus Rex: Personal Tragedy or Environmental Justice Success Story?
By Covi Loveridge Brannan
Two weeks ago, I attended Theatre of War's presentation of The Oedipus Project as part of The Nobel Prize Summit: Our Planet, Our Future, put on by The Nobel Foundation and The U.S. National Academy of Science. This first ever Nobel Prize Summit brought together Nobel prize winners, policy leaders, youth activists, and public audiences to strategize around how to best tackle the climate crisis in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The program featured networking sessions, scientific presentations, and a number of distinguished speakers including Sir David Attenborough, John Kerry – the U.S. Special Envoy for Climate – and Dr. Anthony Fauci. What most stuck out to me, however, was the program's inclusion of several artistic presentations, of which The Oedipus Project was one.
My first encounter with one of Theatre of War's productions was back in the fall of 2019. On one of my first dates with my current partner, we attended a public reading of The Investigation by Peter Weiss. The Investigation is a documentary theatre piece adapted from transcripts of The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-65. This performance, coupled with a guided discussion around mass murder and communities affected by genocide, was riveting. I was overcome by emotion, and after quite a bit of ugly crying and digging my nails into my date's hand, I admit, the two of us decided to leave early. I remember our subway ride back home was quiet; there was an awkwardness in acknowledging we had just shared perhaps our most intimate moment to date. It was an outing I certainly won't forget, and do not recommend as a romantic night out, unless you are looking to fast-track the level of intimacy in your partnership ten-fold.
Since that night, I have been fascinated by Theatre of War's methodology. In their own words: "Theater of War Productions works with leading film, theater, and television actors to present dramatic readings of seminal plays—from classical Greek tragedies to modern and contemporary works—followed by town hall-style discussions designed to confront social issues by drawing out raw and personal reactions to themes highlighted in the plays. The guided discussions underscore how the plays resonate with contemporary audiences and invite audience members to share their perspectives and experiences, and, helping to break down stigmas, foster empathy, compassion, and a deeper understanding of complex issues". And I can tell you first hand, boy, do these events succeed in their mission. Early on in the pandemic, I was thrilled to see Theatre of War's work move online and attended a presentation of Antigone in Ferguson, a project centered on racialized police violence. Imagine my excitement then when I learned about their upcoming spot in The Nobel Prize Summit focused on environmental justice. This was gonna be good.
At the time of the presentation of Oedipus The King, I was off volunteering at a nature reserve in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil, but I wasn't going to let that stop me from attending. So I grabbed some bug spray, camped out on the covered patio, crossed my fingers, and prayed the notoriously spotty Wifi would hold. I was not disappointed.
The performers included some of my favorites – Frances McDormand as Jocasta and Jeffrey Wright as blind prophet Tiresias – flanked by a Chorus of Nobel Prize-winning scientists, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr. Harold Varmus. It's incredible what new insights I had while listening to this all-too-familiar play through a new lens. In the wake of the pandemic, the plague facing the people of Thebes suddenly took on a whole new weight, and, in my mind, the Sphinx's riddle suddenly became a symbol of the oppressive curse of the capitalist system.
Perhaps the most impactful part of the evening was hearing responses from five community panelists which included "two young climate activists: A poet, a farmer, and an urban grower" reflecting on what about the play resonated with them "across time". The words of David James "DJ" Savarese, activist, public scholar, and "practicing optimist", were particularly potent : "A few things resonated for me. One is that even if we know the future, if we take that knowledge and act from a place of fear, nothing good will come of it. That means we need to remain hopeful. Hope is not easy. It's messy, imperfect, and nearly absent from the play. What would it mean to quit gorging ourselves on fear and to live life as a meditation on hope?"
Oedipus the King is a story of fear. We must not forget that at the start, Oedipus is a hero, the great savior of Thebes, yet when the curse of his birth comes back to haunt him, the protagonist falls immediately into paranoia, motivated by self-preservation. When Jocasta, his mother and wife, realizes the truth of their corrupt relations, she pleads with Oedipus: "Oh, if you care for your life, abandon This quest! The anguish I endure is enough", implying she would rather them live in blissful ignorance than learn the hard truth–even if this knowledge has the power to end their city's plague. Once again individualism prevails over altruism.
The story of Oedipus is a tragedy because we can't help but feel for the title character. His humanity connects him to us, the audience. Yet, in the Greek world, nature was very much a part of divinity and by that token a part of the human experience–the pathetic fallacy of the plague was beget directly by Oedipus' actions. The theme of blindness in the play is directly connected to humans ignoring the truths signalled by nature. Why does the "blind" prophet Tiresias see the truth regarding the origins of the plague before everyone else? Because he listens to the birds. In truth, he is not the one who is blind.
In the final dramatic moments of the play, Oedipus gouges his eyes out as a form of penance and asks to be exiled, thus ridding his people of "the pestilence". While all hope seems to be lost when focusing on Oedipus' fate, a closer reading of the play implies that altruism has, in fact, prevailed. Oedipus' final actions save the city of Thebes from sickness and environmental destruction. With this thought, I am reminded of DJ Savarese's final plea of the evening: " I want us to understand ourselves as a vast ecosystem – enmeshed, entangled, and interdependent". Viewed through this lens of interdependence is Odeipus The King truly a story of tragedy? Or rather one of prevailing environmental justice?
Covi Loveridge is an actress, playwright, creative producer based out of NYC and LA. As a practitioner, Covi is committed to producing and pursuing sustainable and
eco-socially conscious work. She believes human stories and ecological stories are intertwined and values work that embraces this shared legacy of life on Earth.
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash
Book Club: Goldhagen
Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives
By Sarah Williams Goldhagen
I have some architect friends with qualms, but for an entry-level reader, this was an interesting point of encounter about the ways that urban planning can lead the way in sustainable development. In reality, the majority of us are city dwellers! "Being green" does not mean living somewhere green. In fact, it shouldn't mean a lot of the things we code in that language--it should mean transformation of our entire outdated energy grid and other large scale changes rather than guilt or individual-focused narratives.
Take a second to think about buildings:
Even as many people have quarantined in our apartment buildings or homes over the past year, there are still millions and millions of square ft of office and indoor space that have been heated and cooled. That's so. Much. Energy.
Goldhagen ends her book by sharing, "For good and for ill, buildings and cityscapes and landscapes literally shape and help constitute our lives and ourselves. Designing and building enriched environments, ones that are informed by what we now know and are learning about how people experience the places they inhabit, will promote the development of human capabilities. Just as is true with regard to global warming and the earth's environment, nearly everything we construct today will outlast us to affect those who come after us, sometimes generations and generations of them. Shouldn't a better built environment be the legacy we leave to the world?"
Luckily, there are companies already hard at work towards this goal. And organizers pushing for legislative reform. Whether you read this book or not, may we support those efforts to follow the most brilliant design plan there is--the intelligent, efficient balance of the earth itself.
By Artistic Director, Gail Tierney. To learn more about joining our Book Club email gail@thekaleidoscapes.org
Confessions of a "Teenage" Eco-Artist
As I write to you from a small nature reserve in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil, I find my mind aflutter with semi-formed thoughts. It is hard to recall any place more spectacular than the one I am currently spending my time in. I've seen bioluminescent mushrooms decorate the nocturnal forest floor; I've fallen into a pond searching for tree frogs no bigger than my thumb; I've seen a butterfly fall fast asleep perched upside-down.
Here in the southwest of São Paulo state, I'm surrounded by locals who know the rainforest by birth, and biologists who know it through extensive study. Even the other volunteers — nature photographers, biology students, cannabis growers — seem eco-experts through my novice eyes. I try to shrug off the feeling of imposter syndrome as I respond (in heavily-accented Portuguese) to the seemingly simple question of what I do outside of this isolated, natural paradise: "Eu sou atriz".
"I am an actress" is a gross simplification of what I do. If I were able to articulate myself properly, I would explain that, in addition to performing, I also write plays, and produce them, that I have a masters degree, that I consider myself a real-New-York-theatre-professional. I would go on to explain that for the past few years I've been interested in this thing called "eco-theatre" and getting some hands-on experience at Instituto de Pesquisa da Biodiversidade seemed like a great way to give myself some credibility when it comes to the "eco" part. Behind all these accreditations and explanations, however, the truth is — despite all my post-graduate studies, despite all I've accomplished so far — I came here searching for the answer to a deceivingly simple question: "How do I do this?".
When you get into theatre, whether as a kid or an adult, the phrase "use what you know" is often repeated by your teachers. Theatre artists are storytellers above all else, so what better "way in" than to share with the audience what you yourself have experienced. Somehow, through trial and error and tricks of the imagination, "using what you know" becomes enough to embody Shakespearean fairies, Australian war lieutenants, and post-apocalyptic aristocrats. You can extrapolate what you know so far as to write plays about human-ghost romance, self-help cults championed by John Denver, suburban housewives succumbing to Cold War paranoia, or closeted, 20th century lesbians. Yet somehow, when it comes to talking about nature, about the Climate crisis, about why it matters to care for the soil and plants and animals that keep us alive, your mind draws a blank. A judge creeps into your inner monologue and chuckles, "Who are you kidding, Covi? You don't know anything".
I know this isn't true, but a lot of the time it feels true. What is it about nature that feels so foreign to my 21st century person? The truth is, consumerism, capitalism, conololism, and white supremacy have spent over a century ensuring this is so. Teaching inhabitants of Western Civilization that to be close to nature is to be "uncivilized" or "barbaric" is a key tenant of justifying the exploitation of peoples and extraction of resources that have allowed our modern day society to reach this point of industrialization. I know the history of this lie, I know the deception which has taken place, yet somehow, emotionally, I still fall for the trick.
The more I think about how divorced I feel from nature, the more infuriated I get at the conditions that have made it so — the more I feel like a teenager, filled to the brim with passion, emboldened to rebel against the lies society taught me. I want to scream it in the streets and share it in my songs — well, plays — lest future generations be subjected to the same untruths I was.
And so, I continue the task of reclaiming my proximity to nature. For me, that could mean something as "exotic" as digging through Brazilian bird poop looking for fruit seeds (in the name of science), or as close to home as feeling the sand between my toes on a Southern California beach. As I investigate this relationship, I do my best to share as I go. I have yet to write my first "eco-play," whatever that means… I'm much too scared. But in the end, aren't we all part of the same global ecosystem as the butterflies and the sandcrabs and the seedlings? Why should my story be so different from their story? Why should any of ours be?
Covi Loveridge is an actress, playwright, creative producer based out of NYC and LA. As a practitioner, Covi is committed to producing and pursuing sustainable and eco-socially conscious work. She believes human stories and ecological stories are intertwined and values work that embraces this shared legacy of life on Earth.
5 Eco-Theatre Companies You Should Know About: 1st Edition
By Covi Loveridge Brannan
In Fall of 2020, I had the opportunity to research arts organizations engaging in sustainable artmaking as part of Agenda: Communicating the Arts' inaugural 30 Under 30 initiative. My research partner, Anna Aglietta, and I had a wonderful time speaking with eco-art makers all over our assigned region of North America.
This week, I am super excited to introduce 5 of these fabulous companies to you!
One note before we start: not all of these companies self-identify as "eco-theatre" companies, however, they were selected based on their being performing or multi-disciplinary arts groups which engage deeply with the existential threat of climate change and other socio-ecological issues which their communities face.
And we're off….
ONE:
Superhero Clubhouse
Where: Occupied Lenapehoking (New York, NY)
When: Since 2007
Mission: "Superhero Clubhouse unites ecology and theater to enact justice, cultivate hope, and inspire a thriving future"
Programming Highlights: SHC's educational program "Big Green Theatre" provides youth at Brooklyn public schools with opportunities to write and develop their own climate change plays to be performed by professionals. Watch the student's video projects free on SHC's website! SHC's current mainstage project "Mammelephant" is currently being developed as part of Theatre Row's inaugural Kitchen Sink residency. Broadway, here they come!
Why We Love Them: We love that Superhero Clubhouse not only showcases ecological content but places social justice at the core of how they go about their work. Core values of "justice, hope, collaboration, and knowledge", as well as formal commitments to antiracism and anti-oppression, guide the way SHC creates and interacts with their community.
Dancing Earth Creations
Where: Ogaa Po Ogeh – occupied Tewa territory (Santa Fe, NM) and Yelamu – occupied Ohlone territory (San Francisco, CA)
Mission: "Dancing Earth dynamically activates our mission to create and support contemporary global Indigenous dance and related arts, to encourage and revitalize awareness of bio-cultural diversity through artistic expression, for the education and wellness of all peoples"
Programming Highlights: Employing and engaging with indigenous artists from all over the United States, Dancing Earth offers an outlet for indigenous creatives to create and perform artistic interventions focusing on humans' relationship with and dependence on natural elements. Dancing Earth's touring project Between Earth and Skyward (BTW US) explores "renewable energy from spiritual, cultural and practical perspectives" and engages with audience members directly to envision possibilities for a collective future.
Why We Love Them: A key point of Dancing Earth's work is their connection to the diaspora of indigenous communities throughout Turtle Island and the land they inhabit. Wherever the company goes, they are sure to provide opportunities which build community, uplift the voices of local Elders, and provide opportunities for sharing traditional meals together.
The Arctic Cycle
Mission: "The Arctic Cycle uses theatre to foster dialogue about our global climate crisis, create an empowering vision of the future, and inspire people to take action"
Programming Highlights: In addition to their ongoing development of the Arctic Plays by founder Chantal Bilodeau, since 2019, the Arctic Cycle has held a number of 5-day intensives in New York, Anchorage, Boston, and Miami. At these gatherings "artists, activists, scientists, and educators who want to engage or further their engagement with climate change through artistic practices" meet to learn new eco-art skills and share their own knowledge.
Why We Love Them: Have you heard of Climate Change Theatre Action? Since 2015, CCTA has supported three worldwide series of readings and performances of short climate change plays. The performances are scheduled biennially to coincide with the United Nations COP meetings. Not only does CCTA provide producers with marketing support, artistic materials, and a network of like-minded folks, it uplifts the work on 50 playwrights per series who offer unique and culturally specific insight into the climate problem. Wanna be a part of the next iteration? Click here.
Art At Work presents MAINEUSA
Where: occupied Aucocisco, Wabnaki, and Pequawket territories (Portland, ME)
Mission: "Art At Work inspires, invents, and supports creative projects and collaborations that deepen connections (especially across perceived differences) and increase understanding, equity & joy"
Programming Highlights: Art at Work's current project, MAINEUSA, gathers Maine residents from all walks of life to share their histories (via interviews and story circles) in order to develop a performance piece which reflects the emerging diversity of the state and acknowledges its eco-social history since the time of the Ice Age. The resulting site-specific performance will include 10 local performers, 75 ensemble members from the community ("25 young people as herrings, 25 adults as ravens, 25 elders as trees"), music, projections, puppetry, and more.
Why We Love Them: The performance is just the beginning! A series of post-performance events include tree planting, story exchanges, and opportunities to process the emotionality of climate change. MAINEUSA is an expansive project which, after its premiere, plans to be a multi-year seasonal event providing 200 full time and seasonal jobs to local Mainers.
EcoArts Foundation
Where: occupied Kumeyaay territory (Encinitas, CA)
Mission: "EcoArts Foundation is committed to its mission: to inspire ecological regeneration via the arts"
Programming Highlights: EcoArts Foundation's programming includes free, arts-based public events, in-school eco-arts programming for youth, and the Let's Talk About the Weather podcast series which spotlights eco-artists. Partnering with the City of Palmdale, EcoArts Foundation airs EcoArtsTV on local television, "incorporating environmental film vignettes, showcasing work by eco artists, experts, and allies in playful, creative style". How awesome is that?
Why We Love Them: Children are the future, and EcoArts Foundation takes that message and runs with it. Their new elementary school program is a dynamic example of incorporating arts-based climate education into the American school system in order to support the cognitive, collaborative, and creative development of children. We can't wait to see what these 2,000 "mini eco-artists" will contribute to our communities!
I hope you enjoyed learning about these fabulous companies as much as I did!
Stay tuned for more lists of arts organizations fighting for ecological justice through the power of performance.
What in the world is eco-theatre?
In February of 2020, American Theatre Magazine released a special issue entirely devoted to the topic of theatre and climate change. The articles discuss the ways in which theatre-making can help upset existing power structures, uplift marginalized voices, and envision paths for the future. As Lanxing Fu and Jeremy Piccard, co-Artistic Directors of Brooklyn based company Superhero Clubhouse, state in their article A Climate of Change, "Functioning as a microcosm of society, theatre is uniquely positioned to create the cultural conditions needed for alternative structures of power and economies to thrive. And because the climate crisis demands change at every level, every theatre-maker can participate by shifting our practices to center climate justice in our work, regardless of the content of what's onstage".
But how do we do this? While creatives usually leap at a challenge, the task of pivoting to a climate just practice can seem particularly difficult to take on. From my perspective, this difficulty stems not from disinterest but from not knowing where to start. To take on these new ways of thinking and working, one must let go of past experience and enter into a vulnerable state which is open and receptive to new forms of knowledge. It is hard to be a beginner (especially as a professional practitioner) and even more difficult to undo old habits. The first step, then, is to wrap our heads around what this idea of "eco-theatre" is. With my project, On The Hook: A Climate-Conscious Exploration of Anna Christie, I set out to do just what the title suggests: explore. I am not an expert at this, if anything, I am just a curious artist yearning to make the world a better place. With the current state of our world, taking on a climate-conscious practice seems imperative in working towards a just and sustainable future for all.
So, what is "eco-theatre"? When it comes to learning new things, Google is a very useful tool (though I admit that I generally use the decisively less-useful "Ecosia" as my primary search engine, since it plants trees every time I hit 45 searches). Sustainability is a hot topic in nearly every industry, and, in 2020, most adequately-funded cultural institutions are doing their part to "go green" and lower their environmental footprints. Companies like Julie's Bicycle and Broadway Green Alliance have been doing great work with major theatre institutions to get them on track to "net-zero", and some smaller theatre companies like Brooklyn-based Superhero Clubhouse and Earth Matters on Stage (EMoS) are taking up the mantle of "eco-theatre", centering ecology and integrating sustainability in every aspect of what they do.
But what does it take to make a theatre production "sustainable"? What qualifies as "eco-theatre"? These words are still new to me, but I am beginning to develop my own understanding. Working "sustainably" in theatre means considering the ecological, carbon, and equity implications during every step of the design, rehearsal, and performance processes. Results of this type of thinking can range from "green theater" practices, such as using LED lighting to save power or thrifted costumes to reduce waste, to adapting rehearsal strategies to better ensure equity and quality of work for those involved.
So, is every production which integrates sustainable practices a piece of "eco-theatre"? Not quite. That would probably qualify as "green-washing", a crime I believe should be penalized by public scorn and hefty fiscal taxation. To be a piece of "eco-theatre", creators must commit to looking through a very specific dramaturgical lens: one that considers how the piece being performed converses with both environmental and socio-economic concerns. For example, while in his play King Lear, William Shakespeare frequently uses pathetic fallacy, mainly in the form of the great storm personifying the titular character's mental state, this masterwork is not inherently a work of "eco-theatre". Yes, in terms of text, the natural environment is directly responding to the human characters and vice versa, yet we have not quite met the eco-theatre benchmark.
However, if a particular production of King Lear chose to explore more deeply the characters' relationships to the natural environment, emphasizing these moments directorially and through design, we are on our way. If the production went a step further, digging into the "man vs. nature" imagery in the text, alluding to the socio-economic implications of King Lear arbitrarily dividing his kingdom between his daughters with no consideration for the impact on his subjects' livelihoods, and centering the imperialist attitudes and absolute power that monarchs exerted during the late sixteenth century, then we have a piece of "eco-theatre".
"Wait!", you say, "If that's all it takes, then nearly every play could become a piece of eco-theatre! Pretty much every great storyteller and playwright has at least considered the relationship between the characters, society, and their environment in some way. You didn't add anything new; it's all right there in front of you!"
From where I stand, you are absolutely correct. Humanity and their social societies are indivisible from the natural world. Somewhere along the way, Western Civilization sought to separate itself from "nature" and claim their citizens as superior to those considered "closer to nature". They began to regard natural phenomena as "resources" to be extracted and perceive those who dwelt harmoniously with the Earth as sources of "labor" to be exploited, all of this in the name of "progress". But, what kind of human progress should we be seeking? Artists have been asking this question from the beginning of society itself. It is up to us as modern theatre practitioners to consider the socio-ecological implications of the work we are exploring, in the name of dramaturgical integrity, truthful storytelling, and out of loyalty to the well-being and advancement of humankind.
Book Club: Tuan
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
By Yi-Fu Tuan
Today's recommendation synthesizes a few of my areas of interest. As the 25th anniversary edition of this publication, it has already proven influential in multiple fields, including theatre, literature, anthropology, psychology, and theology. I heard about this book from Dr. Elaine James--a Christian scholar whose work focuses on the Hebrew Bible, especially its poetry. I've studied questions with her revolving around land, ecology, gender and sexuality. She's a badass, and learning Hebrew was worth it so I can engage with her grapplings.
I've studied ecological theology for three years for many reasons, some of which are still a mystery to me! Understanding the histories of interpretation for religious texts (and learning how dominant narratives are constructed and maintained) can transfer into the observation of precedent for environmental law. Developing my inner spiritual compass can help me approach land, a fiercely political topic, with humanity and love. And, of course, a desire to decolonize our minds will brush up against damaging Christian legacies of violent oppression. I've learned two tangible languages, Greek and Hebrew, in my graduate studies, but I've also gained fluency in our species-wide capacity for ritual and connection to our planet.
In this book, Yi-Fu Tuan explores humans' "exceptionally refined capacity for symbolization." He asks, "in what ways do people attach meaning to and organize space and place?"
For me, some of the most fascinating parts of the book connected to the past. He shares, "In antiquity, land and religion were so closely associated that a family could not renounce one without yielding the other. Exile was the worst of fates, since it deprived a man not only of his physical means of support but also of his religion and the protection of laws guaranteed by the local gods." I've spent hours in the library, reading about meaning-making in antiquity, whether through omens and observation of the natural world, or economics, justice systems, and ethics as they've changed over time. Why look to the past if not to provide perspective and critical thinking about our here and now?
Are we oriented, as Tuan says, to our surroundings? What does "feeling at home" mean when we are surrounded by collective grief for the impacts of the pandemic? Or ever-increasing numbers of climate refugees, climate-connected illnesses, and deaths?
In a book about experiential perspective, Yi-Fu Tuan offers us the opportunity to integrate the experiences of our ancestors into our consciousness now.
While reading you will be asked to consider case studies, complex questions, and, as our author beautifully articulates, "things that were once out of focus for us come into focus."
Quote: "Human beings, like other animals, feel at home on earth. We are, most of the time, at ease in our part of the world. Life in its daily round is thoroughly familiar. Skills once learned are as natural to us as breathing. Above all, we are oriented. This is a fundamental source of confidence."
Book Club: White
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
By Monica M. White
I share these book recommendations on a schedule, I've been told, that no one is possibly following except for me. I read really fast. Thank you, grad school. So, you may see this title as you are scrolling through the gallery of other titles I've read, or months from now in a quiet moment. I'll let you in on the secret that I plan the timing of when I share books with intention. Our author, Monica M. White, is an activist and urban ethnographer of the food justice-urban agriculture movement in Detroit since 2007, where she has worked with others to transform and rebuild a financially devastated city. She described this book as a love letter. She said it "feels like love--never easy, but worth it." February can get a lot of hype around a certain kind of love, and I wanted to add her labor of love into the mix.
In January, I took a class called Land, Food, and the Black Church with Rev. Dr. Heber Brown III. Freedom Farmers was one of our textbooks. As I approached the text this month to write this blurb, I had the joy of hearing some of the sections in his charismatic voice. These are not just words on a page anymore. They're connected to conversations and stories that I hold with reverence from that zoom room. Here's a few of the central concepts for you to sample:
"Collective agency, a concept that I coined based upon the data for this project, involves social actors' ability to create and enact behavioral options necessary to affect their political future."
"Community resilience, a subcategory within the burgeoning field of resilience science, refers to the various structural aspects and components of human adaptation to extreme adversity, using 'community' as the unit of analysis."
"Prefigurative politics begins with the awareness that members of a group have been excluded from the political process."
The book itself is full of rich stories. As the author puts it, "This book is an effort to recover, tell, and honor the stories of collective agency and community resilience of the black rural poor, a group the civil rights movement left behind." It is also intended to "connect contemporary urban farmer-activists to an earlier time when African Americans turned to agriculture as a strategy for building sustainable communities."
I'd recommend this read to anyone with an interest in food justice, especially if you're not sure where to start. I'd also recommend it to seasoned practitioners who are looking for a source of wisdom to fill their cup and reinvigorate their efforts. So, really, when it comes down to it, I'm recommending this book to everyone yet again. Because it's fantastic and should be shared!
Quote: "If pain was all there was, how can we explain the indigenous roots of the current urban farming movement--spearheaded by black people? If pain was all there was, why should black people voluntarily return to a form of work that produced exploitation and oppression--so much so that it forced people to flee from the South?"
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The 124 Sport Spider is a 2+2 convertible sports car marketed by Fiat from 1966 to 1980 – having debuted at the November 1966 Turin Auto Show. Designed and manufactured by Italian carrozzeria Pininfarina, Fiat and Pininfarina continued to market the monocoque-bodied car as the 2000 Spiderfrom 1979 to 1982. Pininfarina itself assumed the car's marketing from 1983 to the end of its production in 1985 – as the Pininfarina Spider Azzura.
The body of the car was designed and marketed by Pininfarina. The convertible body was designed by Tom Tjaarda, who used his earlier designs ofChevrolet Corvette "Rondine" and Ferrari 275 GTS. Several years later, in 1981, on the 50th anniversary of Pininfarina, this fact was further emphasized by producing a Fiat Spider 2000 Pininfarina 50th (Golden) Anniversary Edition. In 1972, a sports version of the Spider was revealed. This was required for a type-approval of its rally version, which earned some remarkable success. The models sold in showrooms were marked as 124 CSA (C-Spider-Abarth). The vehicle had a capacity of 128 hp. In three years, Fiat manufactured less than 1,000 CSA models, which were intended for sale to individual clients. Apart from the Fiat Spider 2000 Pininfarina 50th (Golden) Anniversary Edition, this is one of the versions most eagerly sought by collectors.


Descriptive analytics is usually the first step in data analytics exercise. As the name suggests, it describes a dataset.
Descriptive analytics is usually the first step in data analytics exercise. As the name suggests, it describes a dataset. It answers the question, "what happened".
shape or pattern factors like standard distribution.
What do these numbers tell? In total, they both sold 254 items, which means they both are equally competitive. Their average is 42.3, which again says they both are equal in caliber.
The standard deviation paints a different picture. The standard deviation measures concentration of data around the mean. The standard deviation for the first manager is 1.8, while the second one is 16.2. What does this mean? The first manager is consistent week after week in meeting his target, but the second manager is not. If all else remain the same, then this data indicates that the first sales manager is more dependable than the second one.
We will use two packages for this purpose. The first one, csvtojson, is to read csv records and convert them into json values. The second one, simple-statistics, is to compute statistics. Refer the documentation for all the features of this package. In this post, we are using only the essential functions.
Simple Statistics takes an array of values and computes statistics. Computing sum, mean, and standard deviation for the above two sales values goes like this.
Too often when we learn a subject, we get neatly arranged examples. It is like going to the zoo. But the real-world is complex.
Recently, I analyzed sales figures for a large e-commerce company. There were about 150000 records. I couldn't glance through the numbers to make sense. I loaded all the data and analyzed through simple statistics package. It showed me how different real-world sales figures compared to the neatly arranged values we get while learning.
The sales engine is completely messy for them. Each of the descriptive statistics element says only one thing: there is no consistency in their sales.
A good book to understand descriptive statistics and in general numbers, is from "The Economist", aptly titled Numbers Guide. If you want to understand standard deviation, read Understanding Standard Deviation.


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June 2020, 28(2): 599-625. doi: 10.3934/era.2020032
Initial-boundary value problem for a fourth-order plate equation with Hardy-Hénon potential and polynomial nonlinearity
Xu Liu and Jun Zhou ,
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
* Corresponding author: Jun Zhou
Received March 2020 Revised March 2020 Published April 2020
In this paper, the initial-boundary value problem for a fourth-order plate equation with Hardy-Hénon potential and polynomial nonlinearity is invsitgated. First, we establish the local well-posedness of solutions by means of the semigroup theory. Then by using ordinary differential inequalities, potential well theory and energy estimate, we study the conditions on global existence and finite time blow-up. Moreover, the lifespan (i.e., the upper bound of the blow-up time) of the finite time blow-up solution is estimated.
Keywords: Fourth-order plate equation, Hardy-Hénon potential, finite time blow-up, global existence, lifespan.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35G10, 35B40.
Citation: Xu Liu, Jun Zhou. Initial-boundary value problem for a fourth-order plate equation with Hardy-Hénon potential and polynomial nonlinearity. Electronic Research Archive, 2020, 28 (2) : 599-625. doi: 10.3934/era.2020032
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Protesters attempted to set fire to the Banque du Liban building in Hamra, Beirut. They thus intend to protest against the degradation of the parity of the Lebanese pound against the dollar but also react to the accusations of embezzlement and money laundering of which the governor of the Bank of Lebanon, Riad Salamé is accused.
Dumpsters were also set on fire in Hamra Street and road traffic is currently interrupted.
Also, associations of depositors including "the cry of depositors" called for new demonstrations from Friday at 10 am in front of the French embassy, indicating to have also lodged a complaint against 16 people, denying any politicization of this dossier, in response to remarks by Prime Minister Najib Mikati who allegedly threatened to resign if the Governor of the Banque du Liban is indicted. Najib Mikati has since denied this information published by the local press, believing, however, that the judiciary should defend the institutions and not the people.
Depositors' associations, through this demonstration in front of the French Embassy, appeal to the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, asking him to intervene in particular by putting pressure on the branches of Lebanese banks abroad and on the managers and shareholders. banking establishments which hold significant assets abroad.
In addition, tires were set on fire in front of the Banque du Liban branch in Tripoli in the north.
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We've decided to take this newfound energy to review and revise our marketing strategies for Next Level. We have been and still are, fortunate to be referred by word-of-mouth and grow organically. In the last few years, as we've focused on some of the basic marketing tasks, we've now decided to expand those initiatives and hire a marketing agency to help us with continued growth.
The marketing agency conducted a 360 degree analysis of Next Level, which consisted of interviewing a number of our clients and vendors for candid and anonymous feedback. It was a powerful experience, reading insights from people we've worked with for years, to receive constructive criticism. I didn't expect many surprises, since we already perform debriefs with each client after every event, and are aware of how we performed against client expectations. However, what was especially impactful from this review was hearing more about our process, and how we differentiate from the competition through these client testimonials.
I am really proud of our team and the success we've had thus far. Feedback from this survey was consistently positive regarding our creativity, commitment to quality and being fun to work with. Something I found really unique was that our clients felt our connection to and excitement for their projects; our enthusiasm helps them stay focused and motivated. Often, our clients will request that the Next Level team join forces with their team, instead of being just a hired vendor, to create a synergistic group rooting for the same end goal—a successful event that leaves a lasting impression to all who attended.
In the Event Industry, you have to be organized and prepared for change. There is so much that's coming at you, at any given point in time and from many different avenues, if unprepared, it's a recipe for disaster. I would say that people in our industry are tough graders. We're perfectionists and most often also control freaks (and I say that with love and respect)…it's essential to our jobs! It's all in the logistics and communication, and thankfully, this is something that people highlighted as one of Next Level's strengths. We like to think of ourselves as a company of event firefighters—we roll with the punches, we put out metaphorical fires, and have a lot of fun doing it together.
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The Key to the Crime
When my great-grandmother was murdered a century ago in Winnipeg's 'Hebrew Colony,' police had suspects and a motive: antisemitism. But the only physical clue they could find left them baffled.
Wayne Hoffman
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My great-grandmother Sarah immigrated to North America from Russia in 1906, fleeing both a wave of antisemitic pogroms and a spurned lover who'd sworn revenge on her. She came to Winnipeg, and married my great-grandfather David Feinstein, himself a recent arrival from Russia. They were poor at first, living close to the railyards in the city's North End, where most Jewish immigrants had settled.
Within just a few years, though, things had begun to turn around. My great-grandfather had started a successful cattle-dealing business with his brothers, and eventually David and Sarah—and their four children—moved into a bigger house on a quieter street. They became well respected members of the growing Jewish community, and they could even indulge in a few luxuries: fur coats, jewelry, a live-in nanny. Things were looking good for the family—until one night, when everything they built came crashing down.
Sarah Feinstein was murdered in Winnipeg's North End in the early hours of Friday, August 1, 1913. She was shot through the temple while she slept. Her baby Anne lay in the crib next to the bed, while her 2-year-old daughter Fanny was curled up next to her mother—still asleep after the fatal shot, her nightgown soaking with blood. Her older children—Harry, nearly 6, and my grandmother Ethel, who was 3—were in the next room, with their nanny Victoria Komanowska.
It took me years to discover all the details of Sarah's murder, which bore little resemblance to the legends that had circulated in my family for decades. But even after I found out the basic facts by digging through official documents and newspaper archives—the brutal murder of a young Russian immigrant in the neighborhood that Winnipeg's journalists called the "Hebrew Colony" made headlines in English and Yiddish papers across Canada, from Montreal to Vancouver—I still didn't know who was responsible for what the city's Yiddish weekly Der Keneder Yid called a "horrific tragedy."
Nobody else did, either. It was Winnipeg's only unsolved murder that year.
Police and journalists had a pair of likely suspects almost immediately: Mary Manastaka, who previously worked for the Feinsteins, had spouted antisemitic bile at Sarah, shouting that Russia had gotten rid of its Jews, and Canada should do the same; Sarah had pushed her off her veranda during one of these tirades, and Mary had sworn revenge. She and her boyfriend Stefan Kushowsky, a railyard worker nearby in the city's North End, were named as prime suspects within hours of the murder on Friday morning.
But by Sunday, they had both been cleared and released from police custody, and investigators had to come up with a new theory of the crime.
While he called the murder of Sarah Feinstein "the work of a most steady hand and a heart of stone," Chief Constable Donald MacPherson said that "not a really tangible clue was left" at the scene—except for one puzzling piece of evidence.
There were three keys to the Feinsteins' house, one of which Sarah typically carried, while the other two hung on a ledge in the house. Her husband, David, my great-grandfather, never carried a key to his own house, since his wife was always home to let him in, and Victoria didn't need one either since, as the Manitoba Free Press reported, "she never had a night off, as she was not permitted to go out, and did not want to." Coming in through the one window that had been left open a few inches would have made too much noise, police said. So it seemed likely that the perpetrator had used a key to enter the house, probably through the front door that had been mysteriously unlocked when Victoria ran to alert the neighbors after the shooting. When David returned to Winnipeg from a business trip to Canora, Saskatchewan—where he worked as a cattle dealer—on Saturday, the day after his wife's murder, neither he nor the police could locate the keys that normally hung on the ledge. Where was the key that the murderer probably used to open the front door? "It may be at the bottom of the Red River for all anyone knows of it at present," the Free Press offered.
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Perhaps the murderer was already in the house when Sarah went to sleep. That person might have come in without a key by climbing through the coal chute and hiding in the cellar until the middle of the night, before coming into the house via the basement stairs. This was a remote possibility, although nobody noticed coal dust tracked through the house. More likely, the murderer had taken the key before the killing, or had the key passed along by someone inside the house—a hired girl, for instance. Or maybe a key had been taken or passed along some days before the murder and simply duplicated; the door had a standard Yale lock, whose key could easily be copied by a locksmith.
Whatever the exact story, police believed that the key to solving the crime was, literally, the key. "There is little question but that the perpetrator of the crime had a key to the place," wrote the Free Press, "and it would be strong circumstantial evidence to be able to find it on anyone."
Investigators had little other physical evidence to consider. While they could deduce from the flattened bullet removed from Sarah's skull during the autopsy that the weapon that killed her was a .32 caliber revolver, no gun was recovered. A box of "Russian fusees" were found, and as the Winnipeg Tribune noted, "these matches are not sold in Winnipeg, but are often seen in the possession of immigrants from South Russia and Austria"—although that didn't do much to narrow the list of suspects in a neighborhood like the North End, filled with immigrants, with more arriving from Russian and Austrian lands every month.
This lack of evidence didn't stop Winnipeg's journalists from publishing story after story speculating about the case. The murder stayed on the front page of the city's newspapers for days in early August 1913, alongside reports of train wrecks, grain production, revolution in Venezuela, and provincial cricket tournaments, as well as other less sensational headlines, such as "Drowning Man Saved by Moose" or "Chicken Shooting Begins Tomorrow All Over Manitoba."
After the release of Stefan and Mary, the Free Press reported that investigators had already explored "a dozen different plausible theories that looked strong for the time being."
The front page of the 'Winnipeg Tribune' on the day of the murder, Aug. 1, 1913
Dr. William Rogers, the coroner overseeing the inquest into Sarah's death, had ruled out suicide early; if Sarah had killed herself, the gun would have been found in her bed. A domestic dispute—the cause of several other much-publicized murders in Winnipeg in 1913—was taken out of consideration after neighbors were unanimous in their observation that Sarah and her husband had rarely quarreled, and that "David Feinstein always treated his wife with consideration, gratifying her every whim whenever possible," according to the Free Press. ("The only trouble the couple ever had was shortly after their marriage and was about relatives coming to see them," the paper noted, adding that "for the past several years they have lived happily.") The possibility of an extramarital affair was also dismissed: "Jealousy, the most common motive for murders in all police records, is hardly worthy of consideration in this case," the Free Press wrote. "Although questions along this line were put to hundreds of people since the murder, not a word has been heard against the woman's faithfulness or character." Sarah, the newspaper concluded, lived "a particularly clean and wholesome life, and no dark spot can be located since she has been in Canada." Despite the fact that the Feinsteins were relatively well-off by this point, with a reported net worth of $20,000, robbery also did not appear to be the motive, since expensive fur coats that were stored in the attic remained untouched—and even in the bedroom where the murder occurred, a fancy watch and valuable jewelry were lying right out on the bureau, but were not taken. Nor was the attack sexual in nature: "The woman was not assaulted," the Free Press discreetly reported, "as the bedclothes lay unruffled over the lifeless form."
Antisemitism was widely assumed—by police, journalists, and the Jews of the North End—to be part of the motive for murder. But that didn't help to significantly narrow the list of possible suspects since, as the Tribune noted, such feelings were "more or less rampant amongst certain of the foreign element in this district."
While police were investigating and journalists were reporting on the Feinstein murder case, local politicians also got involved. Altar Skaletar, the newly elected alderman for Ward Five representing the North End on the City Council—the district's second Jewish alderman, a member of the Conservative Party, and a onetime Canadian correspondent for the Yidishes Tageblatt Jewish newspaper in New York—asked the city's Board of Control on August 4 to provide reward money for information leading to the murderer's capture. "There is a prevalent opinion among the foreigners of the city that they are not given the proper protection because they are foreigners," Skaletar said. "I have often tried to correct this opinion but it seems hard to combat."
"That is one of the reasons why I would like to see the capture of the murderer in this case," Skaletar told the Board of Control. "I think it would have a good effect in showing the foreigners that they are dealt with justly by the authorities."
Controller William Grigg Douglas agreed that more protection was warranted in the North End, but said there wasn't enough money for more police; besides, he argued, even "one hundred extra policemen" wouldn't have prevented the Feinstein murder, which he called "one of the worst crimes in the history of the city." The Board of Control further insisted that providing a reward was a provincial, not a municipal, matter, but agreed to comply if the police commissioner recommended it. The commissioner did, and Douglas kept his word, offering a motion to the board, which carried it unanimously. The following day, on August 5, the provincial government and Board of Control each put up half of a $500 reward. Mayor Thomas Russ Deacon said, "We are trying to assist justice in this matter, and we hope that the murderer will soon be in the toils," but he maintained that in the future such things really should be up to the provincial government, and said he wanted to make sure this wasn't seen as a precedent.
The Free Press reported that the reward might soon grow: "Individuals among the Hebrew population of Winnipeg have expressed themselves as ready to contribute if they decide that the offering is not enough to prove significant inducement to the greatest effort to bring about the arrest of the criminal."
In the evening on August 5, just hours after Sarah's death notice was filed, the coroner's juried inquest into the case was set to convene. Many witnesses had been subpoenaed, and the Tribune reported that "it is expected that startling developments will take place during the hearing of evidence." The Free Press ratcheted up the anticipation, claiming "the police may have some other witnesses that they will spring at the right moment."
But the most startling development that day came before the inquest even began. In the afternoon, the missing keys were found: They were sitting out in the open atop a jewelry box on a bureau in the rear bedroom—the room where Sarah had been murdered, which detectives had searched thoroughly a few days before. Police surmised that someone had sneaked the keys back into the house on Sunday, when the cordon around the house had been lifted for the day of the funeral, and hundreds of friends, relatives, neighbors, and even strangers had come to pay their respects. The detectives were flummoxed.
"What were at first thought to be good clues have developed into blind leads, so that the officers are working practically in the dark," the Winnipeg Telegram reported.
In the final moments before the inquest was supposed to open—the jury had been seated and curious spectators had already arrived—coroner Rogers called for a week's postponement. The inquest, which only two days earlier had seemed like a simple matter where the jury would declare Stefan the murderer and Mary his accomplice, was postponed for a week.
"This is a hard case," Chief of Detectives Eli Stodgill told the Tribune. "It is one of the most brutal murders in the history of Winnipeg and the proposition of unraveling the tangled skein of mystery which apparently surrounds the whole tragedy is an extremely difficult one." He claimed that new information had been recently found, and said that "things look much clearer than they did," but cautioned that no further arrests were imminent after Stefan's release.
After they found out that the inquest slated for that evening had been canceled, residents of the North End continued to speculate about who might have committed the heinous crime. "Some remarkable stories are being circulated by the friends of the murdered woman, who stand around, a morbidly curious throng in the vicinity of the little cottage, telling and retelling the gruesome details of the tragedy," the Tribune reported. The Free Press also commented on the rumors, noting that "little weight can be attached to any of them as they are told by excited people whose imagination has run riot and every little thing that has ever happened is stretched until it assumes the proportion of a plausible theory."
Realizing that the Feinstein murder would not be resolved as quickly as he had hoped, Chief Constable Donald MacPherson told the Free Press: "It is one of the most difficult murders we have ever had in the history of Winnipeg, and it will have to be sifted out by a slow, steady process which will likely take a long time."
Adapted from The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer's to Solve a Murder, published by Heliotrope Books. © 2022 by Wayne Hoffman. Reprinted with permission.
Wayne Hoffman is executive editor of Tablet Magazine.
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It's Time to Advance – Not End – Assessment
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As COVID-19 continues to impact students, teachers, families, colleges, and universities across the country, HCM Strategists is working to provide essential thought leadership on the range of issues in the field of education.
Our expert policy staff has launched a new series to identify emerging education policy ideas and practices aimed at addressing COVID-19. Stay tuned for more in HCM's new series addressing COVID-19 concerns in education, and use #EdAfterCOVID19 to join the conversation on social media. Read more.
Since the onset of the global pandemic necessitated changes to nearly every element of schooling, the education community has started rethinking norms across the board. This has resulted in a lot of innovation and the potential to truly revolutionize student learning for the better.
Assessments are a critical part of this revolution.
Yes, you read that right. I know this statement will not win me any popularity contests in most education circles. However, I state it anyway for one reason: equity.
The most recent research by the national non-profit Learning Heroes shows that parents will show up differently this fall, after having a front row seat to their child's learning at home. While 68% of White parents want to know what material their child is missing and how schools plan to address that material, the percentage for African American and Hispanic parents is even higher at 75%. Formative and summative assessments offer one piece of this vital information.
The problem with the assessment conversation is that it has become so polarized and political that we have lost sight of the original intent of measuring what students know. This information helps to ensure each individual child has the skills to advance and to ensure the public education system serves all children equitably. While state tests are not the only measure for this important purpose, the information they yield each year offers consistent and comparable data to help us understand how students, schools and districts are faring. As states face important decisions about resource allocations in an increasingly limited budget environment, leaders at all levels need data to drive these decisions or we risk exacerbating gaps.
Even in these challenging times, we have an opportunity to refocus and even reimagine how assessment works in our schools. With the onset of COVID-19, the federal government rightly waived the annual requirement for state testing for the spring of 2020. With students sent home overnight and most schools shuttered for the rest of the school year, there is no question that annual testing would not have been productive. And so, for the first time in decades, the heat has been taken out of the debate about accountability.
We have some time to think carefully about the types of measures we need, but one mistake we cannot make is eliminating measures altogether in the absence of a better plan. Here are three places to start:
Press pause on the rush to a federal waiver from testing requirements in 2021. With so many unknowns about the coming school year, it is too soon to waive state assessments, as Georgia and Michigan are already seeking to do. As David Mansouri from Tennessee SCORE recently stated, "Educators use assessment data to inform instruction. Losing multiple years of data can intensify gaps in learning and magnify equity challenges across the state." Rather than rushing into another waiver, we should live through the first few months of the year, take stock of the health and education realities in each state and then move forward. It may be possible to administer some form of assessment with no stakes attached – and it may not. Like so many elements of life in the COVID era, we simply don't have enough information yet to know, and in this case, we have more time to make a decision.
Enable districts to use no-stakes diagnostic tools to gauge student starting points upon return to school. A May survey by the Collaborative for Student Success asked teachers, administrators, policymakers and advocates what it will take to keep students on track with learning and found some areas of common agreement to help inform state and district actions. Tellingly, the majority of all these groups agree that some no-stakes form of diagnostic assessment is critical to ensure students, educators and families understand where support is needed when kids return to school. Fortunately, these kinds of assessments have been administered for many years in classrooms across the country as a regular component of instruction. States like Florida, Tennessee and Texas are subsidizing these tools for districts and families, while advocates in other states, like Colorado, are pushing for the same. This approach helps to ensure assessments are high-quality and that districts and schools have equitable access to use these tools to identify gaps and drive support.
Fast forward the evolution of innovative assessments. In the new normal of the COVID era, we are seeing more options as we consider the best and most equitable ways to assess student learning. NWEA, the non-profit provider of one widely used diagnostic assessment suite, has just announced partnerships with Khan Academy and Newsela to pair tailored instructional resources with individual student results. This is the type of innovation that puts assessment back where it belongs in the education conversation – in the hands of educators and families.


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New Delhi: IAS officer D K Ravi, who was found dead at his home in Bangalore on March 16, had apparently telephoned a woman IAS batchmate only once on the day of his alleged suicide as against claims that he had called her 44 times, CBI has found in its preliminary report.
The agency today clarified it is yet to arrive at any conclusion as far as the unnatural death of the 2009-batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer was concerned and that the probe is still on in this regard.
Sources, meanwhile, said the agency has gone through his call records and found he had made only one call to the woman IAS officer whereas it was reported that 44 calls were made by him to her.
Several officers of the state government who were apparently behind such leaks are under the scanner of CBI as it wants to identify those who are trying to sully the image of the deceased officer, the sources added.
They said it was possible that people leaking these inputs to the media were actually acting on the instructions of some persons who feared exposure during the course of the probe.
"CBI would like to state that all aspects/hypotheses relating to unnatural death of Ravi are being inquired into. The matter is under investigation and conclusion is yet to be drawn in the matter," CBI spokesperson Kanchan Prasad said here today.
Meanwhile, the agency has sent all the forensic evidence, including the photographs taken after Ravi's death, his viscera sample and other evidence recovered by Karnataka Police to the Central Forensic Laboratory here for a detailed analysis.
The sources said that, according to the report of the autopsy conducted by the state government, the death occurred due to hanging, but the agency has not yet concluded whether or not it was a suicide.
They said that only the first round of questioning of all the persons concerned, including family members, close IAS batchmates, driver and other members of the probe team, has been done while the report from CFSL is awaited.
It would be difficult to ascertain the cause of death until a detailed forensic report is available, they added.
Ravi, who was posted as Additional Commissioner, Commercial Tax (Enforcement), was found dead at his residence in Bengaluru.
The matter snow-balled into a major controversy with Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah initially refusing to seek a CBI probe into the case. However, following a public outcry, the case was handed over to the central investigative agency.


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Berlin, Germany – 15 July 2009 – In a surprise move, milengo, a localization service provider, announced today that it has hired leading industry expert, Renato Beninatto, as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Beninatto is perhaps best known for co-founding Common Sense Advisory, the localization industry's first independent think tank. Since 2001, it has become the go-to leader for key metrics on language service providers, industry spending, buyer profiles and market forecasts. Says milengo Board Chair Fabiano Cid, "milengo has scored a major victory in recruiting Renato Beninatto to this post. Besides an unrivaled knowledge of the localization industry as a whole, he brings sales and marketing perspectives that are invaluable to our planned growth for the company. "
Beninatto, 47, has built a solid track record of leadership in the industry on nearly three decades of experience. By the age of 21, he had founded his first localization firm in his native Brazil. By age 34, he had grown it to 65 employees, expanded into neighboring Argentina, and sold it to competitor Language Management International (LMI).
When LMI was acquired by Berlitz in mid-1999, Beninatto stayed on as its vice president of sales. It was his success there that sparked the interest of ALPNET, which recruited him away in 2000.
Beninatto's signature, straight-talking approach has made him a highly sought-after speaker on localization industry trends. He has trained thousands of industry insiders and Fortune 500 business leaders on topics that have included market analysis, strategic positioning, and international sales.
Nevertheless, Beninatto sees his move to milengo as the next logical step in his career. "Frankly, the milengo model surprised me. What others like it tried to do and failed, milengo achieved … and for companies like AMD, Cisco and the Walt Disney Company, among others. Having spent the last seven years advising well over 250 buyers and sellers of localization services on how to succeed, I see the perfect partner in milengo."
Working for milengo from its U.S. office in Boston, Beninatto will continue to serve on the advisory board of Localization World and conduct presentations for industry groups such as the Translation Company Division of the American Translators Association (ATA), the European Language Industry Association, the Association of Language Companies (ALC), and GALA (Globalization and Localization Association).
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