From bemF95 Wed Feb 5 22:51:04 1997 Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA16330; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 22:50:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 22:50:58 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: Chris Kawecki , Hurricane Hill Group , anowotny@hamp.hampshire.edu, bmccullough@hamp.hampshire.edu, bmesser@hamp.hampshire.edu, dcantor@hamp.hampshire.edu, dms96@hamp.hampshire.edu, esz96@hamp.hampshire.edu, jbard@hamp.hampshire.edu, jdonavon@hamp.hampshire.edu, jep96@hamp.hampshire.edu, jgbF95@hamp.hampshire.edu, Michelle C Papa , mwhF95@hamp.hampshire.edu, res96@hamp.hampshire.edu, sakerson@hamp.hampshire.edu, scleary@hamp.hampshire.edu, sku96@hamp.hampshire.edu, wgirard@hamp.hampshire.edu Subject: Re: how are things? In-Reply-To: <199702052349.SAA02534@hamp.hampshire.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO (This letter will hopefully go to everyone on my Hurricane Hill mailing list. I know there's a more efficient way to do this...) Chris- good to hear from you. Hope all is well in Arcata. I just had my first meeting with [a section of] the group of kids who are interested in Hurricane Hill. It worked out quite well (I thought). The first thing we did, before thinking about activities for the semester, was to create a big list of questions to ask you about the school. We felt this was important so that those of us who turned out not to be interested or able to work there wouldn't have to put a lot of time in preparing during this semester. You have just answered some of these questions in the stuff you sent to me- I'll send that on to them. About this list: I know that a lot of the answers to these may not be decided, and are things that we (everyone involved) will discuss and decide on together. Please don't feel as though we're trying to put the responsibility for all of these decisions on you. Some questions are more important than others in helping people decide how interested they are in the school and whether they want to put in any time there. Anyway, here they are, in no meaningful order. Don't be scared- it's a big list. You can answer it in installments if you'd like. - Is this school going to happen? This is of course the most important question to a lot of people, because they don't want to put time in preparing for something that doesn't exist. This breaks down into questions like: What are the chances it will happen? What problems do you see on the horizon that could stop it from happening, and how can we deal with those? This also leads to the question: when will we know whether the school will begin or not?, which of course helps people coordinate their various alternate futures. - Do you plan for this to be a permanent school, or a temporary one? - What is the mission statment of the school? You just answered this, and I'll send it to everybody, so you don't have to answer it again. But this also breaks down into other questions: is this school (in your mind) especially influenced by any other particular school systems, or particular ideas about what education should or shouldn't be? What kind of education will this be an alternative from? - Are we an accredited school? I realize that private schools don't need to be formally accredited, but still there are some issues I can think of, such as: what does it take for our kids to enter the public school system? Are there tests to prepare them for? Do we have to fill out homeschooling forms for the kids to avoid truancy laws? - Will the teachers be paid? Does everyone get room and board? Stipends? Will these stipends be through contracts or just under the counter? These questions are very important to some people and less important to others. - Do you have plans for how the school day will work? Will we have scheduled classes? Will we separate kids by grades, and if so, how and when? How will the schedule and curriculum be decided- by the teachers themselves, or by the teachers in conjunction with the director, or what? - How many positions do you want to fill, and what positions are they? Again, part of this is included in the drafts you just sent me. - What will the student demographics be like (probably)? What grades will they be in? What social class do you expect them to be from? How much are we charging them? How are we planning to advertise the school? Are we looking in particular places for students, or for particular types of kids? (examples: homeschoolers, kids who aren't doing well in school, kids who are doing well in school, etc.) - Is the summer program going to be part of the academic year, or will it be less "academic" and more like a summer camp? - Time schedule: I know the summer session starts June 15th. Are we on terms (summer/fall/spring) or semesters or something less defined? This leads to: are there particular dates determined which would be better or worse times for teachers to come and go? - Is these a particular skill level the students need to be by the time they graduate, in order to have the chance to successfully enter into the public schools? Probably there are minimum English and math proficiencies. Is that true? Is there anything else like that? (I guess I kind've asked this already.) - Where is Hurricane Hill in Vermont? What is it near? Will we have access to a library? A museum? - Can non-Hampshire or non-college students get involved? - Will each person teach one subject or a range? (I assume a range, but how large a range is necessary? will everyone need to teach english and math?) - Are there minimum requirements you are looking for in entering teachers? This isn't a big deal, since we have a semester to get up to snuff. - If we have "classes", do you have ideas about how they will be structured? How many students/class? Will there be a lot of team teaching, or will it be more individual? - How's the space? How many rooms do we have? Do we have a gym? How much land to we have to work with? One obvious thing this group will do during the coming semester is come visit the site. - What materials will teachers be able to get to teach their classes? Can they get multiple copies of books? Art supplies? Should teachers be prepared to bring their own supplies? What would be too expensive to consider? - Are there students enrolled already? - Are there other people involved already (in any way) besides us? Who are they? - What do we need to do legally to take these jobs, for liablity reasons? (are there other things to be aware of?) How many of us need safety/fire training? Do we need a certified EMT on campus? - How many students do you want/expect to enroll? Is this only a function of the number of teachers, or is it limited by the space or other things? - Can we bring in outside experts to teach particular things? (I assume the answer is yes.) - How much time would we be committing to if we decided to do this? How late would we be able to leave if we changed our mind? Could we leave anytime? These are the major ones. People also wondered about logistics, having to do with transportation for the kids to and from school, how we would provide food, whether we would have time to build a playground, etc. But these seemed to be things that we assumed we'd figure out in due time. Anyway, there you are, Chris. A productive meeting, I think. Things with me are pleasant and busy. I will talk to you later. - Benjie From cpkF92 Thu Feb 6 01:32:48 1997 Subject: Some ideas for Hurricane Hill School To: hurricane@neural Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 01:32:48 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 21140 Status: RO Dear folks interested in the Hurricane Hill School, I received a wonderful message today from Benjie; the message was primarily a long bunch of brilliant questions generated by students at Hampshire college from an initial meeting about the school. Jon Klein did me the favor of setting up an email list (hurricane@neural) and I put everyone from Benjie's message, as well as a few others, onto that email list. Others can join by sending the message "subscribe hurricane" to majordomo@neural.hampshire.edu and any mail directed to hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu will go to everyone on the list. Also, to unsubscribe from this list, mail the message "unsubscribe hurricane" to marjodomo@neural.hampshire.edu (for people at Hampshire, you need not include .hampshire.edu but everyone else must always write @neural.hampshire.edu). So you all can use this list to discuss the school, your group, to ask me questions; and I'll keep you updated on my thoughts and answer questions through the list -- our list. Some initial things I should note: I have put some of the things I have written about the school onto a web-page, which you can access off my home-page (it's http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92/school/). So here are some answers to some of your questions (some others will have to wait): - Is this school going to happen? I am 95% sure this school will happen. I am committing my spring, summer, and fall to making it happen. I am committing my meager savings to the school; I have also been offered a donation of many computers -- fairly good ones. My own research into how other schools have started is that very often it is very unclear whether people will really send their kids there until the doors open -- then when people see that it is really happening they start coming out of the woodwork. Some of the challenges we will have to overcome: fire codes, handicap bathrooom laws (at the very worst this means some of us will have to do some renovation at the end of the summer -- the summer session does not need to have an approved building because much of it will be outside); keeping enough staff interested; keeping foundations interested in continuing to pay stipends to staff; making sure there are enough cars among the staff for field trips. The education laws in Vermont are quite lenient (in large part because the Christian schools have forged a lot of legislation which allows independent schools to operate very independent of the state). I will hear at the end of March whether I will be getting a $15,000 fellowship from echoing green to start the school; that would really ease things the first year. I just got an offer from someone yesterday who wants to help me find foundations who will fund the stipends of the staff; I have a few wealthy friends who I hope to get some dough out of; if any of you have some wealthy grandparents who are just waiting to give a little money away we could surely use it but I am as I said 95% sure that the school will work, and 75% sure that the staff will be paid stipends of at least 1,000 per term (summer/fall/spring) in addition to room/board. Room and board will be guaranteed; I'll guarantee that out of my savings if from nowhere else, since it won't be all that much (it is in my father's house, which is basically donated for the year). By the end of March, we will have a better idea about the financial situation. Oh, one final note -- I am in contact with many, many very experienced people in public and private education who are interested in helping us brainstorm, form curriculum, etc. And after all that, if the 5% that the school doesn't work -- ie if there is a recession all of a sudden and no parents are willing to send their kids and all other funding sources dry up completely, the worst that could happen is that you would spend several months rent-free in one of the most beautiful parts of the world talking and thinking with some of the smartest people anywhere. As some of you may have read (or may read) in Jonathan Kozol's FREE SCHOOLS, one of the greatest challenges of schools like this are to not just be for wealthy kids. This will be an eternal challenge of our school -- as Maslow pointed out in his hierarchy of needs, people who are typically deprived of basic things like enough to eat will be more interested in basic things like basic skills than in enlightenment. I plan to be involved with this school for at least 3-4 years; I may continue to be involved with it after that, or may try to train some other people to take over. I am more than happy to try to help anyone else take over or start other ones like this, assuming we are successful. Of course I would be flattered if the Hurricane Hill School works so well that I could leave or die and it would keep going; that is all the goblin future prediction I can do right now. A proposed Mission Statement: to provide a holistic, challenging, meaningful, and personalized program for elementary school children, preparing them to lead meaningful and productive lives in the social and environmental context of Vermont, the United States, and the Earth, by developing in each child the capacities to communicate effectively, to think clearly, criticlly and creatively, to judge wisely, and to act humanely and responsibly; to provide a meaningful exposure to real-life teaching for students of college age who are interested in education and community. There are bits and pieces of dozens of other schools present in the way I am conceiving of Hurricane Hill. Some of them are: Summerhill, Foxfire, Mistwood, Hampshire College (just so you know, that whole section about capacities in the mision statement basically is what Greg Prince claims a liberal arts education is about), Albany Free School, Twin Oaks Community, Arthur Morgan School, EPEC, Christianity... and I hope that many of you will bring ideas and experience from places you have been at school and visited. This will not be a replica of anything I have ever heard of, however. Hurricane Hill School will cost no more per pupil than public school (although the sources of the money may be different) -- but will be more personalized, more meaningful, more sustainable, and will offer an excellent program for potential teachers. I think the idea that one teacher can educate 20 or 40 kids without lots of help is problematic; hence we have tactics to reduce significantly the number of students per adult. In Vermont there are two kinds of school: recognized and approved. We will be recognized, but not approved. As I have said before, this distinction is thanks to the Christian schools's lobbying efforts. Basically, the difference is that approved schools have a lot of requirements so they are almost like public schools, and in some complicated cases can get public money, like charter schools, but different; recognized schools don't get public money and the state education department lets them be. The kids will be officially in our school, and will not have to do any homeschooling laws stuff. One of the things we will be doing as staff will be to examine what curriculum is covered by public schools in the area (I have many ins, including my mom who is a 3rd and 4th grade teacher in Randolph). Then, we will use this as one of our bases when figuring out our individualized program of study with the children. Public schools (as you may see if you visit some, or may remember) claim to cover certain bodies of curriculum, but in actuality this means that the teacher writes everything on the board (at best) -- rarely do more than half of the kids get it, just because of the infrequency with which 10 out of 20 kids are all able to concentrate on one thing which someone else determined. We will also have some cases where thigs are not covered; but they will be fewer than the public schools -- although we may spend less time on the basics per se, we will be doing it more effectively so we end up covering at least as much. Thus, children who go back into public schools at any time will not suffer from being behind; they may suffer from being bored or frustrated, but not from being behind. The staff will all get room and board guaranteed; by the second year I am sure we will be able to provide at least $1000 per term for each staff member, and I am fairly sure we will also have it the first year. Because the number of hours required for a staff member will be less than a full-time job (it will probably be 25 or so) there would be time for people to earn some extra money in town if they had to. - Do you have plans for how the school day will work? Will we have scheduled classes? Will we separate kids by grades, and if so, how and when? How will the schedule and curriculum be decided- by the teachers themselves, or by the teachers in conjunction with the director, or what? At the December staff meeting, we had some ideas about this. First of all, I should say that there will be levelled groups for part of the day. This means that sometis, kids of the same general age/ability level will be grouped together -- 4 groups, each with about 5 students and about 2 staff. K-1; 1st-3rd grade; 3-5; 5-7 grade. What we talked about in December was that each morning, these groups would meet for a while (perhaps after a whole-group meeting). Then, for the rest of the morning there would be learning activities offered by staff members which any students could attend; these activities would be perhaps: 1 hour of math, or 1 hour writing group, or 3 hour fiedl trip, or 1 hour cooking, or 2 hour movie, 30 minute discussion about race, 1 hour acting, 1 hour of painting, an hour of singing or percussion, or 1 hour juggling; they would have general start times and locations but could be flexible as to when they end. For the most part, kids will figure out how to determine their own schedule, but some kids will need help from the staff who they are working with. Sometimes kids will also be on their own, and that is fine. "The basics" -- ie the curriculum we glean from public school curriculums -- will probably be covered mostly in the leveled-groups. This doesn't mean that people won't be learning basics or advanced skills elsewhere, but just that those two staff will have more responsibility for figuring out what activities (leveled or general activities) will be more appropriate for learning specific things. There will basically be 1 director, 1 assistant director, 8 staff. The staff will be rotating, and will hopefully come for at least several weeks of the term preceding their main term to learn the ropes of what goes on. Vermont is 99.5% white (sorry). At least to start, I am not eager to try to work out a bussing program to Springrield MA; however I do know a public school teacher in Springfield who would like to help us with this if we become boarding some day. There are many poor families as well as middle-class and upper middle class. I think to get 10 kids from the middle and upper middle class will be quite doable; it will take a little more work to get those from the poorer families but I think we can do it -- others have been able to, Jerry Mintz at his Shaker Mtn School, for instance, and the Albany Free School. We could also be open to homeschoolers for several days a week; I have visited a school which even has a rule that no kids can come all five days a week, but this is not the plan I would like to propose. Advertisement: newspaper articles (I have connections); talking with public school teachers; word of mouth. The summer program will be a great tool -- I have proposed that we take as our theme "The land, people, and history of Vermont" for the summer, or even for the year -- the computers will also be a big draw (1 computer per kid!) I think we will be looking for all kinds of kids, but especially those who are bright and who need more challenges and/or more flexibility than in public school. I think the summer program will be a cross between school and camp -- all the fun of camp, and most of the activities, and much of the learning of school, and a few of the activities; the general plan of dividing into age groups, and then having activities for everyone, will be for the whole year including the summer. I had another idea I would like to run by you all: in the summer and in the school year, Thursday night could be "sleepover night at school". The best time for teachers to come and go are according to the summer/fall/spring schedule -- the kids will arrive around June 15, Sept 5, and January 10 and the staff would arrive between 1 and 3 weeks beforehand (to recover from what they were doing before, to talk things over, to get situated, etc.) - Is these a particular skill level the students need to be by the time they graduate, in order to have the chance to successfully enter into the public schools? Probably there are minimum English and math proficiencies. We get to set them as a recognized school. I think it will come quite naturally that students will outperform public school kids in every area; I would like to figure out some testing schemes to prove this, and we could require them for graduation if we wanted -- what graduation means doesn't mean a lot to me, because if we are effective then the kid will be ble to prove that he can do anything other kids can and more. Much of the proof is already out there that this will be effective. Hurricane Hill is in East Randolph, Vermont. It is near Vermont Technical College (less than 10 minute drive), town library and town activities (15 minute drive), city (30 minute drive), city with a very big University (UVM in Burlington, 1 hour drive). Randolph (the town 15 min away) is about 5,000 people and has more than its share of cultural activities for a town that size, but that is still far from a lot. I think we will have to take field trips -- Boston, Burlington, Montreal, etc. Any person who is interested in being a staff member, whether recent highschool graduate, college student at any college, college graduate, etc, can get involved so long as they get along with the rest of us and with the philosophy. - Will each person teach one subject or a range? This is a great question -- in that it helps me talk at length about a bunch of things. Each TEAM of two staff will have to be responsible for becoming familiar with (and perhaps modifying) the official curriculum; they will have to either figure out how to teach the things included (one of them) or they will have to ask for help from another staff member or me, or they will have to figure out how a particular thing would be learned in the course of doing other activities. Each staff member thus wouldn't necessarily have to teach a range at all; but together with their team mate and whoever wants to help, they will cover it all for a particular age range. Note that we will definitely have to modify the curriculum some because public schools go by grades K-7 and we go by levels 1-4. Let me give some examples of all this. Mathematics. Curriculum will require something like: level 1 achievements will include adding single numbers, and adding number with carrying; telling the difference between length and area. Level two might include subtraction with carrying, and the concept of averages. Now, if the staff in a particular group are interested in figuring out how they would like to teach and evaluate these mathematical concepts, they could do it. Or they could say at a staff meeting "this and such is what our kids must learn and we're not interested in teaching it. would anyone like to do it?" in the case of math, I would immediately jump up and start screaming that I love to teach kids math, and maybe someone else will help too or maybe not. This learning might then take place in a general group activity, or I might come to a leveled-group meeting to help teach something. Because there are two staff members per group, there is a lot of flexibility in terms of people going to help other groups (or spending time thinking about how to do things while the other person teaches something else). - Are there minimum requirements you are looking for in entering teachers? By this summer, it would be GREAT if teachers have spent at least 20 hours in some classroom (or preferably two or three different ones) playing and learning and teaching with the kids of the level they will be working. It would also be great if they did some writing about their own education -- what worked, what didn't; what they wished they'd been told when; what was a really ineffective method of teaching; also, this whole list of questions which I am answering now, it would be great if teachers had some of their own answers to these questios (not all the questions, but at least some of them) -- and it would be great if they had talked to one or more other teachers somewhere, whether teachers they once had, or teachers at public or alternative schools, about our new school -- their advice, ask them many questions, etc. - If we have "classes", do you have ideas about how they will be structured? How many students/class? Will there be a lot of team teaching, or will it be more individual? Sounds to me like this will depend a lot on the particular learning activity -- the leveled-groups (by the way, we need someone with more inventive names than me to rename all this stuff) will be about 5 kids per 2 staff; other stuff like gardening, art, theater, movies --- could be team taught, could be small, could be individual, could be large, could meet regularaly, could meet irregularly; depends on the learning activity and on what we find out works. If it turns out that doing a play with 8 kids for half of every day is a great learning experience for 2 months, then I'd say let's do it! - How's the space? How many rooms do we have? Do we have a gym? How much land to we have to work with? One obvious thing this group will do during the coming semester is come visit the site. Third floor: 2 bedrooms, library; possibly more if we renovate attic Second floor: 4-5 bedrooms, bathroom First floor: living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom Basement: filled up with junk; we could clean it up. Second house: 4 bedrooms, dining room, living room -- all VERY DIRTY "bedroom" is pretty flexible -- they might turn into art room, might be both, we'll see. We own 15 acres of land with a nice pond, an airport (no kidding), fields; on the edge of forest. There is a nice gym and swimming pool at Vermont Technical College (also a decent library with interlibrary loan) - What materials will teachers be able to get to teach their classes? Can they get multiple copies of books? Art supplies? Should teachers be prepared to bring their own supplies? What would be too expensive to consider? I think we will be able to buy whatever supplies we will need to. If you look at the budget I wrote (which is off the web page somewhere) you can think some of these things through yourself, but we can buy what we need as this will not be too much of an expense. - Are there students enrolled already? Not yet. I have spoken with some parents who I am pretty sure ill enroll (3 kids worth) and will know a lot omre once I talk to a bunch more parents in March. Also I will be volunteering at the preschool in March/April to generate some enthusiasm for our school. - Are there other people involved already (in any way) besides us? Who are they? My friend Tim will probably be the Assistant (a friend from high school); there are some students at Johnston who may be involved; there are some Hampshire students who were not on Benjie's original maling list but who are on this one. Also a few other random people I know here or there. One from Randolph; I expect more will turn up. - What do we need to do legally to take these jobs, for liablity reasons? (are there other things to be aware of?) How many of us need safety/fire training? Do we need a certified EMT on campus? ?? We'll have to figure that out. - How many students do you want/expect to enroll? Is this only a function of the number of teachers, or is it limited by the space or other things? I want 20 kids, 8 staff; this is because this is how big the house is and this from my research is a good number for community, as well as not too big for starters. - Can we bring in outside experts to teach particular things? (I assume the answer is yes.) Sure - How much time would we be committing to if we decided to do this? How late would we be able to leave if we changed our mind? Could we leave anytime? Yes but it would suck a little if it were at the wrong time. transportation -- hopefully parents will handle all that. playground -- we could build some stuff if we want. Well, anyhow, these are some of my answers to these questions (whew!!!) please don't take this for the final word, as these are just some ideas, but maybe they will be a good start or at least on the way to a good start. Chris. From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Thu Feb 6 11:24:20 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA10031; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:24:15 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id LAA04750 for hurricane-outgoing; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:26:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (sga96@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA04746 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:26:00 -0500 (EST) Received: (from sga96@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA10012; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:24:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:24:01 -0500 (EST) From: Silke Akerson To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu cc: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Subject: Re: Some ideas for Hurricane Hill School In-Reply-To: <199702060632.BAA23735@hamp.hampshire.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO i am sorry that i didn't make it to your class (benji and everyone) but i still want to come. when are you going to be meeting regularly? one thought that i had about the e-mail was about the question of transportation to which chris answered that he hoped that the parents would take care of that. i think that if that is the only option for getting to the school that it might make it harder for lower income children to come. but i am sure something could be worked out. also the question about safety/medical training. if someone working at the school wants to become an EMT there is a class this semester (you would have to drive to) and one next fall somewhere in the 5 colleges. if you want the number of the coordinator, i have it somewhere. yours, silke x2512 From cpkF92 Fri Feb 7 21:31:00 1997 Subject: definiteness, age levels, and email lists To: hurricane@neural Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:31:00 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1238 Status: RO Hi folks, Right now my list of definite staff for the summer are: Benjie Daniel Chris Sweet (Humboldt State University) What I would like from people who would like to become definite: their intention, emailed to me -- and the level of kids they would like to work with (young 1, 2, 3, or old 4) a conversation, once I return (early March) a resume, to use in applying for grants etc. It would probably be a good idea to pick an age group you would like to work with for those of you who are not definite, too; this need not be definite, but at least a start. Some additional info which may interest you: there are several emailing lists which I subscribe to, of people who are directors and teachers in alternative schools. They discuss some neat stuff. email me if you would like to find out how to get in contact with those lists. There are also LOTS of great alt ed resources on the web. It might be a neat idea to explore some of these. It may be quite a few days until I am on email again, as tomorrow I am leaving Arcata and traveling (hitching I think!) to Seattle. Don't know what my access will be like there. All the best, have fun. Chris. -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From cpkF92 Fri Feb 7 22:01:40 1997 Subject: no subject (file transmission) To: hurricane@neural, experiential, education, conferences, which, may, be, interesting Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:01:40 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 390 Status: RO Mid-Atlantic Region Conference March 21-23, 1997 The Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf Trenton, NJ USA Contact: Elaine Hatala Telephone: 609-797-9795 Northeast Region Conference April 25-27, 1997 White Point Beach Resort Nova Scotia, Canada Contact: Frank Gallant Telephone: 902-477-3091 E-Mail: peak@atcon.com From cpkF92 Mon Feb 10 18:57:06 1997 Subject: A web page for an incredible school To: hurricane@neural Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 18:57:06 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 417 Status: RO Hi folks, I just found a www page for a school just over an hour from Hampshire. The web page looks really, really exciting, and it would probably be a great idea to go visit their school. If you haven't visited by the time I get back, I will be visiting there! In the mean time, check out their web page: http://www.oakmeadow.com/ --Chris -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Wed Feb 12 23:32:31 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA05351; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 23:32:26 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id XAA01289 for hurricane-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 23:34:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (bemF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA01285 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 23:34:07 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA05326; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 23:32:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 23:32:14 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Subject: NO MEETING FRIDAY- In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Okay- I must have been really frazzled when I scheduled our next meeting for this Friday night- lots of people have told me they can't make it, enough that I don't think there's much point in meeting. I say we push it forward to Tuesday night, Feb. 18th, at 7:30. Sorry if any of you had planned around the Friday time. I'll call those people who don't have email, and hopefully put up some more posters too. Tuesday feels like a good weekly time to me, if it turns out we want to have weekly meetings. I think activities and field trips can probably be coordinated largely over email, but there will certainly be other things that require discussion- so I don't know if we should meet weekly or not. The coming meeting will probably consist of talking about several things: 1. brainstorming/deciding what we want to do this semester 2. getting to know each other a little better, and finding out what we're all doing this for 3.- actually, those two will probably take up a lot of time. I'm planning to bring paper copies of all the messages that you've been getting over email to give to those people who don't have email access (or don't know how to use it). I am happy to organize this group. But I don't really want to "run" everything we do (and I'm sure you don't want me to, either). But I am happy to be organizer, advocate, publicist, active group member,etc. Probably when we come up with what we want to do over the semester, we can divide up duties and projects fairly easily. I just wanted to mention that now so that if during the meeting (-on TUESDAY-) I say, "okay, does anyone want to volunteer to do ___?" you're not surprised/pressured/etc. Probably didn't have to say that. Just feeling a bit stressed, I guess. - Hey, does anyone know any getting to know you games? I think it would be an appropriate thing to do, seeing as how we're going to be teaching together- but I don't remember any good ones. See you all on TUESDAY NIGHT AT 7:30. (Don't worry if you can't make it- I think we'll take minutes and send them out to everybody.) - Benjie From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Sat Feb 15 14:34:35 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA22877; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 14:34:30 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id OAA08624 for hurricane-outgoing; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 14:36:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (bemF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA08620 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 14:36:09 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA22867; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 14:34:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 14:34:16 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu, Not on list yet , eleanor_berch-heyman@hamp.hampshire.edu, Jennifer E Donovan , Jacob G Bornstein , Michelle Beach Subject: Re: NO MEETING FRIDAY- In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Sandy Cleary wrote: > HEy Benjie, maybe I'm just totally frazzled (1:30am) too, but I don't > remember you saying WHERE the meeting is going to be... This Tuesday night- 7:30 PM- Airport Lounge. - Benjie From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Tue Feb 18 22:22:44 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA15919; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:22:38 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA15039 for hurricane-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:24:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (bemF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA15035 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:24:07 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA15890; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:22:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:22:20 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu, ckawecki@hamp.hampshire.edu Subject: minutes, 2-18 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/REPORT; REPORT-TYPE=delivery-status; BOUNDARY="VAA11651.856318713/hamp.hampshire.edu" Content-ID: Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --VAA11651.856318713/hamp.hampshire.edu Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Okay- here's basically what happened at the meeting, as I remember it. 1. Very few people showed up. Is Tuesday night a bad time, or have our numbers drastically diminished? 2. I'm going to put readings on reserve in the library. I'd like to have a weekly time to meet, discuss how the reading applies to us, and take care of stuff that requires more contact than email. I call Tuesday nights, 8:30 PM, Airport Lounge. If that really stinks for anyone, let me know. I have some ideas of what would be good to read, but not a lot. Let's all suggest stuff- everybody send in ideas, and I'll try to get ahold of the books and narrow it down to a reasonably small list. I can get money from the EPEC board to buy books, and I'll put them on reserve once I get them. It would be great to have readings set up by next week. These are my ideas right now (mostly suggested by Chris): - Summerhill, by A. S. Neill - The Lives of Children, by George Dennison - Free at Last, by Danial Greenberg - How Children Learn, by John Holt - Deschooling Society, by Ivan Illych - Educational Freedom for a Democratic Society, ed. by Ron Miller - Dumbing Us Down, by John Taylor Gatto Please send me suggestions. Hampshire actually has a lot of books on education. They're on the third floor, mostly LA to LD. If anyone wants to take a minute out to browse through there and write down the names of the ones that sound good, 'twould be nice. About schools to visit: we should really start calling schools soon, telling them what we're doing, and asking if we can come in, observe classes, interview teachers, and play with the kids. I think it would be helpful to look at a variety of schools, both public and private. We should go through the phone book and call both the public schools (Govt. section) and the private schools (yellow pages under S) and see what looks good. I looked at the yellow pages briefly earlier today, and found the following: - Amherst Montessori 253-3101 - Hartsbrook 586-1908 - The common school 256-8989 We should each call a few (not all the same ones!). Definitely public schools in both Northhampton and in Holyoke would be interesting. Chris mentioned to me that the following alternative schools looked good: the Albany Free School in Albany, NY, the Community School in NH, and Oak Meadow in VT. (Jacob actually called Oak Meadow recently, and they said they'd be happy for us to come visit whenever.) Also, Angel mentioned that Smith College has an elementary school that we could probably sit in on. For next week: Let's poster before next week's meeting. I'll type up a poster sometime soon, and then I'll probably call people and ask for help putting them up. - Everybody check out Oak Meadow's website, http://www.oakmeadow.com/ This is a school that has its philosophy and ideology all typed out. It would be interesting to read this and then talk at the next meeting about what we agree with and what we don't, what we'd like to do like them and what we wouldn't. - Becca (Steiner) said that she'd come in with some alternative education excercises for us to do next week. Oh, I thought it might be good if we all went out to dinner or had a potluck sometime, or spent some equivalent social time together, so that we got to know each other a little better. I'm sure that'll happen without our effort anyway, but it would be fun, and it would make this little group more interesting. Hey wait a minute- EPEC already runs weekly potlucks (I just remembered this). Does anyone know when these are? So that's basically it. Keep on trucking, kids. - Benjie --VAA11651.856318713/hamp.hampshire.edu-- From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Wed Feb 19 12:11:36 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA07326; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:11:29 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id MAA15646 for hurricane-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:13:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (sga96@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA15642 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:12:57 -0500 (EST) Received: (from sga96@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA07312; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:11:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:11:10 -0500 (EST) From: Silke Akerson To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu cc: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu, ckawecki@hamp.hampshire.edu Subject: Re: minutes, 2-18 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO sorry i couldn't make the meeting, i don't know if i will be coming regularly or not, have to figure some things out but, about the epec potlucks. they haven't really been hapenning this semester just because no one has decided to organize or advertise them and also because a lot of us are in a cooking co-op now. but it would be great if someone organized them again. i called the common school last week to find out about volunteering there and the woman i talked to said that anyone interested would need to send a letter describing themselves, their interests and what thy'd like to do there, and the letter would get distibuted among the techers who would contact you individually if they were interested. well thanks for sending the minutes, i will try to come next week silke akerson From cpkF92 Sun Feb 23 21:01:55 1997 Subject: Coming home soon... To: hurricane@neural Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:01:55 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 825 Status: RO Dear Hurricane Hill list, I am now at The Evergreen State College briefly before I return to New England. I will probably be coming down to Hampshire this coming weekend (the 1st is a Wild Asparagus dance in Greenfield after all). Perhaps we could all find some time on Saturday or Sunday to get together? Sunday afternoon? I will probably try to meet with any of you individually, if you would like -- please email me if you want to set up a definite time or else we can play it by ear when I get there. Come to think of it, I would like to do a presentation on this trip I have been on -- maybe the night of Friday the 7th? I have been visiting lots of alternative schools all along the West Coast and have learned a tremendous amount. Chris -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Mon Feb 24 16:42:22 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA08714; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:42:09 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id QAA21615 for hurricane-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:43:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (bemF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA21611 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:43:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA08686; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:41:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:41:55 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: Hurricane Hill Group Subject: Meeting tomorrow Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Just reminding everyone who can make it that we're having a meeting tomorrow night (Tuesday, Feb. 25th) in the Airport Lounge at 8:30. I hope to have some books on reserve so that we can start readings, and I'm going to try to get some telephone books so that we can go through schools at the meeting and each pick some schools to call. And that's all I remember right now- let me know if I'm forgetting anything. - Benjie From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Wed Feb 26 22:08:47 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA10990; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:08:39 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA01562 for hurricane-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:09:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (root@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA01547 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:09:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA10614; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 00:21:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 00:21:31 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: Hurricane Hill Group , Not on list yet -- Abby Grace , beth_ferguson@hamp.hampshire.edu, "Kte'pi" , eleanor_berch-heyman@hamp.hampshire.edu, Jennifer E Donovan , mama beeka , Maria F Pereira , missing identity , Sinister Laotian Boy Subject: minutes, 2-25 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Good stuff going on at this meeting, hmm... I'll tell you what happened in order. Skip the lists the first time through; they're long. Becca brought in a list of alternative schools that Karen Warren's Experiential Education class has used as "Shadowing Resources". We assume this means that these schools have been open to people observing and working with them in the past, and would probably be open to us coming. We decided that we should probably each call schools individually, because no one wants a whole troop of us invading their class at once, but that we should email the group when we go somewhere, so that we don't all end up going to the same place. I guess I'll just type out the list here: K-6 Programs- Amherst Montessori School. 27 Pomeroy Ln, Amherst. 253-3101 The Common School. 521 S. Pleasant, Amherst. 256-8989 (alternative elementary school) contact: Deb Hamley Marks Meadow After School Program @ UMass. They do experiential activities with K-6 kids. contact: Tara Flippo, Site Coordinator/Assistant Director 253-157? (sorry, bad copy, I can't read the last #) Tara is a Hampshire grad in experiential ed. The Hartsbrook School. 94 Bay Rd, Hadley. 586-1908 Talk to Bess. A Waldorf school, K-8. The Center School. In Greenfield. An alternative school focusing on the social development of the child. contact: Libby Woodfin 586-7758. she's a hamp. grad. Folk Education Association of America. local contact: Chris Spicer 585-8755 Clark School for the Deaf. 47 Round Hill Rd, Northampton. 584-3450. for hearing impaired students. Hilltown Cooperative Charter School. at the Brassworks in Williamsburg. 268-3421. A brand new charter school, the first in W. Mass. (a charter school is a public alternative school) Learning Tree. in Springfield. 733-7452. Works with African-American students to go to college, primarily males. Community Alternative Learning Program in Amherst. call H.S. for number. works with kids who have trouble in the traditional H.S. classroom. Performing Arts Charter School. in Hadley. Sirius. Baker Rd, in Schutesbury. An intentional community. There were some others on the list (the environmental ed. page) that didn't really seem appropriate, so I didn't type them up. Also, public schools are in the government pages of the phone book. And day care centers might be more open to letting us play with kids than elementary schools, although the age of kids would be different. Day care centers are in the yellow pages under Child Care. And there are free phone books in the Post Office. So. Back to the minutes. We decided as a group to take the same approach with readings as we're doing with school visits: everybody do their own thing, read what feels right to them, and then meet every week and tell each other what we've done and what we learned. As far as suggested reading, Sarah is going to put her copies of Summerhill and a short book on the Montessori method on reserve for us. It'll be in the reserve notebooks somewhere, hopefully within a day or two. I think those two are great places to start. Also, I went through the education section in the Hampshire library earlier today, and these are the books that looked like fun to me. Don't be scared by the huge list- I'm not asking anyone to read anything, and I certainly don't expect to get to more than one or two of these that particularly interest me- I just thought that the list might make it faster for people to find good stuff, because this is only an eigth of our education books, and it took me a few hours to pick what felt to me like the better eigth. But I haven't read any of them, so I can't really vouch for them. Maybe this isn't useful, but here it is anyway. Improving Teaching, by Amidon. LB 1033 .A49 Teaching as a Subversive Activity, by Postman. LA 217 .P6 Education and Ecstasy, by Leonard. LA 210 .L46 Three Historical Philogophies of Education, by Aristotle, Kant, and Dewey. LB 85 .A7 F7 Unit Teaching in the Elementary School, by Hanna. LB 1029 .U6 H3 The Lives of Children, by Dennison. LD 7501 .N5 F524 Curriculum for Today's Boys and Girls, by Fleming. LB 1570 .F62 Designing Curriculum, by McNeil. LB 1570 .M319 Doing What Scientists Do, by Doris. LB 1585.3 .D67 Children's Literature in the Curriculum, by Chambers. LB 1575 .C48 Write From the Start, by Graves. LB 1139 .W7 G73 Girls, Boys, and Language, by Swann. LB 1139 .L3 S88 Early Literacy, by McLane. LB 1139 .L3 M3348 Reading Aids Through the Grades, by Russell. LB 1573 .R8 The Changing Curriculum and the Elementary School Teacher, by Sowards. LB 1555 .S74 The Elementary School Teacher, by Petersen. LB 1555 .P53 How Children Fail, by Holt. LB 1555 .H78 Rewarding Creative Behavior, by Torrance. LB 1537 .T6 The Child-Centered School, by Rugg. LB 1026 .R8 The Having of Wonderful Ideas, by Duckworth. LB 1025.2 .D85 Outdoor Education, by Hammerman. LB 1047 .H28 But honestly, I'm going to start with Summerhill once it gets on reserve, and you might as well do the same. Oh- this is Sarah Urban's copy of Summerhill and it is very important to her, so she asks that you please be careful with it and not take it out of the library. I think the same might as well be true of her Montessori book and anything else we decide to put on reserve. Geez, so much happened this time... Becca and Dave were thinking of doing biweekly alternative ed. forums. People would prepare a little presentation or workshop on something, maybe create a lesson that they would use with kids, and then we would all do it and talk about it. The group was enthusiastic. Sarah's going to prepare something for next week, and we'll probably all get the idea once we see one, and want to do one of our own. Oh yes- meetings weekly Tuesday night at 8:30 in the Airport Lounge. If there is ANYONE who still really wants to do this but can't ever make that time, let me know- maybe we can work something out. I suggested that it might be nice to involve a faculty member or two that would be interested. I'm going to email Myrna Breitbart, Karen Warren, and Lester Mazor. If anyone else knows of people who might be interested, rope 'em on in. It was suggested that we get a basic curriculum, that had the basic concepts that kids might learn in each grade, and brainstorm together different ways of teaching each concept. And then we'd talk about which ways might be better or worse for different kids, etc. I think I'll pull the curriculum from that Oak Meadow web site- they have it pretty clearly laid out. I'll try to bring that for next time. Maybe I'll put it on reserve too. (It: the basic curriculum as laid out by Oak Meadow.) Jacob mentioned that NS holds conferences for elementary school teachers every so often, and that he'd try to get the schedule for those. The contact for that (we think) is Jacqueline Chase, who coordinates the Day in the Lab. She also happens to be the person organizing for an education professor on campus, and there's going to be a meeting about that on March 10th at 3:00 in FPH. We wanted to each take turns (new people each week) creating hypothetical lessons and then talking about and critiqueing them. Did I say that already? I think that's a lot of what Becca meant when she mentioned having "forums", although she and Dave have some other ideas too that I don't remember as well. We were talking about doing role plays of classroom situations, etc. My friend Natalie is doing a research paper on the effect of teacher's attitudes on students. I'll ask her to come talk to us, when she gets close to finishing it. It also came up (kind've after the meeting ended) that it would be great to work with kids, as a group, and there were some ideas of how to get some kids: calling up a girl scout troup was one, and there are definitely other ways (we'll think of some.) Anyway, that was basically it. It was fun; I'm still excited by it. And now to bed, to get a few hours before that chem test tomorrow... Love- Benjie From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Wed Feb 26 22:36:50 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA12876; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:36:42 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA01756 for hurricane-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:38:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (dwc96@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA01752 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:38:07 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dwc96@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA12848; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:36:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:36:30 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Cantor To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu cc: Daniel Cantor Subject: Is this a secure line, or are you all reading this message? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Hi Benjie, Just a reminder. Thanks for sending the progress reports my way. Your efforts are terrific, and I appreciate getting to share some of the results with out really putting in my share. I realize it's kind of a bad thing. But, I hope to be as helpful as possible this summer. I guess it's still very hard for me to cope with all the work that the teachers are sending me. I do wish I could find the way to start on my education studies sooner, I just can't see an easy way. The good news is that I could end up finishing all of my division ones this semester, leaving me a much wider range of options in the fall. Actually even in the summer. Anyhow, I just thought I should say thanks. Please continue to include me in the silent particapants corner, I really am here. Daniel P.S. I thought that list of schools looked real good. I hope to go with you on some of the visits. Maybe my automobile can be helpfull. From cpkF92 Thu Feb 27 17:05:10 1997 Subject: schedule, welcomes, etc To: hurricane@neural Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 17:05:10 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1899 Dear Hurricane Hill folks, I'm back! And I am at home in East Randolph. First, a hearty welcome onto this email list to: about 10 students who I met at Evergreen a few days ago, who if we are lucky may introduce themselves; several Hampshire students whose email addresses I got off Benjie's last email message. Evergreen was great -- I put up about 15 signs 3 days before a planned meeting with potential interns, then 5 on the morning of the meeting. Almost 15 people came! Some are interested in the fall, some in the summer, some in staying for two semesters or more. I feel confident that we now have enough staff for the summer who will decide to come up, although only a few have declared themselves certain at this point. You Hampshire folks sound like you're doing some great stuff -- I can't wait to talk with you! Here is my schedule for being at Hampshire: this Saturday 11am -- meet with Sarah Urban (where should I meet you?) 12pm -- Jacob Bornstein (where?) 1pm -- Eleanor B-H (where?) 2? who wants to speak with me 3? Saturday night -- contra dance actually not Wild Asparagus sadly Sun -- meeting at noon for anyone who wants to speak with me as a group, in the airport lounge. After this I need help loading my stuff from mod 68 to my car. Next Fri the 7th -- meeting at 7pm for thos who wish to come, but NOT my presentation because all the lecture halls are filled up. where? Fri 14th, 7pm -- ELH -- my presentation on the trip, the schools, etc. To any of you who I have not yet answered email, I will try to get to you tomorrow or Saturday; if you asked about the school in general, please check out the school web-page which includes an archive of the email sent to this list recently. The URL of the school is http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92/school/school.html All the best to you! Chris -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Wed Feb 26 21:56:25 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA10153; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 21:56:12 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA01377 for hurricane-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 21:57:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (root@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA01368 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 21:57:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from star.hampshire.edu (eth211.hampshire.edu [198.114.176.211]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA27269 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 16:43:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199702262143.QAA27269@hamp.hampshire.edu> From: "Eleanor" To: Subject: Re: Coming home soon... Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 13:25:47 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Dear Chris, I am interested in working at your school this summer. I am aware of the flexible direction your school might take this summer, whether it is mostly academic or camp like I would like to aid as a teacher. Last summer I was a camp councilor and I worked very hard and enjoyed myself immensely. I am applying for this academic summer environment because of my disappointing experience as a student in traditional schools. After my first year of high school I was academically drained, learning and school was only spitting back repetitive facts. School felt tedious and it lacked creative inspiration. I viewed my scholastic environment as lacking the real spark of learning. I was lectured to as if I were a computer and not a person. After this uninspiring year I spent the summer at Amherst College through ASA's (Academic Studies Assocates ) program. There I lived in a dorm for five weeks and my days were spent learning in classrooms full of all types of people from many different counties and with different personalities. Everyone wanted to learn and enjoyed learning. I fell in love with the classroom again, but not only this, I also discovered that dorm life meant having friends live with me twenty-four hours a day. This experience lead me to return to high school with a new view and enthusiasm which drove me to enroll in college classes while still in high school. I graduated in three years. I would enjoy working with younger childern 5-10 years old and I feel I could offer a lot to them. Additionally, I am a currently certified as a life guard and in CPR plus First Aid. I enjoy Arts and Crafts my experience ranges from photography to collages. I recently completed a course on visual poetry which was wonderful. I am currently a student at Hampshire College with a desire to focus on sociology. I have worked with all aged students over the past eight years. I began as an aid at a local nursery school when I was ten years old. I worked at Knessett Israel Nursery School for six summers. This experience increased my desire to have a career that focused on people. This past summer I was a camp counselor and water front assistant at Camp Mohawk. There I was in charge of my five to six campers and I supervised and participated in a large variety of activities, ranging from dance and arts and crafts to archery and swimming lessons. I have also visited elementary schools in order to meet with Learning Disabled students and I have acted as a role model and an advocate. I was also a peer counselor for high school students for one year. I welcome the opportunity to meet with you to discuss my qualifications or answer any questions you might have. You can reach me at (413) 582-4583. Please contact my former employers with any question they may aid you in. Sincerely Yours, Eleanor Berch-Heyman Beth Radsken Camp Mohawk c/o Knesset Isreal c/o Ralph and Sue Schulman 16 Colt Road Bull Hill Road Pittsfield, MA 01201 Lanesboro, MA 01201 (413) 445-4872 (413) 443-5091 ---------- > From: Chris Kawecki > To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu > Subject: Coming home soon... > Date: Sunday, February 23, 1997 9:01 PM > > Dear Hurricane Hill list, > I am now at The Evergreen State College briefly before I > return to New England. I will probably be coming down to Hampshire > this coming weekend (the 1st is a Wild Asparagus dance in Greenfield > after all). Perhaps we could all find some time on Saturday or Sunday > to get together? Sunday afternoon? I will probably try to meet with > any of you individually, if you would like -- please email me if you > want to set up a definite time or else we can play it by ear when I > get there. Come to think of it, I would like to do a presentation on > this trip I have been on -- maybe the night of Friday the 7th? I have > been visiting lots of alternative schools all along the West Coast and > have learned a tremendous amount. > Chris > -- > Chris Kawecki > ckawecki@hampshire.edu > http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From cpkF92 Sun Mar 2 13:31:50 1997 Subject: Good Meetings... To: hurricane@neural Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 13:31:50 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1420 I had some great conversations with people this weekend. I will be back on this coming Friday, at 7pm in the Airport Lounge. I would also recommend to all of you at Hampshire that you go to the Trustee-Student dinner on Thursday evening. There are a bunch of really smart and caring people who also happen to be the ultimate authorities on what Hampshire is. Tell them about who you are, what you like about Hamp, what you think about learning... I recommend that those who can, come up to spend some time at the school property during spring break -- the weekend of the 22-23 woulod be the best time, though you can come any time. Angel Dawson (x4515) may be able to fit a few more people in her car. Directions: I-91 into Vermont. after about 70 miles in Vermont, I-89 North. exit 3 and take a left off the ramp. about a half mile then left on Rt 14 North. about 9 or 10 miles then left right after the tractor dealership. About a mile, then right onto a dirt road in a dip. About a half-mile then left at the fork. About 100 yards past the barnyard, right into the driveway. Big wood house. (802) 728-5315. let me know when you will come. Also, anyone is invited to come up anytime. I am usually there; March is maple-sugaring month in Vermont, and I will be tapping trees soon. If you would like to help with this come up. Chris -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Wed Mar 5 12:46:44 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA20597; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 12:46:37 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id MAA09820 for hurricane-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 12:48:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (bemF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA09816 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 12:47:56 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA20585; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 12:46:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 12:46:23 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: Hurricane Hill Group , Not on list yet -- Abby Grace , beth_ferguson@hamp.hampshire.edu, "Kte'pi" , eleanor_berch-heyman@hamp.hampshire.edu, Jennifer E Donovan , Maria F Pereira , mama beeka , missing identity , Sinister Laotian Boy Subject: this Friday Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO I couldn't get the East Lecture hall for this Friday, so I put us in FPH Room 105 instead, which is in that wing above the teacher's offices. We can push the desks out of the way and sit on the floor, I guess. I know, it's not as nice. If you folks wanted, we could try the airport lounge or the KIVA, but I'm afraid there might be other people using those spaces. And I'd try a mod, but I'm hoping that this group will be bigger than would fit comfortably in a mod. So until further notice- Friday the 7th, 7:00 PM, in FPH Room 105. - Benjie From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Sat Mar 1 18:10:30 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA26662; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 18:10:21 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id SAA05767 for hurricane-outgoing; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 18:10:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from f8.hotmail.com (F8.hotmail.com [207.82.250.19]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA05763 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 18:10:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (from root@localhost) by f8.hotmail.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA06457; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 15:03:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 15:03:38 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703012303.PAA06457@f8.hotmail.com> Received: from 192.211.16.10 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 01 Mar 1997 15:03:38 PST X-Originating-IP: [192.211.16.10] From: " Laurel Stuart" To: ckawecki@hampshire.edu Cc: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Subject: Introduction Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Hello. My name is Laurel Artemis Stuart, and I'm one of those wacky people Chris discovered at The Evergreen State College. Here's a quick introduction- I'm 28 years old, female, and graduating Friday, June 13th with a BA in Creative writing & Political Economy. Its my intention to fly out late on June 14th and to stay for the entire school year (longer if things go well). My interests are wide, from role playing games to mysticism to organic gardening to celtic music. Before I arrive, I'd like to ship one of my Macintoshes (a Preforma) and laser printers (and some books) which would be on-loan to the school. The computer is in Las Vegas with friends and needs a new home, and it makes sense to only ship it once. I'm interested in hearing more from people about Hurricane Hills in specific, and Vermont in general. I can also answer any questions people have about me. I hope to talk to you soon! Laurel ghostdance@hotmail.com email >message. > >Evergreen was great -- I put up about 15 signs 3 days before a planned >meeting with potential interns, then 5 on the morning of the >meeting. Almost 15 people came! Some are interested in the fall, some >in the summer, some in staying for two semesters or more. I feel >confident that we now have enough staff for the summer who will decide >to come up, although only a few have declared themselves certain at >this point. > >You Hampshire folks sound like you're doing some great stuff -- I >can't wait to talk with you! > >Here is my schedule for being at Hampshire: >this Saturday 11am -- meet with Sarah Urban (where should I meet you?) >12pm -- Jacob Bornstein (where?) >1pm -- Eleanor B-H (where?) >2? who wants to speak with me >3? > >Saturday night -- contra dance actually not Wild Asparagus sadly > >Sun -- meeting at noon for anyone who wants to speak with me as a >group, in the airport lounge. After this I need help loading my stuff >from mod 68 to my car. > >Next Fri the 7th -- meeting at 7pm for thos who wish to come, but NOT >my presentation because all the lecture halls are filled up. where? > >Fri 14th, 7pm -- ELH -- my presentation on the trip, the schools, etc. > >To any of you who I have not yet answered email, I will try to get to >you tomorrow or Saturday; if you asked about the school in general, >please check out the school web-page which includes an archive of the >email sent to this list recently. The URL of the school is >http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92/school/school.html > >All the best to you! >Chris > >-- >Chris Kawecki >ckawecki@hampshire.edu >http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------- From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Sun Mar 2 16:59:13 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA05965; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:59:07 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id RAA06670 for hurricane-outgoing; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 17:00:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (mwhF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA06666 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 17:00:32 -0500 (EST) Received: (from mwhF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA05946; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:58:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:58:55 -0500 (EST) From: Margaret W Herpich To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu cc: Hurricane Hill Group , Not on list yet -- Abby Grace , beth_ferguson@hamp.hampshire.edu, "Kte'pi" , eleanor_berch-heyman@hamp.hampshire.edu, Jennifer E Donovan , mama beeka , Maria F Pereira , missing identity , Sinister Laotian Boy Subject: Re: minutes, 2-25 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO benji, sorry i missed the meeting last tuesday, i wasn't feeling so well, sounds like it was really exciting. i'll be there this tuesday though. margaret. From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Tue Mar 4 22:48:12 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA08821; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:48:04 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA09291 for hurricane-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:49:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (bemF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA09287 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:49:25 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA08807; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:47:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:47:50 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: Hurricane Hill Group , Not on list yet -- Abby Grace , beth_ferguson@hamp.hampshire.edu, "Kte'pi" , eleanor_berch-heyman@hamp.hampshire.edu, Jennifer E Donovan , Maria F Pereira , mama beeka , missing identity , Sinister Laotian Boy Subject: minutes, 3-4 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Small group tonight. We talked about what we were thinking about, which was as follows. A lot of feeling that people would feel very different about doing readings and going into schools to get experience if they knew that they could work over the summer. People saying that if they knew they would be able to work, they would be happy to put in the time, but that if not, they'd like to turn their time towards other things. There was also a feeling that people would like to start planning curriculum and planning the school together as a group, and that they'd like to know who they'd be working with. These are widespread feelings, I'm sure, and I think an appropriate group response to them would be something like this: 1. Everybody go to the meeting on Friday at 7:00. Chris will be speaking about schools he visited on the west coast, and probably about how his experience there relates to what he wants to do at Hurricane Hill. I'm not sure of the place yet; I'm going to try to book the East Lecture Hall in FPH, but I haven't done it yet. (I guess I call security or something...) Let's keep him there for a long time answering our questions. Anyone that hasn't spoken to Chris for a while personally DEFINITELY come, because he's heard from a lot of people by now, and may have to be making hiring decisions soon, and if he doesn't hear from you, you may be left out. Also, if you haven't written Chris an email (or letter) of intent yet and you want to teach, write one now, for the same reasons. 2. Everybody who wants to teach over the summer, send me an email. Please. Even if you've told me before. I want to be able to count every single one of you, so that I know whether step 3 is necessary. 3. Ask Chris to give us a date by which he will decide who he wants to teach at the school, at which time everyone else will be put on a waiting list. Suggestions on the date: I guess we need to give Chris enough time to think about it, and maybe even time to do an application procedure (although I really don't get the idea he wants to bother with this). But it would be nice if he let us know before the date that financial aid forms need to be sent in; I don't remember when that is- April? And of course, it would be helpful to know as soon as possible, so that we could talk to each other about what we're going to do. Sarah expressed a fear that it would be difficult to run a school in which the teachers determined the structure and the activities, and where the teachers were rotating every semester, because it meant that each semester would start off rockily and only settle into working order near the end. Also, new teachers wouldn't know what the last teacher had done with those kids, how well various stuff had worked with particular kids, etc. One of the questions I think we need to ask Chris on Friday is: Will the school really be largely created anew each semester, or will the group that works there this summer begin to determine a structure which later groups of teachers will fall into and be trained in? PS Chris's phone number is (802) 728-5315. Oh, I'm putting some stuff on reserve for us to look at. 1. The curriculum for grades K-6 used at the Oak Meadow homeschooling center. There is a lot of this that we wouldn't want to run the way they describe (separating kids into grade levels, focuses on particular subjects or subject areas over others), but their curriculum contains a lot of good ideas for what might be appropriate activities for different ages of kids. They are very good at integrating some disciplines (language arts, social studies, arts and crafts) and less good at integrating others (My first impression was that music is still pretty traditional, science is relatively teacher-driven when it could be student-driven, and English seems to get less and less interesting as the students get older.) Still, there are a lot of good ideas there, and it's really quick to read. 2. Sarah Urban's essay "Experiential Education" that she wrote for her Issues in Education class with Fred Weaver last semester. She asked me to put it on reserve, thinking that it would give people a good concept of experiential ed., at least the way that she perceives it. It focuses more on activities for a highschool-aged class, but the basic concepts of student-driven education are much the same as Chris wants to use. I haven't read it yet. I hope to get Summerhill and the Montessori book on reserve soon. Haven't gotten to it yet. That's a wrap, folks. Say hello if you see me on the street somewhere. - Benjie From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Tue Mar 4 23:09:15 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA10329; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 23:09:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id XAA09412 for hurricane-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 23:10:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (bemF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA09408 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 23:10:31 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA10309; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 23:08:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 23:08:56 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: Hurricane Hill Group , Not on list yet -- Abby Grace , beth_ferguson@hamp.hampshire.edu, "Kte'pi" , eleanor_berch-heyman@hamp.hampshire.edu, Jennifer E Donovan , Maria F Pereira , mama beeka , missing identity , Sinister Laotian Boy Subject: the important stuff Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO "It's not about guns or bombs anymore, Marty. It's about information. Whoever has the information rules the world." - this is a quote that the bad guy in Sneakers says to Robert Redford, right before he (Rob/Marty) gets away with his (the bad guy's) little black box, near the end, but I can not for the life of me remember who played that bad guy. I have been walking around the library asking people for a few minutes now. He's really famous; he also played the bad guy in Death of a Maiden. Anyway- the quote was supposed to refer to the fact that this email was just going to be a lot of quick information, and to start it off with this long rambling.... 1. On this coming Monday, March 10th, at 3:00 PM in the FPH Faculty Lounge, Jacqueline Chase is holding a meeting for people interested in becoming teachers at any time in the future. Jacqueline Chase is the head of the Science Outreach Program in NS; she runs the day in the labs, and probably a lot of other stuff that we don't hear about. We will be discussing teacher certification. We will ALSO be discussing the future of studying education at Hampshire College. It seems that an effort is being made by various faculty members to respond to the demand for some sort of education here at Hampshire for people who want to be teachers. Right now it is very difficult to find faculty on campus who will do divisional work with students on education and teaching. I don't know if we're talking about hiring someone or just asking more professors to take on divisional work a little more outside their specialties than they normally do- but at least we're going to be talking about it together, and I recommend that everyone who's interested go. And if you can't go, get someone who goes to fill you in. 2. Chris is coming down to talk about the school this Friday at 7:00 PM, hopefully in the FPH East Lecture Hall. (I haven't booked it yet.) If you haven't talked to Chris yet, I recommend you do it then. Okay- that's all I can think of. 'Night. - Benjie From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Wed Mar 5 15:51:28 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA07960; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 15:51:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id PAA09981 for hurricane-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 15:52:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (dwc96@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA09977 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 15:52:39 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dwc96@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA07947; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 15:51:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 15:51:09 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Cantor To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu cc: Daniel Cantor Subject: Ben Kingsly In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Ben Kingsly. Also plays good guys, Gandhi would be a fine example. From cpkF92 Thu Mar 6 22:19:55 1997 Subject: Presentation Friday evening To: hurricane@neural, epec@neural Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 22:19:55 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 493 This Friday the 7th, I will be giving a presentation from 7pm to 745 on my recent trip to visit alternative schools on the West Coast. 745 to 800 will be a meeting about the new school. These will take place n FPH 105. I had originally anticipated doing these next Friday but that is right before vacation and Benjie has been advertising this Friday so this Friday it is!! 7pm SHARP and I mean it. See you then! Chris -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Thu Mar 6 15:28:05 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA07319; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 15:27:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id PAA11282 for hurricane-outgoing; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 15:29:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from barid.bennington.edu (barid.bennington.edu [204.249.80.8]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA11278 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 15:29:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from beaver.bennington.edu by barid.bennington.edu (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA15192; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 15:21:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 15:21:22 -0500 X-Sender: alexandr@pop.bennington.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu From: alexandr@barid.bennington.edu (Alexander Hunt Vittum) Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Benjie.....You mentioned that you were putting the Oak Meadow curriculum on reserve. This is a good curriculum, it was a good experience back in my homeschool days. But, you should get access to the Clonlara curriculum. My brother tried it and had a wonderful time with it. Also, according to Jerry Mintz it is the best curriculum he has found through all of his experience. Mybe you are already aware of this but, for various reasons have chosen Oak Meadow as a specific referece material for hurricane Hill. Let me know what you think. =F8 alexander =F8 From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Thu Mar 6 20:17:54 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA25517; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 20:17:44 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA11832 for hurricane-outgoing; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 20:19:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (bemF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA11828 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 20:18:59 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA25489; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 20:17:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 20:17:30 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu cc: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO > Benjie.....You mentioned that you were putting the Oak Meadow curricul= um > on reserve. This is a good curriculum, it was a good experience back in m= y > homeschool days. But, you should get access to the Clonlara curriculum. M= y > brother tried it and had a wonderful time with it. Also, according to Jer= ry > Mintz it is the best curriculum he has found through all of his experienc= e. > Mybe you are already aware of this but, for various reasons have chosen O= ak > Meadow as a specific referece material for hurricane Hill. Let me know wh= at > you think. >=20 > =F8 alexander =F8 Alexander- Thanks for writing. I didn't choose Oak Meadow as being=20 particularly appropriate for us; it was just the first curriculum I=20 found. I didn't intend for us to use it as reference material. How=20 would I get ahold of the Clonlara curriculum? Do you have an address I=20 could write to? It sounds good. - Benjie From cpkF92 Mon Mar 10 13:22:33 1997 Subject: Friday's Meeting To: hurricane@neural, jmintz@acl.nyit.edu Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 13:22:33 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2423 Dear Hurricanes, At the meeting on Friday evening (March 7) the following things happened: --I spoke about the schools I visited in the past 6 weeks. --As a group, we discussed the idea of coming up to Vermont on the 22-23 or March to view the property and possibly do some work there, perhaps to decide where who will live --Von announced that he was preparing a brochure and wanted to have very brief descriptions of what people were thinking of offering, if they had things in mind --The following list of people was agreed-upon as the staff for the summer: (Hampshire unless otherwise noted.) Benjie Messer Daniel Cantor Chris Sweet (Arcata, CA) Rebecca Haberfeld Mike Reiley (Evergreen, WA) Angel Dawson Heather Kamins Von Souvannasane Brooke Burgee --It was noted that Chris is personally guaranteeing room and board out of his personal savings, though others are free to bring sacks of potatoes if they have extras --It was noted that Chris was turned down for the echoing green fellowship he had applied for and therefore cannot guarantee stipends for the summer; this does not necessarily mean there will be none however. --Brooke Burgee shared her ideas for designing a composting toilet system for the summer program as a NS div 1. (I spoke with Michelle Soucy who likes to hang out in Cole Science and she thought it would be quite feasible to do lots of analysis of the composted poop using Hampshire's expensive gadgets.) --Jacob Bornstein said he would like to help staff learn how to teach quantum mechanics to kids, perhaps in a July workshop. Other notes: 1) I will be turning in the site plan today to the zoning office so that we having zoning approval for the summer camp 2) I really strongly recommend that each of you subscribe to the alternative school mailing list by mailing majordomo@pscs.org with the message "subscribe altsch" -- there are dozens of the best educators in the country who write to it, and just by lurking you can learn some great names and ideas. 3) I have been reading Holt's book "The Open Classroom" which is short (100 pages) and is a GREAT description of what it is like to teach well. 4) Rebecca Haberfeld suggests some meetings with all the summer staff; aside from those from the west coast, we could do that; that is originally I think what Benjie's group was going to be. Chris -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Mon Mar 10 16:16:31 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA14253; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:16:19 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id QAA22031 for hurricane-outgoing; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:17:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (bemF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA22027 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:17:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA14235; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:16:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:16:09 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: Hurricane Hill Group Subject: Tomorrow (tuesday) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO I'm really not up for meeting tomorrow night. I'm sorry- feel free to get together if you want, but I've got way too much else to finish before Spring Break. Love, Benjie PS- Who is planning to go up to VT over break, and when are you planning to do that? I'd like to get a ride up, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to. From cpkF92 Wed Mar 12 15:35:10 1997 Subject: When to come... To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:35:10 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: from "Benjie" at Mar 11, 97 06:15:02 pm From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 338 I strongly recommend that you guys come on Saturday if possible. I will have a half dozen kids there making maple syrup, and this seems like a good way to jump right in and talk with them about some of our ideas for the summer; then spend Sunday without them. Chris -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Tue Mar 11 18:15:26 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA05895; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 18:15:15 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id SAA23855 for hurricane-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 18:16:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (bemF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA23851 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 18:16:29 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA05880; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 18:15:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 18:15:02 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: Hurricane Hill Group , Not on list yet -- Abby Grace , beth_ferguson@hamp.hampshire.edu, "Kte'pi" , eleanor_berch-heyman@hamp.hampshire.edu, Jennifer E Donovan , Maria F Pereira , mama beeka , missing identity , Sinister Laotian Boy Subject: Spring Break campout Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Okay- I've decided. I'm taking a Hampshire van up to the school sometime over Spring Break, and I'll take anybody who wants to go, and I'll make whatever detours I need to make to pick people up who are at home but want to be there. I think it would be best to do this right before school starts again, maybe leave late Saturday and spend a lot of Sunday up there before coming back. Who wants to go, who will be where when, who should I take? Should I go earlier or later- let me know when you'll be here, if you want to go, what fits into your schedule. Alright. - Benjie From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Wed Mar 12 14:31:19 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA29419; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:31:11 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id OAA24697 for hurricane-outgoing; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:32:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (beb97@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA24693 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:32:19 -0500 (EST) Received: (from beb97@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA29410; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:30:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:30:54 -0500 (EST) From: Brooke Burgee To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu cc: Hurricane Hill Group , Not on list yet -- Abby Grace , beth_ferguson@hamp.hampshire.edu, "Kte'pi" , eleanor_berch-heyman@hamp.hampshire.edu, Jennifer E Donovan , Maria F Pereira , mama beeka , missing identity , Sinister Laotian Boy Subject: Re: Spring Break campout In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO hello...leaving for vermont now, wednesday because something came up and i need to go home. so i'll be in vermont through spring break. my number at home is 802-728-3088 and i live in randolph near the camp. when you all are up in vermont be sure that someone gives me a call as to when we are exactly meeting. thanks take care brooke From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Wed Mar 12 20:46:30 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA22657; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 20:46:22 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA25246 for hurricane-outgoing; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 20:47:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (vasF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA25242 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 20:47:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vasF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA22641; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 20:46:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 20:46:13 -0500 (EST) From: Sinister Laotian Boy To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu cc: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Subject: Spring Break! In-Reply-To: <199703122035.PAA04600@hamp.hampshire.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Alright...now that Brooke has disappeared...I'm in need of a ride up to Vermont during Spring Break. I was hoping to go not this upcoming weekend but the weekend when everyone's supposed to come back from Break...I think it's the weekend of the 22nd or something like that. Anyway, let me know who's going to Vermont and when. I'd like to come along. Also, it would be nice if people send me a line or two via e-amil about what they hope to teach this summer. I'd like to have one or two mock-ups of the brochure I'm working on to show when we are at Vermont. Thanks! - VSouvannasane From cpkF92 Sat Mar 15 12:12:30 1997 Subject: a letter I wrote about the school... To: hurricane@neural Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 12:12:30 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 8391 Perhaps this will be interesting for some of you to read through -- how does it sound? Is there anyone who would like to put together a 2-page mailing about the school for prospective parents containing this info, plus whatever else you might think it would need? Here it is: Dear Peter, Sam Guyton mentioned to me that he had met you and that I might write to you and share some of my ideas for mentoring in education. I have been thinking a lot lately but writing only a little, so I myself also have a need to set some of my ideas out. Sam didn't mention why you were interested in a mentoring approach to education, or in my school in particular, but I hope this general description gives you some of what you were looking for. I'll jump right in now; feel free to write or call me at (802) 728-5315 with any questions that I leave unanswered. I am setting up an elementary school in central Vermont (most likely in East Randolph or Randolph). The school will open in September. In the mean time, I am setting up a summer camp/learning program along the same principles and with the same structure. These will be called the Hurricane Hill School and the Hurricane Hill Summer Program, named after the hill near my home. The summer program and at least some of the school activities will take place here on my property (actually my father's property -- 15 acres with one primary and two secondary dwellings). The property is available in part because my father recently remarried and moved out -- at a perfect time because I just graduated from Hampshire College and am hot and eager to do the school. The staff will be living on the premises, in the available dwellings, for both the summer program and the school. The 20 children at the school will range from five to thirteen years old, and we will have 8 staff members, along with myself as Director. The staff will be college students or recent college graduates who come for anywhere from a semester to a year or more. We have a basic plan for organizing the day and the curriculum, though we are assuming that this plan will evolve. As of right now, the children will be divided roughly by age level into four groups (5-6, 6-9, 9-11, 11-13 years of age) with two staff members assigned to each group of about five children. These staff members will be familiar with the curriculum (in fact they will have developed it, using other curriculums for reference). My obligation as Director is to hire staff who believe that there is value in thinking, talking, reading, doing, and learning. From there, our goal as staff is to figure out what exactly are the most relevant parts of the curriculum for particular children at particular times and how to share these particular lessons with these particular students. We have at least five kinds of interaction in which this learning will take place: age grouped, staff-initiated activities; mixed-age staff-initiated activities, individual staff-child activities; solitary child activities; child-initiated activities. Clearly, these activities are the same as one would expect to find in any school; our school differs in part because of our favorable staff ratio (5 children to 2 staff), and in part because of the philosophy. So let me describe a day at the Hurricane Hill School. In the morning, the age groups meet with one or both of their staff mentors for an hour or more. There will likely be some lessons from the curriculum -- perhaps math or grammar. One of the important parts of my philosophy is that general skills are more valuable than specific skills. For instance, the ability to verbalize one's reservations, and the habit of doing what one thinks one should (integrity), are more important than particular math skills. Thus, many people ask me, "What will you do when the child doesn't want to do anything in the curriculum?" What we will do is naturally context-dependent, but the general form of what we will do is to help the child verbalize his reservations. We will then explain exactly why we believe a particular lesson is valuable and help him either embrace the activity if he now agrees, or verbalize his new reservations. It is then up to the child whether or not to participate in the activity -- if all the children in an age group are thus opposed to an activity, the mentor would ask if they had some other ideas of what the group should be doing, and thereby encourage that most vital of habits in the child, to do what one thinks one should. My experience with children, as well as the experience of hundreds of educators everywhere, shows me that this basic philosophy works very well -- that children are so curious, and so responsive to genuineness, that there is no need or even benefit to the kind of power relationship upon which the public schools typically depend. Besides these small-group learning activities each morning, we also have the opportunity to make individualized lessons for particular children for particular skills -- either taught by a staff member or another child. I should also say a few things about this "curriculum" I am mentioning. First of all, it is organized in a different form from most curriculums -- part of it lists specific or general skills and knowledge, part lists important human virtues. It is definitely not a list of activities, and definitely not a chronological master plan which must be followed. We will be taking account of the ages at which children in public schools are learning particular skills, and I expect to have more success in learning those things than the public schools, although our "curriculum" will be broader and more flexible than theirs. Particular human virtues (consideration, inner awareness, a passion for ideas, integrity...), skills, and knowledge may be measured in many ways and taught in many ways. The best way to teach consideration, for instance, may be a combination of example, sharing one's genuine feelings of pain when one feels pain, and discussion about the nature of feelings. The most gifted teachers simultaneously manage to teach children several human virtues, as well as skills and knowledge. I think I can often do this; my goal is to help the staff learn how to do this, for it is the difference between a good teacher and a great teacher. But we will be quite successful, too, insofar as we learn one thing at a time -- as opposed to the dismaying situation in most classrooms where many children don't even get that. Now, either before or after these early morning age groups will be a school meeting, at which staff will present the activities they would like to do for the rest of the day. Each staff member will typically offer one activity per day -- perhaps painting, theater, music, writing, hiking, gardening, complicated words, field trips, foreign languages, psychology, mythology. Before too long as the year progresses, I expect that the children will also be proposing activities. For the rest of the day, children will choose which activities they would like to do. Some children may need some help from their mentors in designing their plan for the day, especially the youngest ones. It may even happen that the youngest group chooses to stay together for much of the day, rather than mixing in with the older kids. The final bit of structure I should mention is an optional Thursday night overnight at the school or elsewhere. Well, that gives you a little picture of the school. I am hoping to raise funds primarily through tuition. The staff and myself will be paid depending on how many kids we end up getting, and how much they can pay. I would ideally like to find other financial support; I think this is an important model which could greatly improve both elementary and college education, so if I am able to sell my idea well then perhaps I will find a foundation which would like to give it a try. In the mean time, I am learning all about zoning, taxes, and health departments. Now I realize why the "administration" budget of institutions is so large! I hope you found this letter interesting, and as I said feel free to call with any further questions. And if you happen to be in the area in the next year or two, feel free to come by for a visit. Sincerely yours, Chris Kawecki -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From cpkF92 Sun Mar 30 12:41:43 1997 Subject: workshop next weekend To: hurricane@neural Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 12:41:43 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1110 Hi Hurricaners, Hope all your resurrections are going well today. Next weekend at Hampshire there will be a time at the "youth conference" when we can present the Hurricane Hill School. Here is a basic description of the presentation (it will take place sometime on Saturday the 5th or Sunday the 6th -- I'll let you konw more specifically when, when I know. Title: Alternative Education: The Hurricane Hill School Model Description: This workshop will address issues of alternative education using The Hurricane Hill School, an alternative elementary school in central vermont, as an example. I will discuss my experiences starting the Hurricane Hill School, and what led me to do it. I will also describe the project, and answer questions about it. Things are going well -- meeting lots of people, and had dinner withe the newspaper reporter who will do a story for us whenever we are ready. Maybe next week or the week after. I hope to see some of you next weekend whether at the presentation or some other time. Chris -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From cpkF92 Wed Apr 2 16:43:23 1997 Subject: Status report To: hurricane@neural Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 16:43:23 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2213 Hi Hurricane staff, Things are getting ugly. I have all kinds of fun hoops to hop through, from water quality to the septic system... I also got a note from Rebecca who said she was deciding not to come up this summer. As far as other people deciding to do other things, it's okay because we really do have too many staff still. I am also losing confidence that we will have many paying kids, but having kids of some kind will not be a problem. I am still pretty excited about the summer and am planning to learn a lot, work a lot, and have a good old time! I am deciding to take a four-day vacation from thinking about the whole business -- road trip to Wisconsin! -- and will be back on Tuesday of next week. It turns out that our presentation is on the 12th (Sat) at 11am. Jerry Mintz will be there, too -- it will be neat to talk with him about some of our plans. Jerry and I have also been talking about the idea of a more general learning experience for college students -- a semester of visiting several alternative schools, for a week or more each, as well as public schools, public alternatives, etc -- learning about aspects of education. Perhaps the second semester would be working at one place; or that could be the first semester, and the second could be the trip. I'm curious about that as a possible activity for some folks -- perhaps leading it myself some semester. I'm just writing to ask in general whether people are just as interested in that as they are in working as staff (basically, I'm wondering whether there might be a clientele out there, not necessarily the people on this list -- but whether people think that could work) -- I was surprised when at the meeting at my house, it seemed as though most people were just interested in being staff in a school; they didn't seem to care per se about being part of a new school, or about making a school together, so I'm trying to figure out what exactly people do want that I can help them get (or not!). Well those are my thoughts for the day -- keep in touch, folks; I'll be back in less than a week, and no doubt I'll check email before then. Chris -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Wed Apr 2 20:07:18 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA26246; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:07:06 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA18900 for hurricane-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:08:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (bemF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA18896 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:07:57 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA26230; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:06:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:06:56 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Subject: Re: Status report In-Reply-To: <199704022143.QAA11708@hamp.hampshire.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Chris Kawecki wrote: > Jerry and I have also been talking about the idea of a more > general learning experience for college students -- a semester of > visiting several alternative schools, for a week or more each, as well > as public schools, public alternatives, etc -- learning about aspects > of education. Perhaps the second semester would be working at one > place; or that could be the first semester, and the second could be > the trip. I'm curious about that as a possible activity for some > folks -- perhaps leading it myself some semester. Sounds really neat, Chris. I wouldn't do it myself, but I can't imagine that it wouldn't have a sizable number of applicants. It sounds like a program that could fill an important gap in education studies. >-- I was surprised when at > the meeting at my house, it seemed as though most people were just > interested in being staff in a school; they didn't seem to care per se > about being part of a new school, or about making a school together, > so I'm trying to figure out what exactly people do want that I can > help them get (or not!). I think I kind've skewed that group by my advertising here at Hampshire, Chris. The posters I put up to attract people very much emphasized the idea of working at a school and not about the newness of the school, because that's what I was thinking about at the time. Benjie From cpkF92 Fri Apr 11 21:07:11 1997 Subject: workshop time change To: hurricane@neural Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:07:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 120 It's actually at 1pm on Saturday in FPH! --Chris -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Wed Apr 2 20:18:53 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA27012; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:18:39 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA18916 for hurricane-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:19:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from hamp.hampshire.edu (bemF95@hamp [192.33.12.137]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA18912 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:19:30 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bemF95@localhost) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA26993; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:18:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:18:29 -0500 (EST) From: Benjie To: Hurricane Hill Group Subject: my thoughts Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO 1. I will call Van again as soon as I get off this computer and try to set a time to edit the brochure. 2. Changes in my life which may cause me not to be in VT for the summer: Suddenly feeling like I can't follow through with this PreMed hunch any longer without knowing if I want to doctor for sure, so I thought, well, I'll work in VT for the summer, maybe fall, do an internship in medicine in the spring, then come back to school the next year. But then my dad told me that taking the year off will be $15,000 cheaper if I put it off for another year, because in a year my brother will be too old to be co-owner of dad's business, and then it looks like we have twice as much capital. So I thought, maybe I'll have to drop the school and try working in medicine this summer. But that may not happen- it's pretty late to get internships at all, and all the medical internships I've seen so far are these god-damn biomedical research things, which I have no interest in, and without being CNA or EMT certified, I'm really not legally allowed to work with patients, so maybe that won't happen. But I'm gonna look. I'll feel bad if I do end up not going to VT- but I'll feel worse costing my family that much extra money. So we'll see. Regardless, I'll see what I can do about that brochure, keep looking for stories, and otherwise preparing for the school until I know for sure. Hopefully taking the Wilderness First Aid course OPRA is offering in two weeks- I got the money, I just hope it's not filled with orientation leaders yet. - Benjie From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Sun Mar 30 13:02:50 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA06570; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 13:02:44 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id NAA14551 for hurricane-outgoing; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 13:03:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from acl (acl.nyit.edu [198.242.56.202]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA14547 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 13:03:39 -0500 (EST) From: jmintz@acl.nyit.edu Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 12:59:23 -0500 Message-Id: <97033012592310@acl.nyit.edu> To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Subject: Re: workshop next weekend X-VMS-To: SMTP%"hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu" Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Dear Chris: I'm wondering whether to go to that conference next week. I'm supposed to go to the NCACS conference right after, but I might be able to squeeze it in. I just did my first radio show on the TalkAmerica network. I could do the show from the Summit. What do you think? Jerry From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Mon Mar 31 20:51:35 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA05505; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 20:51:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA16355 for hurricane-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 20:52:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from elwha.evergreen.edu (elwha.evergreen.edu [192.211.16.10]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA16351 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 20:52:14 -0500 (EST) Received: by elwha.evergreen.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/16Jan95-8.2MPM) id AA08074; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:05:32 -0800 Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:05:31 -0800 (PST) From: Simone LaVerne To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Hello everybody, i met Chris and learned about hurricane hill when he was out here visiting evergreen. Given it some thought, and if its still open, I would like to give a definite committment to working and living at hurricane hill starting this coming fall. The stinky thing is that since I'm all the way out here at evergreen this year, I haven't had a chance to go randolph or see the school...and I probably won't be back east till august sometime. Still, hope its all going well and hope to meet you all and see the place sometime in the future... --Simone From owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Mon Mar 10 10:30:42 1997 Received: from neural.hampshire.edu (daemon@neural.hampshire.edu [192.33.12.11]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA03362; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:30:32 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id KAA21245 for hurricane-outgoing; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:31:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from barid.bennington.edu (barid.bennington.edu [204.249.80.8]) by neural.hampshire.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA21241 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:31:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from w3.bennington.edu by barid.bennington.edu (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA15292; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:24:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:24:04 -0500 X-Sender: alexandr@pop.bennington.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu From: alexandr@barid.bennington.edu (Alexander Hunt Vittum) Subject: clonlara Sender: owner-hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hurricane@neural.hampshire.edu Status: RO Benjie- The number to call to reach clonlara is, (313) 769-4511. Also, if you want more insight I suggest you call Jerry Mintz at, (516) 621-2195. Hope this is helpful. bye! alexander ps. How did the meeting go? From jamie.l.kim@juno.com Sun May 11 16:27:21 1997 Received: from m2.boston.juno.com (m2.boston.juno.com [205.231.101.199]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA25678 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 16:27:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jamie.l.kim@juno.com) by m2.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id QuK17274; Sun, 11 May 1997 16:22:33 EDT To: ckawecki@hampshire.edu Subject: Mail Delivery Subsystem : Returned mail: User unknown Message-ID: <19970511.152854.8694.0.jamie.l.kim@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 1.15 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,3,5,7-93 From: jamie.l.kim@juno.com (Jamie L Kim) Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 16:22:33 EDT Status: RO Kim, Jamie Lee Vanderbilt University (H): 10103 Inwood Shadows St. Box 2080-Station B Houston, TX 77088-2224 Nashville, TN 37235; (615)-421-8080 (H) : (281)-447-7681/ (P) : (281)-725-7873 jamie.l.kim@vanderbilt.edu jamie.l.kim@juno.com --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem To: jamie.l.kim@juno.com Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 22:59:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <199705100259.WAAAA19344@m2.boston.juno.com> This is a MIME-encapsulated message --WAAAA19344.863233195/m2.boston.juno.com The original message was received at Fri, 9 May 1997 22:59:20 -0400 (EDT) from jamie.l.kim@juno.com ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- ckawec@juno.com ki@hampshire.edu ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 ckawec@juno.com... 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User unknown Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 22:59:55 -0400 (EDT) --WAAAA19344.863233195/m2.boston.juno.com Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: (from jamie.l.kim@juno.com) by m2.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id WuE24909; Fri, 09 May 1997 22:59:20 EDT To: ckawec@juno.com, ki@hampshire.edu Subject: Internship Message-ID: <19970509.220541.12534.0.jamie.l.kim@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 1.15 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,5-7,9-15,17,19,21-22 From: jamie.l.kim@juno.com (Jamie L Kim) Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 22:59:20 EDT Dear Mr. Kawecki: I received your letter about the possible future internship programs with education on my other email account. I was very interested and hope that you can provide me with more information. The address I will be using for the summer time is: jamie.l.kim@juno.com Thank you very much for your sincere time and cooperation. I hope to hear from you soon. Sincerely, Jamie L. Kim Kim, Jamie Lee Vanderbilt University (H): 10103 Inwood Shadows St. Box 2080-Station B Houston, TX 77088-2224 Nashville, TN 37235; (615)-421-8080 (H) : (281)-447-7681/ (P) : (281)-725-7873 jamie.l.kim@vanderbilt.edu jamie.l.kim@juno.com --WAAAA19344.863233195/m2.boston.juno.com-- --------- End forwarded message ---------- From levinr@elwha.evergreen.edu Mon Apr 28 11:55:54 1997 Received: from elwha.evergreen.edu (elwha.evergreen.edu [192.211.16.10]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA10803 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:55:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by elwha.evergreen.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/16Jan95-8.2MPM) id AA02190; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 08:58:15 -0700 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 08:58:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Robyn Levin To: chris Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO hi..i am assuming because there has been an end to the piles and piles of mail that I had been recieving about the school that I have probably been taken off the mailing list. I would still like to be connected to the development of the Hurricane School. I have procrastinated writing and showing my interest because at this point I have no concrete idea of what the next few months hold for me. I was trying to wait to figure out when I would be available but as it stands I am still uncertain about that. I am still very interested in working with the school and would like to remain in contact and informed of what is happening. It would also be helpful if you could let me know what your needs are and what the process to become involved is going to be like. I am out here in Washington...I hope to hear from you soon Robyn Levin From cms6@axe.humboldt.edu Mon May 5 16:49:39 1997 Received: from axe.humboldt.edu (axe.humboldt.edu [137.150.148.10]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA29879 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 16:49:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by axe.humboldt.edu id AA19823; Mon, 5 May 1997 13:45:33 -0700 Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 13:45:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher Sweet To: Chris Kawecki Subject: Re: checking in In-Reply-To: <199705031552.LAA03412@hamp.hampshire.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Chris -- Hope everything is going well. I'm sure you are hella busy right now getting things together for this summer. I would love to be on your mailing list. My address is 1240 McMahan Ct. Apt. D; Arcata, CA 95521. Once again, good luck in everything, and hopefully someday I'll get myself out East to check out your place. Take care, Chris From cpkF92 Tue May 13 12:28:25 1997 Subject: Progress!! To: hurricane@neural Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 12:28:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1751 Hurricane Update! May 13 1997 Last week I mailed out brochures and newsletters to over 100 people on my US-mail address list. The brochure I ended up making myself (with some help from Van and Benjie thank you both). The poop inspector is coming on Thursday to "inspect" our septic system and admire how well the toilets flush. I have been meeting parents all over and think we have about 10 prospects right now, of which I am pretty sure at least 4 will come; so I'm pretty confident that in the next month, we will get at least a total of 8 and perhaps 12 or 15! Cleanup is going on every day -- dump runs, recycling, etc. Potatoes will be planted soon -- I need HELP with the garden ASAP and if anyone is thinking of coming to visit right after graduation on Saturday or next week or the week after, whatever, PLEASE DO!!! Right now the list of staff is: Carrie Bernstein Heather Kamins Angel Dawson Andrew Stankevitch (already arrived) Michael Eppilito Chris Kawecki and there are many more staff pounding down my doors wanting to join us. If anyone has great educational toys, gadgets, puzzles, extra painting sets, etc etc please bring them when you come to dig the enlarged garden. If anyone has a rich uncle, please get us a donation for the scholarship fund (tax deductible). Anyone who wants to come visit now or during the summer is welcome to, please let us know in advance. Staff pay will probably be $5-$20 per week, depending on the number of kids -- though I have some great ideas for fundraisers and if we do some of them it'll go right into staff pay. that is the update for today -- spring is here come and visit it is beautiful!!! Your Chris -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From cpkF92 Sun Jun 1 22:16:41 1997 Subject: Open House a Success!!! To: hurricane@neural Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 22:16:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 711 Our first open house for the Hurricane Hill School was a tremendous success yesterday. We had about 15 kids with 10 parents interspersed through the day. Andrew Stankevitch did a clown show; all the staff and kids (5-12 mostly) made electronic devices ranging from boats to fans. Several parents were even so excited they are pushing me to definitely start the school officially in the fall with a full-year program. It is really amazing. We had another brief but very nice article in the town paper, which attracted a handful of people. Well, this is just a short update but things are happening and they are really great! Chris K. -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92 From cpkF92 Wed Jul 16 22:11:04 1997 Subject: Summer News, Fall Staff Possibilities To: hurricane@neural Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:11:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Kawecki X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2248 Dear Friends of The Hurricane Hill School, We are now mid-way through our fifth week of our eight-week summer program. We have between 2 and 8 kids per day, and 4 staff members (including myself). The second Hurricane Hill School newsletter should be coming out within a week through US Mail. If you did not receive the first but would like to receive the second, please let me know and I will send you a copy. We are pleased with the summer program -- financially, not a moneymaker, but it is not losing too much to be unbearable. The staff are doing great work; from cooking to electronics, frog catching to touring glassblowing factories, these kids are having a really positive experience. We still have more kids on scholarship than we have scholarship funds so please feel free to send in a donation to cover a child's scholarship. Fall plans are to open a homeschool center, for homeschoolers to come to two days a week (Tuesday and Thursday, probably). We would offer some lessons (math, physics, music), run on a democratic model as we are now, have computers available for kids to work on, go for field trips, etc. At this point, it is financially not possible for me to start a school, so this seems like the right thing to do while I spend two additional days per week actually earning money. I am expecting 2-8 kids for the fall. I am looking for staff, preferably for the year, but possibly for just the fall, to work with me on this project. Their deal would be similar to mine -- living here, working two days a week here, then one to three days elsewhere to earn some money. Having a car is a plus. Or, depending on the staff member, it could be treated as more of a teacher-training experience for them and their parents could chip in. In this case, the staff/intern/trainee would spend the other days visiting a variety of other alternative and traditional schools. We have a tremendous garden coming in so there will be lots of great food to eat all fall. Please get in touch with me at (802) 728-5315 ASAP if you are interested. Please come visit -- we love having visitors! Our last week of the summer program is August 8. --Chris K. -- Chris Kawecki ckawecki@hampshire.edu http://hampshire.edu/~cpkF92