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We have worked out a great partnership for C3 Texas members!
Please continue reading to learn more about how this will aid
your professional development.
Dear Most Valued Members,
We are so excited to share with you the details of
with the Community Works Institute.
CWI will offer C3 Texas and our constituent educators 4 partial scholarships
of $300 per person, for the CWI Summer Institutes.
The regular tuition rate is $1,289 so this is a tremendous cost-savings for you.
Accommodations are not included
but all materials and lunches are.
*CWI Summer WEST Institute on Service-Learning
Los Angeles, California
*CWI Summer EAST Institute on Service-Learning
Shelburne Farms, Vermont
You must register and pay in full by December 15, 2012.
C3Texas members special code is: "c3texas"
The scholarships are on a first-come basis. Direct questions to: jbrooks@communityworksinstitute.org or
www.communityworksinstitute.org
C3 Texas & CWI will also offer 2 additional scholarships, paid in full, for C3 members only -- to attend either of the above mentioned summer institute offerings. Please email your scholarship request no later than December 10, 2012 to:
Meet C3 Texas' newest Advisory Council Member...
Joe Brooks Executive Director Community Works Institute
Joe has worked with students at every level, from elementary through graduate education. He is the founder and director of Community Works Institute (CWI) and also serves as publisher of the Community Works Journal.
As a veteran professional development leader-facilitator, Joe has provided support over the past two decades to a wide spectrum of public and independent K-16 schools, community organizations, and regional and national initiatives. He has worked with educators from around the world on place, service, and sustainability curriculum, through site based consulting, workshops, and graduate level institutes. Joe is a former middle school teacher with a passion for hands-on, place based curriculum that has service and democracy at its core.
He taught in Vermont for twelve years, initiating and nurturing a nationally recognized K-12 service-learning and community partnership program.
Among his longer term curriculum projects was a student published community newspaper that introduced middle grade students to state-of-the-art, standards based publishing and primary source based journalism. That program was also central to a larger effort to reframe the school and students as the hub of community partnership efforts, The newspaper thrived, subsequently serving local residents for more than seventeen years.
Joe's curriculum work with students and teaching colleagues also included development of local cultural and historical projects with focuses on oral and local history, digital publications, community surveys, school gardens, science, and technology projects.
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