Hello, everyone--
I am writing to remind you of an assignment for Pursuing Justice.
I hope your school year is off to a smashing start and that all of you have finally received full payment from Brookline for your hard work this summer. For those of you who have had payment problems, I am sorry for the delay. Internal bureaucracies are always a nightmare and this one is more so than most. Enough said.
As to payment for the following, I want to avoid any further complications in this, the final year of the project. So...Pursuing Justice will pay you $250 for the first draft of your lesson on September 30th (you can post it at any time before that date, by the way) and the final $250 when you have revised the lesson and posted a "Final Lesson Plan." I am attaching a template that we have used to create lessons in Brookline. If you have a different format in your own school system, you should use that format but if you do not, please use the format of the template I have attached.
1--Assignment for September 30th
- By now, you should have received feedback from one of the professors on your memo from last summer.
- Please revise your project using their suggestions
- Post the project to the Project Cohort 3 page by September 30th. We would appreciate any early posts, by the way. Please label the post of your lesson with "Draft Lesson for Pursuing Justice, [your name]."
- Geoff Tegnell and I will review your lesson post, make suggestions, and send these back to you (individually) by October 20.
- When you receive our suggestions, please revise your work and post the revision on the Project Cohort 3 forum page:
2--Final Lesson Plan
- Originally, we had said that the final payment would be in May, following a) a visit from the project director or evaluator; b) a narrative from you about the effect of Pursuing Justice on your teaching; and c) a final posting of your lesson.
- We want to be sure that all payments are done in a timely manner before the grant funding ends, so we will move up the process of final payment. You will still be obligated to fulfill parts a and b above, but Pursuing Justice will make the payment as soon as the Final Lesson Plan appears on the Project Cohort 3 page.
- Please label this final post as "Final Lesson Plan for Pursuing Justice, [Your Name]
Rich Young
Project Director
Pursuing Justice
Brookline Public Schools
617-264-6421
Fax: 617-264-6429