At Least Three National/Federal Organizations or Communities of Practice
Geoffrey Canada
“Geoffrey
Canada is a social activist and educator (HCZ, 2014). He is the former
president and CEO of Harlem children zone (HCZ) which is located in Harlem, New
York. “The goal of the organization is to increase high school and college
graduation rates in Harlem (HCZ, 2014).” Through his work he came to realize
that he couldn’t increase graduation rate without reaching the whole family.
This is done by starting from the beginning by reaching pregnant mothers and
their new born babies. The organization follows them from birth through
college, offer services and worships along the way. HCZ’s mission: The emphasis of The Children's
Zone® work is not just on education, social service and recreation, but on
rebuilding the very fabric of community life. Geoffrey Canada has inspired me
to adopt is model (HCZ, 2014). I not only want to educated children but I want
to make communities better one child at a time.
Michelle Rhee
Michelle Rhee is a
public figure and the former chancellor of the Washington D.C. public school
systems. The first time, I heard of her was
when she was on the Oprah Winfrey show in 2010. She announce that she wasn’t
taking any job offers after leaving the Washington dc public school system and
would be starting her own nonprofit organization called student first. Student’s first mission is to build a national movement to defend the
interests of children in public education and pursue transformative reform, so
that America has the best education system in the world. I was drawn to her
because she believes in quality education and not just passing students without
educating them. Cities such as
Washington D.C. and New York City were promoting students from grade to grade
without proper education. Michelle Rhee made headlines because she made the
controversial decision, “In her first
year on the job to closed 23 schools, fired 36 principals and cut approximately
121 office jobs. In addition, under this new agreement, Rhee fired 241
teachers, the vast majority of whom received poor evaluations, and put 737
additional school employees on notice Of
the dismissed teachers. It is important to her to for children to have a
excellent educations even if that meant hundreds of people loosing their jobs
to make that happen (Studentsfirst, 2014).”
Community Coordinated Care for
Children (4C)
4C is an
organization provides child care funding and referrals to local early learning
provider and provides early intervention services promoting the healthy
development of children. In
addition the agency offers child care trainings, and administers the Child
Care Food Program.
“4C’s
mission is to be a community leader in providing high quality services that
improve the lives of children and families. Together, with local stakeholders,
4C works to ensure children are safe, healthy, and school ready (4C, 2008).” This
agency will be helpful will resources and information about the needs of the
community.
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Job opportunities (currently available or not)
Education Coordinator, Harlem Children
Zone
HCZ® has achieved unprecedented success, helping
thousands of children and families and disrupting the cycle of generational
poverty in Central Harlem through our innovative and effective programs.
Our goal is simple—to give our kids the individualized
support they need to get to and through college and become productive,
self-sustaining adults. Realizing this goal is difficult and complex,
particularly since we are working with over 12,000 youth, many of them with
tough challenges.
Skills and Experience
Earned a masters degree in
Early childhood Education
Must
have 5 years experience as coordinator or director of a child care facility
Plan, direct, or coordinate
the academic and nonacademic activities of preschool and child care centers or
programs.=
