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The Center For Inquiry: Calendar of Events

DATES FOR SPRING 2008

JANUARY
8Middle School workshops
9 Science meeting - Guest speaker Dr. Pamela Mills, Chemistry Department, Hunter College
10 HS workshops: English, math, social studies
14 HS workshop: How does performance assessment affect students with IEPs and other special needs?
17 Consortium/DYO monthly meeting
29 Performance Assessment Professional Development Day
FEBRUARY
11 Workshop on special needs students (tentative date)
14 Consortium/DYO monthly meeting
28 HS workshops
MARCH
4 Middle school workshops
6 Consortium meeting
10 Special Ed. meeting
18 Planning Committee for Consortium Art Show
27 HS workshops
APRIL
7 Special Ed & IEPs workshop
8 Middle school workshops
10 Consortium/DYO monthly meeting
MAY
1 HS workshops
13 Middle school workshops
15 Consortium/DYO monthly meeting
29 HS workshops
JUNE
4 Consortium student art show
10 Middle school workshops
11 HS workshops
12 Consortium/DYO monthly meeting

Dates To Be Announced:

  • The college application process - How are we doing?
  • School-based workshop and research presentations
  • Other PBATS: art, criticism, foreign language, internships, college courses
  • Preparation for external evaluators
  • Moderation Study---III & IV



As Horace Mann, and later John Dewey, saw it, public schools were necessary to fashion a common national culture out of a far-flung and often immigrant population, and to prepare young people to be reflective and critical citizens in a democratic society.

The emphasis was on self-governance through self-respect; a sense of cultural ownership through participation; and ultimately, freedom from tyranny through rational deliberation.

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