New Board and Meeting Times

Hearty congratulations to the Education Collaborative's new 2013 Board.

Co-Presidents: Sarah Hall Begeman and Annie Burrows

Co-Communication Chairs: Carly Roberts and Leah Verghese
Events Chair: Micha Meredith
Academic Chair: Muqing Zhou

This semester we will be having our meetings in room 402 IAB between 1 and 2 pm, every Wednesday.

2013 Board elections

We are conducting elections for our new Board soon. Here are the details for the upcoming elections for the Board of Education Collaborative:

• A list of positions on the Board and their responsibilities is given below.
• To stand for any of the listed positions please fill in and submit the following Google form by 6 pm, January 31st:

Every candidate can contest for a maximum of three positions.

• Electronic voting will start on February 1st and continue till February 4th midnight.
• There will be a kick-off meeting on February 4th between 1 and 2 pm for members to meet and get to know their candidates.
• The new Board will be announced on February 5th.

Click on "Read more" below to check the positions on the Board.

Education Collaborative Strategy 2013

The following document summarizes the main challenges identified by the 2012 board for 2013. We expect these bullets will help the 2013 board when framing their agenda for the year.

The document structure is:

1. Mission and Vision
2. Why education at SIPA
3. Gaps to address within SIPA
4. Gaps to address within the Columbia community

Click below on "Read more" to continue reading.

Follow up: Sandy School Supply Drive

During November, the Education Collaborative conducted a school supply drive for PS 329, one of the city schools relocated due to Sandy storm.

Thanks to your help, we were able to collect:

• Several boxes with school supplies.
• $379 in donations through our Amazon wishlist.
• $215 in cash.

Education Collaborative members delivered your donations to PS 329, which were received by Mrs. Salema Marbury (Principal) and Mrs. Lisa Lafontant (Assistant Principal). They thanked the Columbia University community for this support, and many teachers showed also great appreciation for our support.

Fortunately, the school came back to its building, although the first floor was still being repaired when we visited the school.

A big thank you to all of you!

Summer Internship Series: EdVillage

Catalina Diez (cd2603 MPA 2013)
EdVillage
Washington DC, USA

This is an article of our Summer Internship Series.
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During the past summer I did my internship in a local NGO called EdVillage (www.edvillage.org). EdVillage is an international education nonprofit organization. It identifies and supports transformational school models and education entrepreneurs around the world that seek to provide a high-quality, university preparatory education to children from economically disadvantaged communities. They do this by providing world-class school leadership training and specialized school start-up and improvement services. Their current work is focused mainly in South Africa and India.