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Innovation towards very small AFFORDABLE housing
Original post made by Periwinkle, Downtown North, on Jan 28, 2007
here's a quote from the article:
"Portland, Oregon. Seattle, Washington. Vancouver, British Columbia. In these three Pacific Northwest cities, the progressive power of urban planning is taken very seriously, and concepts like livability and sustainability dominate the local civic culture to such an extent that to visit all three in rapid succession, as I did in October, is to drop in on another country. It's not the United States or Canada, but a more highly evolved combination of the two. "
How about considering some of these ideas for Palo Alto? One of newly-appointed Mayor Kishimoto's mandates is "innovation". I nominate some of the innovative ideas in this article for consideration by our policy makers and citizens.
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a resident of Mountain View
on Jan 29, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Sounds good to me. But I already live in such a place:
Web Link
Quote from the link: "The Crossings is an excellent example of Mountain View's transit-oriented development plans. In 2002, the American Planning Association gave the city the Outstanding Planning Award for Implementation for its transit-oriented development program that produced communities like The Crossings"
However, I don't feel that the price I paid was "affordable" from an East Coast point of view. But I really like the neighborhood, and the fact that I can walk to buy just about anything I need. All you need is a little red wagon for the bigger stuff.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jan 29, 2007 at 11:17 pm
1500-1600 square feet, I could use that extra square footage. I live in a 1350 square foot house that would easily go for 1.3 million. Its not the structure thats a barrier to entry in this town, its the land.
a resident of College Terrace
on Jan 30, 2007 at 12:51 am
how about building small units UP? Why not permit small granny units, or multi-story builds that concentrate on really small units; how about garage conversions - etc. etc.
a resident of Stanford
on Jan 30, 2007 at 6:34 pm
As a friend of Mayor Kishimoto, an urban planner by training, and a former Stanford employee (now Santa Cruz consultant) who visits often and enjoys Palo Alto, here are some ideas for innovative housing:
- Rooms clustered around common living rooms and kitchens, which are designed like hostels or communes, would provide community-based living for residents who like socializing.
- Heat-sink thermal shafts dug 50 to 60 feet into the ground with circulating water/liquids to transfer heat into the walls and floor could provide year-round heating/cooling and reduce the need for natural gas or electricity. A housing complex in Ridgemont, Colorado installed these geothermal systems many years ago.
- Multi-purpose rooms like those used in Japan, Mayor Kishimoto's place of origin, are very useful for crowded places. In fact, Japan and Europe have many excellent ideas for high-quality, high-density housing and transport.
Sheridan Tatsuno, Principal
Dreamscape Global
a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on Jan 30, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Can somebody please explain to me why Palo Alto citizens would support an increased density of ticky-tacky units in this town? Not only are these proposed units UGLY, but they will overburden our already overburdened schools and services.
What the heck are you urban designers smoking? We are NOT your laboratory!
a resident of Ventura
on Jan 31, 2007 at 2:32 am
Chris, Who said anything about ticky-tacky? Read the article.
btw, right now we're running a lab experiment that is creating quite a unique community - one that keeps public safety employees (police and fire), teachers, municipal workers, retail workers, tradepersons, university academics, nurses, social workers, independent craftspersons, shopowners, maintenence workers, administrative support personnel, restaurant workers, landscapers, and many others from being able to afford housing here.
Who will you call for help if we have a 7.9 earthquake at 3AM? Are you aware that most of our public safety personnel would not be able to help, because they don't live here?
It's time for some new thinking, and action.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jan 31, 2007 at 9:36 am
Whereas I agree it would be ideal to have our service people living in Palo Alto, and I think there are a lot of them here anyway, it is the fact that we have to be very careful about suggesting new housing of any description. Our schools are very overcrowded, the majority of our residents rarely shop in Palo Alto because of its upscale retail philosophy, public transport is practically ignored as an issue, traffic and other transport infrastructure is already having a hard time coping with the number of residents presently here, etc. etc. etc.
What we really need to do is rethink Palo Alto as a city and what the expectations for the future really are. This city was built up around a university in a fertile valley. At the time technology started gaining ground, back in the 50s, the majority of new housing at that time was cheap cookie cutter neighborhoods for the service workers. These neighborhoods are now full of rich techie types who can afford the $1m+ price tag, come here for the schools, and turn the small cheap (eichlers, sterlings, etc.) housing into comfortable (?) large homes, bringing the prices above what the service workers can afford. Now look at the mess we are in. Instead of having our service workers living in Palo Alto, where do they live? I have heard stories of grocery clerks and garbage workers being bussed in from the central valley!! This really is getting ridiculous.
Lets get the city sorted out for the residents who live here and then lets get the service workers in. This should not be a decision to put off affordable housing, more phase 2 in a city wide scheme to get things done in a well thought out, expedient manner.
a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on Jan 31, 2007 at 10:19 am
That red house up in Seattle (first post on this thread)sure looks like ticky-tacky to me (and it is considered a top exapmple of the proposed housing).
The issue of service workers is always thrown out there by the pro density groups. However, they never seem to have an answer when they are asked about who is going to live in these small units. Police, fire, teachers may actually prefer a three-bedroom house in Tracy to a teenie-weenie in Palo Alto. Maybe they want to raise their kids in a suburban environment. It would be easy to get that answer: Just limited a few small units in Palo Alto to our service workers (with kids). I doubt that any of them would take the offer, except possibly as a second home.
a resident of University South
on Jan 31, 2007 at 10:40 am
In discussing housing it is useful to know just how much housing we are building now.
For a list of housing that is now being built in Palo Alto, and housing in process of development see Web Link The list does not include any Stanford construction or individual homes.
For an easy to print copy, see Web Link
a resident of College Terrace
on Jan 31, 2007 at 11:10 am
Looks to me like there is a denial that anything innovative can be done to solve our the affordable housing problem. Rather, what twe're hearing from again is all the folks who keep repeating the same old "no" saw on this issue.
Where are the Sheridan Tatsuno's? I want to hear from more of them.
a resident of University South
on Jan 31, 2007 at 12:51 pm
It would help if you could quantify your assertion, Mike. Can you tell us how many affordable units we have, and how many we need?
For years I heard people say we need more housing, even though construction was visible all over the place. So I put together the numbers. It turns out that there are about 3,700 housing units built recently or planned in the near future (not counting individual homes).
Web Link
The city recently allocated something like 10 million dollars to build a low income project on the site of the electrical substation on Alma St. (8 million for the land and over a million to move the substation)
a resident of College Terrace
on Jan 31, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Elaine, this thread is more about innovation towards AFFORDABLE housing. It appears that whenever the issue of housing is raised, we inundated with cries from the "no more housing" folks.
The fact is that Palo Alto needs to grow, both in housing and commercial capacity, if it is going to continue as something other than a high-priced haven for the privileged. The latter may be nice for some, but it doesn't bode welll for those of us who want to stay for a while.
"How many affordable homes do we need?". Good question. How many of Palo Alto's public service and retail personnel would like to live within reasonable driving distance of their workplace? What's the price that Palo Alto and its neighbors play for not enabling that? How many seniors threatened with having to leave Palo Alto for lack of affordable space? Where are those numbers? Has anyone ever made the "number query" from these perspective? Probably not.
Palo Alto is projected to 80,000+ citizens in less than 25 years. My sense is that even more housing than is on your list will be approved nd built. There is no stopping that, unless Palo Alto wants to become a high-priced backwater, where people have to "drive until they qualify" to live. That's a projected sad state of affairs, and likely resulting in a community that will lose much of its dynamism.
btw, it's not only the city that can provide innovative solutions to housing. Why aren't we soliciting innovative ideas like the ones Mr. Tatsuno suggested - and others - from developers? Why aren't we being proactive and *reaching out* to innovative developers. the latter action, in itself, would be innovative.
I've heard these "warnings" about housing explosions for so long that it does nothing but raise a "boy who cried wolf" response. Most of my neighbors (those that follow these things) feel the same way. The warnings - along with the dire predictions of doom that accompanied them - have not come true. If Palo Alto policy makers had listened to all the no growthers during the last decade, we'd be the worse off for it.
So, let's move on. Co-housing, multiple dwelling structures, granny units, high-density, well-designed infill, etc. etc. Why aren't we _aggressively_ pursuing these options. The opportunity, technology, and consumer need isi there. Let's do it!
a resident of Palo Verde
on Jan 31, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Mike, you say that there have been no adverse consequences to increased density. Really? How about the overcrowded schools and increased demand of current services? Only expensive homes come anywhere near paying their way in PA. Small secondary units don't increased the property value enough to make up for the services that are demanded by them.
The more fundmental issue, Mike, is what market those tiny units will serve. Your side always says it will be for teachers and police and fire, etc. Your side never provides any proof of that. In fact, it is probably the opposite.
I think it is much more likely, Mike, that your side has other agendas. For example: Urban design by the cogniscienti, mass transportation bosses, social engineers, etc. It is no surprise to me that your neighbors don't trust your side.
a resident of University South
on Jan 31, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Mike, you respond to a question with more questions and more noble sentiments. Housing in PA is expensive. What to do about it is a serious question. Increasing density will not do it, the demand is unlimited. No one is opposed to housing for the poor or working people (certainly I'm not) but just for starters, please specify a few easy things like how many units there are now, or anything relevant, so we have an idea of what we are talking about. It's not that hard to find out.
Who is opposed to innovation and creativity? You set up a straw man and write at length shooting it down.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jan 31, 2007 at 4:34 pm
I have no numbers on this, but from my perspective and anecdotally from those I come across and also from realtors, new housing along the lines described, do nothing to serve those who we expect to live there, e.g. service workers and their families. The people who move in are single adults buying their first home near their work and plan to stay there for up to 5 years before buying something more fitting for a family as that is when they think they will start a family, dinkys (double income no kids yet), gays (nothing against them, just that they don't usually expect to be raising a family) and one side of a divorce who hope to remain near their kids (this latter group often sell a bigger home and buy a small house for the one with full time custody, and a smaller unit for the single parent). Now I have nothing against these groups and they do need to live somewhere, but to say that these are for teachers, police officers, etc. etc. is to deny the truth. Many of the teachers I know already live in nice houses either in PA or surrounding cities, and I expect police do also. These units (because they can hardly be called homes) are not suitable for families who want to stay here for sometime. Btw, PAUSD teachers and even janitors can get their kids into PA schools regardless of where they live so the argument that they want to live here because they teach here and want their kids in the good schools holds no water.
a resident of College Terrace
on Jan 31, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Sure, there is increased demand for services in Palo Alto; our citizens will (or will not) decide to to continue to pay for osome of them.
Also, there is an implied fear, coming from you, about "who" will be served by low income housing. Looks like you want to paint those who would think about using innovation to ease constraint as "cognoscenti", and social engineers. What you're missing is that innovative city planning can bring real profit to a city, and its people. Deny that at your peril.
Elaine, You purport to have all the numbers, and contine to pound on the "too much housing issue", which is off topic for this thread. Now you're wanting to continue the old "no housing" saw by accusing me of not wanting to discuss this issue based on what I consider to be (your) faulty assumption - i.e that we have too much housing. IN fact, we need MORE housing - not just in Palo Alto, but throughout the peninsula. The more dense, the better, with one caveat - that density os acccompanied by sustainability in materials, design, transport, and open systems that permit municipal innovation.
We all know how difficult it can be to change one's perspective in the face of looming reality - especially if the counter-reality that one has been proposing, and invested so much time in, seems to not gain as much mindshare as it did in Palo Alto's more salad days. My challenge to you is to reconsider personal assumptions about growth that are running out of gas.
Would that you spent more time on suggesting how some of those 3000+ housing units could be designed in ways that - for instance - take them off the grid, or are built in ways (as long as there's profit margins sufficient for developers) that create more open space. I don't hear you talking about things like that. Why not?
It's human nature to get used to a tune; I expect to hear the "no growth" tune keep playing, until most of the rest of Palo Alto wearies of hearing it (especially all the newcomers) and it gets drowned (it's already sinking) out by a more hopeful message of growth AND sustainability.
Here's a challenge for you, and Sean. Instead of thinking about all the constraints caused by additional population, try thinking about some of the advnatages - including new social dynamics - that wouldn't exist otherwise.
Without reading too much into it, I wonder what the raw motivations for the current "no growth" cries are. I see fear there, and it's not the fear of too many people; it's something else altogether.
I'd like to hear some substance about why more people is a bad thing; that's whata you're clearly implying, and by doing so denying that those additional people, in addition to those ofo us who are already here, won't be abl to move forward together, to innovate, to thrive. I want to hear from you why you think that's not possible.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Jan 31, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Mike, you are a true believer. Most of the rest of us are not. I suspect that you will find that many of us stakeholders in PA will not support your micro-homes approach.
I have lived outside PA, while I worked inside PA. I have also lived inside PA, while I worked outside of it. What makes you think that families want to constrain their natural interests to satisfy your socially-engineered solutions?
Palo Alto is slowly coming to the realization that it cannot afford all sorts of creative solutions. Yes, it can afford parks and libararies, because it has an established tax base, but it cannot afford to erode the essential element of its tax base, which is the value of its resiential land. Micro-housing would do just that.
a resident of College Terrace
on Jan 31, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Sean, I don't qualify as a true believer - read Eric Hoffer, the person who created that term.
Tell me, Sean, how does a viable resident _subtract_ from the value of community?
No growthers assume that a 'stable' nirvana is possible through no growth and change, and constantly find themselves disappointed when problems occur anyway. Yet they persist. THAT's a true believer.
Really, no growth is as much utopian fantasy as perfect planned growth. We need to grow up and realize that growth is a part of the urban dynamic, and we should do our best to adapt to it as efficiently as we can, while compelling growth to be sustainable, and using our brains to invent ways to ameliorate negative impacts and change.
Palo Alto is more populated than it was 20 years ago. The populace appears to have adapted quite well - this is a pretty happy place, everythinng considered. Palo Alto will be a lot more populated 20 years from now than it is today. In that future time, citizens will continue to solve problems, and enjoy each other, just as they do today. Read Alfred E Newman :)
Call it whatever you will, change will happen - in this case, population growth, including the problems and solutions that come with it. We'll either be innovative in our approaches to solving the problems that accompany this coming reality, or suffer needlessly if we don't.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Feb 1, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Mike, I am quite open to change. Are you?
Our current PA zoning rules restrict the natural market. That is what zoning always does. Your view, it seems, is that micro units should be allowed (they are not currently allowed) . My view is that that would be a bad deal for most of us who are currently here. I have already explained my reasons. However, if you really want to have freedom of choice, going into the future, why don't we just allow the market to sort it out? I would guess that you would welcome this experiment. You would probably think that it would be a great new openess for increased density. My view is that it would go exactly the opposite way, with many more multiple scrapes and replacement with mansions.
I think we have it about right, currently. We don't need a bunch of micros and neither do we need a bunch of new mansions. But I am open to the idea of letting it rip! Are you?
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 1, 2007 at 10:32 pm
What the heck? A response to the first comment - The Crossings in Mountain view is a horrible community and a bad example of the kind of housing Palo Alto needs. That was an infill project on land that wasn't wanted by hardly anyone else but the cheap developer who built nasty row housing that isn't even efficient.
a resident of College Terrace
on Feb 1, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Sean, You speak of the 'market' as if it were a neutral, natural thing; nothing could be further from the truth.
Markets are _made_ by dollar and policy intersection, and invention. Deny this at peril to your argument.
Right now, the "market" is made by zoning limitations (as you correctly state) that keep micro-housing out of the picture.
Why not open up the regulations to permit micro-housing, and see what develops from there, instead of letting the currently biased market open up under rules that favor large scale construction?
a resident of Mountain View
on Feb 2, 2007 at 11:30 am
Cal poly student, can you tell us more about The Crossings? It faces the railroad tracks so I'm sure noise is a problem. What else?
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 2, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Palo Alto needs some Studio Apartments. 160 square feet of minimumalist living. Toilet, shower, kitchenette, and living room/murphy bed.
Then the same square footage parking.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Feb 2, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Mike, The unencumbered market is a natural thing. It is based on supply and demand. However, when regulations are put on the market, it becomes less natural. It then becomes focused on how best to manipulate the rules to one's own advantage.
I am OK with the current regulated residential home market in Palo Alto. You are not.
I challenged you to let it rip. By this I mean a non-regulated market. I think this would make Palo Alto into Atherton overnight. You seem to think that we would end up as a densely green utopia. Care to bet?
I sense that you are true believer. However, I would never take the bet.
a resident of College Terrace
on Feb 2, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Sean, my final comment on this thread.
Show me one "perfect" market - one that is *entirely* unencumbered by an outside variables. Just one.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Feb 3, 2007 at 8:20 am
Mike, Outside variable are always present in establishing supply and demand. I was talking about outside regulation. For instance the current gold market is a relatively natural market, but when the gold price was regulated it was an unnatural market.
You want micro units in Palo Alto, and I do not. That is a basic disagreement, no matter what we think about the theory of markets.
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 3, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Does high density housing lower or increase the quality of life in Palo Alto?
By bringing more people into a given area, high density housing leads to higher gas, water and electric prices, increased noise and air pollution, increased commute costs due to longer waits in traffic, unsafe streets, which raises the number of injury accidents, higher insurance (medical and car) costs, increased use of public facilities, which forces citizens to wait in line for use of those facilities, which has a real cost. All of these are external costs, which are not quantified, and rarely reported on by the local press.
Unfortunately, our council does not seem to know how to quantify and base a decision on these things or they choose to ignore them, instead taking into account the benefits to special interests who benefit from increased density housing. Those special interests commercial real estate owners, who get companies to rent their facilities at higher rates, thereby increasing the value of their property, and residential housing developers, including the Palo Alto Housing Corporation, who make more profit with high density zoning.
The bottom line is high density housing erodes the quality of life for Palo Alto residents, but is very profitable to special interests. Unfortunately, in our political system, the very nature of special interests makes it difficult to stop them. The financial gain to individuals composing the special interests outweighs the individual gain to the individuals trying to prevent their actions. So even though high density housing lowers the quality of life for Palo Alto citizens, we will continue to see developers pushing through zoning changes at city hall. It is very profitable for them to do so, and our representatives for the most part, haven't shown the where-with-all to stand up to them.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Feb 8, 2007 at 12:31 am
I wonder if Mike is a renter or owner in College Terrace. If he owns is he open to college terrace becoming a "Redevelopment Area" where high density, high rise buildings could be built. It is walking distance to the Industrial Park where the jobs are. Declaring it a Redevelopment Area would probably bring the price of the homes there down as only the agency would buy them and bulldoze them. Developers would buy or be given the land by the city . Mike should go around his neighborhood and get a petition to create a redevelopment area there.
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"Objects Waiting" represents a foray into photography for Max Dean, an artist well-known for his technologically driven interactive sculptures. Here the one-time Ottawa resident, whose works have been collected by the NGC since the 1970s, uses the still image to reflect on his relationship to objects from his home and studio that in some cases he has held since childhood. A number of the photos relate to previous works and performances from early in his career. "Objects wait," Dean explains, "they wait for us to interact with them. We impart meaning, not in the things but in our selves ... The criterion for a successful photo was that I could give away the object. What I felt about it had been expressed, had found form."
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James Franco. Decked out in a baggy hoodie. Rocking Justin Bieber's trademark bangs and baseball cap, while lip-synching to the teen titan's hit track Boyfriend.
Sure, why not. As for why? You'll have to ask Franco.
Franco, 34, posted a mock video of himself mimicking the Biebs to his WhoSay account yesterday. It was quickly deleted, the Daily Mail reports. But not before a beady-eyed viewer nabbed it and preserved it elsewhere online.
Spring Breakers star Franco hams it up for the camera in the homemade clip, miming the lyrics to Boyfriend, while walking down a dimly lit corridor.
Also making an appearance is Franco's Spring Breakers co-star and rumoured girlfriend Ashley Benson, 23, who dons a dark-haired wig.
Last year Franco denied rumours he was dating Benson as well as fellow co-star Gomez and Kristen Stewart.
"I also hear that I've been dating Selena Gomez, Kristen Stewart and Ashley Benson," he wrote in his Huffington Post column.
"Hot damn, am I a lucky guy. I wish I had actually gotten closer than the 13th row of the theater in Toronto where Kristen gave her On the Road Q and A, but I didn't. Not only did I not talk to her, I didn't even go to SoHo House where I supposedly asked her out on a date."
He added: "As for Gomez and Benson, those are Bieber's girls and I wouldn't dare tangle with the Biebs. I heard he wants to kick my ass. Yikes!"
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* Oprah Winfrey scores sit down interview with Lance Armstrong.
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* Country star Miranda Lambert slams Chris Brown again.
* Django Unchained action figures spark more racial outrage.
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* Mariah Carey still banging on about Nicki Minaj feud.
* Michael Bay teases plot of Transformers 4, new trilogy confirmed.
* Hangover director Todd Phillips gets restraining order against alleged onetime fling.
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Modeled on authentic English croquet sets, our version is hand carved from mango wood and mahogany with painted details. Great for summertime outdoor family fun, it also makes a great Father's Day gift.
- 14" wide x 7" deep x 32" high
- Stand and stakes are made of mahogany wood, mallets and balls are made of mango wood - all are hand stained and painted.
- Wicket is made of wire.
- Set includes six mallets, six balls and a stand.
- Comes with instructions describing rules of play.
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- Overall: 14" wide x 7" deep x 32" high
- Mallet (6): 7" wide x 28.5" high
- Small Ball (3): 1.5" diameter
- Large Ball (3): 3" diameter
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Thank you my fellow Giant fans. We play team ball. Thats why we be da Champs!!!!!. The Professor has gone back to school.
The school of hard knocks. First day of class is TB knockin the snots out of them. Cant wait to watch Tony Blomow runnin for his life....
You won by a touchdown against a makeshift secondary and your proud of that? I guess you should, because its going to be another 15 years before you have something to cheer about. Your just like the Patriot fans, Bandwagon! You talk when you win and hide when you lose!
Well, in fairness does a team really deserve a huge celebration for beating a bunch of mediocre quarterbacks?
Although Cunningham was actually pretty good. That guy had a fantastic arm.
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Queenstown Cookie Bar concept will be rolled out with a line of nutritionally balanced products.
As Christchurch company Cookie Time celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, owners Michael Mayell and Guy Pope-Mayell have expansion plans.
They intend extending the Cookie Bar retail concept nationally and internationally, and will look for more licensing opportunities for their patented One Square Meal brand, which is first in a new class of nutritionally balanced food and beverages.
Cereal and beverages under the OSM brand are also in development.
Mayell, the Cookie Time founder, was 21 and Pope-Mayell 19 and in his second year of university when they began working on the business that was launched in February 1983. They had already been in business together at high school selling refuse bags door-to-door.
"Guy was bored out of his brain [at university] and I was on my own in a business with no one to talk to. We get on very well," says Mayell.
"The entire business was started with $5000 in cash and a $3000 van."
In the early days, unwrapped chocolate chip cookies were delivered to shops in a glass cookie jar.
It was a family affair. Their mother helped make the first batch of cookies, their sister to promote them, and their father, a doctor and property developer, helped financially in the early days when the company was going through growing pains.
The mid-1980s was a good market to start in. "We could afford to make every mistake in the book," says Pope-Mayell.
These days Cookie Time employs 80 staff in management and production and has a turnover of $30 million. The products, which also include Bumper Bar gourmet muesli bars, sell in 6000 New Zealand outlets through about 45 franchises.
At Christmas Mayell employs close to 80 university students to sell buckets of small Christmas Cookies for $15 each.
"Last year we sold over 250,000 buckets of cookies," says Pope-Mayell.
They select students for a three-day conference. "It's like a mini-academy. The experience very much captures the process that we had," he says.
Meanwhile, the launch of the first Cookie Bar in Queenstown has been an important new chapter.
"The concept is you can buy hot cookies and cold milk, or icecream with cookies, milk shakes and a range of packaged cookies and merchandising," says Pope-Mayell.
"It's about entertainment when you walk into that store.
"We are fielding a number of inquiries from Asia - Hong Kong, Malaysia and Japan - for Cookie Bar franchises there," says the entrepreneur. They are also looking at rolling out the concept in places such as Rotorua, Wellington and Auckland.
The past 30 years has not all been smooth. The company did not come out unscathed from the Canterbury earthquakes, although it lost just a week's production.
It made the brothers realise the company was not diversified in terms of production.
It has since spent hundreds of thousands of dollars upgrading its premises 20km southwest of Christchurch at Templeton.
"We were well insured, you have to maintain that. We were well covered. It's one of the benefits of being a medium-sized company and having been around for 30 years," says Mayell. The company is owned equally by the two brothers' family trusts.
As the two men enter their 50s, succession is on the agenda, they say.
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Cookie Time cookies are included in a Wikipedia entry on Kiwiana, along with Jandals and the All Blacks.


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Adam Cvijanovic exhibition: "Reconstruction"
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The SCAD Museum of Art has commissioned "Reconstruction," a site-specific painting installation by artist Adam Cvijanovic, a Distinguished Visiting Professor to the painting department at SCAD Savannah in 2009.
Deeply inspired by the museum as well as the history and landscapes of Savannah during his numerous trips to the area, Cvijanovic has created a surrealistic representation of an extruded "old Savannah" house.
Three partial landscapes—a cotton field, railroad tracks and the night sky—appear through the distorted rooms collectively combined and reconstructed into what the artist calls "a memory house." The title of the piece also refers to the time period after the Civil War, and the work merges a darker past with what the artist describes as "Savannah at this moment—a wistful, romantically melancholy present."
Covering the walls and ceiling of the museum's atrium, "Reconstruction" offers an immersive, transformative and transfixing environment.
Reception: Friday, June 28, 6:30-8 p.m.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Please pardon U.S. Merchant Marine Academy head soccer Mike Smolens for using such superlatives as "awesome," "terrific" and "great" to describe his team's performance and players in the Landmark Conference men's soccer final on Saturday afternoon.
After all, he had every right to be elated after the three-seeded Mariners stunned top-seeded Catholic University to capture the conference crown via a 1-0 victory and clinch a spot in their third consecutive NCAA Division III tournament.
"This is awesome," Smolens said after junior forward Cody Kessler scored the lone goal of the match and junior goalkeeper Gary Poulin made eight saves as the Mariners continued their giant killing after upending No. 2 Drew University, 3-0, on Wednesday.
Helping support the Mariners were Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood and Maritime Administrator David Matsuda, who attended the match and helped cheer on the team, along with a strong contingent of D.C. area alumni and family.
The Mariners lost both their regular season games at Tomb Field in Kings Point, N.Y. to Drew and Catholic, a 1-0 loss to the former on Oct. 19 and a 2-1 defeat to the latter on Oct. 8. That has made their post-season run all that more remarkable because both wins have come on away from home.
Kessler, the scoring star on Wednesday, continued his heroics on Saturday, giving the Mariners all the scoring they needed at 57:20. Nick Cuellar set up the goal as he switched the ball from the right side to the other to Kessler, who chipped a shot from atop the penalty area over the head of goalkeeper Torsten Meuschke.
"A terrific goal," Smolens said.
Smolens was just happy to be in a position to take the lead as Catholic dominated the first half.
"We didn't get too many chances at goal," Smolens said. "We were pleased at halftime to be tied at 0-0."
The Cardinals had a great opportunity to equalize after a Merchant Marine player was called for a handball in the penalty, but Kevin Romano sent his shot over the crossbar at 87:24.
When shots and crosses came his way, Poulin more than held his own.
"A couple of times Gary came up really big," Smolens said. "Gary was collecting serves under pressure. They weren't diving saves as he did against Drew, but balls played to him under pressure. He had to make sure he held everything. He was really solid."
One of those times can in the second half when he smothered a corner kick with five players – three from Catholic and two from USMMA – "which was great," Smolens said.
Smolens also praised his backline of Josh Reicks, Hollis Irvine, Kurt Olsen and Kyle Parker.
"Defensively, we were real solid," he said. "I mean two shutouts against two real good teams."
The Cardinals outshot the Mariners, 26-8, and enjoyed a 9-1 advantage in corner kicks. But the Merchant Marines held on.
"We did a very good job, trying to keep possession, going to the corner," Smolens said. "We were able to put the clock away."
It was the first match all season the Mariners played on real grass. All of their games were played on artificial turf. The last time they performed on a natural surface? Almost a year ago on Nov. 20, 2010, when they reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament when they defeated Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa.
"It was a challenge in the first half," Smolens said. "It took us some time to adjust to it."
But the Mariners did, and now they face yet another challenge -- the NCAA tournament.
"Coach Fitzgerald and I are very pleased and proud with how well the team has responded to the challenges we have faced," Smolens said "It's been a season filled with peaks and valleysand our players have worked very hard to reach a pre-season goal of ours, which was to reach the NCAA tournament. A number of different players have come through for us at different moments and we're looking forward to the challenges which lie ahead."
The Mariners will discover if they will play on artificial turf or grass when the NCAA Division III tournament field is revealed at 1 p.m. on Monday.
Photo: The Mariners celebrate their Landmark Conference championship. Photo courtesy of Catholic University


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UTSA hosts Lamar in SLC Tournament round one
(March 7, 2005)-- The UTSA men's basketball team takes its first step toward "madness" Tuesday when the Roadrunners host Lamar at 7 p.m. in the Convocation Center for the first round of the O'Reilly Auto Parts Southland Conference Tournament.
As March Madness descends upon UTSA, the Roadrunners are looking to dance with a return trip to the NCAA Tournament. UTSA needs three wins to defend its title as SLC Tournament Champion, beginning with Tuesday's contest against Lamar.
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UTSA, the No. 4 seed in the Tournament, ended the regular season with an overall record of 15-12, 10-6 in Southland Conference play. The Roadrunners have won three straight games and five of their last six entering the playoffs.
Named second team all-Southland Conference on Monday, senior John Millsap leads the Roadrunners in scoring (13.5 ppg) and rebounding (6.8 rpg) entering Tuesday's game with No. 5 seed Lamar, a team that UTSA has had a hard time with this season. The Cardinals, 17-10 and 9-7, swept the season series from the Roadrunners, winning 85-68 on Feb. 5 in Beaumont, and 88-83 on Feb. 23 in San Antonio.
If UTSA can win on Tuesday, the Roadrunners would advance to Thursday's 7 p.m. semifinal round game at home sites of the highest remaining seeds. The championship game, which will also be televised by ESPN2, will be played on Sunday, March 13 at 1 p.m. at the home of the highest remaining seed. Northwestern State enters the Tournament as the No. 1 seed, followed by No. 2 seed Southeastern Louisiana, No. 3 seed Sam Houston State and then UTSA.
Meanwhile, the Roadrunner women's team takes on Northwestern State at 7 p.m. Monday night in Natchitoches, La., for the first round of the women's tournament.
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I guess I'm too lazy to look it up, but what numbers at the Combine were not up to snuff with the analysts/mock drafters?
Florida St did have their proday last week, correct? Did he improve on those numbers?
I have heard from multiple people that the FSU pro day was held in terrible wet and slippery conditions. Many of the times have not been released and I have a feeling this is why. It would be unfair to compare 40 times from those conditions to the combine. Players were reportedly slipping a fair amount in agility drills due to the wet conditions.
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Severe storms inflict damage, injure 14 in eastern North Carolina
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At least 14 people were injured in Sampson County, North Carolina, Monday night after severe storms caused widespread damage. more
At least 14 people were injured in Sampson County, North Carolina, Monday night after severe storms caused widespread damage. more
In mid-March, snow and ice still frost the ground and winter's grip feels as strong as ever in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
Cases of Lyme disease in Michigan have risen dramatically in recent years, and a new study links that trend to larger and more widespread tick populations.
Unusually hot or cold weather may affect the birth weight of babies, a new study suggests.
A warm blob of water lurking in the Pacific Ocean in 2014 and 2015 led to a spike in ozone levels across the western U.S., new research suggests.
If you've ever wanted to sleep under the stars, wake up at sunrise, and feel like you're the only person on the planet, there's no better place to visit than the Erg Chebi Dunes outside of Merzouga, Morocco.
If the blustery winds and overcast skies of winter are getting you down, don't despair. There are summery scenarios waiting to warm your chilly attitude all around New York City.
A massive iceberg the size of Delaware is now even closer to breaking free from Antarctica, due to a widening crack in the ice shelf, scientists report.
NASA is known for its awe-inspiring missions to explore the far reaches of the cosmos, but this month, the space agency is preparing for very different kinds of rocket launches: ones to explore the mysteries of Earth's auroras.


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Sunday is "Bring your gun to church" day
On Monday, January 14 the Arkansas General Assembly convened its 2013 legislative session and your NRA is committed to enacting several pro-gun reforms this year. Our legislative agenda this year includes, but is not limited to, passing a Fraudulent Firearms Purchase Prevention law, enacting several Right-to-Carry reforms and protecting your inherent right to self-defense during a declared state of emergency.
Sunday is "Bring your gun to church" day
the republicans got a big boost here during the last election --hell they would have got the gov seat but he wasn't up for a re-up.
Reps. seems like that they want to be on OUR side, At the moment ...
Maybe I'll buy a little 'homestead haven' down by you guys. I gotta get the heck out of here before I get fleeced.
My neighbors seem to like me so I must be an ok neighbor. I gotta little pyro in me though, meth labs beware.
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I'm looking at an ad now for 56 acres at $850.00 an acre !! Ponds, woods, pasture. Usually you have to spend a thousand an acre
Property taxes are pretty steep though. For our 20 acre farm we had to pay almost THREE HUNDRED dollars this year!!
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Here we bake tortellini in a light cream sauce flavored with nutty fontina and a touch of nutmeg. Make it a meal: Serve with your favorite green salad.
Nutrition Profile:
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High Calcium
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Low Calorie
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Serves 6
Prep Time 25 min
Total Time 45 min.
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Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat 4 individual gratin dishes or a 1 1/2-quart shallow baking dish with cooking spray. Put a pot of water on to boil for cooking pasta.
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Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add flour and cook, whisking constantly, for 1 to 2 minutes. Add hot milk and bring to a simmer, whisking, until smooth and slightly thickened, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat and add 1/4 cup fontina and nutmeg, stirring to melt cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to a large bowl.
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Meanwhile, cook tortellini in boiling salted water until just tender, 6 to 8 minutes or according to package directions. Drain and rinse well. Toss with the cheese sauce.
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As the ferry manoeuvres into the great caldera of SANTORÍNI (Thíra), the land seems to rise up and clamp around it. Gaunt, sheer cliffs loom hundreds of metres above the deep blue sea, nothing grows or grazes to soften the awesome view, and the only colours are the reddish-brown, black and grey pumice layers on the cliff face of Santoríni, the largest island in this mini-archipelago. The landscape tells of a history so dramatic and turbulent that legend hangs as fact upon it.
These apocalyptic events, though, scarcely concern modern tourists, who come here to take in the spectacular views, stretch out on the island's dark-sand beaches and absorb the peculiar, infernal geographic features. The tourism industry has changed traditional island life, creating a rather expensive playground. There is one time-honoured local industry, however, that has benefited from all the outside attention: wine. Santoríni is one of Greece's most important producers, and the fresh, dry white wines it is known for (most from the assýrtiko grape for which the region is known) are the perfect accompaniment to the seafood served in the many restaurants and tavernas that hug the island's cliffs.
From as early as 3000 BC, Ancient Thíra developed as a sophisticated outpost of Minoan civilization, until sometime between 1650–1600 BC when catastrophe struck: the volcano-island erupted some 60 cubic kilometres of magma over a period of months. The island's heart sank below the sea, leaving a caldera 10km in diameter. Earthquakes and tsunami reverberated across the Aegean – one full metre of ash was discovered on Rhodes – Thíra was destroyed, and the great Minoan civilization on Crete was dealt a severe blow by the ensuing ash fallout and tsunami. The island's history has become linked with the legend of Atlantis, all because of Plato. Although he dated the cataclysm to approximately 9500 BC, he was perhaps inspired by folk memories.
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Vergne, Philippe. "Dan Graham." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
© 2005 Walker Art Center
It is difficult to imagine the state of art, music, architecture, or criticism in the United States without the influence of Dan Graham. As an art dealer, a filmmaker, a performer, a photographer, an art critic, a music producer, a writer, a poet, and the author of a rock opera, Graham is a different kind of artist—one whose ultimate goal is to explore and expose the relationships between the different disciplines that constitute the mechanism of perception in a cultural system. Deeply influenced by the writings of anthropologist Margaret Mead and by psychoanalysis and ideological criticism inherited from the Frankfurt School via Herbert Marcuse, he has over the years produced a body of work that can be seen as an essay on the condition of human life in a postmodern, postindustrial era. Whether his artistic interventions take place in a gallery, between the pages of a magazine, on a stage, in a movie theater, on television, or on the streets, Graham continues to deconstruct, clarify, and expose the nature and condition of an individual's status and behavior within a public sphere dominated by the logic and integrated spectacle of corporate capital and politics.
In 1964, Graham opened the John Daniels Gallery in Manhattan with friends.1 He organized exhibitions of work by artists with whom he shared intellectual and aesthetic affinities, such as Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, and Robert Smithson. Financial challenges overshadowed the artistic program, and the gallery closed in 1965. Graham escaped his creditors by moving to New Jersey. There he began a photographic series that is still developing as a matrix of his concerns and his oeuvre. Using a cheap Kodak camera, he photographed the housing environment of New Jersey. His goal was to create images that anyone could produce. First shown as a slide projection, the work, titled Homes for America, is a series of images outlining a typology of all possible variations on decorative motifs or materials.2 Through the photographs, Graham draws a critical parallel between the housing industry and the seriality inherited from the aesthetic of Minimal Art. In December 1966, Homes for America was published in Arts Magazine, accompanied by an article written by the artist.3 The original design by Graham included a text about the nature of suburban housing developments, illustrated by photographs stressing their mass-produced and serial quality. In the pages of the magazine, Homes for America was not a mere reproduction of an artwork; it was an artwork informed and distributed by the means of information itself, by the medium of the magazine as a public space. It was not art about the media (like Pop Art) but art as media, art as information. Graham used information as an aesthetic and the media as a vernacular form appropriate to the nature of his discourse. The quotidian and serial nature of the magazine was the perfect conduit for a critique of the seriality of Minimal Art through an analysis of vernacular suburban architecture.
Embedded in Graham's work is the use of mirrors and glass as critical tools as well as an ongoing fascination with the suburbs as a homogenizing location of social climbing. This is at the heart of Alteration to a Suburban House (1978/1992). The work seems to be a direct extension of Graham's 1977 action Performance/Audience Mirror in which the artist stood between a large mirror and the audience. He first described himself facing the group, then turned and described himself in front of the mirror, facing the image of a public observing a performer in the unfathomable depth of its own reflected image. Alteration is an architectural model of a suburban street in which one house faces two others. The dwelling's normally solid facade has been replaced by a glass wall; in the back, parallel to the wall, a mirror divides the public living areas from the private. The glass wall opens the living area to the public gaze, like a shop window or a living billboard advertising a very specific lifestyle and decor. The mirror reflects not only the inside of the house, but its immediate surroundings: the neighboring houses, passersby, and cars are projected into the private environment of the living area, where voyeurism and surveillance merge. Alteration does not comment only on vernacular architectural codes. Just as Homes for America implies a critical take on Minimalism and Pop Art strategies, this series of models presents the glass wall as the icon of "noble" modernist architecture as developed by Mies van der Rohe, among others. To the Arcadian reconciliation of nature and culture made possible by the glass, Graham adds here a third party: the contextual complexity of the urban space, as outlined in architect Robert Venturi's 1966 essay Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Venturi challenged the orthodoxy of modernism by championing an architecture that promoted richness and ambiguity over unity and clarity, contradiction and redundancy over harmony and simplicity, answering van der Rohe's "less is more" with his equally famous "less is bore." Not allying himself with either of these theoretical models, Graham combines both in order to understand where and why each of them might have failed their users.
Drawing on French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's theory of the "mirror stage" giving rise during childhood to the mental representation of the subject, Graham started in the 1980s to build architectural pavilions informed by his former investigations into modernist, vernacular, and corporate architecture as well as his experimentation with audience behavior. The sculptures Two-way Mirror Punched Steel Hedge Labyrinth (1994–1996) and New Space for Showing Videos (1995) belong to this generation of works. These two pieces, conceived on comparable premises, address the institutional context of a sculpture garden and an art center. Two-way Mirror Punched Steel Hedge Labyrinth, installed outdoors in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and informed by Graham's interest in Renaissance, Mannerist, and Baroque gardens, embodies the modernist marriage of architecture and nature in a maze where the glass walls not only reflect nature, but are nature themselves (arborvitae). The maze is less architectural than perceptual, in which artifice and nature are confounded. New Space for Showing Videos is an indoor environment, made of alternating standard and two-way mirrors, that carve out spatially the concept of seeing and being seen, a strategy familiar to corporate surveillance architecture. In this maze of bays are video monitors and casual seating that create a convivial social atmosphere in which watching and being watched are confused. The space reinforces the idea of a social contract on which was born the very notion of the public museum.
Media and popular culture have been other systems of signs and ritual ripe for scrutiny within Graham's own "comparative anthropology." The video documentary Rock My Religion (1982–1984) applies to rock music what curator Jean-François Chevrier has called a "montage of dissimilar historical moments" to define Graham's practices.4 In Rock My Religion, the artist drafts a history that begins with the Shakers and their practices of self-denial and ecstatic communal trances and ends with the emergence of rock music as the religion of the teenage consumer in the isolated suburban context of the 1950s. He identifies rock's sexual and ideological context in postwar America as a form of cathartic and secular religion.
Pedagogical, spectacular, and playful all at once, Graham's work has always attempted to expose the mechanism of alienation by analyzing the impact of social codes—propagated by the media or architecture—on the individuation process. Less a dog-matic criticism than an incitement to remain alert, his practice is, as critic Thierry de Duve wrote, a "stocking of utopia."5
The gallery's other partners were John Van Esen and Robert Tera. ↩
As a slide show, Homes for America was shown in 1966 in the exhibition Projected Art at the Finch College Museum of Art, New York. ↩
Unfortunately, the article was inadvertently illustrated with an image of a wooden house in Boston taken by photographer Walker Evans. Graham's intended illustrations appear in a lithographed edition of the original design for Homes for America realized between February 19 and May 20, 1971, at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. The lithograph is in the Walker's collection. ↩
Jean-François Chevrier, "Dual Reading," in Jean-François Chevrier, ed., Walker Evans and Dan Graham, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994), 16. ↩
Thierry de Duve, "Dan Graham et la critique de l'autonomie artistique (Dan Graham and the Critique of Artistic Autonomy)," in Christine van Assche and Gloria Moure, eds., Dan Graham, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 2001), 49–67. ↩
Vergne, Philippe. "Dan Graham." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
© 2005 Walker Art Center
A conceptual artist, architect, photographer, performer, video artist, and critic, Dan Graham began in the 1960s to reflect on the artistic system, focusing particularly on the mechanism of perception offered by works in different contexts. Since the early 1970s the ideology that underpins social phenomena such as rock music and architecture has been at the center of his work. Inquisitorial ads in newspapers, revealing contributions to magazines, antirational architectural works, and exterior and interior pavilions than combine formal simplicity with visual complexity are some of the many means through which Graham has explored his theories. His video work Rock My Religion (1982-1984) explores how rock music as an art form parallels the development of the Shaker religion in America, especially its emphasis on ecstatic spirituality and trance experience. Three Linked Cubes/Interior Design for a Space Showing Videos (1986) consists of a series of rectangular bays with alternating two-way mirrors or transparent glass. Video monitors and speakers have been placed inside to allow separate programs for audiences divided into different groups. The work is at once a piece of architecture and a work of optical art; the mix of reflective and transparent surfaces allows viewers to see both the videos and their own and others' reactions to the videos as the exhibition space becomes a social space. Borders between private and public, separate and collective, inside and outside are all questioned within this structure. Graham's video viewing structures were included in documenta X and the Whitney Biennial, both in 1997.


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Around the Nation: Examples of State, District and School Initiatives to Support Teaching and Learning
Last fall, Secretary Rod Paige formed the Teacher Assistance Corps (TAC) to work with states as they implement the highly qualified teacher provisions. Teachers, principals, district officials, representatives from higher education, researchers and national leaders made up this group of 45 experts in teacher quality. Department officials and staff joined the group as they traveled to states to listen, learn and share. By spring 2004, TAC visited 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, where teams explained the requirements of the law, answered policy questions, heard about innovative state and local initiatives and learned more about each state's unique environment. Below are some examples of these initiatives. For more complete information, visit www.teacherquality.us.Note: These descriptions of state and local initiatives are intended to share information that may be useful or of interest to teachers. The Teacher Assistance Corps found numerous efforts around the nation to promote teacher quality. The information provided does not reflect any determination by the U.S. Department of Education that the efforts described are effective or scientifically based, nor is the information intended as an endorsement of any of the efforts or programs described.
Professional DevelopmentPennsylvania Governor's Institutes and Academies for Educators
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This initiative focuses on teacher training to improve students' reading abilities. To participate in the program, schools must adopt the goal of 100 percent literacy, and 85 percent of the faculty must attend a 10-day intensive summer training. The training covers eight modules, including language development, vocabulary, phonics, comprehension strategies and assessment. University faculty work as mentors, providing support, access to research, demonstration and problem-solving assistance. Teachers apply new instructional concepts combined with periodic assessments of students' reading ability. Reading specialists participate in additional training. For more information, visit www.aplusala.org/initiatives/ari/index.asp.Teacher Advancement Program (TAP)
Several states have taken advantage of the Milken Family Foundation's Teacher Advancement Program (TAP), which provides teachers with career path and advancement opportunities. The program focuses on compensating expert teachers for their skills and responsibilities, restructures school schedules to accommodate teacher-led professional development, introduces competitive hiring practices, and pays teachers based on how well they instruct and how much their students learn. The program asserts that these components make the teaching profession more appealing, the job conditions more manageable and the pay for high-quality teachers more generous. Currently, TAP is in eight states: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota and South Carolina. TAP schools are supported by a variety of funding sources, including private foundation grants, increases in property tax levies targeted for TAP-like programs, sales tax increases, general revenues from state budgets, district funds and federal dollars available through No Child Left Behind. For more information, visit www.mff.org/tap/tap.taf.Iowa's Beginning Teacher Mentoring and Induction Program
Iowa instituted the Iowa Beginning Teacher Mentoring and Induction Program to "promote excellence in teaching and enhance student achievement." The goals of this program include creating a supportive environment for beginning teachers, enhancing student achievement and providing professional development. The two-year program provides opportunities for coaching and classroom demonstrations and includes release time for mentor-teacher activities such as planning, observing and providing feedback. For more information, visit www.state.ia.us/educate/ecese/doc/btip.html.Arizona's School Services Through Education Technology (ASSET) Portal
The Arizona's School Services Through Education Technology (ASSET) portal was launched in May 2002 and is designed to offer educators nationwide access to professional development opportunities that are free to Arizona teachers and administrators. These include a streamlined video library, a broadcast schedule of instructional programs, and access to a variety of Web-based resources and standards-based lesson plans. Educators can create a personalized professional development plan through an online vehicle called My Compass. ASSET is supported through grants, corporate donations and a school membership structure. For more information, visit www.asset.asu.edu.
Recruitment and RetentionSpecial Education Credentialing for Vermont's General Education Teachers
Vermont's Act 117, passed by the legislature in 2000, is designed to increase the number of qualified special education teachers in the state and to curb special education cost increases. Under this act, the Vermont Department of Education has partnered with institutions of higher education to qualify general education teachers in the area of special education, while focusing on cost-effective practices and consistent operation of special education programs throughout the state. More than 100 general education teachers have received this additional qualification. For more information, visit http://education.vermont.gov/new/html/pgm_act117.html.New York City's Teaching Fellows Program
When faced with a severe teacher shortage in New York City, education officials created the Teaching Fellows Program in 2000. The program recruits candidates who hold at least a bachelor's or master's degree in the subject they would teach. Candidates receive two months of preservice training in the summer before they enter the classroom. The preservice training includes course work toward a master's degree in education, field-based work with experienced New York City teachers, and meetings with an advisor to learn teaching skills and classroom management techniques. A non-taxable stipend of $2,500 is provided to defray living expenses over the summer. After completing training, teaching fellows enter the classroom as full-time first-year teachers. The city pays for the fellows to take evening and weekend coursework toward a master's degree in education at one of 14 area colleges and universities. The coursework usually takes about two years. After three years, candidates are eligible for the state's professional certification. For more information, visit www.nycteachingfellows.org.Florida Employment Web Site
TeachinFlorida.com was created in November 2002 as a response to teacher shortages in Florida schools. The Web site receives approximately 20,000 hits a day from teachers looking for jobs in Florida, district representatives looking for new teacher candidates, and current Florida teachers searching for professional development opportunities or new resources. Users have the ability to customize searches and receive notice when a match is found. These services are free to teachers and school districts. For more information, visit www.teachinflorida.com.
Note: Other states, such as Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, and Louisiana, and Nevada have similar Web sites.Idaho Adopts Passport to Teaching
The American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE) offers a new approach to certification for both prospective and experienced teachers that uses multi-faceted assessments based on rigorous standards for subject-area knowledge and pedagogy. The focus of ABCTE's assessment process is the identification of individuals with the knowledge and abilities to make an impact on student achievement. Idaho has adopted the assessment process for prospective teachers--Passport to Teaching--as a way to offer interested, talented candidates a new pathway to earn full state certification. For more information, visit www.ABTeach.org.


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