Trivia Night!

Come support teachers in an all-out intellectual throw-down! Plenty of spirits will be had and awesome prizes for 1st and 2nd place! $6 per person, 6 people per team. We will also be raffling off some amazing items! All proceeds go towards our StartSomeGood fundraising campaign.

Nomads
1213 Corona Dr. Austin, TX
Saturday, Feb 4, 2012 @ 4:00pm

See you there!

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American Graduate is Combating Dropouts!

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), in partnership with America's Promise Alliance and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has launched American Graduate: Let's Make It Happen — an initiative to help combat the dropout crisis in this country.

Local public radio and television stations, located in 20 impacted "hub markets" where the dropout crisis is most acute, are at the core of the American Graduate initiative. They will work directly with students, parents, teachers, mentors, volunteers and leaders to develop strategies tailored to local conditions to lower the dropout rate in their respective communities. Stations will create content that addresses the issue and create community-based projects that make school more personalized and relevant for students, engage parents, and develop and support effective teachers.

For more info, please visit American Graduate.

We've reached our Tipping Point!!!

We have reached our Tipping Point with our StartSomeGood fundraising campaign!!!

That means that we have raised over $4,000 and can now keep the money going forward! Woohoo! And we made our 4th 6-day goal of raising $1,000 every 6 days! Thank you so much to all the people who donated and who have helped us to spread the word about FourTeachers Project and The Desk!

Remember, we still need your help! Please don't stop the momentum until we reach our goal! We are trying to raise $10,000 or more to build The Desk and to launch FourTeachers Project as an official non-profit!

To donate, please visit our StartSomeGood fundraising campaign!

New Study on The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers!

The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: This amazing new study by Harward Professors Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman, and Columbia Professor Jonah E. Rockoff, measures the long terms effects of great teachers on student lives. To read the full research paper, please click here.


Columnist Nicolas D. Kristof of the The New York Times also summarizes the article here.

NPR: The National Teachers Initiative

"I think there is no higher calling than being a public school teacher in this country," StoryCorps founder Dave Isay tells Weekend Edition Sunday host Audie Cornish.

"Teachers are feeling under attack and underappreciated," Isay says. "We want to do our part over the next year to turn that around."

StoryCorps, the American oral history project on NPR, is conducting a new project for the academic year called the National Teachers Initiative, to feature conversations with teachers across the country — teachers talking to each other, students interviewing the teachers who changed their lives, and more. To read their stories, please visit NPR.

Official Press Release!

The official FourTeachers Project press release is now available. To download, please click here.

To support four teachers and donate, please visit our StartSomeGood fundraising campaign!

Melody Barnes on the Daily Show

In this unedited, extended interview, outgoing White House Director of the Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes reviews her work in education reform:

This interview outlines everything FourTeachers Project and The Desk is trying to do!

Second Media Coverage!

Check out this coverage on FourTeachers Project and our StartSomeGood fundraising campaign on The StartSomeGood Blog!

Contributing to Teacher Effectiveness With The Desk

"Effective teaching is rooted in effective planning and, unfortunately, many teachers feel alone in the world of planning. This reality presents an opportunity to innovate the lesson planning system. Four Teachers Project is taking advantage of this opportunity by proposing a web-based application known as The Desk to create a community of teachers with access to planning tools, idea sharing, peer editing, and much more. With The Desk, teachers no longer have to feel alone. They will have access to great ideas and tons of creativity. With this kind of support, teachers around the nation would be planning more effective lesson plans and consequently reaching more children than ever before.." Read More

Please help us tackle education and donate to our StartSomeGood fundraising campaign!

StartSomeGood Video Outtakes

Hopefully you've already seen our StartSomeGood.com Campaign video. Here's the good, the bad and the ugly that didn't make the cut. Note: Randy is holding an HEB brand sparkling water.