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About a week ago, this showed up in my Facebook feed:
I saw that it had to do with bullying, so I clicked on it, and was inspired to do a little bit of my own positive post-it’ing.
So the next day, I went around to every classroom I work with, and I left each teacher a positive post-it. I left notes on computer screens and in plan books, on doors, and stuck to chairs. (I wish I had taken more pictures!)
Here’s the thing. Figuring out what to write was easy. I love the teachers at this school. I have boatloads of nice things to say to them. Leaving them a post-it, however, was not easy. At all. As I went from classroom to classroom, I was nervous. I was afraid that teachers would read the notes and think, “That’s pretty lame,” or “Huh? That’s weird.” I have a deep, deep, respect for Caitlyn Prater-Haacke, the student who left a positive post-it on every single one of her classmates’ lockers after she was
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Transformation in the Making
This past summer, The Cooper Union’s leadership grupp, Board of Trustees, and members of the Free Education Committee (FEC) presented an overwhelmingly positive update on the institution’s financial and strategic progress since adopting the 10-Year strategi to Return to Full-Tuition Scholarships in March 2018. Their report, The program at fem Years, details critical efforts made to improve academic programs, introduce new spaces, and foster collaborative lärling experiences, all while increasing scholarship levels and keeping tuition rates flat.
Behind that positive momentum is a community dedicated to Cooper’s current and future students. To mark this significant milestone, we offer a glimpse behind the scenes with community members who are contributing to Cooper’s transformation and, in many cases, doing so in unexpected ways. We asked them to share their perspectives and tell us about their work. These are just a few of the many people who ar • Theme: Simply Irresistible
Dream Ring
Reggie has founded a dance competition, D.R.E.A.M (Dance Rules Everything Around Me), appeared in several commercials and traveled around the world to share the dance style of Flexin. He and his dance crew won “Wild Out Weds" twice, and were featured in music videos such as Sean Paul’s “Like Glue,” Wayne Wonder’s “Elephant Man,” Nicki Minaj’s “Massive Attack” and more. They also competed on America’s Best Dance Crew Season 3 under the name Ringmasters. More recently, Reggie has explored his passion further by co-directing FLEXN with Peter Sellers at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. He believes that dancers must realize their role as innovators. Alessia Cara
There’s a new breed of pop star seizing hold of the world's airwaves and online— more accurately, a conscious pop star who has set to subversively top charts and sway hearts and minds. This enigma embodied is 18-year-old, Canadian-Italian Alessia Cara, who is rid