Portland Friends of Music
@PFoM_Community
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PFoM is an advocacy group for equitable access to high-quality, sequential, music classes taught by Oregon certified teachers at all Portland Public Schools
Portland, OR
Joined December 2018
.@NAMM Announces #BelieveinMusic week: The global gathering to unify and support the people who bring music to the world:
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A 4x4 schedule will ask students to complete double the work in one half the time. Rather than reduce stress, a 4x4 schedule threatens to increase stress and workload for students
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The 4x4 schedule is incompatible with IB curriculum and programming and has the potential to harm student learning and deny our students a pathway to college credit.
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Year long academic and socio-emotional support classes such as AVID and 9th grade Student Success courses will be reduced to one semester, or half the year.
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A 4x4 schedule could result in a student going nearly a year (April 2020 to February 2021) without that opportunity, impacting learning and performance in subsequent years.
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A semester-based model will severely diminish student learning in courses that require near daily practice and skill development. Math, World Language, and Visual and Performing Arts courses require regular practice to learn and retain.
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The 4x4 schedule is incredibly detrimental to so many programs across the curriculum, including World Language, Science, but especially the Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA). Severe ramifications of a 4x4 schedule will include:
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but it will specifically diminish any progress we’ve made towards equitable access to Music and Arts education for all PPS students.
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a 4x4 schedule will not only damage essential academic school programs, increase racial disparities, create more stress, increase workloads for students and severely impact community and support systems,
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The time is now. With new proposed investments in direct student supports (social workers, counselors, culturally-specific partnerships & more), I am discontinuing the regular presence of School Resource Officers @PPSConnect. We need to re-examine our relationship with the PPB.
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Our list of schools that will have meals available March 17-20 and 30-31 has been updated to add Grout Elementary. Meals will be available for pickup outside the school from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. The full list is in the image, and also at https://t.co/kOVpZ8k8I3
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A powerful, important, urgent message delivered by @Super_GGuerrero at Tuesday's Board of Education meeting. We invite you to take a few minutes to watch and listen and join the superintendent in building a better future for all students and families.
"For me this is personal. As a Latino...I’ve chosen to commit my life to this work. And I live in a community where the beneficiaries of our racist system call into question my commitment and moral courage to lead racial equity work." - @Super_GGuerrero
https://t.co/1a2WC5Wf2C
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We recently learned that @PPSConnect senior leadership was all set to move forward with a 7-period day at all middle schools, providing equitable access to programs for students, but the @PATSolidarity said “no”. Somebody please explain why. @JonGarc1a
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Thank you to LHS Brothers of Color and Critical Race Studies leader Caleb Dickson for presenting the history of Hip Hop, and sharing his own work, in celebration of Black History & Culture. @PPSConnect @shaniceoregon @david_roy @CardinalTimes @FriendsofLHS
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Portland Public Schools superintendent pledges to protect undocumented students, not cooperate with ICE | https://t.co/1acxVDVzC3
#Leadership
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PPS superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero talks about the duty of the state’s largest school district to provide an education for undocumented students.
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This is significant. Keep this in mind during Middle School Redesign discussions.
“in other words, highly engaged instrumental music students were, on average, academically over 1 year ahead of their peers.” @KristenBrayson
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We hope that some of what @PPSConnect is working on is providing equitable access to programs at the middle school level via a 7-period day. Let’s go PPS!
Master Arts Education Plan Stakeholders Group mtg today. Absolutely amazing work @PPSConnect @KristenBrayson and the PPS VAPA team are doing for all of our students, families, communities across PPS. #MAEP @PFoM_Community @sva_pdx. @music_pps @OregonGovBrown
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There were over 70 music events across PPS in December. We celebrate the positive progress @PPSConnect is making for equitable access to all students. Folks, continue to look for opportunities to engage with PPS Leadership and give constructive feedback.
What a great week! @LHSCards Winter Bands/Orchestra (w/stent conductor Sam Ellis) and @WSMS_Wolves Adv. Band concert, guitar class performances, and then rockin’ the house @LHS__Athletics cs @BensonAthletics girls’ bball! Go @PPSConnect !!
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Fantastic to see students advocating for access to music education and other visual and performing arts for all students. Thank you @sva_pdx!
So proud of students across PDX, and of our @PPSConnect Leadership, who are working together to benefit all students! @sva_pdx @orartswatch @PPS_Dr_STEAM @R_A_C_C @KristenBrayson @JonGarc1a @Super_GGuerrero
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