#NJEAchat Archive
NJEA represents 200,000 teachers, education support professionals, higher education, retired and student members.
Monday May 2, 2016
8:00 PM EDT
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Welcome to our May - tonight we'll be talking about volunteering. Glad to have as our guest tonight!
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Q1: Name, Position, and Local. Any volunteer work?
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Q1: Name, Position, and Local?
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Glad to have you Colleen. Your work inspired tonight's . https://t.co/MLBz8v84dH
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Glad to be apart of tonight's chat! I'm a SpEd teacher and a board member of the working to engage in giving!
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Let's starting talking . . . Q2: What volunteer organizations are you a part of? What role do they play?
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Okaikor here from Morris County! Heyyyyy!
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giving & volunteerism are essential to building strong communities! Engaged communities grow together!
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A1: okaikor--grade 7 LA teacher--Hackensack EA
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Glad you're able to join us tonight!
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A2: I've done some volunteer work with JDRF - my sister is a diabetic. Annual walk, fundraising, etc..
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A2: My school community also does a lot for the CF Foundation. The child of one of our members has CF.
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A2: hmmm...I've personally struggled with the idea around volunteer orgs.
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For me started at a young age, with funding I bring and to my school
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are you suggesting we keep it local?
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Can't wait to hear about how you can merge the two later! https://t.co/bLSOAbU3GC
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For me started at a young age, with funding I bring and to my school
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build a PRIDE project around orgs based in the school community?
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We all have busy schedules, time commitments, and the such so for Q3. . . what draws you to volunteer work?
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It's something I'm still struggling through personally and trying to work out. But my immediate answer is, yes.
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A3: I'm a big proponent of giving back - I do it in many ways. I'm a teacher & union leader because in part I wanted to give back.
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I used PRIDE to organize a dinner to fund teacher ideas that had no funding https://t.co/p6gjjhf4Ii
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build a PRIDE project around orgs based in the school community?
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community food banks? Dog shelters?
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I wonder if the work of volunteer orgs are truly liberating & working to find a solution, or if maintaining?!
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Funding from PRIDE sponsored a dinner w all ticket sales going back to teachers enhancing ed oppose for students!
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You're right. Not all orgs. are working to find a solution. How can we as educational leaders change that? https://t.co/wOlNdnL9OE
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I wonder if the work of volunteer orgs are truly liberating & working to find a solution, or if maintaining?!
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Funding from PRIDE sponsored a dinner w all ticket sales going back to teachers enhancing ed opps for students!
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When think of community food banks I question if we r truly helping the ppl become self sufficient or dependent?
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We need to provide more than food - resources to become self sufficient are necessary. https://t.co/fYM61eLFw4
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When think of community food banks I question if we r truly helping the ppl become self sufficient or dependent?
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true! Communities in 's would reject the premise, I think.
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Moving from our personal work to our schools. Q4: What volunteer/community service do you do with your students?
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one of my favorite civil rights activists, Grace Lee Boggs would say we work to become "solutionaries"
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Great question! https://t.co/SLtbm40Oee
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Moving from our personal work to our schools. Q4: What volunteer/community service do you do with your students?
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I was at Stone Soup! Totally great; granted more than $700 to three teachers for student projects!
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A4: We've planted a school garden with a grant and the vegetables get donated to a local food bank. Students help maintain garden.
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in what ways have you used PRIDE to engage your school and community in volunteerism and giving?
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has planted a school garden also!
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I know locals who use Pride funds for their school gardens. https://t.co/IlHy29JTkj
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in what ways have you used PRIDE to engage your school and community in volunteerism and giving?
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You beat me to it by a second.
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Yes! I think so. Volunteerism allows us to walk away feeling good while marginalized left disempowered
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its the event I hosted using PRIDE! Students opened a school store, visited Broadway, & experienced art!
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right! It's great when parents come out to work with their kids and build/maintain the gardens
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and learning about healthy eating!
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How do we shift the power dynamics so much so that there is a collective sharing of power & resources?!
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immerse ourselves in the system. Since we are a part of the system, we can change it!
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The move from charity to community.
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only when we are part of systems can we change them. Learn how they work and then slowly apply influence.
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There is a difference. We must think about that tonight. https://t.co/AknOvOunCF
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The move from charity to community.
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might volunteerism in youth helps to build adults who are more likely to give time or philanthropically in the future?
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Thinking about our role in volunteering organizations. .Q5: How do you instill the values of community service to your students?
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Thinking about our role in volunteer organizations. . .Q5: How do you instill the values of community service to your students?
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right! Community members working together -- feeling empowered to solve their own issues.
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might volunteerism in youth help to build adults who are more likely to give time or philanthropically in the future?
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The way to keep educators on task is to make sure everyone knows the purpose of our work are solutions
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Yes!!! Word! Then it no longer become volunteerism b/c it's a shared responsibility.
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A5: Old Bridge is a big proponent of character education and . Our students learn from our educators
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Go go go! https://t.co/IsYyNYylki
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The way to keep educators on task is to make sure everyone knows the purpose of our work are solutions
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A5: Based on tonight's chat - students must see the outcome of their work. What is the change they are making in the world?
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Yasss! Yasss!! There is an inherent power imbalance with "charity". Community = shared https://t.co/kQg2oMEeB2
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The move from charity to community.
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I remember doing "volunteer work" in Camden years ago... and then I got in my car and left.
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. Your work with is community based correct?
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volunteerism MUST have long term impacts to cultivate true change .. How do we shift?
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My thoughts exactly. But not exactly too empty b/c "we" the empowered walk away with something to (1)
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engages millennial in philanthropic giving & gives back to nonprofits in LGTBQ Ed Health & Arts
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Jumping in late, but "volunteerism" has a white savior complex-ness to it. We need to build solidarity and community.
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Interesting shift of tonight - "volunteer" must be community based and have an impact.
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(2) on our resume, while marginalized get a turkey meal. But now we have to rethink this...
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Thinking about volunteerism & how can we work within it's structure . . Q6: What is the associationβs role in volunteerism?
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all over this Twitter chat!
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Maybe community building at the direction of the ppl. It must be sustainable
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by is about communities walking out of systems that do not work and on to self-reliance. Great book!
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volunteerism should build capacity within the community yet, often, it supplants
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A6: I think the association can help Ts see how they ARE a PART of the community, not just someone who enters @ 9 and leaves @ 3
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How many locals follow up after using Pride funds? Seems like we need to more often.
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Bingo! https://t.co/nVqkYWgy85
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A6: I think the association can help Ts see how they ARE a PART of the community, not just someone who enters @ 9 and leaves @ 3
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yes! Create the space for the involvement on the local community level to happen.
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how can better facilitate capacity building volunteerism?
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A6 the association helps elevate and amplify the good work of the community until it's self-sustaining.Hold space until it stands
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we all can work together to build the capacity. What can we build together?
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BOOM! https://t.co/l54sbY38kx
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A6 the association helps elevate and amplify the good work of the community until it's self-sustaining.Hold space until it stands
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Q7: What volunteer opportunities exist in your community that could bring members and parents together?
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I'm going to advocate for the shift in language. No more community service. Now community building or uplift.
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A7: the art of hosting model opens the space for Ps/Ts/Ss to come together & collectively decide where work should focus on.
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A7: We need to build the relationship with all stakeholders & assess the needs of community & what role we can play in growth
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we should organize a community ask in our home districts to make sure we meet the true needs and concerns of those we serve
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to quote , service can lead to . π€.
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"Volunteerism" is rooted in saviorism. Community-based is rooted in the collective. https://t.co/6eskoZRcCs
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Interesting shift of tonight - "volunteer" must be community based and have an impact.
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We aren't a "serve us org." we are a "service org." ... need to apply that to local and community work https://t.co/ara50p7dAK
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to quote , service can lead to . π€.
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shared space, shared power w/ an eye towards self realization of all members, that's what makes hosting approach vital
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there is no hero that is going to come in and save the day. .
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the words matter so so much. It's how we construct intellectual spaces
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i've learned so much tonight - new perspective thank to Q8: What are your takeaways from tonight?
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you are Batman! meaning -- you are the hero you are waiting for.
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A8: We must rethink volunteer/service work. We need to have a local impact and seek change.
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A8 be humble, do not allow your good intentions do harm, be present with eyes wide open, know that volunteerism is not about self
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