from a fellow sustainability educator with tremendous vision and dedication:
Dear Sustainable Tompkins network, As you may have heard, there is a growing movement in Ithaca to create a small public high school for sustainability education. It now has a name - New Roots School - and a web site! Please visit our web site for more information: www.newrootsschool.org As we complete the charter application process, we are gathering expressions of community support for the school to demonstrate its viability as a public institution. We have been gratified by how widespread this support has been so far. I invite you to add your voice if you feel so moved. The web site offers support for doing so in a number of ways, including information about where to sign our petition and sample letters that you can use to compose a letter as a parent, and/or as a member of an organization or profession about ways you envision being involved in or supporting the school. I am thinking about the latter especially as I write to you, as demonstrating that a wide variety of community organizations are interested in working with our students will be crucial to Albany's assessment of our program. Time is short—- we are collecting letters and signatures by May 20, so please take a few minutes as soon as you're able. Signed letters may be sent via email as pdf files if that's easiest for you; the web site offers more information about how. I hope you share our excitement about what we might do together, and how young people might both learn from your work and support the realization of your visions. I am excited at the potential for young people to be a catalyst for our sustainability movement locally. It's a significant opportunity for both personal and community transformation. No one of us can make this happen alone, but together, we can be a powerful force. Please join us in letting Albany know that Ithaca wants New Roots! Inspired by your work, Tina Nilsen-Hodges for the growing New Roots Charter School community [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
