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    Spread the word with friends, colleagues and local community members! Like + Share VRP's Facebook page. Let's link 200 VRP fans by February!  Curriculum Grants of up to $1,500 available to VRP Schools! VRP members! Your site is entitled to apply for a mini grant for the current school year. Grants may be up to $1,500. All teachers who document and publish their project on VRP's web site will receive a personal check for $250 upon publication. We have $5,000 in stipends available. more
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VRP History Highlights
1996-1997 • VTDOE supports an application to the Annenburg Rural Challenge • $64,000 received. Funds awarded yearly for 5 years total amt received $564,000 from Annenberg Rural Challenge • 7 schools apply Peacham, Barnet, Peoples, Millers Run,Holland, Cabot, Walden • Sue Mahoney is appointed DOE liaison • Asset survey modified for elementary school aged children • Student-adult presence at Annenberg Rural Challenge summer rendezvous 1997-1998 • Peoples Academy (Morrisville) and Cabot form a “Student Alliance” and meet on a regular basis for leadership skill development & planning • Learn and Serve Grant application • All sites survey youth developmental assets .Analysis retreats & action planning. • Student-adult presence at Annenberg Rural Challenge Summer Rendezvous • Cultural Literacy work in sites with Joseph Kiefer • Nature Trail projects and school gardening projects launched 1998-1999 • Learn and Serve Grant awarded approx $300,000 to sites • Snelling Center becomes involved supporting our convenings and community of purpose work • New sites applied and are interviewed • Application to Annenberg rejected due to DOE lead, school based leadership is encouraged. • Margaret MacLean leads effort for schools to apply independently of DOE • Governance Board process developed • Funds received and 11 new sites come on board. BMU, Warsdboro, Belvidere, Burke, Newark, Coventry, Doty, Smilie, Washington, Fairfield and Hazen • New sites complete assets survey • Students from 4 middle schools meet to research & create possible capstone projects: Washington, Barnet, Coventry & Millers Run • VRP high school leadership alliance meets with Marc Hull (Commissioner) and Marge Pettit (Assistant Commissioner) to discuss trends in education. • Funds set aside for student-generated VRP proposals • Students present leadership workshop at Bethel, Maine conference • At Governor’s Summit for Youth and Adults in Partnership, VRP Cabot student (Cara Cookson) demands action plan to assure student representation on state Board of Education. • Student and adult presence at Rural Challenge summer rendezvous 1999-2000 • Henderson grant applied for and received for $303,000 • Bell Atlantic grant received for youth curriculum work • Curriculum mapping for PBL begun with Joseph Kiefer • Americorp admin assistant hired • Strategic plan developed • Rubrics developed • A fall retreat and regular governance board meetings take place • VRP is asked by the Vermont Children’s Forum to partner on a student leadership curriculum development, resulting in the “Our Voices: Our Community” curriculum. • Students go to National Youth Extravaganza in Kearney, Nebraska. • Student Alliance organizes and hosts first regional “Student Extravaganza”, showcasing student voice and leadership in schools. • Conducted multiple “Student leadership looks like...sounds like” focus groups and shared information with faculty. • PA youth-adult developmental asset group host community asset celebration drawing 1200. • VRP Website developed in partnership with Vermont Community Works. 2000-2001 • Vermont participates in national portfolio project • A fall retreat and 4 regular governance board meetings take place • Student Alliance organizes and hosts the second regional “Student Extravaganza”, showcasing student voice and leadership in schools. • Vermont youth take lead role in development of national leadership council for the Rural School and Community Trust • Hosted high school student council multi-school retreat to fine tune roles & responsibilities of student governance 2001-2002 • Student Alliance organizes and hosts the third regional “Student Extravaganza”, showcasing student voice and leadership in schools • VRP youth attend summer RSCT Youth Leadership Institute • First Spring Conference “Sustaining Rural Culture through Place Based Learning” • Relationship with Bay and Paul foundations developed. In subsequent years Bay and Paul foundation funds convenings and governance 2002-2003 • Peoples Academy, Cabot and Thetford Academy participate in pilot year-long course, “Lights, Camera...Leadership!”, funded by the Freeman Foundation, VT Community Foundation and the Tamarack Fund (in partnership with the Orton Family Foundation). • Significant funding secured [ DET] to refine & disseminate the “Our Voices: Our Community” youth leadership curriculum, in partnership with the Vermont Children’s Forum. • “Student Extravaganza” melded with Learning in Place conference • Learning in Place “Conference “Voices of Hope ~Youth in Partnership” • US History Grant applied for “ Flow of History” and received 2003-2004 • Orange ,Lakeview and Twinfield join the partnership • “Learning in Place conference: Living Democracy in Schools: Youth Empowerment from Theory to Practice” VRP conference. • Twinfield and Thetford Academy join Rural School and Community Trust Rural Civic Engagement Collaborative efforts. This are dovetailed with Vermont Civic • Mission of School work (Cabot) • US History Funds distributed to schools 2004-2005 • Additional 2 years of funding secured to further the “Our Voices: Our Community” curriculum development & dissemination (Senator Jeffords instrumental in this) • “We the People: Civic Learning in Action” VRP conference. • Twinfield & Thetford Academy attend the RSCT Rural Civic Engagement conference - Penn Center. • Barnet students revamp student governance efforts using OVOC. • Thetford and Cabot teachers attend Community Works Institute on Service-Learning at Shelburne Farms. 2005-2006 • Hurricane Relief work takes place • “Youth Voice in Action ~ Changing the World” VRP conference • VRP chairs Vermont Principal’s Association committee to plan the Small Schools Conference, hosted by Cabot. • VRP takes lead in securing Department of Education technology grant to implement Lights, Camera...Leadership! in 9 schools throughout Vermont. Twinfield & Cabot involved in project. 2006-2007 • Search Institute publishes electronic version of the “Guide for Student Analysis of Developmental Asset Data”, which evolved from the extensive VRP student asset analysis work • VRP representative on the DOE State Civic Learning committee. • VRP continued representation on Small Schools Conference Planning committee • Jane’s Trust grant applied for in partnership with RSCT • Oct 5TH governance meeting held at Lake Morey to discuss partnership future and activities for 2007.
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