She is led by the voices of st. Catherine, st. Margaret, and st. Michael who instructed her to acquire a horse, soldiers clothing with armor, and an army and drive the english out of france. So her actions are based on her faith in her voices. Shaw was a codirector for the first london production in 1924 with Sybil Thorndike in the title role, and he reminded her that joan was a sturdy, independent 19yearold woman, not a sweet angelic little girl. The story of joan is fascinating. She was a village girl born in the early 1400s, a warrior in her teens and was accused of heresy and witchcraft because she would not deny her visions and voices and consequently was convicted and burned at the stake. Almost 500 years later, joan was canonized by the church. Shakespeare, bertolt brecht, Maxwell Anderson and jean anouilh all have dramatized the joan story, each reflecting a personal point of view and interest. To meet the challenge of that role required a special actress. Our guest is that spe
It is not a biography in the sense that you can turn to the play for an accurate reporting of the facts, rather shaw selected the facts which suited his purpose. He approaches joan, his protagonist, historically, but develops the character mainly in terms of ideological clashes. Primarily, shaw is interested in joan as someone who imposes her ideas on history. She is led by the voices of st. Catherine, st. Margaret, and st. Michael who instructed her to acquire a horse, soldiers clothing with armor, and an army and drive the english out of france. So her actions are based on her faith in her voices. Shaw was a codirector for the first london production in 1924 with Sybil Thorndike in the title role, and he reminded her that joan was a sturdy, independent 19yearold woman, not a sweet angelic little girl. The story of joan is fascinating. She was a village girl born in the early 1400s, a warrior in her teens and was accused of heresy and witchcraft because she would not deny her visions
Have jim fong and we have edgar right here and then i think that is all that is here tonight. So the board wants to thank you for your work. Thank you very much. Thank you. So, as i was saying we have had a number of Program Managers that are part of managing the funds here, and we are really appreciative of all of the work that they have done to present the material to us and we have at times in the past presentations from them and we had written reports from them this year and the first area that i want to talk about is professional development and this is an area that we as an Oversight Committee are trying to understand better and where the funds fit into the Bigger Picture for the professional support, and as you know there were budget cuts a few years ago where the state funding for professional development was it was flexed and so there more funding that paid for the three days of professional development and so essentially qta took over those three days and this year, back for
They were 16 teachers from the high needs schools. This is the same . Assume so, yes. We actually just had a discussion with stephanie who heads the Master Teacher program and the first was concentrated in some of the zone schools as we have expanded we have added other critical need areas and there is an interest to go city wide and taken into consideration some of those same, critical need areas and as we go to the full implementation it is to encourage some of the master practitioners across the district. Okay. And the next area was the Study Network which was very, we were really drawn to this because, teachers are able to work in real time, and so they are forming goals, collaboratively, Planning Research lesson and conducting lesson and gathering evidence and using the evidence to improve the instructions and so it is live and collaborative but that is still happening in the same level this year, and we have 60 teachers participating, and this year, they were able to host a visit
Study network which was very, we were really drawn to this because, teachers are able to work in real time, and so they are forming goals, collaboratively, Planning Research lesson and conducting lesson and gathering evidence and using the evidence to improve the instructions and so it is live and collaborative but that is still happening in the same level this year, and we have 60 teachers participating, and this year, they were able to host a visit from Cuba University in japan, which is exciting across a Cultural Exchange with a couple of our elementary schools. And next year, there is going to be more focus on Capacity Building and teacher leader competencies. And they will be, you know, about the same amount of school sites, and about the same amount of teachers. But, what we have seen, what we have heard from miss irine is that there is a lot of flexibility and fluidty for the teachers who are participating and a lot of building capacity, and working together. The third thing tha