By billsparks on
4/23/2009 10:35 AM
Is their evidence of empowering students to implement social justice in their professional life?
Is the pedagogy of student lerning compatible?
What happened to the promise of an effort to maintain independence?
Is this merger compatible with Pacific Oaks mission, curriculum, teaching style?
What do the parents of the Children's School think now that they are suddenly placed in a "New Home"?
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By Liz Rogers on
1/21/2009 11:37 AM
We have been writing poetry together sharing our thoughts on what it means to say "I am Pacific Oaks". Please enjoy our reflections so far and add your voice to our growing shared identity:
I am Pacific Oaks
I am hope
I am courage
I am CHANGE
I am the first woman in my family to obtain a college degree and I am a working mother with a passion for teaching
I am Pacific Oaks
I am a woman who found her voice
I am tenacious
I do not give up
I am persistent, insistent, and dogged
I am a member of a strong group of committed people who work for change
I am Pacific Oaks
I am a flower with leaf and a stem
I am unfolding; inside find a gem
I am delicate; yet really quite strong
I am quiet; my thoughts seem so long
I am one alone but with you I am many
I am lets keep hope alive together
I am Pacific Oaks
P eaceful
A dvocate
C ommunity
I nvesting in
F reedom for
I nquisitive
C hildren
O pening
A venues of
K indness and
S trength
I am Pacific Oaks
I am Hope
I am...
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By Pam Gingold on
1/14/2009 8:43 PM
When I first came to Pacific Oaks, I was expecting to be filled up with knowledge by people with way more wisdom that I possessed. I also brought with me a willingness to be transformed, or at least changed. I thought I'd have to give up my beliefs to some extent -- to "buy into" something -- I wasn't sure what, but to learn to be a "teacher." A "real" one.
Instead, what I found was that my teachers wanted to learn from ME. What? I myself had something valuable to offer? That wasn't what school had been like in my experience. I didn't believe in the banking system, as Paulo Freire called it, but I expected to learn how to believe in it. Instead, I found that I was called upon to TEACH, as well as to learn. This was my orientation into transformative, liberatory pedagogy.
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By Liz Rogers on
1/14/2009 12:25 PM
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By friendsofPO on
1/3/2009 2:26 PM
January 2, 2009. Response to our Urgent email and more . . .
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By Hope Moffatt on
12/31/2008 1:35 PM
We were creating this Blog space for alumnae from across the country and further destinations to share their stories - what are you doing? how is your Pacific Oaks education helping you in your career? what would you like to say to President Denham and the Board about how your life has been impacted by your Pacific Oaks College education?
The above is what I wrote on New Year's Eve - thinking that we were still in a position to persuade the PO Board of trustees to move into action and do what they have needed to do for so long now - force CD to resign and get acting on turning the college around financially, recritment and enrollment wise, and in terms of morale.
What has transpired in the last 2 weeks is beyond my comprehension. I feel stunned at the thoughts of what one woman has done and can do to bring an institution with as long and honoured a history as Pacific Oaks has, to its knees.
No one listened. I want to thank Karen and Niki and Louise and Bill and Laila and all the folks in Pasadena who have spent countless hours strategizing, planning, talking, writing, making budgets and contingency plans, mounting donation drives - all, it seems certain now, to no avail. No one listened. It seems that no one (on the Board) cared.
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By MargoS on
12/27/2008 6:41 PM
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