Third Public Meeting

Thanks again to all who sallied forth on a rainy day to join us at the Audubon Center at Debs Park for our third public meeting.

Jennifer recapped what the el Rio team has been up to since we last met.  You can catch all updates by joining our email list.  Jenn sends out a monthly newletter that’s informative and a hoot to boot.

To recap the meeting, our esteemed board member Jennifer Patton wrote this review:

Thank you very much to our guest Lisa Duarte of Ninth Street Elementary School in Boyle Heights for sharing her experiences and, at times, her personal struggle with applying Waldorf methods to her Kindergarten class in a public school that is demographically similar to our own. You rule Lisa! Thanks so much for your input.

Last Saturday’s public meeting was a little different than the meetings that we’ve held in the past. We decided to do a workshop this time. Joan led a “Conversation Cafe” and we broke into groups of 5 and discussed our topic for the day, “Meaningful Diversity.” We got a lot out of this meeting; ways to move forward in the planning of the school that will allow us to reflect and respond to the needs of our culturally and socio-economically diverse neighborhoods in North East LA. Thank you very much to you all for sharing your experiences, advice and insight into a subject that, I think, can be a bit challenging to talk about sometimes.

Read the full recap at elriocharterschool.org.

Lisa Duarte speaks with Joan Jaeckel.

Smaller groups dig into the conversation.

Blue Hen Vietnamese Kitchen donated tasty spring rolls.

Thanks to Blue Hen Vietnamese Kitchen for the generous food donation.  And thank you to you!

Next meeting is Saturday, June 5th, at the Audubon Center at Debs Park, 2:30-3:30PM.  Doors open at 2:00PM.  Hope to see you there!