What about actual girls? To differentiate, maybe “students who identify as girls” should spell it “gurlz?”
Crippled is Still a Thing?
19 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in NYCDOE Tags: anachronism
The NYCDOE website’s “school search” tool returned this result. Currently that space is a School of Visual Arts dormitory. At some point in the past it was the “Institute for the Crippled and Disabled.” Why the results show this (and not SVA) is anyone’s guess.
Brooklyn Tech High School Summit
11 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in Brooklyn, hallways, NYCDOE, technology Tags: Brooklyn Tech, Brooklyn Technical High School, Tech Summit
The 2025 NYCDOE Tech Summit was held in Brooklyn Technical High School.
I was speechless at the beauty.
Here are some images of the auditorium, the display cases, the hallways, cafeteria, etc
Fun fact: I got in to BTHS when I applied to the Stuyvesant test in 8th grade!
School Names, Award Names
07 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in 373R, NYCDOE Tags: Board of Education, Samuel Stern Award
School names, award names….. Did you ever wonder about whom a school or an award was named after? For example, everyone knows that the Tony awards were named after someone named Tony or Anthony, and the Emmies probably after someone named Emily.
Welp, I used to teach at George J. Ryan junior high school in Fresh Meadows, Queens, and district 75 awards the coveted M. Samuel Stern award to worthy students every year. It is interesting to think that schools were named after NYC Board of Education administrators….
Do you recognize any other names?
Swinging at the Office
01 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
I have worked for the NYCDOE for over 30 years, and thankfully, not once did any of these situations occur.
Not Just ANY Excellent, but MOST Excellent
20 May 2024 Leave a comment
in NYCDOE, vocabulary Tags: most excellent
The NYCDOE division of human resources is offering an award for outstanding service, and I suppose the division director, or Charles Peeples (the person the award is named after), loved Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Here is the award info
And here is a most excellent clip from Bill and Ted’s.
Lighthouse Collaborative Drinks the Kool-Aid
18 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in NYCDOE Tags: kool-aid, ze/hir/hirs
From a Lighthouse Collaborative-sponsored event registration form:
Fancy Locker
18 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
This is on display at Tweed courthouse in NYC, headquarters of the DOE. It looks like a sturdy locker. It reads “Board of Education of the City of New York Bureau of Finance” What do you think was in here? Staff payroll? Keys to the city? Gold bars?
Dreaming of Freedom, part 5
13 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
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There is still hope…
This email response from the Office of Organizational Development, Talent, and Culture in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) portfolio — the organizers of the Freedom Dreaming conference — offers hope that the event will not recapitulate that which has gone before (the CUNY Freedom Dreaming program (https://freedomdreaming.commons.gc.cuny.edu/about/) and the BRIC Freedom Dreaming program (https://www.bricartsmedia.org/blog/freedom-dreaming-call-imagine)
“Hello Charles,Our conference is not connected to either of the programs mentioned.In partnership,DEIB Conference Committee “
Stay tuned for a report from after the event!
Dreaming of Freedom, part 4
11 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
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The NYCDOE Office of Organizational Development, Talent, and Culture in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging portfolio is hosting a conference entitled Freedom Dreaming.
How far to go before Israel gets dragged into the mix?
Not that far.
From the original Freedom Dreamers Brooklyn event:
“I dream of a world where Black and Brown boys don’t fear for their lives”
“I dream of a world where I can live without fear”
“I dream of a free Palestine”(https://www.bricartsmedia.org/blog/freedom-dreaming-call-imagine, retrieved 07/11/23)
How I wish “uplift” organizations would not have to down-trod on Israel all the time. I, too, wish for a Palestine that was free from its murderous, antisemitic rulers, beginning with the Nazi-ally Grand Mufti Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, and continuing to this day.
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