Please click here or email julia.boggsedcenter@gmail.com and send us your name, others in your group if coming together, and your organization if applicable. Check out www.detroit2012.org for other events. We hope you join us!
It has become widely known that the Boggs Educational Center's strength comes from our community support. We are now looking to our multiple communities for help. Would you be willing to write a letter in support of our efforts? These may be used for authorizers or other potential partners. A short template is included here, but please feel free to compose your own! Feel free to ask others to do the same! We appreciate you tremendously. Please forward letters to Julia at julia.boggsedcenter@gmail.com. Thanks!
The Boggs Educational Center is looking for classroom-based teachers who are committed to our mission to nurture creative, critical thinkers who contribute to the well-being of their communities.
If you are a certified elementary teacher and interested in helping to re-imagine education, we need you.
The Boggs Educational Center Project Team of Detroit, Michigan, is developing a community-based school on the East Side of the city. The development phase currently consists of planning and design in the areas of community outreach, business and management preparation, enrollment, and programming, including development of a locally sustainable food service and urban gardening education program.
See http://monthlyreview.org/2011/07/01/another-education-is-happening for the original article.
The mainstream media has created the myth that community people are waiting for Superman, the White House, or state-appointed Emergency Financial Managers to resolve the escalating crises in our schools.
Our fourth Community Conversation was held at Detroit Victory Outreach on Wabash and Selden. The goal of these gatherings is to involve members of the Detroit neighborhoods, as well as nonlocal supporters, in discussions around education and what they would like to see in a community-based school. Below are some notes taken by Julia.
Our focus question: How can the community contribute to an effective and positive urban school environment?
Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs brought people together to rebuild inner-city Detroit and to teach the things you can’t learn in a classroom. At 94, Grace is still at it.
Lead photo:
Bee boxes at the Earth Works community garden in Detroit.
Many others are helping the Boggs School to tell its story. Read and view their journalistic and artistic pieces.
Our principal, Julia Putnam, was the keynote speaker at the University of Michigan's 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium! You can watch the full video (Julia starts at 41:20). Enjoy!
Open Application Period for 2019-20 is April 1-30, 2019! Remaining tour dates are below (reservation requested):
T. Apr. 16th 9:30am
Th. Apr. 18th 5:30pm
M. May 13th 5:30pm
T. May 14th 9:30am
T. June 4th 5:30pm
F. June 7th 1pm
For the current school year, we accept student applications on a first-come, first-served basis year-round. See Application Instructions for details.
