The Flying University Project

Designing Communities of Learning - Our Welcome Packet

By Clarence Thompson
As part of our toolkit for motivating our students to math excellence, we created a Welcome Packet.  That packet contains the following elements: a couple of pictures of kids who look like the kids we are trying to reach, a description of the Flying University Project, a Famil…

Expanding Into East Portland

This week, some of us will be meeting with key members of a few of the disadvantaged communities of East Portland.  We will be starting the preliminary activities of organizing a new Flying University Project group on the East side.  As one of the organizers, I have been thinking a lot and (as usu…