From January 27, 2009 email:
Greetings!
You are receiving this Superflux Collective email because: 1) you are an artist, 2) you are an educator, 3) you are a parent, 4) you are an arts or education or arts-in-education administrator or staff member, or 5) because I just think you are awesome. (If you DO NOT want to continue to receive Superflux Collective updates and info, please reply to this email with a big NO! and I will be sure to take you off the list. Otherwise, you'll keep hearing what the collective is up to, without any obligation to do anything ever.)
If we don't know one another personally, my name is Mike Halverson and I've been active in the NYC arts-in-education community for several years as an administrator, workshop leader, and all-around collaborator. Last November, along with 19 other members of our community, I co-founded the Superflux Collective as an informal assemblage of professional artist and educators with the mission of "providing high-quality, low-cost training and support for teaching and learning in and through the arts both on-site and online for maximum impact and flexibility at minimum cost." Our goal is to connect ourselves and our resources, as directly as possible, with the vast demand we believe teaching and learning in and through the arts can address. The collective now includes roughly 80 participants in New York, California, Colorado, Illinois, Virginia, Texas and Washington, DC.
One week ago, you should have received an email about the first full-scale Superflux Collective project in New York City: a series of half-day, peer professional development (PD) exchanges to be filmed for online broadcast to serve teachers in the NYC school system -- and nationwide -- and to document and disseminate the very best of our work. If you offer PD, if you are looking for PD experiences, or if you have colleagues, friends, or co-workers who offer or want PD in NYC, or if you have important ideas about how PD should be done, this is an excellent -- and free! -- opportunity to give and to receive. Let me know if you want to hear more.
First of all, I want to extend a huge THANK YOU to everyone who responded so quickly to last week's email. Wheels are beginning to turn, and your responses are being factored into plans for scheduling in February and March. If you haven't yet, please send me a brief email with your availability in the next two months for collaborations on weekdays between about 9am and 1pm. A simple list of dates would be great. I want to add that the course descriptions and lesson components I've outlined on the www.superflux.us website (under the heading "SUPPLY," then click on items in the menu ) are not set in stone, but should provide a framework to base these events upon. Maybe you have better ideas, or ways you would adapt these lessons -- wonderful! Let's talk about that. The more collaborative all this is, the better.
For everyone else, if you're interested and available for a few days of collaboration in February and/or March, and you haven't yet replied, please let me know. I don't want to leave anyone out, but I also don't want to annoy you with too many messages. I know you're all extremely busy people.
The best kind of replies I could hope for would be:
- Version One: "YES! I'm available the following dates: Feb 12, 16, 24, March 9, 19, 23." (For example.)
- Version Two: "YES! Though I'm not available in February or March, keep me in the loop." (This is also what I'll assume if you don't reply at all. Tricky!)
- Version Three: "NO! Count me out. Stop emailing me." (I can take it.)
Meanwhile, my very best regards. Please forward this message to anyone I've overlooked, anyone who might be interested, just plain anyone.
I remain your colleague, collaborator, and friend,
Mike Halverson
mike@superflux.us
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