About Us: Overview
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About Us: Overview
How we got started
With pilot funding from the Ford Foundation in fall 2009, we started off with a goal shared by many in Somerville: supporting community collaboration in young people's success. Many of Somerville's students, families, educators, leaders, and technologists wanted to experiment with tools and strategies to spark and support everyday partnership in and around their diverse, mixed-income, and multilingual community. We used Ford funding to support projects already rolling in the community and to spark others that hadn’t yet been conceived. For more on our participatory design research approach, click here!. Click here to see mini descriptions of all projects.
Somerville
Somerville (population approx. 77,000) represents the diversity, complexity, and typical divisions of a large city, in terms of languages (42), racial-ethnic groups (with large Central American, Brazilian, and Haitian immigrant populations), and economic groups (with a long working class and college-student history, and recent explosion of young professionals and white middle class families). According to the state, 63% of all students in the SPS are members of “racial/ethnic minority” groups, and 68% receive free and reduced price lunch. http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/profiles/student.aspx?orgcode=02740000&orgtypecode=5&leftNavId=305& People often talk about there being multiple "Villes" -- new gentrifiers, new immigrants, and an longstanding white working class. It's been the perfect place to explore ways of supporting collaboration across One "Ville"!
Our Team
(This is only a partial list of the many people who have contributed to this project!)
Mica Pollock, Uche Amaechi, Seth Woodworth, Susan Klimczak, Alice Mello, Consuelo Perez, Jedd Cohen, Tona Delmonico, Gina d’Haiti, Sofia Perez, Will Thalheimer, Dave Sullivan, Tracy Sullivan, Michelle Thompson, Josh Wairi, Jen Capuano, Maria Gemma Cruz, Greg Nadeau, Christine Rafal, Bern Ewah, Maria Carvalho, Lupe Ojeda, Rachel Toon, Healey students, Michael Quan, Marisa Wolsky, other Healey parents and teachers, Mo Robichaux, Ted O’Brien, David Willey, Shelia Harris, Full Circle/Next Wave students, Sabrina Trinca, Michelle Li, Chris Glynn, other SHS eportfolio students and teachers, Vince McKay, Tony Pierantozzi, Gretchen Kinder, Jason DeFalco, Purnima Vadhera, Tony Ciccariello, Regina Bertholdo, other PIC staff, Marlon Ramdehal, Lisa Brukilacchio, Mark Niedergang, EliJAH Starr, Caroline Meeks, Franklin DaLembert, Lince Semerzier, Kathleen Jones, Stephanie Hirsch, Sarah Davila, Ana Maria Nieto, Warren Goldstein-Gelb, Rusty Carlock, Barry Stein, Joe Beckmann, Al Willis, and Mark Tomizawa
Schools and Community Organizations
- K-8 Healey School: working with data dashboards and the Parent Connector Network
- Somerville High School: working with ePortfolios
- Full Circle/Next Wave: working to test texting
- Clarendon Hill Housing Authority/Haitian Coalition: working on computer infrastructure