[BHS etree] MISC: BUSD teacher publishes book/ Public Ed Foundation raises money

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Contact: Mark Coplan,BUSD Public Information Officer
Mark_Coplan at berkeley.k12.ca.us

!. Berkeley educators have a long history of putting pen to paper to write
highly significant manuscripts. From Becky Wheat's books on early childhood
development to Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford's Great Books for High School
Kids: A Teacher’s Guide to Books That Can Change Teens’ Lives, the list goes
on.  The most recent is by BUSD teacher, principal, and  current teacher and
resource to all of the new teachers in the BUSD, Jan Goodman.  She will be
reading from her book, "One Teacher in Ten: Gay and Lesbian Educators Tell
Their Stories" (Alyson Books, 2005)Thursday, June 9 • 7:30 p.m. at Cody’s
Books • 2454 Telegraph Avenue.

2. This just in from the Berkeley Public Education Foundation: Annual
Luncheon Raises $170,000 for Berkeley Schools which honored three middle
school teachers and the 2005 “School Angel”  Irma Parker, a longtime
activist in Berkeley public schools who now runs the Parent Resource Center
at Berkeley High School. For twenty years Irma has served as classroom
volunteer, fundraiser, parent and community organizer, and mentor. Awards
were presented before a sold-out audience of nearly 500 at the Foundation’s
annual benefit luncheon. Chez Panisse provided the meal, with Whole Foods
Market supplying the organic ingredients and local winemaker Edmunds St.
John Fine Wines providing the wine.


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Mark A. Coplan
Public Information Officer, BUSD
510-644-6320
Mark_Coplan at berkeley.k12.ca.us
Berkeley Unified School District
2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, Ca 94704-1180





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Mark A. Coplan
Public Information Officer, BUSD
510-644-6320
Mark_Coplan at berkeley.k12.ca.us
Berkeley Unified School District
2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, Ca 94704-1180
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