Duuuudes,
It is a good day in the SuperForest, for each and every SuperForester.
I have watched from the very beginning as this little blog grew into a scrappy sapling, and it’s growth has thrilled me! The latest work with the 4fives has been the icing on the cake. The absolute best. The easiest and most fun I’ve ever had, and deciding to commit to these kids was the easiest decision I ever made.
Our work with the 4fives blogging has brought SuperForest full circle to exactly where it started out: As a catalogue of wonderful and inspiring things, to help children of all ages play in peace, share their ideas and skills, and learn to love the natural world.
The 4fives and SuperForest are announcing a joint venture: The creation of the SuperForest Seedlings Program.
And this weekend, the miraculous Bee Ladd and I wrote our first press release to announce it!
“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAMER GRAHAM NASH GIVES PRIVATE PERFORMANCE TO THE 4FIVES, BROOKLYN’S FIRST POSITIVITY BLOGGING TEAM
Brooklyn, NY June 22, 2009—Singer and songwriter Graham Nash paid a surprise visit to PS 58 in Carroll Gardens today to serenade a special group of children and a few lucky teachers. The Woodstock rocker came to pay homage to Brooklyn’s first positivity blogging team, the 4Fives. Positivity blogging is a new internet trend, where every post, every word, and every idea on one’s site is positive. With an emphasis on good manners and generosity, positivity blogging makes it easy for students to connect with other student bloggers, and the more people happily sharing the things they love and linking together, the greater the strength and flexibility of the network. Co-founded by NYC educator Bee Ladd and Enviro-blogger Jackson Nash, founder of SuperForest.org, the 4Fives blogging experiment is a pilot program for their education initiative, the SuperForest Seedlings. SuperForest Seedlings is a teaching curriculum for the post-racial, class-blind, internet age. It is a training course in flexible thinking, focused curiosity, and hands-on technology exploration, with a focus on having fun.
Graham Nash, a humanitarian as well as a musician, was inspired by the changes that Bee Ladd and Jackson Nash are making in students’ lives through this education initiative. The initiative teaches media production, video editing, and blogging- in addition to bringing leaders from various fields into the classrooms. As a result, participating students come to school each day excited to learn, and have made measurable gains across the curriculum. “Our favorite days at school are the ones where we are blogging, and luckily for us, that’s every day!” stated 4Fiver Brandon Dumas.
Said rocker Nash: “I was completely blown away by these kids. Their energy, their presence, their commitment to peace and their excitement and curiosity I found totally inspiring. They make me want to work on my blog. The best part was that after we all said goodbye, they thanked me in Dutch, as they’d learned it from a visiting Dutch blogger!”
For additional information that is covered in this news release, contact Jackson Nash.
About SuperForest Seedlings:
SuperForest Seedlings is a progressive initiative aimed at transforming public education by helping inner-city students realize their potential through positivity blogging. Co-Founders Bee Ladd and Jackson Nash designed this innovative curriculum to spark creativity and passion in students, and to get them excited about learning. SuperForest Seedling’s mission is to show children how to be successful citizens of “world 2.0”, a generation that actively works to defuse the effects of racism, homophobia, environmental degradation, and an us vs. them mentality by incorporating cutting-edge technology across the curriculum and throughout their personal lives.
Contact:
Jackson Nash, Co-Founder
The SuperForest Seedlings
SuperForestSeedlings@gmail.com
323.599.7666
Sweet! So, there’s that. It includes the new Seedlings email as well as my phone number. This is indeed my actual number, and if you call it, I will answer. Please use it wisely.
Love to All,
-Jackson
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