Envision Schools will eventually encompass eight high schools right in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Bill Gates Foundation recently
invested $6.9 million in the program.
Current Schools
*MSAT-Marin School of Arts and Technology (Novato)
*CAT-City Arts and Technology (San Francisco)
*Metro- Metrpolotian Arts and Technology (San Francisco)
*Academy-Envision Academy of Arts and Technology (Oakland)
*Fresno-Soon To Come (Fresno)
Instructional Model
Envision is dedicated to starting small, academically rigorous high schools that use project-based learning, art and technology to engage students in learning. Studies show that all else being equal, students in small high schools score higher on examinations, pass more courses, and go on to college more frequently than those in large ones.
All Envision Schools are characterized by the three R's:
*Rigorous instruction that challenges students with high expectations.
*Relevant curriculum that motives students by giving them the opportunity to apply classroom course work to real world experience (i.e., internships in 11th and 12th grade).
*Meaningful relationships to ensure that a caring adult is involved with every young person's learning experience and to enable teachers to personalize learning based on a student's unique needs.
invested $6.9 million in the program.
Current Schools
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*CAT-City Arts and Technology (San Francisco)
*Metro- Metrpolotian Arts and Technology (San Francisco)
*Academy-Envision Academy of Arts and Technology (Oakland)
*Fresno-Soon To Come (Fresno)
Instructional Model
Envision is dedicated to starting small, academically rigorous high schools that use project-based learning, art and technology to engage students in learning. Studies show that all else being equal, students in small high schools score higher on examinations, pass more courses, and go on to college more frequently than those in large ones.
All Envision Schools are characterized by the three R's:
*Rigorous instruction that challenges students with high expectations.
*Relevant curriculum that motives students by giving them the opportunity to apply classroom course work to real world experience (i.e., internships in 11th and 12th grade).
*Meaningful relationships to ensure that a caring adult is involved with every young person's learning experience and to enable teachers to personalize learning based on a student's unique needs.
The University of Newcastle upon Tyne has many catered and non-catered Halls of Residence available to students.
Halls of Residence
Castle Leazes
Castle Leazes is the larger of the two catered halls and the only catered accommodation close to the university campus, it provides around 1,000 rooms of mainly single study bedrooms. Castle Leazes is within walking distance of the main campus. Facilities include 2 bars, a snooker room, a cinema room, a table tennis room, a small shop, a computer cluster, a launderette and TV rooms. A very small number of rooms are available as self-catered.
Henderson Hall
Henderson Hall is a catered hall of residence, although 2 wings have recently been converted to self-catering. Music practice rooms, games rooms and snooker rooms are found here. Activities in Henderson Hall include; film nights, quizzes, and pool leagues.
University flats
Richardson Road
Richardson Road consists of self-catered student flats. It is a few minutes walk from the majority of academic schools, the city centre and local shops. The main university gym lies adjacent to the flats. It has 894 single study-bedrooms and 31 self-contained couple flats.
St Mary's College
St Mary's College is located on Fenham Hall Drive about two miles away from the central campus, there are approximately 70 self catering flats each with up to six individual bedrooms inside.
Bowsden Court
Bowsden Court is made up of self-catering university flats, designed for students and families, though both are housed separately. It is located in South Gosforth.
Windsor Terrace
The Windsor Terrace self catering flats are divided into three sub-blocks: Gurney House, Hodgkin House and Fife House. They are located close to the Robinson Library.
Marris House
Marris House has 192 single study bedrooms and is adjacent to Richardson Road.
Jesmond Road
Jesmond Road has 81 single study bedrooms which are typically reserved for undergraduates, but there may be places for postgraduates. Some facilities such as they laundry are shared with the near-by Windsor Terrace.
Postgraduate houses
Leazes Parade
Leazes Parade is self-catering and is now exclusive to postgraduate students. Flats here have fewer rooms than would be found in other halls of residence. Leazes Parade is just off Barrack Road (A189) and is less than one mile west of the main University campus. It is close to Castle Leazes Halls.
Leazes Terrace
Leazes Terrace is also self-catering postgraduate accommodation. It is situated next to Newcastle United Football Club, within walking distance of the University campus and the city centre. It has a classical fronted nineteenth century terrace, which was designed by architect Thomas Oliver and built c1830 by Richard Grainger.
Easton Flats
The Easton Flats are second largest postgraduate site with 110 single study bedrooms and 4 double rooms.
Claremont Place
Claremont Place has 5 single rooms and 5 double rooms, making it the smallest of the University's accommodation.
Grand Hotel
The Grand Hotel sits above the University bookshop, and is adjacent to the University campus. It has 44 single study bedrooms.
North Terrace
North Terrace has 15 single and 9 double study-bedrooms with en suite bathrooms and an additional 9 single study-bedrooms with washbasins. It has shared launderette facilities with Richardson Road.
Partnership scheme
Magnet Court
Magnet Court consists of self-catered flats located close to the city centre. Although run by a company separate from the university accommodation service, Magnet Court is available alongside the other halls for first-years.
Trivia
*Many of the university residences can be found on the University's spin-off of the popular game Monopoly, first produced by Winning Moves in 2001.
Halls of Residence
Castle Leazes
Castle Leazes is the larger of the two catered halls and the only catered accommodation close to the university campus, it provides around 1,000 rooms of mainly single study bedrooms. Castle Leazes is within walking distance of the main campus. Facilities include 2 bars, a snooker room, a cinema room, a table tennis room, a small shop, a computer cluster, a launderette and TV rooms. A very small number of rooms are available as self-catered.
Henderson Hall
Henderson Hall is a catered hall of residence, although 2 wings have recently been converted to self-catering. Music practice rooms, games rooms and snooker rooms are found here. Activities in Henderson Hall include; film nights, quizzes, and pool leagues.
University flats
Richardson Road
Richardson Road consists of self-catered student flats. It is a few minutes walk from the majority of academic schools, the city centre and local shops. The main university gym lies adjacent to the flats. It has 894 single study-bedrooms and 31 self-contained couple flats.
St Mary's College
St Mary's College is located on Fenham Hall Drive about two miles away from the central campus, there are approximately 70 self catering flats each with up to six individual bedrooms inside.
Bowsden Court
Bowsden Court is made up of self-catering university flats, designed for students and families, though both are housed separately. It is located in South Gosforth.
Windsor Terrace
The Windsor Terrace self catering flats are divided into three sub-blocks: Gurney House, Hodgkin House and Fife House. They are located close to the Robinson Library.
Marris House
Marris House has 192 single study bedrooms and is adjacent to Richardson Road.
Jesmond Road
Jesmond Road has 81 single study bedrooms which are typically reserved for undergraduates, but there may be places for postgraduates. Some facilities such as they laundry are shared with the near-by Windsor Terrace.
Postgraduate houses
Leazes Parade
Leazes Parade is self-catering and is now exclusive to postgraduate students. Flats here have fewer rooms than would be found in other halls of residence. Leazes Parade is just off Barrack Road (A189) and is less than one mile west of the main University campus. It is close to Castle Leazes Halls.
Leazes Terrace
Leazes Terrace is also self-catering postgraduate accommodation. It is situated next to Newcastle United Football Club, within walking distance of the University campus and the city centre. It has a classical fronted nineteenth century terrace, which was designed by architect Thomas Oliver and built c1830 by Richard Grainger.
Easton Flats
The Easton Flats are second largest postgraduate site with 110 single study bedrooms and 4 double rooms.
Claremont Place
Claremont Place has 5 single rooms and 5 double rooms, making it the smallest of the University's accommodation.
Grand Hotel
The Grand Hotel sits above the University bookshop, and is adjacent to the University campus. It has 44 single study bedrooms.
North Terrace
North Terrace has 15 single and 9 double study-bedrooms with en suite bathrooms and an additional 9 single study-bedrooms with washbasins. It has shared launderette facilities with Richardson Road.
Partnership scheme
Magnet Court
Magnet Court consists of self-catered flats located close to the city centre. Although run by a company separate from the university accommodation service, Magnet Court is available alongside the other halls for first-years.
Trivia
*Many of the university residences can be found on the University's spin-off of the popular game Monopoly, first produced by Winning Moves in 2001.
``Macabrism is a literary trend recently forged, even though at the moment its texts have been written by the author of the website (macabrismo.110mb.com).
The characteristic of utmost importance of this trend is the wide use of macabre and violend imagery, whose fine is to upset the reader, so that he can understand quickly the thematics the texts -- mainly poems -- speak about.
--- to be translated --
I maggiori esponenti di questo filone, oltre che letterario, filosofico, si presentano sotto uno pseudonimo perche` i comuni mortali (voi non poeti) non sono ancora in grado di capirli (serve molto esercizio!); essi sono:
- Piumazzurra Zavosky:
Sul far dell'oscura sera invernale,
Mi chiudo in me stesso e piano rifletto,
Per cercar che, in esta notte infernale,
Procura in me un dolore nel petto.
Ma presto però, capisco e mi fermo,
Sorrido un pochino e chiudo i miei occhi,
Sapendo che il mal non è all'esterno,
Ma è 'l cor mio che ha battuto i suoi tocchi.
Finisce il dolor di tutta una vita,
Il futile candore ora si spegne,
Si scioglie un nodo che il cor mi stringeva.
Ora mi chiama una gioia infinita,
Muoiono adesso le mie ossa indegne,
Và via la vita, che troppo chiedeva.
- Antonio Trappola:
Al candido chiarore della falce
nostra amica, d'argento pitturata,
vedo il sole, e sotto un'alce
nera; è dalla morte mascherata.
Sul nero manto è infatti sangue,
forse rappreso, forse zampillante,
rosso di fuoco bianco et esangue,
lui sparso in modo allucinante.
E nel buio di luce abbagliante
si scorge un gran lago, ed immerso
un essere, strano, d'uman sembiante.
Forse affoga, forse è già perso,
forse non più del mondo abitante,
forse vivo, ma comunque sommerso.
- Mimneor:
Quivi si giunge alla morte eterna,
stratio di popoli e genti humane,
quanti che fuor, e nell'etate hodierna
quei che verranno.
Nell'istante fuggesi, breve speme,
ma breve e` l'attimo, pria ch'Essa viene:
despota d'anime, per Dio, blasfeme,
Ella uccide.
Membra vecchie e giovani hanno vene
che Lei iscoia, isquatra, prende:
salme sopr'ogne terra danna amene
sanza il sangue.
Giu` in fondo tra cacciatori e prede
disperati priegan chiedendo pieta;
di soffrir gia` stanchi, bestialitade
tutti assale.
Come in mala bestia non ben nutrita
filtrano male bramosie d'altrui
carne, non per fame, ma per delitia
ingurgitare,
si` operaron tutti gli iniqui,
un contra l'altro, lacerando gl'occhi,
dilaniando membra co' sassi antiqui:
giunser fin l'osso.
Che tanto picciolo epillio tocchi,
non alter, ma 'l tema di vita 'n dopo
morte, per sfumar tutti i tarocchi,
ogne speranza.
The characteristic of utmost importance of this trend is the wide use of macabre and violend imagery, whose fine is to upset the reader, so that he can understand quickly the thematics the texts -- mainly poems -- speak about.
--- to be translated --
I maggiori esponenti di questo filone, oltre che letterario, filosofico, si presentano sotto uno pseudonimo perche` i comuni mortali (voi non poeti) non sono ancora in grado di capirli (serve molto esercizio!); essi sono:
- Piumazzurra Zavosky:
Sul far dell'oscura sera invernale,
Mi chiudo in me stesso e piano rifletto,
Per cercar che, in esta notte infernale,
Procura in me un dolore nel petto.
Ma presto però, capisco e mi fermo,
Sorrido un pochino e chiudo i miei occhi,
Sapendo che il mal non è all'esterno,
Ma è 'l cor mio che ha battuto i suoi tocchi.
Finisce il dolor di tutta una vita,
Il futile candore ora si spegne,
Si scioglie un nodo che il cor mi stringeva.
Ora mi chiama una gioia infinita,
Muoiono adesso le mie ossa indegne,
Và via la vita, che troppo chiedeva.
- Antonio Trappola:
Al candido chiarore della falce
nostra amica, d'argento pitturata,
vedo il sole, e sotto un'alce
nera; è dalla morte mascherata.
Sul nero manto è infatti sangue,
forse rappreso, forse zampillante,
rosso di fuoco bianco et esangue,
lui sparso in modo allucinante.
E nel buio di luce abbagliante
si scorge un gran lago, ed immerso
un essere, strano, d'uman sembiante.
Forse affoga, forse è già perso,
forse non più del mondo abitante,
forse vivo, ma comunque sommerso.
- Mimneor:
Quivi si giunge alla morte eterna,
stratio di popoli e genti humane,
quanti che fuor, e nell'etate hodierna
quei che verranno.
Nell'istante fuggesi, breve speme,
ma breve e` l'attimo, pria ch'Essa viene:
despota d'anime, per Dio, blasfeme,
Ella uccide.
Membra vecchie e giovani hanno vene
che Lei iscoia, isquatra, prende:
salme sopr'ogne terra danna amene
sanza il sangue.
Giu` in fondo tra cacciatori e prede
disperati priegan chiedendo pieta;
di soffrir gia` stanchi, bestialitade
tutti assale.
Come in mala bestia non ben nutrita
filtrano male bramosie d'altrui
carne, non per fame, ma per delitia
ingurgitare,
si` operaron tutti gli iniqui,
un contra l'altro, lacerando gl'occhi,
dilaniando membra co' sassi antiqui:
giunser fin l'osso.
Che tanto picciolo epillio tocchi,
non alter, ma 'l tema di vita 'n dopo
morte, per sfumar tutti i tarocchi,
ogne speranza.
Biography
Jenah Doucette 18 years old (born 1988 in Farmington, Connecticut). She attended Farmington High School until Spring of 2006.
She's best known for her appearance of the CW Television series America's Next Top Model Cycle 9 in which the winner has not been announced yet. Making it as a finalist and brought to Los Angeles, California to compete for the grand prize of a contract with Elite Model Management, a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics, and cover a spread in Seventeen Magazine. She has 2 younger sisters whom which she strives to be a great example for them to look up to as she stated on a December 5th, 2007 episode of America's Next Top Model. She is said to be a quiet and laid back type of girl by classmates she attended High School with. Other classmates say they would have never expected her to do somethinghmmm like this but they do feel she looks very much like a model and feel she will succeed as a model. She is naturally a brunette but was given a bleach blonde hair color and extensions during the 3rd episode of America's Next Top Model. She is rumored to be 5'11 but has not been confirmed by her. She is now back at home with her family in Farmington.
America's Next Top Model
She was coaxed into auditioning for America's Next Top Model Cycle 9 by friends of hers as she said in a CW preshow interview. She auditioned in New York City, New York. She made it as a finalist on the show in summer of 2007 where she was brought to Los Angeles for filming. The show premiered in September of 2007. Jenah started the competition as one of the top girls being the first and only girl to receive 2 consecutive first call outs 2 weeks in a row. and still continued to push herself to do well despite being home sick. She intimidated many girls and seemed to be arrogant, but her friends from her hometown of Farmington say she's a completely different person when the cameras are off. In one episode after successfully completeing a challenge the best given to her she recieved a prize of one on one runway coaching from J. Alexander a famous runway coach and judge for America's Next Top Model; Jenah was the first girl in Top Model history to ever get a one on one runway session with J. Alexander. During her season they took a trip to Shanghai & Beijing, China where she was amazed at it's futuristic lifestyle. She got the chance of a lifetime to be able to have her photograph taken in front of The Great Wall of China by Tyra Banks.
Modeling Career
Jenah never expressed wanting to be a model to any of her friends or members of her family, but she's always had a passion for acting and felt that she could also portray acting in modeling.
Jenah Doucette 18 years old (born 1988 in Farmington, Connecticut). She attended Farmington High School until Spring of 2006.
She's best known for her appearance of the CW Television series America's Next Top Model Cycle 9 in which the winner has not been announced yet. Making it as a finalist and brought to Los Angeles, California to compete for the grand prize of a contract with Elite Model Management, a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics, and cover a spread in Seventeen Magazine. She has 2 younger sisters whom which she strives to be a great example for them to look up to as she stated on a December 5th, 2007 episode of America's Next Top Model. She is said to be a quiet and laid back type of girl by classmates she attended High School with. Other classmates say they would have never expected her to do somethinghmmm like this but they do feel she looks very much like a model and feel she will succeed as a model. She is naturally a brunette but was given a bleach blonde hair color and extensions during the 3rd episode of America's Next Top Model. She is rumored to be 5'11 but has not been confirmed by her. She is now back at home with her family in Farmington.
America's Next Top Model
She was coaxed into auditioning for America's Next Top Model Cycle 9 by friends of hers as she said in a CW preshow interview. She auditioned in New York City, New York. She made it as a finalist on the show in summer of 2007 where she was brought to Los Angeles for filming. The show premiered in September of 2007. Jenah started the competition as one of the top girls being the first and only girl to receive 2 consecutive first call outs 2 weeks in a row. and still continued to push herself to do well despite being home sick. She intimidated many girls and seemed to be arrogant, but her friends from her hometown of Farmington say she's a completely different person when the cameras are off. In one episode after successfully completeing a challenge the best given to her she recieved a prize of one on one runway coaching from J. Alexander a famous runway coach and judge for America's Next Top Model; Jenah was the first girl in Top Model history to ever get a one on one runway session with J. Alexander. During her season they took a trip to Shanghai & Beijing, China where she was amazed at it's futuristic lifestyle. She got the chance of a lifetime to be able to have her photograph taken in front of The Great Wall of China by Tyra Banks.
Modeling Career
Jenah never expressed wanting to be a model to any of her friends or members of her family, but she's always had a passion for acting and felt that she could also portray acting in modeling.