Come to this FREE film screening of Beyond Measure, a film challenging the assumptions of our current education system.
More about the
film:
Every day we hear stories about America’s troubled education system. And we’re told that in order to fix what’s broken, we need to narrow our curricula, standardize our classrooms, and find new ways to measure students and teachers. But what if these “fixes” are making our schools worse.
In Beyond Measure, we set out to challenge the assumptions of our current education story.
Rather than ask why our students fail to measure up, this film asks us to reconsider the greater purpose of education. What if our education system valued personal growth over test scores? Put inquiry over mimicry? Encouraged passion over rankings? What if we decided that the higher aim of school was not the transmission of facts or formulas, but the transformation of every student? And what if this paradigm-shift was driven from the ground up? By students, parents, and educators? By all of us?
In Beyond Measure, we find a revolution brewing in public schools across the country. From rural Kentucky to New York City, schools that are breaking away from an outmoded, test-driven education are shaping a new vision for our classrooms. These are schools that see critical thinking, communication, exploration, experimentation, collaboration, and creativity as the key to good education. And they are dramatically improving outcomes for children of all backgrounds. They are schools where practically every student graduates and goes on to finish college.
Beyond Measure offers a positive picture of what’s possible in American education when communities decide they are ready for change. Are you?
Join Food First every third Wednesday of each month for their community meeting. This meeting is open to everyone who wants to learn or help with food injustices on a local and global level. This month’s topic is Dismantling Racism in the Food System.
The internationally renowned dance troupe DANCE MONKS, will be transforming La Peña into a mythical world of tlaoli ( Nahuatl for corn). The audience will be immersed by all five senses as the artists use interdisciplinary mediums to look at corn as essential to Mexican cultural identity; the mythic relationship between people and plants, traditional sacred farming, foods and agricultural rituals.
essential to Mexican cultural identity; the mythic relationship between people and plants, traditional sacred farming, foods and agricultural rituals. In poetic response to current US anti-immigration politics and the infamous big business takeover of agriculture with GMOs, DANCE MONKS invites the public to an experiential, site-specific installation and performance.
As part of a year-long artist residency at La Peña, DANCE MONKS will “curate” a series of community marketplaces and Open House gatherings at La Peña. The gatherings celebrate the migration of people and their “daily, living cultures” as People of the Corn. All are free and open to the public with delicious authentic Mexican food, street performances, family workshops by La Peña artists, art and traditional crafts. 
