THE LATEST NEWS: Ann Cook of New York's Urban Academy and the New York Performance Assessment Consortium, will moderate a panel of teachers speaking after the January 26th, 6pm screening at The Neighborhood School (PS 363) in Manhattan --our first New York City screening! That same night on the west coast the film will be screened atPacific University, and two days earlier, on January 24, at 7pm it will be at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina. »More News
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We have created a 4x6 card for use after screenings, titled IF AUGUST TO JUNE MADE YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING...download it here, and adapt it to your needs! CHECK THESE OUT: These four spots were made for the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action: Here's to the Teachers!, Here's to the Students!, Here's to the Parents!, and Here's to the Schools! Each one includes footage from AUGUST TO JUNE, as well as footage and photographs donated by teachers and documentarians from across the country.
AUGUST TO JUNE is
an 88 minute documentary celebrating values we are on the brink of losingin the single-minded pursuit of higher test scores!
Come inside a public school happily and purposefully going against current trends and join 26 8-10 year olds, their teacher, and their parents for a year bursting with opportunities for curiosity, creativity and compassion.
"...a flat out gorgeous, beautiful movie, a brilliant poem of childhoods in motion over time. Here it's impossible to lose sight of the kids or forget them after the film stops. They have signed the air with an individual presence that honors both the film and the education they are getting."
-- Jay Featherstone, author of Schools Where Children Learn and Dear Josie, emeritus faculty leader Michigan State University's acclaimed teacher education program
"It's one thing to deplore the assembly-line model of schooling with its emphasis on mindless compliance and rote memorization. Far more useful is to see the alternative take shape in front of you." -- Alfie Kohn, author of The Schools Our Children Deserve and other books
AUGUST TO JUNE: Bringing LIFE to School premiered January 27, 2011 at The Smith Rafael Film Center, the first film ever to be sponsored by the California Film Institute Education Program.
