Donation Programs at Super School Software and Kids Talk Radio
Kids Talk Radio Donation Program
Kids Talk Radio Jobs for Kids Donation Program
Creative Ways to Find Jobs for Kids
Super School Software is in
the business of creating custom teacher and student productivity tool for
special education and gifted education.Super School Software acts as an educational reseller for other
companies.We dedicate our
funds to helping others.In
addition, Super School Software sells books and book support workbooks and
software.
At present, we are helping
to create jobs for our youth through Kids Talk Radio and Youth World NewsThis summer, we are working with the Long Beach
GRIP Communications Sub Committee to provide summer jobs for 8 Long Beach
high school students.Kids Talk Radio together with the Ice
Axe Corp. donated 300 soccer uniforms to the country of Cabo Verde.These are our charitable outreach organizations and we want to create more jobs for our youth.Our partners in Canada, the band The Magical
Bunch are getting ready to help the War Child Foundation by donating a theme
song to help raise funds. In addition, we have adopted The Magical Bunch founder, composer and producer Iggy Ryangoma to write songs for the Kids Talk Radio Fundraising Projects. Bob Barboza and Iggy Ryangoma are working on a fundraising project called an African Jazz Opera based on Ryangoma's new book "Trial by Sound."
The Book: Trial by Sound
Trial by Sound
Having been held at gunpoint on four
different occasions during the three months of pure hell in the Rwandan Capital
Kigali in 1994, music producer/composer Iggy Ryangoma escaped the war and
miraculously ended up in Boston, Massachusetts to attend the prestigious
Berklee College of Music on Fulbright scholarship. He soon realized that the
war had spared his life but heavily damaged his emotional being. He spent the
following decade fighting to regain his love for music and his passion for
philosophy.
"Trial by Sound" recounts Ryangoma's
experiences, including the long walk from Kigali to Congo, the worst moments of
his struggle against post-traumatic stress and the lessons he learned from his
ordeal. "Despite everything I went through, I still see myself as the happiest
man alive. Although so much has been taken from me, I always think about those
who never made it, and those who still live in constant fear and uncertainty."
He said. Having worked as both a journalist for the Rwandese National Radio and
as an interpreter for the United Nations, he also offers certain insights in
the events that led to the genocide and encourages the next generation to learn
from the past to put an end to the cycle of violence. "Africa gave me the sound
of music and then she took it away by the sound of a machine gun. All I can do
it to give her more music as long as my soul will keep fighting to create more
music." He writes.
The Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project
Welcome to the Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project.
This project is our way of motivating students from around the world to collaborate on America's STEM Program. The STEM Program is all about getting students to focus on getting better at science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project is our creative way of having our students and teachers focus on building an island from the ground up. We have dedicated websites and built new custom software for iPhones, iPads, iTouches, Mac's, PC's and the Internet. Our students work as paid interns. We are working with teachers,students, business leaders and community members from the US and the Cabo Verde Islands.
We are looking for companies, organizations and individuals to help sponsor a youth in one of our intern programs. We are also in need of used science equipment, digital cameras , digital voice recorders, Portuguese translations, and educators that work in the field of science and mathematics.
We are creating journalism
jobs for kids.Here is how it
works.When a student writes a
story that we can publish on Kids Talk Radio, we send that student a check for
ten dollars.The program is that
simple.It is our Kids Talk Radio
Job Stimulus program.We encourage
teachers and parents and others to work with kids to turn in the very best
story free from errors.Your story
is going to be on Kids Talk Radio and we want you to do the best job possible.
This is our high
motivational way of helping kids that are in public and private schools.We have opened this new program up to
students that are being homeschooled.
Children that are on the
Cabo Verde Islands are welcome to join our high motivational writing
program.Our goal is to give kids
a reason to write.Kids Talk Radio
is that reason.
Once your story has been
approved for payment, we will ask you to read it to us over the phone or record
yourself on your computer or with one of your MP3 tape recorders.All stories can be MP3, MP4, or any
computer audio file.If you have a
problem or question in this area send your e-mail to Suprschool@aol.com.
Talking about
fundraising.We need your
help.Ten dollars gets a kid a
job.Our country is in rough shape
right now.When we send a kid a
check for ten dollars that ends up being ten dollars that he or she does not
have to ask the family for.In our
own small way we are helping an American family directly.Everyone wins.We get a great story from a kid that we
can share with you.The youngster
gets ten dollars and is excited about learning.The family is uplifted is a small but powerful way.
How can you help?
We are looking for new and
used tape recorders for kids, digital cameras, and cash to hire student
journalists.Most of our students
are in grades 3 through 8 and 9 through 12.
Send a donation to Kids Talk
Radio Fund /BobBarboza.
Beyond the Basics: Super Subs Bring the Arts to
Underserved Kids
This article was first published on the George Lucas, "Edutopia" website. It was written by Elizabeth Crane. Lauren Elliott of PNN News was on hand to help with photography along with the PNN Staff.
This is part of a special program to help school principals. When the Super Subs take over a school for a day, the principal can meet with teachers to plan for the upcoming school year. This extra planning time is important when school are having difficulty reaching academic yearly goals under "No Child Left Behind". Bob Barboza wanted to find a creative way to help schools directly. He felt that the best way was to roll up your sleeves and get involved in the classrooms where all the action is. This type of project gives communities members a first hand look at what it is to teach these days. The Super Subs is a great program and we need your support to keep sending Super Subs to help teachers. If you want to make a donation, please contact Bob Barboza at Suprschool@aol.com. or Call (562) 221-1780 Cell. For more information about the Super Subs visit.
Beyond the Basics: Super Subs Bring the Arts to
Underserved Kids
These unusual substitute teachers offer a day of curriculum-expanding
fun to schools -- free.
by Elizebth Crane
School of Rock:
Professional drummer and drum
instructor Ronnie Ciago is up on the stage of the Little Theater at La Puente
High School, in La Puente, California, near Los Angeles. Without preamble, he
sits down at his drum set and runs through a crashing, rocking riff that stuns
to silence the twenty or so kids in the class.
When he stops, the kids whistle, whoop,
and clap. As the noise dies down, Ciago's colleague, Bob Barboza, begins his
lesson on world rhythms, with Ciago poised to demonstrate.
Not Your Average Substitutes
If this doesn't sound like a typical
class, that's because it isn't. These aren't your typical teachers; they are
substitutes. And they aren't your typical substitute teachers, either --
they're Super Subs.
The brainchild of Barboza, a retired
teacher, the Super Subs program is a way to bring arts and music to underserved
students. Barboza recruited a group of friends -- some of whom once played
together in a semiprofessional band -- to be the subs. At first, the idea was
to give back to schools in the community where they all grew up. But after
experiencing success at their local schools, they decided to take their show on
the road.
Here's how it works: Barboza and the
twenty other musicians, artists, writers, and designers he's recruited take
over classes for the day. They teach their own brand of music, art, writing,
journalism, and self-esteem. The visits don't cost schools a dime. The Personal News Network, a social-media
Web site run by one of the Super Subs, picks up the tab, and most of the Super
Subs volunteer their time. (Find out how to bring the Super Subs to your school
by visiting the Super Subs page at the
Personal News Network.)
An Antidote to Teaching to the Test
The day the Super Subs visit La Puente
starts like any other. All the students attend their usual first-period
classes. For the hundred or so kids in the school's Multilingual Academy (for
English-language learners) and Folklorico programs, though, everything changes
when the second-period bell rings. Their teachers have arranged a Super Sub day
for them.
Chorus Line:
Students and teachers sing and dance as
the Super Subs rock the crowd at a midday concert.
Credit: Lauren Elliott
They meet the day's ten visiting Super
Subs in the auditorium for an orientation and introductions, then head to
classes held in the theater, the library, and three classrooms. While Barboza
is investigating rhythms, a professional dancer and choreographer from Las
Vegas is teaching street moves in the auditorium. In a classroom between the
two, a guitar-playing sub talks about math and music while another, a
professional motivational speaker, winds up the class by talking about dreams
and aspirations.
English teacher Noel Martinez says the
Super Subs' visit is a treat for his English-language learners, who are liable
to think of school as something to endure rather than enjoy. "It brings in
different voices, showing them that other professions are available to
them," he explains. "It's not coming from their regular teachers, and
it's not from their parents, so maybe they'll listen."
"It takes a variety of media to
reach everyone -- we just have to find the right hook," comments Nancy
Gibson, the teacher responsible for the Super Subs's La Puente visit. "Our
kids don't necessarily get experiences like this. You know how when you think
back to high school, there were a few days when something happened that you
really remember as being great? I want this to be one of those days for these
kids."
Students Find Their Voices
Two doors down from the motivational
speaker, Super Sub Caren Singer is instructing her students to write. She gives
them blank journals and tells them to write something every day. When this
direction gets a lukewarm response, she asks them, "Who here has
experienced terror?" Ernesto, a junior in a bright blue shirt, is the only
one to raise his hand.
When she asks what it was like, he
speaks down to the table, but she hears him and shouts, "Yes! It made you
feel cold, and your throat closed up, and you couldn't speak or move.
Yes!" When she adds, "One time, I was so scared I peed my
pants," a ripple of amusement passes through the room.
She hands around bottles of scent and
asks the students to think of words they associate with the smell. "Think
of a season, think of a color, think of a sound," she exhorts. As the kids
call out words, she writes them on the board.
A smart aleck at the back of the room
says, "Underwear," making everyone snicker, but Singer just responds
with a serious tone, "That's brilliant, very creative, good." Not
getting a rise out of her, the would-be joker gives up and gets back on task.
Once she has the lists of words for the
various scents on the board, Singer asks the students to put the words together
into a poem. Embarrassed grumbling results. "Trust yourself," she
says. "There is no right or wrong." When she reads out the poems the
students have written, the Super Sub exclaims over each unusual juxtaposition.
By the time the class is over, most of the kids are writing, writing, writing,
and they want to show her everything they've written.
When the bell rings, Singer returns to
her stated objective for the class: "I would like you to walk out of here
today with a vision of yourself as a writer." As they each clutch a
journal and file out to the next Super Sub class, it's possible that's exactly what
the students are thinking.
Later, after a lunchtime concert by the
Super Subs that leaves the impressed students asking for autographs, Ernesto --
the student who spoke up during Singer's writing class -- reflects on the
experience. "My dad is a janitor at UCLA," he says, "but I want
to do something better, do well in school and go to college."
The message of the day, that you can
achieve what you aspire to achieve, is not news to him, but he says the way it
was presented was entirely different. "They did it with music and it was .
. . wow," he states. "This is the first time in three years here I've
seen anything like this." Then he smiles widely and adds, as though he
invented the idea, "You learn better when you're having fun."
Elizabeth Crane is a
freelance writer in San Francisco who writes about many things, including
education, parenting, technology, and food.
