Category: Organization Management

  • Mid November NYC: Covid Spikes Again

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    I get it. Things have been overwhelming. We’ve got ongoing election-related news: “President Donald Trump appeared on Sunday to acknowledge losing the U.S. election but then backtracked and said he concedes “nothing,” while President-elect Joe Biden focused on tackling the coronavirus pandemic and set meetings with pharmaceutical companies developing vaccines.” (https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election/trump-still-refusing-to-concede-to-biden-inflaming-supporters-and-delaying-transition-idUSKBN27T0IQ) and “Zuckerberg was asked…

  • Election Week Content

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    Here’s what I’ve been sending to the folks who have been asking: Planning: https://truthout.org/audio/planning-for-disaster-a-writing-exercise/, this guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KcQmN0ZnSldZfFo_TW5zOXpp1nx9CYlUwvnrfezzrNQ/edit?usp=drivesdk and this podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/6zlWrWcDX7HjTMiyI0qmQB?si=HjnGeNqFR7KZMJhnbtYZdw Recording of a de-escalation training https://www.afsc.org/action/prepare-and-breathe-bystander-intervention-and-de-escalation-training?submit=Register+now and a street medic guide to protest first aid https://www.paperrevolution.org/street-medic-guide/  Masha Gessen talking with Anand Giridharadas about “Surviving Autocracy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbYtnndsS5E, this brilliant panel on “Abolition on Stolen Land”…

  • Covid Plan Update Research, part 1

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    So in light of New York City’s new “covid zone’s” micro-cluster approach to pandemic management, I need to re-write the Agile Learning Center’s plan for operations this year. I published the plan in July, knowing that parents would feel better with *something* concrete heading into the school year rather than having plans unknown and changing…

  • October 26, 2020 Covid Zones Update

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    Since my last DOH update — an email about the introduction of “Zones” and their implications for NYC schools like the Agile Learning Center — I’d been watching the news for updates on transparency about what criteria move an area into or out of a zone designation. I’d also been keeping an eye on general…

  • What is a cluster? A hotspot? A zone?

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    Last Tuesday, October 6th, I wrote about the city’s early experiments with targeting zip codes for covid-restrictions was going over in relation to the school I run. On October 8th, borough president Gale Brewer’s newsletter noted (again) an increase in cases then added a note that experts are advising using seven-day averages, which that day…