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Originally conceived under a TEDx West Hollywood license as inspiration to change our fundamental value system to where mutual concern, as one humanity becomes our new worldview, a daylong program ultimately was presented under the auspice of Suzanne Taylor's Mighty Companions non-profit foundation. If you like what you see, please tell Chris@TED.com to help him understand the inappropriateness of TED's last-minute license cancellation for this uplifting program. For more: suespeaks.org/ex-tedx-west-hollywood.
Paul Cummins, a Los Angeles educator, was the Founder and Headmaster of the Crossroads School, and Founder of PS Arts and New Visions Foundation, where he currently is the Executive Director. He was the primary Founder of New Roads School and co-founder of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, the creator of CEO (Center for Educational Opportunity) which places foster children in independent schools, and the Founder of FHF (Families Helping Families), which redirects low-income families in life-changing directions. His publications include a booklet on Richard Wilbur, several articles on education, and "A Postcard From Bali," a collection of poetry, while his poems have appeared in The New Republic, Poetry LA, Whole Notes, Wild Bamboo Press, Bad Haircut Quarterly, Wordwrights, and Slant. He is the author of "Dachau Song: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper," "For Mortal Stakes: Solutions for Schools and Society," and "Keeping Watch: Reflections On American Culture, Education and Politics." He serves on the boards of trustees of the New Roads School, P.S. Arts, American Poetry Review, The Gabriela Axelrod Foundation, The Sam Francis Foundation, EXED, The Center for Innovative Education, Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, and the Los Angeles Academy for Arts and Enterprise.
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Originally conceived under a TEDx West Hollywood license as inspiration to change our fundamental value system to where mutual concern, as one humanity becomes our new worldview, a daylong program ultimately was presented under the auspice of Suzanne Taylor's Mighty Companions non-profit foundation. If you like what you see, please tell Chris@TED.com to help him understand the inappropriateness of TED's last-minute license cancellation for this uplifting program. For more: suespeaks.org/ex-tedx-west-hollywood.
Paul Cummins, a Los Angeles educator, was the Founder and Headmaster of the Crossroads School, and Founder of PS Arts and New Visions Foundation, where he currently is the Executive Director. He was the primary Founder of New Roads School and co-founder of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, the creator of CEO (Center for Educational Opportunity) which places foster children in independent schools, and the Founder of FHF (Families Helping Families), which redirects low-income families in life-changing directions. His publications include a booklet on Richard Wilbur, several articles on education, and "A Postcard From Bali," a collection of poetry, while his poems have appeared in The New Republic, Poetry LA, Whole Notes, Wild Bamboo Press, Bad Haircut Quarterly, Wordwrights, and Slant. He is the author of "Dachau Song: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper," "For Mortal Stakes: Solutions for Schools and Society," and "Keeping Watch: Reflections On American Culture, Education and Politics." He serves on the boards of trustees of the New Roads School, P.S. Arts, American Poetry Review, The Gabriela Axelrod Foundation, The Sam Francis Foundation, EXED, The Center for Innovative Education, Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, and the Los Angeles Academy for Arts and Enterprise.
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