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Meet Ms Corsello: Emerson Middle school changemaker! LONg overdue recognition towards #SLURP and more!

1/20/2020

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GGPR: ​Do you see important connections with the role you play in our community and our future on this planet? 

Ms Corsello: As a technology elective teacher at Emerson Middle School, I teach over 400 6th, 7th, and 8th graders a year. In two of my classes, Multimedia Magic and Broadcasting, students are able to choose from a variety of short video project assignments. I’ve found great value in providing my students with an authentic audience by publishing their video projects on my teacher YouTube channel, https://youtube.com/MsCorsello. Many of the videos also make it onto our live video announcements, which airs on Fridays during homeroom. 

My goal is to engage and empower learners by providing student choice (see the learning menu and choice board linked above). One of the projects that students can choose to create is an environmental public service announcement. There are over 30 videos ranging from recycling misconceptions to deforestation in the
Environmental PSA playlist. These videos serve as a tool to inform the community about environmental issues and persuade them to take action. 

My students and I have teamed up with Go Green Park Ridge to spread the word about various initiatives. In the spring 2019, Amy Bartucci visited my classroom to inform us about GGPR’s Straws Literally Upon Request Policy (#SLURP) initiative. Students worked in groups to create promotional videos to be shown during D64’s Go Green Week April 15-19th. In the fall, a broadcasting class news team filmed an interview with GGPR’s mother and daughter team, Catherine and Annie McDonough, in our digital media lab on the essential question, “What impact would a ban on plastic straws have on the ecosystem?”. We look forward to continuing our relationship with GGPR - when we work together we can have a greater impact! 

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Meet Reese RaNTA: administrator for the Buy Nothing Project Park Ridge (South) - OUR JANUARY 2020 CHANGEMAKER

1/5/2020

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GGPR: Do you see important connections with the role you play in our community and our future on this planet?

Reese: I am so excited to share information about the Buy Nothing Project Park Ridge (South). The Buy Nothing Project is a grass-roots-volunteer driven project started by two Washington State residents in July 2013 and has reached over 30 nations. The rules of the Facebook-based group are simple, “Post anything you’d like to give away, lend, or share amongst neighbors. Ask for anything you’d like to receive for free or borrow. Keep it legal. Keep it civil. No buying or selling, no trades or bartering, we’re strictly a gift economy.”

I am so fortunate to be the administrator for the Buy Nothing Project Park Ridge (South). By leading this group, I’m hoping to encourage community, recycling/repurposing, and rethinking the need to buy new. I want to facilitate the building of close friendships in the small neighborhood of the Buy Nothing community. The type of neighbor friendship where you would go knock on the door if you need an egg to make the cake you already started.

I believe we will see two major outcomes of this group: 1. A cleaner planet because we are reusing, recycling and reducing our waste and members are more aware of creating a greener community. 2. A stronger community and friendship among neighbors in a small local area who will continue to support the mission of the Buy Nothing Project.  


The Buy Nothing Project creates small hyperlocal gift giving economies and so Park Ridge is split into two different groups, North and South. The boundaries of the South group are Busse Hwy and Touhy Ave on the North, Canfield Ave and S Merrill St on the East, Higgins on the south and Des Plaines River and North Talcott on the west.

Currently, there is still opportunity for someone to create and administer a Buy Nothing Project Park Ridge (North) group! 

​If you are interested, please see more information about the project at the website below! 
You will also find a button to link you to Facebook if interested in the South group.

Buy Nothing Project Park Ridge (South)
Buy Nothing Project Website
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