Category: Speeches and Presentations

Schools are centers of education, yet all too often, violence and disrespect interrupt student learning and teacher instruction. On July 31, 2006 the Thomas Jefferson Area Community Criminal Justice Board and Central Virginia Restorative Justice sponsored a presentation given by Joseph Roy, the principal at Springfield Township High School just outside Philadelphia. Roy highlights the strategies undertaken in Springfield Township High School, which integrated restorative practices in 2001-2002.

This is the second of a two part podcast. This part features the question and answer period. The first part features Mr. Roy’s main presentation.

The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression is the group behind the recent installation of the Community Chalkboard and Podium on the downtown mall. The Chalkboard is the setting for a new lecture series, and we bring you now the inaugural event with radio essayist Janis Jaquith. Thanks to Lydia Wilson for recording this event.

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Schools are centers of education, yet all too often, violence and disrespect interrupt student learning and teacher instruction. On July 31, 2006 the Thomas Jefferson Area Community Criminal Justice Board and Central Virginia Restorative Justice sponsored a presentation given by Joseph Roy, the principal at Springfield Township High School just outside Philadelphia. Roy highlights the strategies undertaken in Springfield Township High School, which integrated restorative practices in 2001-2002.

This is the first of a two part podcast. In part one we’ll hear Mr. Roy’s comments on Restorative Practices. In part two, we’ll listen to questions from the attendees, followed by Mr. Roy’s comments…

On Monday August 7, the Charlottesville City Council heard from David Slutzky, member of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and the acting chair of the Metropolitan Planning Organization. Slutzky was there to advocate for the creation of a new regional transportation authority. Charlottesville Tomorrow was there to record, and presents this podcast.

The Rutherford Institute is a non-profit legal organization “dedicated to the defense of civil liberties and human rights.” Rutherford lawyers represent people who feel their constitutional rights have been threatened. But, Rutherford also has an educational mission as well, and offers a speaker series. Kent Willis of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia gave a two-hour presentation talk this week.

John Whitehead is a frequent guest on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. He was most recently a guest on June 29.

On Saturday, March 25, 2006, the online journal Archipelago sponsored a conversation at the Virginia Festival of the Book with the historians Barbara Clark Smith and Mark McGarvie. Katherine McNamara was moderator.

Mark McGarvie is the author of One Nation Under Law: America’s Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History. He received the J.D. and Ph.D. from Indiana University and is adjunct professor at University of Richmond. He specializes in early American intellectual and legal history.

Barbara Clark Smith is a curator at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, where she specializes in the history of politics and movements for reform. She has curated major exhibitions at the National Museum, and is working on a book on the topic of forms of liberty enjoyed by subjects of the British monarchy in 18th-century North America that became unavailable to citizens under the new United States in the 19th century, to be called The Freedomes We Lost: A History of Consent in Revolutionary America.

Katherine McNamara is Editor and Publisher of Archipelago.

The Virginia Festival of the Book is a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. For more podcasts from the 2006 festival, visit the U.Va Podcast site.

Political reporter Bob Gibson of the Charlottesville Daily Progress was the guest at the July 15 Democratic Breakfast. He spoke candidly about his long tenure at the paper, the news business, and the upcoming election. This may be a long podcast, but listening will give you great insight into what’s happening in the Democratic party as it seeks to turn around recent political fortunes. Bob talks for the first fifteen minutes and then opens it up to questions.

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CPN is an aggregator of podcasts from in and around Charlottesville. We post about a dozen or so pieces a week, from everything from public lectures to call-in shows like WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. To make sure you don’t miss anything, subscribe to the show for free in iTunes. This will automatically download everything posted here into your iTunes folder. Listen on your computer, or take CPN with you on the road.