Foodie Finds

This week's foodie feature highlights some choice restaurants from recent travels:

Brasserie V - one of the most consistently excellent and unpretentious restaurants in town - Madison, Wisconsin
Forbes Mill Steakhouse - power dinner spot if Manresa breaks the bank - Los Gatos, California
New Heights - new chef is taking old restaurant to new heights - Washington, DC
Phoenix - best dim sum in Chicago? - Chicago, Illinois
Publican - taking the gastropub concept to an exalted level - Chicago, Illinois

Past Foodie Finds.

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Teacher Voices: The VIVA Project

The VIVA Project is a new initiative that gives teachers an opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and inform education policy and reform conversations at the state and national levels. VIVA stands for Voices, Ideas, Vision, Action.

The Goal of the VIVA Project is to identify ideas and opinions straight from the classroom, work together to create actionable policies to improve public education for classroom teachers and their students, and deliver them directly to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

Teachers are encouraged to share their ideas in both the national and New York idea mines. Register today! And check out its Facebook page, too. You have until October 10, 2010 to add your voice to the conversation.

Other notables initiatives in a similar vein include Teach PLUS, the Teacher Leaders Network and the Hope Street Group's Policy 2.0.

The VIVA Project is a worthy addition to an education reform marketplace that too often ignores and discounts the thoughts and ideas of actual classroom teachers. Kudos to Secretary Duncan for being willing to listen.

Check out the embedded video to learn more about the VIVA Project:

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Foodie Finds

In an effort to spice up this blog a bit, we'll tap into the Optimists' foodie inclinations by periodically featuring some choice restaurants and food-related businesses.

This week we feature some frozen favorites:

Capogiro Gelato - world-class gelato in the cradle of liberty - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Chocolate Shoppe - satisfies our craving in & around Mad-town - Madison, Wisconsin
Michael's Frozen Custard - a twist on ice cream, with eggs + cream & sugar -- Madison, Wisconsin
Sebastian Joe's - ice cream can't taste much better than this - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Toscanini's - NY Times calls it "the best ice cream in the world" - Cambridge, Massachusetts

What and where are some of your favorite?

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