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Jamie Vollmer speaking at Brunswick High School

When
13 Sep 2011
7:00 PM
Location
Brunswick High School

Brunswick School Department hosting author, businessman, and nationally renown speaker Jamie Vollmer at Brunswick High School on Tuesday, September 13^th, at 7 p.m. in Crooker Theater.

Free Admission for the public. for this special evening with author, speaker, and supporter of public education, Mr. Jamie Vollmer. In his recent book, Schools Cannot Do It Alone, he tells of his extraordinary journey though the land of public education. Once a harsh critic, he has become an award-winning advocate and trusted partner of America’s public schools. As a former businessman and President of the Great Midwestern Ice Cream Company in Iowa, People Magazine proclaimed that his company made the “Best Ice Cream in America!.”

His encounters with blueberries, bell curves, and smelly eighth graders led him to two critical discoveries. First, we have a systems problem, not a people problem. We must change the system to get the graduates we need. Second, we cannot touch the system without touching the culture of the surrounding town; everything that goes on inside a school is tied to local attitudes, values, traditions, and beliefs.

Mr. Vollmer is the 2010 recipient of the Learning and Liberty Award presented annually by the National Public Relations Association in recognition of outstanding efforts to strengthen school/community relationships. Drawing on his work in hundreds of districts, Mr. Vollmer offers teachers, administrators, board members, and their allies a practical program to secure the understanding, trust, permission, and support they need to change the system and increase student success.

BRUNSWICK DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION
85 Maine Street
P.O. Box 15
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 729-4439
info@brunswickdowntown.org

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