{"id":400,"date":"2016-03-09T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aas.ru\/director\/?p=400"},"modified":"2016-03-09T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:35:00","slug":"newsletter-march-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter – March 9 – International Women’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

We hope you all enjoyed your\u00a0special holiday weekend with family during our extended days. I find that we sometimes\u00a0forget the meaning behind holidays, so I wanted to make sure that we remind ourselves of the significance of International Women’s Day. \u00a0In this year, it is particularly poignant that we consider the roots of this special occasion and recognize Russia as one of the early founders of this date, with their\u00a0own special context for\u00a0its significance. \u00a0Their adoption of March 8th in 1917 is now broadly adopted throughout the world and particularly so when the United Nations called on all countries\u00a0to adopt the date in 1977. \u00a0I remember with fondness our own students who put together Girl Rising<\/a> just over two years ago as an extension of this theme. \u00a0I was very proud of their work and the inspiration it provided to\u00a0all of our students. \u00a0In the\u00a0short time since Girl Rising, we continue to see tremendous movement in the sphere of gender equality that has outpaced many of the decades prior. \u00a0I doubt that our students two years ago would have expected that we would see\u00a0the growing number\u00a0of female leaders<\/a> in countries around the world, many ascending to power in the most recent decade. \u00a0We see evidence all around us that the last vestiges of discrimination are being uncovered, and gender discrimination in particular has been a focus of attention. \u00a0But, the work is far from complete until we fully level\u00a0the playing field across all lines of diversity. \u00a0I have challenged staff to recommit themselves to this topic\u00a0throughout the school in honor of this year’s International Women’s Day. \u00a0As a school that values tolerance\u00a0and respect, we must hold these holidays in high regard as they remind us of the core tenets of our mission and vision — for ourselves and for the world.<\/p>\n

Director’s Challenge<\/h2>\n

The challenge is working its way toward deadline next week and the donations are coming in as expected from\u00a0our supportive and engaged community. \u00a0There are still positions available and the printed recognition poster leaves with me next week to adorn the walls of each of our three projects in Africa — and beyond.\u00a0 I’m ready to speak on behalf of the community of AAS\u00a0and the supporters that stand beside me in recognizing this important work. \u00a0Don’t miss out on having your name on this year’s challenge. Call me directly if you have any questions. (+7 495 231 4481) The paypal link for donations is still: \u00a0Director\u2019s Challenge<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0If you’d like to make a payment to the AAS cashier, the donation form can be found\u00a0<\/span>here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We hope you all enjoyed your\u00a0special holiday weekend with family during our extended days. I find that we sometimes\u00a0forget the meaning behind holidays, so I wanted to make sure that we remind ourselves of the significance of International Women’s Day. \u00a0In this year, it is particularly poignant that we consider the roots of this special […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}