Addition to list: 10% off at Pizza Palace

Douglas Anderson School of the Arts’ Issue-Based Theatre students participated in a Flash Mob during lunch to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Theatre instructor Bonnie Harrison coordinated the Flash Mob. Students around the cafeteria froze in place before suddenly standing and creating a tableau that brought attention to the values which Dr. King advocated.

Students were able to sign a banner which read, “We Have a Dream.” They wrote messages on the banner describing their own dreams and motivations. Several student participants stood up to display words such as ‘equality,’ ‘justice’ and ‘coexist.’

Several news stations were present at the Flash Mob as the students paid tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in an interesting manner.

Changes to DA’s Tardy Tracking System has been made in an effort to save money and be more effective, while keeping students in class. It is important to note that the policy has not changed, merely the procedure.

Consequences assigned will continue to be based on the Student Code of Conduct. The primary difference is that teachers will now mark tardies in OnCourse, rather than having students report to the Deans’ Office for a tardy pass. This will allow parents/ guardians to view tardies on OnCourse on a daily basis and at their convenience.

If a student is more than 10 minutes late to class, he/she will be required to go to the Deans’ Office to receive a pass.  The Deans’ will determine if the tardy is excused or not.

If a student is more than 20 minutes late to class and without an excused pass from the Deans’ Office, he/she will be marked absent for that class period.

FYI – Consequences (which will remain the same) are as follows:

1-4^th – Teacher warning – Future Oncourse message home

5^th – Parent Link message called home

6^th – Ater-School Detention (ASD)  – Entered into Genesis as a code 1.05 (excessive tardies) and counts as a referral on student’s record.

7^th – 2 ASDs

8^th – Saturday Detention

9^th – ISSP

10 or more – ISSP and Parent Intervention

If you have questions, please contact the Deans’ Office at 346-5620 ext. 246.

Make checks payable to Herff Jones.

Do not include cap and gown rental fee! (That is covered in senior fee.)

February 18

Gallery Open, 6:30 p.m

Performance, 7:30 p.m.

Moran Theatre, T-U Center for the Performing Arts

Ann’s husband, Ted, has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts Foundation. Please mail donations to:  

Douglas Anderson School of the Arts
c/o Jackie Cornelius
2445 San Diego Road
Jacksonville, FL  32207

Thank you for your kind consideration.

Cassandra Freeman, Douglas Anderson Class of 1998, is starring in a new feature film, KINYARWANDA, which will open in limited release on Friday, December 2.  The film’s production company has issued the following press release and the film’s trailer can be viewed at the following link: http://www.hulu.com/watch/295935/kinyarwanda

PRESS RELEASE

AFFRM, the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement, is pleased to announce that it will open its second film, KINYARWANDA, in theaters on Friday, December 2 in eight cities nationwide. 

 KINYARWANDA will be released in AFFRM’s founding markets: New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Seattle.  In addition, three new opening week cities have been added: Chicago, Washington DC and San Francisco.

Writer/director Alrick Brown’s compelling feature directorial debut garnered the Sundance Film Festival 2011 Audience Award in the World Cinema Drama category this year, and captured the Grand Prize at the lauded Skip City Film Festival in Japan last week.

In KINYARWANDA, a young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man fall in love amidst chaos, a soldier struggles with being absent from her family to foster a greater good, and a priest grapples with his faith in the face of unspeakable horror.  The Hollywood Reporter stated, “Brown presents these personal and heartbreaking stories with steadfast compassion.”

AFFRM is a collaborative theatrical distribution entity powered by the nation’s finest black film organizations.  The founding organizations are Urbanworld Film Festival with Imagenation in New York, BronzeLens Film Festival in Atlanta, ReelBlack Film Series in Philadelphia and Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival in Seattle.  For its second release, AFFRM is pleased to welcome the DuSable Museum of African-American History in Chicago and the Black Cinema at Large Film Series in San Francisco.  AFFRM’s inaugural release was the award-winning film, I WILL FOLLOW, which opened March 2011 in more than 20 cities during its seven week run.