Hare Krsna / Hare Rama!
Thank you Visvambara Das et al, (SEE LETTER BELOW)
KALA
15th - 18th June 2017
Thursday Evening - Reception: Temple Hosts (Eg. President, Harivilasa Das), Sesa Das (Rama-giridhari Das) Ministry of Education, Protocol Officer.
Friday Morning - Srimad Bhagavatam Class (???), Topic 1 - Chairman: HpSwami, "Philosophy and Strategy of Education with ISKCON" (Presentation about 20-minutes, Contribution Discussion from Everyone. Chairman and others can make the Presentation)
Topic 2 - Chairman: Visvambara Das (And one other?!), Early Education (Pre, Primary, Secondary)
Topic 3 - Chariman: Partha Das / Uttama Devi Dasi (Grhastha Vision Team), "Varna-ashrama Education, Preparing for Marriage, Preparing for Sannyasa"
Friday - Afternoon - Gay and Delightful Workshops to be decided. These of course can be topical groups such as Early Education, but they can also invite expert contributions eg. Early Education can Invite Sastric Education for 15-minutes.
Friday - Evening - Cultural - Entertainment. Suggested: "The Taming of the Shrew" with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, with short intro by HpS on Teaching and Shakespeare in the Guru-kula
Snore!!!!!!!!
Saturday
Srimad Bhagavatam (??? Maybe Vaisesika Das on line)
Topic 1 - Chairman: Radhika Raman Das - "Studying and Preaching in the University and Academic Environment". This will include reports of the incredible results. Orienting Early Education to send students on this route etc.
Topic 2 - Chairman: Hari-lila Das (HpS) - "Sastric Education". Report of Results in USA and World. Discussion of how this fits with other topics eg. Early Education.
Topic 3 - Chairman: Rama-giri-dhari Das (Ananta-rupa Das). "Education in with ISKCON in the Western Hemisphere - Building a Global System". This will include Latin American Devotees who will be involved with Tele-conferencing and a Simultaneous Translator.
Saturday Night - Cultural Program (???)
SUNDAY
Srimad Bhagavatam (??)
Breakfast of Fraternal Felicity
Closure Session with Summation and Action Items
NOTES: You can see that this is going to be a tight, intense, powerful program. We will need the Chairpeople to start collecting input, discussingn topics, so that this meeting is just a moderate part of the pre and post work.
We are available. We will be in Boise and San Jose the weeks before.
As an action item we would very much like to see the selection of an Editor for a Periodical: Education with ISKCON in the Western Hemisphere.
PURUSA
Who is joining?
Physically
Sesa Das, Rama giri dhari Das
Harivilasa Das, HpSwami, Seattle Devotees, Synergy School! Ananta-rupa Das
Visvambara Das, Gopi-gita, Subra DD, Dallas Gurukula,
Ananda Vrndavana DD, Hari-lila Das, Kartamasham, Uttama DD and Partha Das.
On-line:
Mother Aruddha Devi Dasi, Radhika-raman Das, Nitya-ananda Das Prabhu (Dallas, GBC North American Chairman), Srivasa Pandita Das (Sastric Education ISKCON Silicon Valley). Devotees from Latin America such as Candra-mukhi DD + Lalita-gopi DD (PhD both (Mexico Yatra)), Laksmana agraja Das (et al Peru), Jagat-guru Das, Param-padam Das, Baladeva Das, Mathuresa Das (GBS Zonal Supervisor) (Running Schools and Education in South America),
We will broadcast this schedule now and invite more participation on line. The connection, in the shadow of Micro-soft, should be excellent.
TRANSPORT AND ACCOMODATION
Temple can house 15-devotees in devotee homes:
We count -
HPS, RGD, SESA, Partha - Uttama, Kar, Vis, Subra, Gopi + Nitya, Hari-lila, Anantarupa, Ananda V Mataji. Any others?
That's thirteen.
Airport is like 45-minutes from the Temple.
HpS, Hari-lila Das, Anandavrndavana DD are arriving at Seattle airport from San Jose at 2.37PM on Delta 5738.
Please send your itenarary ASAP and try to combine things for easy travel.
FINAL WORDS
This program is about 51% organized, but we are all Brahmanas, right?
We have just brushed the surface describing the intense qualifications of the people coming and the programs that are in motion.
We hope that the sound of Krsna flute is everyone's dearmost companion during all these days!
HpS
<hr id="yiv3925766250yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494074583760_21617" size="1" />From: David Aguilera
To: 13- primary schools et al
Sent: Saturday, May 6, 2017 10:10 AM
Subject: ISKCON Ed Conference Agenda
Dear Friends,
Hare Krishna. I hope this email finds you all well.
Subhra and I had the opportunity to meet with Hanumatpresaka Maharaja by phone to discuss the upcoming ISKCON Education Conference in Seattle on June 15 - 18. The general agenda that is shaping up seems to be morning presentations with afternoon breakout sessions.
We want the time we spend in Seattle to be worthwhile. A thought Subhra and I had was for the school leaders to spend the afternoons together supporting each other by presenting relevant topics and sharing our experiences. The idea is for us to come away from the conference having had the opportunity to connect with each other and to bring back ideas from the discussions that we can use to help improve our schools.
I have put together a Google Sheet for us to start compiling what we want to talk about:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16gQ7WtbgyYaoLO5NG7GO4vNNwxOKL0ouGAAleHXfCCk/edit?usp=sharing
I encourage you to start plugging in topics as they come to mind. Don’t hesitate to duplicate topics that someone else already put in. If the same topic comes up multiple times, we will know this is something that should go to the top of the discussion list.
Another thing we want to have on the agenda is to allow time in the morning sessions for each of us to give presentations about our schools: introduction, history, current status, accomplishments, and challenges. Let me know if you are interested in doing a presentation, so I can work with Maharaja to put them in the morning agenda.
These are just some ideas. None are set in stone. Your thoughts on the formatting and how we best spend our time is much appreciated.
I am looking forward to finally getting together with all of you (knock on wood).
Yours in service,
Visvambhara Dasa
Head of School
Bhaktivedanta Academy
