PAYINGïTRIBUTE - Operation Respect
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Who We Are<br />
Message From Chair<br />
Message From President and Founder<br />
Year In Review<br />
Special Thanks<br />
Funders<br />
Statement of Financial Position<br />
Statement of Activities<br />
Staff/Trainers/Board of Directors<br />
Photo Gallery<br />
COVER PHOTOGRAPH FROM A TRIBUTE TO THE<br />
TEACHERS OF AMERICA, COURTESY OF ROBERT CORWIN
<strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> is a non-profit educational and<br />
advocacy organization dedicated to transforming<br />
schools, camps and other youth-serving<br />
organizations into more compassionate, safe and<br />
respectful environments. Founded in 1999 by<br />
Peter Yarrow of the famed folk trio, Peter Paul and<br />
Mary, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> advocates for educational<br />
excellence and the healthy development of<br />
children and youth in all areas of their growth. To<br />
help accomplish its mission, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong><br />
disseminates its own educational program, “Don’t<br />
Laugh At Me,” that provides effective tools for<br />
establishing a caring climate in which the emotional<br />
and physical abuse children suffer because of<br />
peer ridicule, bullying and other asocial behaviors<br />
is far less likely to occur.<br />
<br />
The mission of <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> is to create<br />
respectful, safe and compassionate climates of<br />
learning, free of bullying, ridicule and violence.<br />
<br />
Our vision is a world in which the education<br />
of children and youth will focus equally on the<br />
development of their character as well as academic<br />
growth so that they evolve into productive,<br />
compassionate and civically engaged members of<br />
society.<br />
<br />
We believe that children and youth must be educated<br />
so that they honor and respect themselves<br />
and others. They must learn to resolve conflict<br />
peacefully. We must reach the hearts, as well as<br />
the minds, of children, youth, their educators and<br />
parents – and use the creative arts combined<br />
with effective pedagogical approaches to do so.<br />
The success of <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> is measured in<br />
attitudinal and behavioral changes on the part of<br />
children, youth and society.
I have always said, throughout the years of <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> (OR) and previously,<br />
in my decade-long tenure as head of curriculum and instruction at the New York City<br />
Board of Education, that if educators could “open the hearts of children, their minds,<br />
and intellect, would follow.” It is with this perspective that I committed myself to<br />
helping create OR in 1999, and since then I have watched as our efforts, and those<br />
of many others, helped open hearts, then minds, across the United States and<br />
beyond.<br />
Last year OR continued to bolster its outreach efforts for its primary areas of focus: advocating for<br />
improvement of school and classroom climates and the implementing of OR’s “Don’t Laugh At Me”<br />
character development, social and emotional learning program. In many important ways we were able to<br />
deliver on the promise of our mission to a greater number of school-age children then ever before.<br />
Critical to our success was our ability to engage and motivate the growing consensus among educators who<br />
supported our premise: the priority of creating a safe, caring school climate. With pride, we realized that we<br />
had played an important part in advancing that advocacy in the educational field. Further, we realized that<br />
we could leverage OR’s reputation to bring together like-minded educational organizations to effect<br />
changes in educational policy – a practice that coincided with our philosophy and mission. Combining<br />
our organizational efforts could more rapidly bring us closer to a time in which all practitioners and school<br />
administrators, as well as elected officials, local, state, and national, would address school and classroom<br />
climate as a top priority.<br />
To achieve this goal, OR reached out to the many organizations that had invited Peter and me, and our<br />
leadership, to speak and present workshops at their annual meetings. Over forty organizations agreed to<br />
participate in a series of gatherings that soon evolved into the United Voices for Education (UVE), a coalition<br />
of national organizations that have a strong educational advocacy agenda.<br />
UVE emerged as a watershed for the creation of broad-based advocacy for the improvement of<br />
education through change of policy and practice, a safe and trusted place to advance the educational<br />
dialogue in America, and the only national coalition dedicated solely to advancing whole child education,<br />
which focuses on providing all children a learning environment that is safe, respectful and bully-free.<br />
OR and its sister coalition organization, UVE, are reflecting my earliest convictions as an educator, dedicated<br />
to opening the hearts of children, knowing that their minds will follow. I feel proud and increasingly hopeful<br />
that, as each day passes, the minds and hearts of children will become healthier, more humane and more<br />
knowledgeable. Knowing that OR has played a meaningful role in articulating and advancing this essential<br />
shift in educational policy has become a great source of pride to me.<br />
With my thanks for all your help and support,<br />
Charlotte K. Frank, Ph.D.<br />
Chair, Board of Directors, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong><br />
Senior Vice President<br />
Research and Development<br />
McGraw-Hill Education
Reviewing our last year’s accomplishments, I feel inspired and rejuvenated by the<br />
work of <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> (OR). No small factor in my continued devotion to the<br />
work is OR’s remarkable staff and Board of Directors, as well as its many legions<br />
of grass roots supporters everywhere. Of course, The McGraw-Hill Companies who<br />
give us a home, a place to hang our hat, and much more, top my list as well.<br />
This past year, within the broad educational community—mirroring the combined<br />
perspective of the 42 educational organizations of the United Voices for<br />
Education—the consensus is that children must be educated so that all of their developmental needs are<br />
met: social, emotional and creative, as well as academic. Conversely, the consensus is that, if such an<br />
educational approach—a perspective commonly referred to as whole child education—is not adopted, all<br />
of our sincerest and most well intended efforts to improve student achievement will be destined to fail.<br />
Additionally, it is widely recognized that a school environment plagued by fear and hostility is perhaps the<br />
greatest enemy of student achievement. In turn, a hostile environment is a full stop sign on the path to<br />
closing the achievement gap, an imperative goal for our country. So, for whole child education to work,<br />
we must provide students a classroom climate that is civil, respectful, free of bullying, ridicule and other<br />
forms of emotional and physical violence. At <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong>, we made this connection long ago, and<br />
designated the creation of a nurturing, safe, school environment as our primary goal.<br />
This annual report will give you a sense of OR’s latest achievements, ones that provide us with ongoing<br />
evidence that we were right on target when we started. Our vision has been validated by some of our<br />
sister organizations, many of whom have generously noted that they were inspired by our programs,<br />
presentations and our advocacies.<br />
This report highlights the extraordinary Tribute to Teachers honoring educators for nurturing the<br />
development of the whole child. It features our work in sparking the United Voices for Education (UVE),<br />
a coalition advocating for whole child policies and practices, which UVE has concluded will give America<br />
the greatest chance to close the education gap and truly foster academic achievement. It also highlights<br />
OR’s remarkable continuing contributions to our work by presenters and performers that include Steve<br />
Seskin, Baby Jay, Christine Evans, and Bethany Yarrow & Rufus Cappadocia. And finally, it describes<br />
deeper work in several New York City schools, helping to turn around these schools that have been<br />
designated “persistently dangerous”: not only removing them from the list, but helping them to truly<br />
transform their school climate.<br />
Let me close by expressing my deep and sincere appreciation for your support. You are the key that<br />
makes our magic happen. Just like Puff, who needs Jackie, we need your support for OR to do its magic.<br />
Your support unlocks our capacity to make the difference we have made, and will continue to make, for<br />
years to come.<br />
I send you my deepest thanks and unabated enthusiasm, as always.<br />
Peter Yarrow<br />
President and Founder, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong>
On September 6, 2007, through the efforts of<br />
<strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> and the leadership of Peter Yarrow<br />
and Dr. Charlotte Frank, the United Federation<br />
of Teachers (UFT), America’s largest local union<br />
of 140,000 educators, joined forces with the New<br />
York City PBS flagship stations, WNET Channel<br />
13, WLIW Channel 21, and <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> to<br />
produce a PBS special entitled “A Tribute to the<br />
Teachers of America.”<br />
Randi Weingarten, President of the UFT, saw an<br />
opportunity to realize her vision for the production<br />
of a special event that would honor teachers by<br />
collaborating with Peter, who had produced many<br />
public events for the social justice movements of<br />
the past. With Dr. Charlotte Frank, Peter reached<br />
out to Bill Baker, President of WNET/Thirteen, and<br />
David Horn, senior producer at PBS’s Great Performances,<br />
who produced the “Tribute” TV Special.<br />
Peter rallied the participation of the performers,<br />
who participated free of charge, and served as<br />
Executive Producer. Jim Brown, who most recently<br />
produced and directed the Peter Seeger “Power of<br />
Song” documentary for PBS, became the director<br />
of the “Tribute.”<br />
Dr. Charlotte Frank secured New York’s iconic<br />
Town Hall auditorium for the show’s taping before<br />
a highly enthusiastic full house consisting of teachers<br />
and their children. “Tribute” featured performances<br />
by: Peter and Paul, of Peter, Paul and<br />
Mary; Elmo, of Sesame Street fame; Odetta; Judy<br />
Collins; Tom Paxton; Steve Seskin, co-writer of<br />
the “Don’t Laugh At Me” song; Bethany Yarrow &<br />
Rufus Cappadocia; and <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> student<br />
ambassadors, Baby Jay, a positive teen rapper,<br />
and Christine Evans, a young Canadian pop singer<br />
of songs of spirit.<br />
Spoken presentations by celebrities, all known for<br />
their advocacies in the educational arena, were<br />
interspersed with the musical performances. Bill<br />
Cosby, Cynthia Nixon, Kevin Clash, Elmo’s real-life<br />
creator, and Tim McCarver, gave moving spoken<br />
tributes to the special teachers who inspired them<br />
and changed their lives in their early years. Their<br />
testimonies, frequently greeted with emotional<br />
and joyous ovations by the audience, reflected the<br />
true and essential essence of the reason we honor<br />
teachers; beyond the essential task of imparting<br />
academic skills and knowledge, teachers impart<br />
to students a sense of their own personal worth,<br />
inspiring them and letting them know that they are<br />
valued, loved, and occupy a meaningful place in<br />
the school and larger community.<br />
PHOTO OF RANDI WEINGARTEN AND A FORMER STUDENT, COURTESY OF ROBERT CORWIN
PHOTO FROM A TRIBUTE TO THE TEACHERS OF AMERICA, COURTESY OF MADDY MILLER<br />
Rosie O’Donnell offered a particularly moving<br />
tribute to her grade-school teacher, Evelyn Leiner,<br />
whose love, concern and support gave Rosie the<br />
strength and courage to cope with the tragically<br />
early death of her mother. Evelyn Leiner devoted<br />
herself to the care and shepherding of Rosie, her<br />
sister and her brothers, enabling them to overcome<br />
this devastatingly challenging period. Rosie<br />
noted that all the O’Donnell children, because of<br />
such care, went on to attend college and pursue<br />
successful careers. Rosie closed her remarks with<br />
a mention that what Evelyn Leiner did, even today,<br />
never fails to bring a tear to her eye.<br />
“Tribute” premiered in New York on WNET/Channel<br />
13 in time for the opening of school in the Fall<br />
of 2007 and was greeted by rave reviews from the<br />
educational and television community. It aired in<br />
seven major PBS markets and was slated for many<br />
more broadcasts throughout the United States in<br />
the following year.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> will follow the broadcast of<br />
“Tribute” with an in-school program that will be<br />
offered free of charge, courtesy of The McGraw-<br />
Hill Companies, to schools and educators in the<br />
United States and beyond. To fulfill the vision<br />
of “Tribute” as a TV special and an educational<br />
tool designed to engender a spirit of appreciation<br />
and respect in schools, OR will develop a Tribute<br />
Teacher’s Guide for dissemination and implementation,<br />
along with an extended school version of<br />
the Tribute program on DVD in 2008. The Tribute<br />
Teacher’s Guide will help practitioners further their<br />
efforts to create a school environment that is<br />
appreciative, not only of teachers, but of students,
administrators and other school employees and<br />
staff. Ultimately the spirit of appreciation is<br />
intended to extend to the community surrounding<br />
the schools, affect attitudes and encourage civic<br />
engagement by students with elected officials,<br />
civic and local business leaders as well.<br />
This project is unusual in that it will combine<br />
public media with classroom curricula designed to<br />
develop social and emotional skills and will constitute<br />
a highly significant addition to the current<br />
PHOTO OF KEVIN CLASH AND A FORMER TEACHER,<br />
COURTESY OF ROBERT CORWIN<br />
work of the “Don’t Laugh at Me” Program. Fundamental<br />
to the premise of “Tribute” is the belief<br />
that appreciation is, in many ways, correspondent<br />
to, and can help foster, respect – which <strong>Operation</strong><br />
<strong>Respect</strong> regards as a main and fundamental pillar<br />
of personal and societal health and civic strength.<br />
To give educators the greatest flexibility in their<br />
presentation of “Tribute,” the school version of the<br />
Tribute DVD will be separated into program segments<br />
to be chosen and combined in various ways<br />
so that parents, teachers and other practitioners<br />
can use the testimonials and songs that are appropriate<br />
to the age, grade and subject being taught<br />
and examined.<br />
The Tribute Teacher Guide and DVD will be manufactured<br />
and disseminated to educators throughout<br />
the United States, and the world, free of<br />
charge, through the generosity of The McGraw-Hill<br />
Companies. Educators will be able to order and/<br />
or download these materials through the <strong>Operation</strong><br />
<strong>Respect</strong> website in the Fall of 2008.<br />
PHOTO OF PETER YARROW AND NOEL PAUL<br />
STOOKEY,COURTESY OF ROBERT CORWIN
Throughout 2007, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> convened a<br />
series of meetings of the United Voices for Education<br />
(UVE), most frequently with UVE’s Steering<br />
Committee in Washington, D.C., to develop<br />
a strategic plan to guide UVE’s efforts, which are<br />
designed to take advantage of its unique breadth<br />
of membership and to focus on its stated purpose<br />
to advance the “education of the whole child” in a<br />
safe, respectful, bully-free atmosphere conducive<br />
to learning.<br />
The premise of whole child education is that education<br />
needs to address all of the developmental<br />
needs of children and youth, including their emotional<br />
and social growth, so that academic learning<br />
can take place in tandem with these other critical<br />
areas. Problem solving and critical thinking as well<br />
as essential growth in civic awareness and responsibility<br />
are also fundamental support structures of<br />
whole child education.<br />
UVE’s goals, which are shared by <strong>Operation</strong><br />
<strong>Respect</strong>, are to:<br />
> Affect policy change so that the educational<br />
paradigm of America and beyond becomes<br />
one of teaching the whole child, rather than<br />
one of excessive focus on the academic side of<br />
education. Policy change is pursued through<br />
discussions and communication with policy<br />
makers, elected officials, parents, students, the<br />
business community, funders and educators at<br />
all levels.<br />
> Broaden the focus of schools, districts, and<br />
federal and state education policymakers to<br />
include positive accountability in regard to<br />
schools’ obligation to foster the social and<br />
emotional development of students and to create<br />
and sustain a school climate that is safe,<br />
respectful and bully-free, and thereby conducive<br />
to learning.<br />
> Use research, examples of best educational<br />
practices and policies and model programs that<br />
support the adoption of whole child education<br />
to inform those who are engaged in the pursuit<br />
of UVE’s agenda and who will also help UVE<br />
serve as a clearinghouse for practitioners.<br />
<br />
<br />
On July 30, 2007, Senator Tom Harkin addressed<br />
the UVE general membership to lay the groundwork<br />
for ongoing collaboration in areas of public policy<br />
and practice that intersect with the advocacies
and objectives of UVE. Also at this meeting, Randi<br />
Weingarten, President of the United Federation<br />
of Teachers, addressed the membership regarding<br />
the “Tribute to the Teachers of America” and<br />
the national initiative being launched to elevate<br />
the priority of education by honoring the teachers<br />
of America for their remarkable commitment and<br />
service to our children. UVE members expressed<br />
their unanimous support for this initiative.<br />
On October 31, 2007, the UVE leadership met<br />
with Senator Edward Kennedy’s Senior Education<br />
Policy Advisor, Roberto Rodriguez, and his staff<br />
to discuss how UVE members may support Senator<br />
Kennedy’s legislative agenda that intersects<br />
with UVE’s objectives, and to create an avenue for<br />
ongoing communication between the Senator and<br />
the UVE Steering Committee. Roberto Rodriguez<br />
and his colleagues were extremely open to working<br />
with UVE and expressed interest in supporting the<br />
Tribute to Teachers initiative as well.<br />
<br />
As the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind<br />
(NCLB) will likely be postponed until after the next<br />
national election, UVE has an extended opportunity<br />
to influence amendments to the legislation<br />
that will reformulate the United States education<br />
policy. The UVE leadership is planning to reach out<br />
to policy makers in 2008 in an effort to combat the<br />
unintended consequences of NCLB including the<br />
narrowing of the curriculum to exclude the arts,<br />
the humanities, and the development of skills that<br />
lead to the emotional and social well-being and<br />
health of students and to shift the focus of NCLB<br />
to reflect multiple measures of accountability beyond<br />
literacy and numeracy.<br />
<br />
In the Fall of 2007, Jared Polis, long-time supporter<br />
of <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> and Founder of the<br />
Jared Polis Foundation in Boulder, Colorado,<br />
provided funding for the licensing and adaptation<br />
of the award winning <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> Newspaper<br />
in Education (NIE) materials to be utilized by<br />
thousands of schools in the state of Colorado. The<br />
<strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> NIE materials, developed in collaboration<br />
with the News for Students Foundation<br />
and The McClatchy Company, include a newspaper<br />
supplement, student take-home materials<br />
and a teacher guide designed to add richness to<br />
the social and emotional development of children<br />
in the areas of ethical awareness, independent<br />
decision-making and civic engagement. The NIE<br />
materials also aid in the development of literacy<br />
skills, both in reading and writing.
<strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> worked with the News for<br />
Students Foundation to adapt the NIE materials for<br />
this Colorado initiative. The dissemination of these<br />
materials will help to mobilize a statewide conference<br />
of educators focused on creating safe, respectful<br />
school climates, which <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong><br />
will begin to help organize in the Fall of 2008. The<br />
broad objective of this conference will be to promote<br />
the adoption of the whole child educational<br />
model in Colorado and to demonstrate the success<br />
of this educational approach in terms of creating a<br />
more peaceful and harmonious student and school<br />
population.<br />
<br />
<strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> continues to produce and distribute<br />
our e-newsletter to over 70,000 supporters<br />
in our database. This effective form of communication<br />
provides a synopsis of news of interest to our<br />
community, and an opportunity to alert and mobilize<br />
our constituents to pursue their work and avail<br />
themselves of new strategies, research and professional<br />
development opportunities. The feedback<br />
we receive is extremely positive.<br />
MARK WEISS AND STUDENTS FROM MS 399, BRONX, NY<br />
<br />
<br />
In the Spring of 2007, the Office of School Intervention<br />
and Development at the New York City<br />
Department of Education engaged the services<br />
of <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> to partner with a team of<br />
community-based organizations to provide training<br />
around violence prevention, both emotional<br />
and physical, regarding the targeting of students<br />
due to their gender and/or sexual orientation. The<br />
collaborative group of organizations participating<br />
in this initiative included <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong>,<br />
Anti-Defamation League’s A World of Difference<br />
Institute, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network<br />
(GLSEN), Morningside Center for Teaching<br />
Social Responsibility, and the Youth Enrichment<br />
Services Program from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual<br />
and Transgender Community Center. This “<strong>Respect</strong><br />
for All” initiative was launched as part of the<br />
Department of Education’s commitment to provide<br />
all students with a safe and supportive school<br />
environment. <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> worked with the<br />
consortium to offer a series of two-day professional<br />
development workshops to teams of teachers,<br />
counselors and other school support staff from<br />
middle and high schools throughout New York City.<br />
<br />
In the Fall of 2007, The Office of School Intervention<br />
and Development at the New York City<br />
Department of Education received a federal grant<br />
to assist in the transformation of the climate of six<br />
elementary and middle schools that were identified<br />
as persistently dangerous. <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong><br />
was engaged to provide program services and staff<br />
development to aide in school climate transformation<br />
in each of these schools. The project began<br />
October 1, 2007 and will conclude in March 2009.<br />
In November 2007, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> conducted<br />
needs assessments at five of the participating<br />
schools and provided several introductory professional<br />
development workshops and assembly<br />
programs featuring <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong>’s student<br />
ambassador, Baby Jay.<br />
The skills of building respect identified in the Don’t<br />
Laugh at Me Program (DLAM)—expressing feelings;<br />
promoting caring, cooperation, and compassion;<br />
fostering creative conflict resolution; and<br />
understanding and celebrating diversity—are skills
that students need to combat bullying and build a<br />
strong school community. In this project, <strong>Operation</strong><br />
<strong>Respect</strong> will work with educators in the selected<br />
schools to make teaching social responsibility a<br />
core practice so that young people develop the<br />
positive attitudes, empathy and skills they need to<br />
create respectful environments.<br />
<strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> will provide the DLAM materials<br />
along with concurrent student and staff development<br />
sessions at each of the participating schools.<br />
The primary venues for this project are in-school<br />
classes and workshops with students and staff focusing<br />
on: defining the problems; reviewing guidelines<br />
for intervention, including teaching strategies<br />
for targets and bystanders; implementing positive<br />
discipline strategies; and developing a comprehensive<br />
school-wide bullying prevention program.<br />
<strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> will provide assembly programs<br />
and parent workshops to engage the entire school<br />
communities in this initiative.<br />
<br />
Since its inception, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> has provided<br />
over 150,000 copies of DLAM to educators<br />
and administrators throughout the United States<br />
and the world. In 2007, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> disseminated<br />
12,000 copies of the program. Approximately<br />
10,000 requests were processed through<br />
the <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> website and distributed free<br />
of charge courtesy of the McGraw-Hill Companies.<br />
The remaining 2,000 were disseminated through<br />
the <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> office, professional development<br />
workshops, education associations and<br />
conferences.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> continues to offer professional<br />
development workshops to provide educators with<br />
the skills and confidence they need to launch<br />
DLAM successfully in their schools and communities.<br />
To date, over 40,000 educators have participated<br />
in these workshops. In 2007, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong><br />
trained over 1,000 educators in the United<br />
States, Canada and Hong Kong to implement<br />
DLAM in schools, summer camps and after-school<br />
programs. Additionally, a select group of educators<br />
in Hong Kong were chosen to participate in followup<br />
training to give them the skills they need to<br />
provide ongoing guidance and staff development<br />
support for educators implementing the DLAM<br />
program. <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> also provided <strong>Respect</strong><br />
for All workshops for over 1,000 educators from<br />
middle schools and high schools throughout New<br />
York City.
Since <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong>’s inception, Peter Yarrow<br />
and our team of speakers and performers<br />
have addressed over 500,000 educators, parents,<br />
students, policy makers and community members<br />
throughout the world. In 2007, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong><br />
offered 40 presentations to over 25,000 people<br />
throughout the United States, Hong Kong, Canada,<br />
Puerto Rico and Israel.<br />
<br />
A highly talented and idealistically motivated<br />
16-year-old Hispanic Houston-based “positive”<br />
rapper, Jonathan “Baby Jay” Gutierrez, continues<br />
to serve as a student ambassador for <strong>Operation</strong><br />
<strong>Respect</strong>. In 2006, Baby Jay adapted the lyrics of<br />
“Don’t Laugh at Me” to create a hip-hop version of<br />
the song, which has been extremely well received<br />
by students and educators throughout the country.<br />
In 2007, Baby Jay and Mark Weiss, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong>’s<br />
Education Director, provided a number of<br />
assembly programs for schools in New York, Texas<br />
and Michigan. These programs engaged students<br />
and staff in a joint effort to create respectful school<br />
climates.<br />
CHRISTINE EVANS<br />
<br />
Christine Evans, a 17-year-old Canadian recording<br />
artist of national renown also serves as a student<br />
ambassador for <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong>. In the Spring<br />
of 2007, Christine produced a rock-and-roll version<br />
of the “Don’t Laugh at Me” song and video.<br />
Christine continues to share her positive messages<br />
with young people and adults throughout the United<br />
States and Canada. In October 2007, Christine<br />
gave a presentation on behalf of <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong><br />
at a middle school student conference in<br />
Sussex County, New Jersey and was extremely well<br />
received.<br />
<br />
BABAY JAY
In November 2007, Peter Yarrow gave a keynote<br />
presentation at the National Association for the<br />
Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Annual Conference.<br />
Educators in attendance articulated great<br />
support and enthusiasm for incorporating the core<br />
principles of DLAM in the education of pre-school<br />
children. Discussions relating to pre-school education<br />
alerted <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> to the increasing<br />
importance of creating a climate for young children<br />
that is safe, respectful and bully-free at the earliest<br />
ages of their development, thereby inculcating<br />
habits and traditions of respect and civility prior to<br />
their entry into elementary school.<br />
To extend our reach to early childhood education,<br />
<strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> is eager to do its part in addressing<br />
the challenge of school violence, adding<br />
its efforts to a growing movement to address the<br />
emotional and social development of children with<br />
the same priority that schools address and measure<br />
students’ academic progress. Mark Ginsberg,<br />
Executive Director of the NAEYC, expressed<br />
interest in collaborating with <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong><br />
to develop a pre-school version of DLAM. We will<br />
seek funding for this initiative in 2008.<br />
<br />
<br />
In January 2007, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong>’s Education<br />
Director, Mark Weiss, and trainer, Lynne Hurdle-<br />
Price, returned to Hong Kong for the fourth year<br />
in a row to offer Don’t Laugh at Me professional<br />
development workshops for hundreds of teachers<br />
from local schools in Hong Kong. Mark and<br />
Lynne also offered a training-of-trainers workshop,<br />
provided follow up sessions for educators who<br />
have been implementing the program, and gave a<br />
presentation to educators, parents and community<br />
members.<br />
<br />
The Manpower Bureau of the Hong Kong Government,<br />
the sponsor of these events, produced a<br />
number of materials to support the ongoing implementation<br />
of DLAM, including Chinese translations<br />
of the DLAM elementary and middle school<br />
program and a composite DVD that includes the<br />
DLAM video and <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> outreach<br />
video with Chinese subtitles.<br />
<br />
Following a request from the Israeli Ministry of<br />
Education, Culture and Sport for permission to<br />
translate the DLAM curricula into Hebrew and<br />
implement the program in elementary and middle<br />
schools in Israel, a bold vision has emerged.<br />
Peter Yarrow has worked closely with Dr. Charlotte<br />
Frank, Chair of the <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> Board of<br />
Directors, to lay the groundwork for the possible<br />
dissemination and implementation of DLAM in<br />
Israel, the West Bank and possibly Jordan and<br />
Lebanon as well. A leadership group consisting of<br />
key potential partners in the US and Israel, coalesced<br />
by Peter and Charlotte, has been actively<br />
strategizing ways to launch this effort. Doing so<br />
involves the building of support in both the educa-
tional and governmental arenas, solidifying grass<br />
roots support in the schools and communities being<br />
considered, as well as raising funds for various<br />
aspects of this project to cover costs of materials,<br />
CDs, videos, an Arabic translation of DLAM, media<br />
support and cultural outreach and, most costly<br />
and most essential, professional development and<br />
ongoing technical assistance. Dr. Alex Berenstein,<br />
a long time supporter of <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong>, has<br />
made a generous contribution to <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong><br />
to provide initial funding for this project.<br />
<br />
In February 2007, Peter traveled to Israel with the<br />
America-Israel Friendship League (AIFL) and a<br />
delegation of Superintendents from various major<br />
cities throughout the United States. The delegation<br />
was led by Dr. Charlotte Frank and Dr. Gene<br />
Carter, President of the Association for Supervision<br />
and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and<br />
had multiple objectives, including the objective,<br />
for Peter and Charlotte, to evaluate the possibility<br />
PHOTO OF LYNNE HURDLE-PRICE WITH ETTA SCHNEIDERMAN AND STUDENTS<br />
FROM FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, FLORAL PARK, NY<br />
of bringing DLAM to Israel through a series of site<br />
visits to schools, and in meetings with educational<br />
leaders throughout Israel, as well as Rabbi Michael<br />
Melchior, member of the Israeli Knesset, who<br />
holds a political position equivalent to Representative<br />
George Miller, Chair of the Education Committee<br />
of the United States House of Representatives.<br />
Such investigation made it very clear that, though<br />
the road to the implementation of DLAM would be<br />
complex and perhaps difficult due to the financial<br />
stresses in the educational system of Israel, if the<br />
money for such an extension of the work of <strong>Operation</strong><br />
<strong>Respect</strong> is raised, the project is possible. On<br />
the basis of gradual introduction of DLAM, over a<br />
period of years, a real opportunity of great significance<br />
exists. Such preliminary efforts are proceeding,<br />
including the securing of funding and the<br />
search for proper partners in Israel and the United<br />
States.<br />
<br />
<br />
Upon returning from his February trip to Israel,<br />
Peter found that many who assessed reports of<br />
that trip felt that a program such as DLAM, that<br />
advances education of students in acceptance,<br />
respect and non-violent conflict resolution, would<br />
not only be of great value in Israel, but could also<br />
be highly meaningful among children in the Palestinian<br />
areas as well. Such activities shared in both<br />
populations who, for decades, have exchanged<br />
painful hostilities, might foster greater understanding<br />
among members of the next generation. A<br />
vision emerged to Peter that, one day, the implementation<br />
of DLAM in both groups might build to<br />
exchanges between children from “both sides”<br />
based in the tools, particularly in music and the<br />
arts, that are inherent in the DLAM programs.<br />
Direct exchanges between Israeli and Palestinian<br />
youth would potentially have a meaningful, positive<br />
impact, particularly among those who are engaged<br />
in efforts to find ways to reach across the historically<br />
bitter divide between Israelis and Palestinians.
Responding to this call, Peter once again<br />
traveled to Israel in March of 2007, this<br />
time to explore the possibilities of implementing<br />
DLAM in the West Bank in the<br />
Palestinian community, as a complementary<br />
effort to the planned outreach in Israel.<br />
Through Peter’s connections to Landrum<br />
Bolling, long time leader of Mercy Corps<br />
and someone who is highly regarded by<br />
all parties in the area, Peter visited with<br />
Zougbhi Zoughbi, a community leader in<br />
Bethlehem, who is Founder & Director of<br />
the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center,<br />
“Wi’am.” Peter also met with leaders of<br />
The Friends School, one of the most prestigious<br />
schools in Ramallah, to discuss the<br />
possibilities of a DLAM implementation at<br />
their school. In both instances, the idea of<br />
moving forward with DLAM was seen as a<br />
great opportunity. Further contact leading<br />
to on the ground implementation was seen<br />
as possible within the next two years. This<br />
effort was set in preliminary motion with<br />
discussions of reaching out to the Palestinian<br />
Refugee Camps in the West Bank and<br />
Jordan as well.<br />
<br />
<br />
In the Fall of 2007, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong><br />
met with David Osher and Yael Kidron<br />
at the American Institutes for Research<br />
(AIR) to develop a plan to evaluate the<br />
implementation of DLAM in Israel, as well<br />
as the United States, in conjunction with<br />
Ripple Effects, a company that provides<br />
effective, scaleable, social learning software<br />
solutions to improve school, work,<br />
and student academic performance. AIR<br />
is working closely with <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong>,<br />
and in consultation with Ripple Effects,<br />
to develop a proposal for funding for this<br />
evaluation, which will be submitted to various<br />
foundations interested in this area of<br />
study.<br />
<br />
<br />
> Create a Tribute Teacher’s Guide to accompany<br />
the dissemination of the Tribute to the Teachers of<br />
America DVD.<br />
> Expand the work of the United Voices for Education<br />
to facilitate and broaden our advocacy initiatives.<br />
> Strengthen the capacity of partner organizations to<br />
be effective advocates.<br />
> Continue our collaboration with the Office of School<br />
in Intervention and Development at the New York<br />
City Department of Education.<br />
> Organize a statewide conference in Colorado on<br />
creating safe, respectful school climates.<br />
> Extend the use of the Newspapers in Education<br />
materials.<br />
> Expand professional development opportunities for<br />
educators.<br />
> Broaden the dissemination of DLAM.<br />
> Explore opportunities for DLAM implementation<br />
internationally.<br />
> Seek funding for an evaluation of DLAM to validate<br />
the positive impact of the programs and to ascertain<br />
ways to improve them.<br />
> Seek funding for the development of a pre-school<br />
version of DLAM.<br />
> Continue to develop an effective Board with appropriate<br />
skills, resources and diversity.
On February 21, 2007, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> lost a dear friend and colleague,<br />
Mrs. Etta Schneiderman. Etta was a remarkable, spirited and dedicated<br />
educator whose work made a positive impact on thousands of students’ lives.<br />
Her motto was: “Just love every child” and she did just that! Throughout<br />
her career as a math teacher at Floral Park Memorial High School in the<br />
Sewanhaka School District in Long Island, New York, Etta served as advisor<br />
to the Student Council where she and her students brought joy and unity to<br />
the entire school community.<br />
In 2003, she initiated an <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> Program at her school, engaging our Education<br />
Director, Mark Weiss, and consultant, Lynne Hurdle-Price, to train student council members to<br />
become leaders in making Floral Park Memorial a more respectful and caring community. In<br />
addition to this initiative at the high school, student leaders worked with educators to implement<br />
the “Don’t Laugh at Me” Program in local elementary and middle schools. Etta was responsible<br />
for the expansion of <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> into other district schools in Long Island and coordinated<br />
intra-district trainings for all of the students involved in the program.<br />
Floral Park Memorial High School now serves as the prototype for <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> high<br />
school work. Participating students formed a leadership team that carries the message of respect<br />
far and wide. The students’ t-shirts, which say “<strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong>” and “SWAT - Students<br />
Working to Advance Tolerance,” have become a symbol of safety for Floral Park students and<br />
one of compassion for all of us. This is service learning at its highest level.<br />
Etta Schneiderman was an extraordinary educator and friend. She will be sorely missed.
<strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> would like to thank The McGraw-Hill Companies<br />
and Dr. Charlotte Frank, Senior Vice President of Research and<br />
Development for McGraw-Hill Education, the educational division of the<br />
Corporation, for their most generous support since <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong>’s<br />
inception. <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> would also like to thank Sue Pearsall, art<br />
director at McGraw-Hill Construction for donating her time and talent to<br />
design this annual report and The McGraw-Hill Companies for<br />
underwriting the cost of printing.
<strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong> depends on the generous support of individuals, corporations, foundations and governments.<br />
Many donors have contributed to make it possible for us to survive and thrive and increase<br />
our effectiveness. Our thanks go out to each and every one of them. Thousands of classrooms are evolving<br />
into safer and more respectful learning environments because of all who help us. We appreciate and<br />
value your support, offered in so many ways, more than we can ever express.<br />
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The Wayne Mertes Company<br />
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Special Thanks to:<br />
Dr. Charlotte K. Frank<br />
The McGraw-Hill Companies
December 31, 2007 2006<br />
ASSETS<br />
Cash $214,273 $207,376<br />
Contributions Receivable $111,341 $38,607<br />
Other Receivables $61,170 $3,490<br />
Investments $1,061 $528<br />
Computer Equipment, net of accumulated<br />
depreciation of $27,103 and $23,497 respectively $4,339 $3,344<br />
Total Assets $392,184 $253,345<br />
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS<br />
Liabilities–accounts payable and accrued expenses $30,284 $10,376<br />
Net Assets:<br />
Unrestricted $247,344 $166,125<br />
Temporarily restricted $114,556 $76,844<br />
Total Net Assets $361,900 $242,969<br />
Total Liabilities and Net Assets $392,184 $253,345<br />
The Statement of Financial Position and Statement of Activities on the following page were derived<br />
from the 2007 financial statements audited by our independent accountants, West, Rhode and Roberts.<br />
A copy of the audited financial statements and form 990 for 2007 are available upon request.
Year ended December 31, 2007 2006<br />
REVENUES AND SUPPORT<br />
Contributions<br />
Summarized<br />
Comparative<br />
Temporarily<br />
Information<br />
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total<br />
Individuals $75,237 $73,275 $148,512 $112,749<br />
Foundations and corporations $272,787 $14,437 $287,224 $62,770<br />
Contributed goods and services $410,258 — $410,258 $639,738<br />
Total contributions $758,282 $87,712 $845,994 $815,257<br />
Educational workshops and<br />
performance fees $142,233 — $142,233 $161,468<br />
License Fees — — — $8,920<br />
Special events $14,718 $14,718 $694<br />
Interest $5,463 — $5,463 $5,134<br />
Net assets released from restrictions,<br />
satisfaction of program restrictions $50,000 ($50,000) — —<br />
Total Revenue $970,696 $37,712 $1,008,408 $991,473<br />
EXPENSES AND LOSSES<br />
Program services $685,121 — $685,121 $750,726<br />
Management and general $161,120 — $161,120 $236,226<br />
Fundraising $43,236 — $43,236 $38,348<br />
Total Expenses $889,477 — $889,477 $1,025,300<br />
Change in Net Assets $81,219 $37,712 $118,931 ($33,827)<br />
Net Assets at begininning of year $166,125 $76,844 $242,969 $276,796<br />
Net Assets at End of Year $247,344 $114,556 $361,900 $242,969
STAFF<br />
Peter Yarrow, Founder and President<br />
Mark Weiss, Education Director<br />
Elizabeth Kolodny, Program Director<br />
Debbie Benson, Office Manager (January-August)<br />
Kristen H. Sensenig, Office Manager (September-December)<br />
Maryam Williams, Office Assistant (June-December)<br />
TRAINERS<br />
Dr. Loucrecia Collins, Associate Professor,<br />
University of Alabama<br />
Javier Francisco Diaz, Consultant<br />
Larry Dieringer, Executive Director,<br />
Educators for Social Responsibility<br />
Jane Harrison, Senior Program Associate,<br />
Educators for Social Responsibility<br />
Lynne Hurdle-Price, President, Hurdle-Price Professionals<br />
Linda Lantieri, Director, Project Renewal<br />
Barry Lee, Consultant<br />
Dr. Janet Patti, Professor, Hunter College<br />
PRESENTERS<br />
Christine Evans<br />
Jonathan “Baby Jay” Gutierrez<br />
Steve Seskin<br />
Bethany Yarrow and Rufus Cappadocia<br />
Peter Yarrow
BOARD OF DIRECTORS<br />
Dolores Eyler, Co-owner, Rye Record and<br />
Marketing Director, Performance Plus<br />
Charlotte K. Frank, Ph.D., Chair, Senior Vice President,<br />
Research and Development, McGraw-Hill Education<br />
Charlotte Kea, Senior Consultant, The Whelan Group, Inc.<br />
Victor Kovner, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP<br />
Michael P. Miller, Treasurer, former Chair,<br />
Toys ‘R’ Us Children’s Benefit Fund<br />
Suzanne H. Pasch, Ph.D., Founding Director,<br />
Center for Scholarship and Research, Wheelock College<br />
C.J. Prentiss, Special Advisor to Ohio Governor Ted Strickland<br />
for Closing the Achievement Gap<br />
Steve Seskin, Singer/Songwriter<br />
Gloria Smith, Philanthropist<br />
Richard Stoff, President, Ohio Business Roundtable<br />
Noel Paul Stookey, Peter, Paul and Mary<br />
Ann Walker, Associate Executive Director, National<br />
Association of Elementary School Principals, Retired<br />
Chad Wick, President and CEO, KnowledgeWorks Foundation<br />
Peter Yarrow, President and Founder, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong><br />
BOARD OF ADVISORS<br />
The Honorable Max Cleland, former (D-GA)<br />
United States Senate<br />
The Honorable Elton Gallegly, (R-CA) United States<br />
House of Representatives<br />
The Honorable James Jeffords, former (I-VT)<br />
United States Senate<br />
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lieutenant<br />
Governor of Maryland, and OR President Emeritus<br />
Vincent Lawrence, former Vice-President,<br />
Music & Educational Technology, MacMillan/McGraw-Hill<br />
Art Linkletter<br />
The Honorable Howard Metzenbaum,<br />
former (D-OH) United States Senate<br />
The Honorable Richard Riley,<br />
former Secretary of Education, Clinton Administration
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Steve Seskin, Singer/Songwriter<br />
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United States Senate<br />
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lieutenant<br />
Governor of Maryland, and OR President Emeritus<br />
Vincent Lawrence, former Vice-President,<br />
Music & Educational Technology, MacMillan/McGraw-Hill<br />
Art Linkletter<br />
The Honorable Howard Metzenbaum,<br />
former (D-OH) United States Senate<br />
The Honorable Richard Riley,<br />
former Secretary of Education, Clinton Administration
BOARD OF DIRECTORS<br />
Dolores Eyler, Co-owner, Rye Record and<br />
Marketing Director, Performance Plus<br />
Charlotte K. Frank, Ph.D., Chair, Senior Vice President,<br />
Research and Development, McGraw-Hill Education<br />
Charlotte Kea, Senior Consultant, The Whelan Group, Inc.<br />
Victor Kovner, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP<br />
Michael P. Miller, Treasurer, former Chair,<br />
Toys ‘R’ Us Children’s Benefit Fund<br />
Suzanne H. Pasch, Ph.D., Founding Director,<br />
Center for Scholarship and Research, Wheelock College<br />
C.J. Prentiss, Special Advisor to Ohio Governor Ted Strickland<br />
for Closing the Achievement Gap<br />
Steve Seskin, Singer/Songwriter<br />
Gloria Smith, Philanthropist<br />
Richard Stoff, President, Ohio Business Roundtable<br />
Noel Paul Stookey, Peter, Paul and Mary<br />
Ann Walker, Associate Executive Director, National<br />
Association of Elementary School Principals, Retired<br />
Chad Wick, President and CEO, KnowledgeWorks Foundation<br />
Peter Yarrow, President and Founder, <strong>Operation</strong> <strong>Respect</strong><br />
BOARD OF ADVISORS<br />
The Honorable Max Cleland, former (D-GA)<br />
United States Senate<br />
The Honorable Elton Gallegly, (R-CA) United States<br />
House of Representatives<br />
The Honorable James Jeffords, former (I-VT)<br />
United States Senate<br />
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lieutenant<br />
Governor of Maryland, and OR President Emeritus<br />
Vincent Lawrence, former Vice-President,<br />
Music & Educational Technology, MacMillan/McGraw-Hill<br />
Art Linkletter<br />
The Honorable Howard Metzenbaum,<br />
former (D-OH) United States Senate<br />
The Honorable Richard Riley,<br />
former Secretary of Education, Clinton Administration
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