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Portland Public Schools (PPS) Human Resources Department
is seeking talented people from diverse backgrounds and
experiences to lead change to support PPS students. We are
seeking an Employee and Labor Relations Manager to make
a lasting impact on our school district by supporting employee
performance management, conducting investigations, and
providing staff coaching/training.
Portland Public Schools (PPS)
Chief of Staff Office is seeking a
First screening will occur on July 28, 2021 at 3:00pm.
Business Operations Specialist
&
Complaints
Coordinator.
This position will serve as an
essential team member of the
Chief of Staff Team and will
be responsible for providing
high-level
and
confidential
administrative support to the
Chief of Staff and track reports
from community members. The
candidate will play an integral
role in supporting departmental
functions
which
includes
interdepartmental coordination,
staffing, reporting and will
also provide informa post,tion
management,
interface
on
behalf of the Chief of Staff and
serve as the initial point of
contact for internal and external
stakeholders on all matters.
The Director of the Talented and Gifted (TAG) and International
Baccalaureate (IB) Program is responsible for leading programs
How To Apply: Please visit www.
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The ideal candidate will conduct research, analysis, and use
independent judgment to interpret statutes, regulations, and
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will be expected to leverage your experience as an HR business
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and senior leaders. We seek candidates with a demonstrable
commitment to racial equity and social justice goals, and who
will be committed to achieving the PPS Racial Educational Equity
Policy Goals.
How To Apply: Visit pps.net/jobs and use job number 22763 to
review the full qualifications.
Salary Range: $88,756 - $105,979
within the Office of Teaching and Learning. The Director is
instrumental in reimagining the identification of potential TAG
students while applying an equity lens. The Director is charged with
the development of new IB programs in the district and supporting
students participating in current International Baccalaureate
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administrators and teachers, ensures the delivery of effective
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and equitable access to TAG services. In addition, the Director
is responsible for the development, implementation, and
evaluation of the IB programs. The Director will ensure alignment,
program advancement, and internal communication links exist
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Public Schools is committed to eliminating systemic racism and
its adverse impact on student learning. We seek candidates who
bring a commitment to racial equity, inclusion, and social justice.
How to Apply: Please visit www.pps.net/jobs and use job number
22844 to apply
Salary: $135,429 - $145,841 per year
Portland Public Schools (PPS) Funded Programs Department is
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passion for serving our most vulnerable students experiencing
homelessness in Portland and the greater surrounding
communities. The SSA serves as one of the primary contacts
between homeless families, school staff, district personnel,
shelter workers, and other service providers. Under the general
supervision of the Director of Funded Programs, the SSA will
evaluate and determine the eligibility of students experiencing
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‘Summer of Soul’
C ontinued froM P age 7
er, he knows what he’s got, and
knows how to maximize its im-
pact—in a skillful two hours, he
shows us an array of jaw-drop-
ping performances, and splices
them with just the right amount
of context to keep us hungry and
amazed. We understand that this
is all happening one year after the
assassinations of Martin Luther
King Jr., and Robert Kennedy,
four years after the assassina-
tion of Malcolm X in Harlem.
We are reminded of the uprisings
across American cities, including
Manhattan, the previous year,
and understand that the neces-
sary government support for this
event may have been motivated
by a desire to keep Harlem res-
idents peaceful and occupied.
We understand where this is hap-
pening—in Harlem, an epicenter
of emerging Black fashion and
culture and also government ne-
glect, poverty, and problematic
drug use. Tulchin’s five cameras
offer us glorious access to the
beautiful crowds of Black faces
of all ages, beaming and moving
to the music, “the ultimate Black
barbecue,” in the words of one
witness. It’s a Blacker crowd than
many of these artists ever got to
experience, and we see how that
impacts their performances.
One can’t experience this film
and miss the importance of what
is happening here—including that
almost no one, including Thomp-
son himself, had ever heard of
the Harlem Cultural Festival be-
fore this film. He wants us to
understand that what happened
here was revolutionary—and, as
reflected by the film’s subtitle (a
nod to Gil Scott-Heron’s wonder-
ful lyric, “The Revolution Will
Not Be Televised,” well worth
a listen just now)—that what
happened those six weekends in
1969 was part of a transformative
and powerful awakening, and
that like many transformative and
powerful awakenings before and
since, it could not, would not be
televised. That was not neutral.
It cost the artists, who missed out
on the boost from exposure that
came to the Woodstock artists. It
cost the millions of us who could
have witnessed and been healed
by this offering of Black bril-
liance long before now. And yet,
with the characteristic resilience
of Black culture, more Black bril-
liance has resurrected it for us.
And now it meets with universal
acclaim.
There is so much here to savor.
Thompson has cannily offered
us glimpses into the reactions of
some of these artists to watching
this footage after 50 years—Mar-
ilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr.
of the Fifth Dimension watch,
visibly moved, remembering
what it meant to perform for this
audience, having been criticized
by Black people for not being
Black enough because of their
success on the pop charts. Glad-
ys Knight recalls the revolution-
ary fervor that welled up in her
as a young artist. Mavis Staples
speaks of what it meant to her
to share a microphone with her
idol, Mahalia Jackson, and de-
scribes the context for a moving
passing of the torch. Rev. Jesse
Jackson, who also was there and
introduced their joint rendition
of “Precious Lord, Take My
Hand,” the off-requested favor-
ite of the recently murdered Dr.
King, gives a glimpse of the toil,
suffering, and courage aligning
across generations in that mo-
ment of shared struggle. Nina
Simone, though not here to nar-
rate a reflection, speaks directly
and just as resonantly all these
years later when she pointedly
asks the assembled crowd, “Are
you ready, Black people?” and
intones, with purpose, “To Be
Young, Gifted, and Black.”
Let us not overlook the more
difficult parts of what is offered
here by Thompson and his many
collaborators past and present,
including Tony Lawrence (who
cut an impressive figure presid-
ing over the proceedings in an
impressive array of suits and
costumes but who faded into
obscurity within a few short
years). This gorgeous, heartfelt
thing happened. A revolution
was happening; it was felt, and
even captured on film. It was,
as one witness describes, “like
a rose coming up through con-
crete.” And then that rose was
crushed, erased—and now, after
all this time, resurrected. One of
the most moving things for me
was watching the reactions of
Musa Jackson, a man who was
present at the event when he was
six years old, and who speaks
with particular joy of his experi-
ence and of how smitten his six-
year-old self was with Marilyn
McCoo. In the end, he marvels
through tears at seeing his mem-
ories resurrected in the film. “I
knew I was not crazy—but now
I know I’m not. And not only
that—how beautiful it was.”
As someone who knows the
pain of beautiful offerings ig-
nored and erased, Jackson’s joy
stirred my own hopes. Even
when the revolution cannot be
televised, perhaps it will not be
erased forever.
Darleen Ortega is a judge
on the Oregon Court of Appeals
and the first woman of color to
serve in that capacity. Her mov-
ie and theater review column
Opinionated Judge appears
regularly in The Portland Ob-
server. Find her review blog at
opinionatedjudge.blogspot.com.