Roosevelt Rises!
June 6, 2011
On Saturday, June 4, 2011 parents, teachers, students, administrators and community supporters of Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School knocked on more than 500 doors and spoke with over 165 families, merchants, and religious leaders during a morning of highly successful community canvassing in the Brightwood Park neighborhood of Northwest DC. The goal of this canvassing effort—organized by S.T.E.P. Up DC, an affiliate of DC Youth Power Network—was to build relationships as part of “Roosevelt Rises!,” a campaign to reestablish the school as a community institution and presence in the neighborhood.
45 members of the Roosevelt community arrived at the school for a training session on community canvassing before teams, attired in bright orange tee-shirts emblazoned with the slogan “Roosevelt Rises!” fanned out in the neighborhood. Teams were made up of Roosevelt staff, students, parents, administrators and PTA members, as well as friends from Critical Exposure, the Washington Interfaith Network, the Latin American Youth Center and the Roosevelt High School Family Community Resource Center. Ward 4 DC State Board of Education representative, Dr. Kamili Anderson, also participated in the event.
Roosevelt students prep for the canvass.
