This meetup aims to develop participants' ability to create compelling experiences which reveal some aspect of a scientific or technical subject. Science and technical subjects have a reputation for being dry and boring. It's undeserved: we're the ones making it dry and boring. Partly inspired by Toastmasters (http://www.toastmasters.org/), each session is focused on understanding the elements that combine to create powerful learning and teaching experiences, whether in demos or lectures …

Our money?  Our child? .... Our decision! This meetup brings various people together to reclaim the right of parents to decide which school their child should attend. We awaken parents that it is their responsibility to guide their child's education  -- no other adult in the system understands their unique child better, or is more invested in their specific child's future.  This responsibility cannot be safely handed off to any other adult. We empower parents by educating them about the entire r …

TeachersProvide is an incubator to start up new types of schools. Massachusetts Teachers Provide attend local events for education entrepreneurs to learn and help each other. Education entrepreneurs may include philanthropists, investors, teachers, businessmen, administrators, parents -- anyone with a passion about targeting specific resources and techniques to create a school to better serve specific student segments on specific educational goals. Schools produced may form as charters, innovati …

Dedicated Fathers Supporting Dedicated FathersA fathering group that meets regularly to discuss the opportunities and challenges of fathering. Dads in any walk of life, with children of any age, meet regularly to support, encourage, feedback, advise, and learn. Each dad, while unique, is committed to being a wise, loving, self-aware dad, and promoting a safe, wholesome, happy, successful, and healthful life for children. Fathering Foums are a special time - and for some dads the only formal tim …

We are a group of mothers, many of us SAH, who believe in the life-long benefits of Attachment Parenting, a term coined by pediatrician William Sears. http://www.askdrsears.com/html/10/T130300.asp We agree with API's mission to create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and their parents. "API believes that Attachment Parenting (AP) practices fulfill a child's need for trust, empathy, and affection and will provide a foundation for a lifetime of healthy relationships." We welcome …