Malverne Educational and Fitness Foundation

10/05/2023

The event is rain or shine. Proceeds from the run/walk go to various youth programs within the school district. Register or make a donation at malvernerun.org
Volunteers are welcome. Please sign up at the same address.

10/02/2022

The volunteers are making progress in preparation for the annual Malverne 5K—17th, this year. The picture shows the theme that we will use on the T-shirt. Designed by George Matthaei, Lynbrook resident, and MEFF director.
And if you register to run by midnight today, Sunday, 10/2, all net registration proceeds go directly in support of the Malverne HS band.
https://runsignup.com/Race/NY/Malverne/TheMalverne5KRun

The Malverne 5K Run for Education is on Sunday October 16, 2022. It includes the following events: 5K Run, Fun Run, and Volunteers.

10/13/2021

You can save $ by downloading a paper registration and dropping it in PO Box 82 in Malverne. The fee increases to $35 on Sunday, remains $10 for the Fun Run.
Runner's Edge gives a $120 gift card to overall winners.

09/01/2021

We are preparing the 16th annual Malverne 5K run/walk for education.
You can register at: https://runsignup.com/malverne5k

07/19/2020

The foundation moved a tiny step further today. We planted a few perennials in the little corner at the HTH. We still need to add mulch and not to forget to water daily! If someone has a 5-gallon container, you are welcome to take turns with us, as we have to bring the water.
Our next step will be the work on the student garden. We read about outdoor classes lately—even recommended by health officials. Ask your 6-8th grader what he/she would like to do in the garden and discuss how it would contribute to his/her portfolio.

05/30/2020

Our directors met today at the place where the students develop their new HTH garden—next to the gym. We invite all and especially parents who have kids enrolled in HTH. Help us in our efforts to give students agency in developing this project where they can learn about place-based education and build their portfolio for the future. Contact us here or via our website meff.org

05/04/2020

This article is on the spot. The MEFF understands the necessity of having teachers attend the high quality educational conferences. We will engage the SD in developing a set of rules in order to be able to contribute to teachers when the district sends them to such conferences.
Help us develop the program, contact us via email at meff.org
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnewing/2020/05/01/where-are-the-teachers/

In 2020, the week of May 4-8 is Teacher Appreciation Week in the United States. If you want to show teachers real appreciation this year, try giving them respect—not just words but the kind that genuinely values their expertise.

04/23/2020

The directors will meet as usual in public on Thu., at 5 pm 4/23, but for the first time virtually, using ZOOM app. You are welcome to join us.
After you fill the "Contact us" form at meff.org, you get the access code on that same screen.
Among other matters, we'll discuss the new HTH garden and creating again posters for Malverne 5K.
Last year, we asked all local schools to have students create posters and got a tremendous response. The educators call such activity Place-based Learning, or Place-based Education, and it facilitates family-school-community partnership.
Also, we got the first contribution toward the M5K (earliest ever) by Rossana Weitekamp as an expression of kindness for masks, the Malvernite, Kathleen Marie had sewn and distributed.

12/24/2019

The MEFF directors at their December meeting:
• Approved the proposal submitted by Cristina DaCosta, the teacher at MWD, to contribute to class trips that help develop real life experiences,
• Set the date for Malverne 5K run to October 18th, 2020, and
• Discussed possibilities how to grow the MEFF from being the team that organizes the Malverne 5K to an organization that resembles a community resource center.
In that matter we learned a lot at the NYS PTA Summer Leadership Conference and the NYS PTA annual convention in November. Also, Jan Kasal, the MEFF president, learned a lot as a member of the planning team in charge of the Statewide Parent Leadership Conference. Sponsored by the NYS Council on Children and Family, this inaugural conference took place in Rocherster on December 13th.
We made a little inroads into our plan to become a community resource center already. Earlier in the summer we joined HTH students in developing (and redeveloping) their garden. We applied to host the TED Student Talk, an after school club for students in elementary schools that helps develop their speaking and writing skills.
Our next initiative will be to develop in collaboration with the Malverne school board a program that will promote teachers participation in international and national educational conferences. Our goal is the teachers get a direct exposure to the globally adopted educational practices and share them with the community and implement them in the classrooms.
We encourage the residents who are familiar with such programs in neighboring school districts to share with us at our next meeting on January 22nd at the Malverne high school. In general, we invite residents with any initiative on their mind to our public meetings any time. It takes a village to develop a program.
We wish the community Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

12/09/2019

The Greater LI Running Club ran an article about the Malverne run 2019 in their Footnotes magazine for their club members. (December issue)

11/21/2019

The directors at their meeting on Wed., Nov. 20, discussed the new location of the HTH garden, took few preliminary registrations for the TED Student Talk Club, and reflected on the Malverne 5K run last month— 30% more finishers than last year, approximately $10K raised for youth programs.
In the photo, Blue arrow-future school-community garden, green area-future school-community corner. Students interested in voicing their opinion on what to do with the 2 spots are welcome to join us at our next meeting.

11/17/2019

MEFF directors will meet on Wednesday, November 20th, at 7:30 pm in the Malverne HS library, answer questions about the TED Ed Student Club.