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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE T.I.M.M.-E Co. Inc. Launches New Ambassador Project and Website, Taking The Company Worldwide Partners With The Children’s Health Education Foundation And Participates in National Education Conference New York, NY – July 15, 2008 – The T.I.M.M.-E Company, Inc. (Tolerance in Multi Media Education)— an educational company to teach tolerance for diversity in schools—launches the SAGE Ambassador Project ™ and a new website, extending its mission to reach a global audience. “It is my goal that the SAGE Ambassador Project ™ will amplify the T.I.M.M.-E Company’s mission of teaching diversity and celebrate our common humanity to end teasing, taunting and bullying due to differences within classrooms around the world,” Timothy D. Bellavia, founder of the T.I.M.M.-E Co. Inc. and award-winning children’s author, said. The SAGE Ambassador Project will be featured on the T.I.M.M.-E Company’s newly designed website. Each month the website will showcase one classroom in a different region in the world using the “We Are All the Same Inside” curriculum. The curriculum with hands-on materials to teach tolerance is based upon Bellavia’s first of four children’s books of the same name. The new website will modernize its former, static design and replace it with an interactive approach, featuring a make your own doll workshop. As a result, any classroom in the world can take part in the learning experience. A classroom in Australia - led by Will Dorrell - just completed using the “We Are All the Same Inside” curriculum. A documentary of the children’s experience is scheduled for release this month under T.I.M.M.-E Productions, a division of the T.I.M.M.-E Co. Inc. “It came together wonderfully,” Bellavia said about working hand and hand with the classroom in Australia . “It was like a love letter from the universe.” South Africa and Las Vegas are the next regions planned to complete the tolerance workshops. Over the past decade the T.I.M.M.-E Co. Inc. has built a franchise on Sage—a cuddly character first introduced in the children’s book We Are All the Same Inside —who became so recognizable with children and popular with educators that a plush doll was released. The doll possesses the same internal organs that we all share, but demonstrates the external skin differences that continue to divides us. In the workshops each participant designs a Sage doll and through a hands-on approach embraces the message that ‘we are all the same inside.’ Children’s Health Education Foundation The T.I.M.M.-E Co. Inc. announces its partnership with Project Aspire, a program developed by the Children’s Health Education Foundation, a non-profit unit of the School of Education and Psychology – A Graduate Division of Touro College in New York City . Project Aspire’s mission is to encourage health care aspirations of students in Central Harlem whose social, economic, or educational circumstances may challenge the fulfillment of their dreams. “The Children’s Health Education Foundation is a foundation near to my heart,” Bellavia said. “Their motto is "Yes I Can;” there is a lot of good vitality going on here. Children are like sponges. You tell them they can and they believe they can.” The T.I.M.M.-E Co. Inc. is developing “Operation Lab Coat,” a publication that chronicles the pilot year of this wonderful early childhood program that features the Sage doll. “This program models and introduces the health care profession to children,” Bellavia said. “It exercises and plants the seeds for proper nutrition. The goal for any educator is to have your students reach their highest potential. This foundation’s project helps inspire students to be health care workers—like doctors.” Core Knowledge The T.I.M.M.-E Co. Inc. will conduct doll-making workshops to educators across the country at this year’s Core Knowledge National Conference in Anaheim , CA from Nov. 20-22. The Core Knowledge Foundation is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan organization founded in 1986. Core Knowledge is centered around a curriculum that focuses on learning through hands-on approaches. Therefore, it is a perfect match for the “We Are All the Same Inside” curriculum. “Core Knowledge makes education more vibrant and wholistic for the youn g learner,” Bellavia said. “The textbooks have made a buzz with some of my colleagues, and when they personally asked me to present, I was just thrilled.” Upcoming Appearances Mr. Bellavia will conduct doll-making workshops at the following venues:
About the T.I.M.M.-E Company. Inc. The T.I.M.M.-E. Company, Inc. (Tolerance in Multi Media Education) was founded in 2000 by Timothy D. Bellavia to promote peace, tolerance and acceptance for our common humanity. With the success of Bellavia’s first children’s picture book, We Are All The Same Inside , The T.I.M.M.-E. Co. Inc. developed an early childhood, human diversity school curriculum with tolerance-teaching dolls featured in Bellavia’s books. The primary purpose of the “We Are All the Same Inside” line of products is to help young individuals develop, understand and appreciate the various aspects of cultural diversity and gender differences. In 2003 Bellavia presented the curriculum at the United Nations on the International day of Tolerance on behalf of the Anti Defamation League and the We Are Family Foundation. The theme of his address was “Educating Our Children For A Safer World.” In 2004 the New York City Department
of Education realized the value of the curriculum and awarded the company
a contract. This contract has allowed the T.I.M.M.-E Co. Inc. to strenghten
its mission to teach tolerance to New York City’s school children,
while integrating the arts into the literacy curriculum. About Timothy D. Bellavia, Timothy D. Bellavia is an award-winning children's author, illustrator and educator with a M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in New York. Bellavia's art has hung in museums and galleries throughout the United States. He has also worked as an independent curator at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. He teaches in the School of Education & Psychology – Graduate Division at Touro College in New York City. Bellaiva is the author of We Are All the Same Inside (2000), Come and Abide (2002), Theo and the Sisters of Sage (2003) and Sage Goes to Kindergarten (2006). He has also produced two caldendars featuring Sage for the Elias Howe School and the Single Parent Resource Center. Bellavia is is the receiptent of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Scuplture’s Fellowship Grant of 1997, Christopher Award Nominee for Best Children’s Book of 2001 for We Are All the Same Inside, Principal for a Day (2002), and Y.A.I. (Young Adult Institute) Recognition Award (2003). CONTACT For more information on the T.I.M.M.-E Co. Inc., Dustin Fitzharris, dfitzharris@weareallthesameinside.com |
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