February 8, 2024
None but Ourselves: Disrupting Anti-Blackness Within Ourselves and Our Work as Educators
Lauren W. Wells is an educator, researcher, and community organizer whose work centers on comprehensive, systemic, culturally responsive, and collaborative approaches to educational and social change.
Wells led the participants in an interactive workshop on principles from her recent book, There Are No Deficits Here: Disrupting Anti-Blackness in Education (2024). The event was designed to aid PK-12 teachers and administrators, University teacher education faculty, staff and students, and community members invested in developing an ecology of equity in education.
February 7, 2023
Black Reconstructions: Archival Assembly & Histories of American Education
Jarvis R. Givens, Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Faculty Affiliate in Department of African & African American Studies.
Givens' talk, "Black Reconstructions: Archival Assembly and Histories of American Education", offers lessons about Black educators drawn from historical archives. Using photographs, excerpts from speeches, and personal vignettes, Givens will highlight the achievements of Carter G. Woodson and other Black schoolteachers from the time after the Civil War, during the Jim Crow era, until 1970. The research underscores that these professionals were more than just practitioners in the classroom, but advocates and scholars of practice as they developed covert instructional curriculum while wearing a public mask of compliance.
February 23, 2022
Let's Talk. Cultivating Antibias and Antiracist Partnerships with Parents and Caregivers.
Liz Kleinrock
Kleinrock’s presentation, Let’s Talk, is heavily drawn from Kleinrock’s recent work, Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community.
February 27, 2021
Learning to Teach Differently: Centering the Work of Black Women Educational Theorists
Gholdy Muhammad and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Learning to Teach Differently, a half-day virtual institute, designed for teacher education students, practicing PK-12 teachers, teacher educators, and other key educational partners.
The presenters highlighted their recent scholarship regarding the inclusion of Black Feminist Thought in teacher education preparation and schooling practices.The presenters also offered recommendations and shared examples of ways to bring these practices to life in order to improve the overall quality of education for our schools’ Black and Brown children.
Friday, April 12, 2019
Culturally Responsive Gifted Education and Educators: Models, Resources, and Strategies to Recruit and Retain Under-Represented Students of Color
Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D.
Professor Ford conducts research primarily in gifted education and multicultural/urban education. Specifically, her work focuses on: (1) recruiting and retaining culturally different students in gifted education; (2) multicultural and urban education; (3) achievement gaps; (4) minority student achievement and underachievement; and (5) family involvement.
April 25, 2018
Code-meshing: Critical Awareness in Action
Dr. Vershawn Young and Y'Shanda Rivera
"Explore how code-meshing results in lucid, dynamic prose, and discuss why all writers and speakers benefit when we demystify academic language and encourage students to explore the plurality of the English language"
April 6, 2017
Strategies to Promote Academic Success
Dr. Chance Lewis
"Chance Lewis, Ph.D. is the professor of Urban Education in the College of Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an author of over 20 books including the national bestseller: An Educator's Guide to Working with African American Students: Strategies for Promoting Academic Success. He is founding executive director of the UNC Charlotte Urban Education Collaborative which is dedicated to disseminating the next generation of research on the improvement of teaching and learning in urban schools. Lewis formerly served on the faculty at Texas A&M University and Colorado State University. Additionally, Dr. Lewis is the Chief Executive Officer of The CTQ Group, a comprehensive School Improvement Firm, with an intentional focus on School Turnaround of Low-Performing Schools."
March 25, 2015
Urban Education Summit at Nazareth College
"The event featured leaders of successful urban schools in New York State; and how these urban schools are achieving such great heights. Wade S. Norwood and Lester W. Young Jr. were the keynote speakers for the event. They both are both Regents-at-Large with the New York State Board of Regents"
Fall 2015
Democracy, Markets, and the Retreat from the Common School
Dr. Alex Molnar
Dr. Molnar holds a Ph.D. in urban education and is a Research Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he serves as Publications Director of the National Education Policy Center and Director of the Commercialism in Education Research Unit (CERU). He is the author and co-author of numerous books, reports, and peer-reviewed articles on education. His most recent work, with Faith Boninger of the NEPC, was recently released, Sold Out: How Marketing in School Threatens Children's Well-Being and Undermines their Education. This book examines the threats school commercialism poses to children's psychological health, physical health, and the integrity of their education.
April 23, 2014
Keeping Students Engaged
Dr. Pedro Noguera
"Dr. Pedro Noguera is a professor in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. Dr. Noguera's scholarship and research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the context of an urban environment. He is a leading urban education scholar and a prolific author whose works include the books The Trouble with Black Boys and other reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education, City Schools and the American Dream, and The Imperatives of Power"
March 22, 2012
Learning to Build a Better World: Classroom Practice, Student Learning, and Social Justice Teaching
Dr. Christine Sleeter
"Sleeter is Professor Emerita in the College of Professional Studies at California State University Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. Sleeter is an accomplished scholar and author, having more than 100 articles published in various edited books. She is also a renowned speaker, having traveled all over the country and abroad to speak on issues of multicultural education. Sleeter has received many awards, including the American Educational Research Association Social Justice Award, the California State University Monterey Bay President's Medal, and the Central University Washington University Distinguished Alumni Award"
March 24, 2011
Finding Joy in Teaching Students of Diverse Backgrounds: Reflections from Teachers
Dr. Sonia Nieto
"Dr. Sonia Nieto is Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy, and Culture in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is an internationally renowned scholar and author of numerous books and articles on multicultural education"
April 8, 2010
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Dr. Geneva Gay
"Dr. Geneva Gay is nationally and internationally known for her extensive work in multicultural education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, staff development, classroom instruction, and intersections of culture, race, ethnicity, teaching, and learning. Dr. Gay is a Professor of Education at the University of Washington-Seattle where she teaches multicultural education and general curriculum theory"
March 27, 2009
Teaching Diverse and Digital Youth
Dr. Jabari Mahiri
"The Frontier Center for Urban Education hosted 'Teaching Diverse and Digital Youth,' a lecture and workshop presented by Jabari Mahiri. Mahiri is an Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley who researches the literacy learning of urban youth- particularly African Americans- in schools and out of them"