Urban Culture, Underserved Populations, and Community College Pedagogy in the 21st Century
Fall 2007
Guest Speaker: Dr. Bill Tally
Senior Researcher and Designer, Education Development Center
Dr. Tally will talk about assessment and research methods that will help us to manageably collect and look at various kinds of evidence of student learning.
He also has interest and expertise in "New Media Literacy, " for those working or interested in those issues.
View the video of the lecture
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Urban Culture, Underserved Populations, and Community College Pedagogy in the 21st Century
Spring 2007
Fri., Feb. 23, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. Lecture and seminar discussion (lunch included)
Coffee will be Served at 9:00 a.m. in the Well of M-136
Lecture 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Room M-136
Seminar 10:30 to 12:30 p.m. Room A-502 Open to Participants ONLY
Urban sociologist, Dr. Pedro Noguera, Professor in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and Co-Director of the Institute for the study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS). Dr. Noguera is the author of Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools (2006) ; Beyond Resistance: Youth Civic Engagement and Social Change ( 2006) ; and City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education (2003).
"Teaching the 1st Generation:
The Role of Community Colleges
In Creating Pathways to the Middle Class"
Video of Noguera's QCC Lecture 2/23/07
More on Dr. Pedro Noguera
Video Sample
Friday, March 16, 10 am - 1:00 pm. Lecture and seminar discussion
(lunch included)
Lecture 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. LB-14
Seminar 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Room A-502 Open to Participants ONLY
Dr. Estela Rojas, Professor of Mathematics, City Tech College , CUNY, Professor of Mathematics and “Scholar on Campus” at City tech, Dr. Rojas has expertise in how students learn, cultural issues related to student success, the effective uses of collaborative learning and active learning. She has spearheaded a successful Learning Communities approach for first year students and also works with teachers in Chile . Rojas has written several workbooks in subjects such as collaborative learning, math anxiety and assessment, which she uses in her activities abroad.
More on Dr. Estela Rojas
Video of Dr. Estela Rojas - Click here...
Frances Lucerna, is a Co-Founder and Executive Director for
Programs at El Puente, a Brooklyn based community/youth development
organization that nurtures holistic leadership for peace and social justice.
In 1993 she became the founding Principal of America's first public high school
for human rights, the celebrated El Puente Academy for Peach & Justice, a
New Visions/New York City Broard of Education High School, bringing El Puente
to the forefront of the national school reform movement. Her many awards include
"Celebrating Success" from the Children's Defense Fund, the Brooklyn Council
on the Arts' Arts Advocate Award and the 1998 Heniz Award for the Human Condition.
More on Frances Lucerna
Video of Frances Lucerna - Click here...
Friday, April 13, 10 am - 1:00 pm. Lecture and seminar discussion (lunch included)
Lecture 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. LB-14
Seminar 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. A-502
Dr. Ron Scapp, Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Urban and Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx, New York, where he is also professor of humanities and teacher education. Dr. Scapp is the author of Managing to be different: Educational leadership as a critical practice (2006) and Teaching Values Critical Perspectives on Education, Politics and Culture.
More on Dr. Ron Scapp
Friday, May 11, 10 am-1:00 pm (lunch included)
Seminar 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. A-504
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