Metro Center for Urban Education

Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality

2012 Summer Institute

Summer Institute 2012 Program Booklet 

Guardians of Equity: Moving Beyond a Deficit Model

The Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality (TACD), in partnership with New York State Education Department (NYSED) Office of Special Education, invites you to the 2012 Summer Institute. 

To register, please click here. 

This year's Summer Institute, Gloria Ladson-Billings, the Kellner  Family Professor of Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin and Elizabeth Harry, Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Miami University, will headline an energizing day of dialogue and discovery at our annual Equity in Education conference. 




The keynote speaker, Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, is the Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin. She is credited with coining the term "culturally responsive pedagogy," and is one of the leaders in the field of culturally relevant teaching.  
                                                      
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                                                                                       Dr. Elizabeth Harry, a Professor in the Department of Teaching & Learning at the University of Miami. Her teaching and research focus is on the impact of cultural diversity on education, multicultural family issues and ethnic disproportionality in special education.


 

Summer Institute will be held on July 6, 2012 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm at New York University's Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square S., New York City,10012.                                                                   

Break-Out Sessions

The Summer Institute Break-Out Sessions will include:

  • Perry Williams (U.S. Department of Education)  – Federal Policy and Disproportionality: Moving Beyond Compliance
  • Charles David Billings (The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond) – The Impact of Race in Modern Day Life
  • New York Sate Language Regional Bilingual Educational Resource Network (RBERN) – Strategies to Provide ELL Students with Academic and Social-Emotional Support
  • Hip Hop Education Center (Metro Center for Urban Education, NYU) – Hip Hop Education
  • Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz & Florence K. Diallo (Teachers College) – From Racial Literacy to Cultural Responsiveness
  • Bryan Rosenberg (NYU)– What Educators Should Know about the Experiences of LGBT Students in Schools
  • Lindsey Davis & Kristen Davidoff (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) - Understanding and Addressing Micro-aggressions
  • Justin Bennett (NYU) – Linguistic Hybridity of U.S. Latino Students and their Acquisition of Standard American English
  • Monique Habersham (RSE-TASC) – Influences on Expectations of African American Gifted Students
  • Janice Chu-Zhu (The Children’s Aid Society; National Center for Community Schools) – Connecting with Families
  • Carolyn Strom (NYU) – Equitable Instruction for Bilingual Readers
  • Huntington School District – The Messiness of Readiness – Avoiding the Deficit Perspective
  • Niagara Falls School District – Not Like Me – Engaging School Staff in Conversations Regarding Students and Co-workers Who are Not Like Them
  • New York City School District, Children’s First Network 203 – Closing the Culture and Language Gap of ELL Students
  • Roosevelt School District – Teachers’ Culturally Relevant Beliefs in high need schools serving African American Students
  • Port Chester School District – Whole Child, Whole School: Applying Theory to Practice in Community Schools
 

Summer Institute 2011 Program Booklet 

Guardians of Equity: Improving the Educational Opportunity of Children
 

Guardians of Equity: Improving the Educational Opportunity of Children

The Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality (TACD), in partnership with New York State Education Department (NYSED) Office of Special Education, invites you to the 2011 Summer Institute. 

To register, please click here. 

This year's Summer Institute will focus on how schools can become a protective environment for students through the development of culturally responsive practices.

The keynote speaker, Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer, is nationally known for her work in racial identity development as well as the self-efficacy and resilience of adolescents. Dr. Spencer's recent re-creation of the landmark Doll Test from the 1940s was seen on CNN and brought a renewed focus on how students perceive skin color in today's classrooms.

 Additional breakout sessions will address how schools are creating culturally responsive environments that nurture healthy self-confidence and achievement.  

 

Summer Institute will be held on July 6, 2011 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm at New York University's Kimmel Center. 

                                                                    

                                                                       Agenda for 2011 Summer Institute

8:30am-9:00am: Morning refreshments

9:00am-9:15am: Welcome from Dr. Lester W. Young, Jr., Regent at Large, University of the State of New York

9:15am-9:30am: Welcome from Dr. Rebecca H. Cort, New York State Education Department,  Associate Commissioner for Special Education

9:30am-9:45am: Introduction of Keynote by Dr. Eddie Fergus, Deputy Director,Metropolitan Center for Urban Education

9:45am-10:45am: Keynote Presentation by Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer

10:45am-11:00am: Break

11:00am-12:30pm: Session A Workshops and Presentations

12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch with Special Address from Dr. Pedro Noguera, Executive Director, Metropolitan Center for Urban Education

1:45pm-3:15pm: Session B Workshops and Presentations

3:15pm-3:30pm: Break

3:30pm-4:45pm: Panel Discussion on Micro-Aggressions, Moderated by Dr. Pedro Noguera

4:45pm: Closing Remarks and Evaluations

2011 Summer Institute Logistics and Registration 

Summer Institute will be held on July 6, 2011 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm at New York University's Kimmel Center.

New York University
Kimmel Center for University Life
Rosenthal Pavilion
60 Washington Square South
New York, New York 10012

For directions to New York University, please click here.

Registration is open to all current and former TACD school districts and regions. Please register online.

Special Rate on Hotel Accommodations
The Cooper Square Hotel
25 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003
(212) 475-5700
(888) 251-7979
Block of rooms will be held until June 13, 2011
Rate $225 per night
http://www.thecoopersquarehotel.com/

 

2010 Summer Institute

 Implementing Equitable Academic and Behavioral Systems to Improve Student Outcomes

This year's topic, Implementing Equitable Academic and Behavioral Systems to Improve Student Outcomes, provides practitioners, researchers, and technical assistance providers with an opportunity to address methods of decreasing disproportionality in schools. From system-wide reform to simple changes in classroom practices, we've got something of interest for every educator committed to improving the educational outcomes of all students.