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Join us in Kansas City!
14th Annual NAME International Conference

Educational Site Visits - Wed, Thursday and Friday
Please sign up onsite for these site visits.  Busses leave the lobby at the starting times listed below
 
J.S. Chick Elementary School
Wednesday
8:45 am to 1:30 pm
J.S. Chick African-Centered ‘Shule’ Elementary School has developed a unique and innovative style for educating children that is based on the Afrocentric methodology. This culturally inclusive theme and methodology has contributed to Chick’s students having among the best achievement test scores in the school district. J.S. Chick Elementary has been recognized both locally and nationally as a model for progressive education and academic excellence. The collaborative partnerships with programs like Kansas City LINC’s Caring Communities, Foster Grandparents, Parents as Teachers, Missouri Division of Family Services and a dedicated network of community volunteers, set a standard of excellence in the school’s efforts to promote the academic and personal success of urban students.
   
Elementary School - Scarritt Elementary
Friday
9:30 am to 1:30 pm
Scarritt Elementary is located in a historic community of Northeast Kansas City, MO overlooking the downtown area and the industrial rail yards. Scarritt has a diverse ethnicity of students with 65% Latinos, 17% African Americans, 17% Caucasians, and 1% Indian,Vietnamese, Somalian, and Middle Eastern. Presently, Scarritt has 390 students enrolled in Kindergarten through fifth grade.Approximately 60% of the student body actively participate in an English as a Second Language (ESL/ELL) program.
   
Foreign Language Academy  (K-8)
Friday
9:30 am to 1:30 pm

 

Foreign Language Academy (K-8) Visit a Global Language Immersion program in which the regular school curriculum is taught in the second language—French and Spanish. Learn about the K-8 Spanish immersion and 6- 8 French immersion program and how diverse teachers from all over the world successfully affect the academic achievement of diverse student populations.

   
High School - Paseo Academy
Wednesday
8:45 am to 1:30 pm
Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts is a 4-year high school offering intensive training in the fine arts, as well as a full college preparatory curriculum. Housed in a state-of-the-art facility, Paseo Academy is an extraordinary performance center complete with a 1200-seat theatre, an art gallery for student exhibitions, a black box theatre, a set shop, and even a recording studio. Attracting talented and motivated arts students from the Kansas City Metro area, Paseo also provides a rigorous academic program to prepare students for
college and advanced study. Its design is to cultivate future actors, musicians, dancers, and writers with artist-in-residence teachers. Located in the heart of Kansas City, MO urban community, it attracts a diverse group of students and staff.
   
Higher Education
Thursday
8:30 am to 2:00 pm

Haskell Indian Nations University Haskell Indian Nations University of Lawrence, KS is the only federally supported intertribal university for American Indians and Alaskan Natives in the United States offering a bachelor's degree. Its history dates back to 1884 when it was founded as one of the first off-reservation Indian boarding schools. It originally provided vocational training with an emphasis on agriculture. As an intertribal institution, Haskell has evolved to serve the largest and most-diverse American Indian and Alaskan Native population of any institution of higher learning within the United States. In any given year, Haskell's more than 800 students, coming from 34 to 40 states, represent more than 150 federally recognized American Indian tribes and Alaskan Native villages.

   
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