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REGISTER NOW for NAME’S 1st Summer Institute

"Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s Leaders:
Strengthening America through Socially Just
Corporate, Political, and Educational Partnerships"

Temple University in Philadelphia, PA
Friday, July 11, 2008

Please join us for NAME’s first Summer Institute, bringing together the spectrum of advocates and activists for multicultural education and educational equity. The theme, Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s Leaders: Strengthening America through Socially Just Corporate, Political, and Educational Partnerships, invites us to dialogue with members of the community across several fields.

NAME’s Summer Institute is being co-sponsored by Temple University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs

Keynote Speakers:

• Dr. Carl A. Grant, Hoefs-Bascom Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Afro-American Studies and the Department of Educational Curriculum and Instruction and former NAME President

• Dr. Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Urban Studies at Rutgers University-Camden, and recipient of the 2007 National Mujer Award from the National Hispana Leadership Institute

Optional Opening Panel Discussion & Reception: Thursday evening, July 10, Paul C. Gorski, NAME President-elect, is the panel moderator. Attendance is limited. There is a nominal fee of $10.

Who Should Attend:

• K-12 and Higher Educators
• Non-profit organizations
• Corporate and business leaders
• Community organizers
• Social service providers
• Parents
• High School, Undergraduate, and Graduate Students
• Everyone interested in the education of our students!

Concurrent Sessions:

• Cultivating the Leader in Today's Children - Rose Duhon-Sells and Asraf Esmail,Southern University at New Orleans
• Inequitable Influences: Class,Poverty, and the Corporate Presence in Public Schools - Paul C. Gorski, Hamline University
• The Amazing Family Math & Family Science Models: Building STEM Skills & Productive Relationships Simultaneously - Tasha Lebow, University of Michigan
• Teaching the Truth: Building School/Community Partnerships that Strengthen African American Student Success and Promote Racial Understanding Among All Ethnic Groups - Barbara Spencer Dunn, Joi Spencer, ASALH
• Equity and Access for All Children:  Partnering to Shape P-20 Educational Practices and Mobilizing Partnerships among Colleges of Education, Communtities of Color, and School Districts to Address At-Risk Prevention and Increase Equity and Access - Aretha Marbley, Texas Tech U, Paul Frazier, Lubbock Independent School District
• Mentoring: A 21st Century Perspective - Rita Robinson, Creative Enterprises Pamela Harris, Prince Georges County Public Schools
• "But There's Only So Much I Can Do Because of the Home Environment" - Rachel Martin, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
• A Conversation with Carl Grant - (morning keynoter)
• Animated Oppression: Children's Film and Media Literacy as a Strategy for Social Justice Education - Brian C. Johnson, Manna Unlimited Motivations
• Who will carry the torch? College students and twenty-first century activism in the United States - Kristine S. Lewis, School of Education at Drexel University.
  
  

When:

Tentative Schedule

Thursday, July 10, 2008
Optional Evening Panel Presentation and Reception ($10 ticket)

Friday, July 11, 2008
NAME’s Summer Institute

8:00 – 10:00 am Registration and light refreshments

9:00 – 10:15 am Welcome and 1st Keynote Address

10:30 – 11:45 am Concurrent Sessions

12:00 – 1:30 pm Luncheon and 2nd Keynote /Networking

1:45 – 2:30 pm Concurrent Sessions

2:45 – 3:00 pm Closing Remarks

Where:

The day-long event will be held at the Howard Gittis Student Center, located on 13th Street and Montgomery Avenue, on Temple University’s Main Campus. The main parking lot is at the Liacourus Center, located on 15th Street, between Montgomery Avenue and Cecil B. Moore Avenue. Parking is $10.

Campus maps for Temple University are available here and here.

For hotels in the area, please click here.

Registration:

This is an online pre-registration event. Register no later than 6/30/08.
Please click here to register.

Or you can log-in with your username and password here and click on “Event Registration” under “Members Area Features”

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