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BOOST CONFERENCE
APRIL 22-25, 2009
Palm Spings Convention Center
Palm Springs, California
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DEADLINE TO REGISTER APRIL 10, 2009
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Dear Friends,
The BOOST Leadership Team is pleased to welcome Dr.
Pedro Noguera. BOOST Conference participants will have 3 opportunities to connect with Pedro throughout the conference.
Don't miss out!
Sincerely,
Tia Quinn
Executive Director
BOOST Collaborative |
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INTRODUCING: PEDRO NOGUERA, PhD
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 Pedro Noguera is one of America's most
important voices for healthy public education. An expert on school reform, diversity,
and the achievement gap, he is a currently a professor at the Steinhardt School
of Education at New York
University. He is also a
part-time high school teacher, the author of several groundbreaking texts, a
regular guest on CNN, and a dynamic speaker who translates social theory into
concise, hip language with emotional impact and intellectual rigor.
Pedro
Noguera is the Director of the Metropolitan
Center for Urban Education, and has
been a professor at the graduate schools of both, Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author
of several books, including the seminal City Schools
and the American Dream: Reclaiming The Promise of Public Education and
Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools. He has
also engaged in collaborative research with large urban school districts.
Recently,
he helped launch, A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education, a group of public
policy experts in various fields (housing, education, civil rights), and from
across the political spectrum, working to break a decades-long cycle of reform
efforts that promised much and have achieved far too little. The group works in
areas that research shows must be addressed if we are to keep our promises to
all of America's
children.
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EVENTS FEATURING: PEDRO NOGUERA, PhD
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Keynote: Understanding and Responding to the
Achievement Gap
This
session is designed to help educators understand that the achievement gap is
about more than differences in test
scores. Disparities in
student achievement are typically a reflection of inequality in opportunity and
resources. This presentation will
explore the different dimensions of the gap and present strategies that schools
can take in creating conditions to raise achievement for all students.
Meet & Greet and Book
Signing: The Trouble with Black Boys and Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education
 Meet & Greet: Pedro Noguera, PhD,
will be at the BOOST Collaborative Booth so stop by and say hello. Pedro will be selling and signing his book, The Trouble with Black Boys And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and
the Future of Public Education. For many years to come, race will
continue to be a source of controversy and conflict in American society. For
many of us it will continue to shape where we live, pray, go to school, and
socialize. We cannot simply wish away the existence of race or racism, but we
can take steps to lessen the ways in which the categories trap and confine us.
Educators, who should be committed to helping young people realize their
intellectual potential as they make their way toward adulthood, have a
responsibility to help them find ways to expand identities related to race so
that they can experience the fullest possibility of all that they may become.
In this brutally honest-yet ultimately hopeful- book Pedro Noguera examines
the many facets of race in schools and society and reveals what
it will take to improve outcomes for all students. From achievement gaps
to immigration, Noguera offers a rich and compelling picture
of a complex issue that affects all of us.
Workshop:Creating School Cultures that Promote Academic Excellence
While
the movement for standards and accountability has largely succeeded in bringing
greater attention to the issues surrounding student achievement, surprisingly
little attention has been given to what it takes to create conditions in
schools that will make achievement more likely. Missing from much of the policy debate related to achievement is how to support
and cultivate school cultures that promote learning and healthy social
development among children. This presentation will describe strategies
that have proven effective elsewhere at supporting teaching and learning and
transforming school cultures. It will also explore how schools can
develop effective partnerships with parents to further efforts to raise
achievement and how data can be used to develop school reforms that lead to transformations
in the culture and structure of schools.
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