How Students & Communities Benefit from Equity: A Community Discussion on Education When: Monday, November 4, 2013 Where: Yale Afro-American Cultural Center, (Lighten Room) 211 Park Street, New Haven CT Time: 3:30pm – 7:00pm

 
When:          Monday, November 4, 2013

Where:        Yale Afro-American Cultural Center, (Lighten Room)

211 Park Street, New Haven CT

Time:            3:30pm – 7:00pm

Overview

In 2010, the Connecticut State Board of Education adopted the new national academic standards known as the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics. The purpose of Common Core is to establish and organize what Connecticut’s public school students should know and be able to do as they progress through Grades K-12. This effort represents a central component in the State’s plan to close one of the widest and longest persisting achievement gaps in the country. As concerned students and parents, we are convening this community dialogue to ensure that communities, parents and students are prepared to advocate and organize in support of their own movement toward college and career-readiness. While all remain optimistic that the Common Core will raise standards, there are many questions left unasked and unentertained in this latest version of school reform in Connecticut. Why is community engagement critical for successful implementation of Common Core? How can parents and students lead grassroots efforts to transform schools? Why should parents and students advocate for equity in schools as a prerequisite to successful Common Core implementation?

Featured: Speakers:

Byron V. Garrett, Chairman of the National Family Engagement Alliance and former CEO of the National PTA. Byron directs the innovative schools program for Microsoft and provides guidance to the Classroom and Community Group for Scholastic

Marlon C. James Ph.D., Wendy Smith Ph.D., and Robert Simmons, Ph.D.,

Research Team & Professors of Education, Loyola University Chicago & Loyola University Maryland

Excellence and Equity: The impact of racial inopportunity on student development and achievement at Windsor High School. (Research supported by the Alliance Grant, CT State Department of Education, 2013)

Please RSVP by phone (203) 786-5499

or by email info@teachourchildren.org

Food and refreshments provided