WHAT IT TAKES TO SUCCESSFULLY LEAD
A DIVERSE SCHOOL COMMUNITY:
featuring
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Professor/Consultant/Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin Monday, February 9, 2009 8:00 A.M. until 3:15 P.M.
To be held at:
Governors State University - University Park, Illinois
This program is being offered in affiliation with the Consortium for Educational Change (CEC).
PUSHING PAST THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP:
Culturally Relevant Approaches to Student Academic Success
Today's administrators and teachers are under considerable pressure to close the "achievement gap." Indeed, the phrase "achievement gap" is on everyone's lips. In this presentation we examine whether we have an achievement gap or an education debt. By changing the discourse we change the terms under which we do our work and challenge administrators, teachers students, their families, and the community. The session begins with a lecture format followed by a period of questions and answers. The second half of the program is more interactive with participants engaged in common problem-solving activities concerning achievement disparities.
Participants may receive Administrators Academy Credit for
full-day participation in this program. (Academy 46)
Gloria Ladson-Billings is the Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was the 2005-2006 president of the American Educaitonal Research Association. Ladson-Billings' research examines the pedagogical practices of teachers who are successful with African American students. She also investigates Critical Race Theory applications to education. She is the author of the critically acclaimed books, The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children, Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms, and Beyond the Big House: African American Educators on Teacher Education, and more than 50 journal articles and book chapters. She is the former editor of the American Educational Research Journal and a member of several editorial boards. Her work has won numerous scholarly awards including the H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, The Spencer Post-doctoral Fellowship, and the Palmer O. Johnson outstanding research award. In 2002 she was awarded an honorary doctorate for Umea University, Umea, Sweden. Suring the 2003-2004 academic year she was a fellow aty the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA. In the fall of 2004 she received the George and Louise Spindler Award from the Council on Anthropology and Education for significant and ongoing contributions to the field of educational anthropology, In the spring of 2005 she was elected to the National Academy of Education and the National Society for the Study of Education. In the fall of 2007 she became the second woman to be ordained as deacon at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Madison, WI. In Spring 2008 she was awarded the Hilldale Distinguished Faculty Award, the highest distinction offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Teachers College, Columbia University Distinguished Service Medal. Program Fees
(Main program fees include morning refreshments, lunch, and materials.)
Feb. 9, 2009 Members and Staff from Partner Organizations $ 170.00
Feb. 9, 2009 Non-Members/Non-Partners $ 235.00
Additional Fee for Administrators Academy Credit $ 15.00
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