IUME Director Ernest Morrell Speaking at 2012 DiRP Conference

On March 31st, Professor Ernest Morrell of Teachers College, Columbia University, spoke at the 2012 Diversity in Research and Practice Conference, following the Keynote Panel of Youth from East Rochester High. With the students in the audience and inspiring all in attendance, Dr. Morrell spoke about the future of education and what we must do to change the narrative in subsequent years.

The first speaker for the University of Maine Correll Presidential Lecture Series will be Ernest Morrell, director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College. He’ll speak March 26 about English language arts instruction.

In a multimodal, interactive session, Morrell, who also is vice president of the National Council of Teachers of English, will outline a core set of principles for culturally relevant and academically rigorous 21st century English language arts instruction from 4:30-5:45 p.m. in the Wells Conference Center. The public is invited to the free event. The talk, “Powerful English Language Arts Teaching in the 21st Century Classroom,” will feature examples of new teaching pedagogies and explain how incorporating new literacies into classroom instruction serves to increase student engagement and academic literacy development. He’ll also outline principles of powerful teaching through engagement, affirmation, discipline, inspiration, purpose and love.

Additional information is available on the UMaine College of Education and Human Development website.

Contact: Susan Bennett-Armistead, (207) 581-2418

Thanks to all who helped on the Dr. Winn talk and the UMOJA conference this week. Both were successful events because of your help. I wanted to alert you to another event that we are co-sponsoring with the Latina/o Faculty Working Group. We will have two state legislators joining us for a discussion of the NY DREAM Act. The LFWG will need our help creating a flyer, coordinating logistics, and getting the word out. Information is posted below. Thanks

Please save the date for our upcoming NY DREAM Act panel. We will send the official flyer in the coming days.

NY DREAM ACT:

Educational Equity for Undocumented New Yorkers

Join us for a discussion with

Senator Bill Perkins

and

Assemblyman Guillermo Linares

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Milbank Chapel

5:00 PM- 7:00 PM

This panel will bring together a group of experts in policy and educational research to explore the New York DREAM Act, introduced by Senator Bill Perkins and Assemblyman Guillermo Linares. The intention of this dialogue is to raise awareness about issues surrounding educational equity and the current efforts underway aiming to increase access to higher education for undocumented students in the state of New York.

Invited Panelists:

Regina Cortina

Associate Professor of Education

Teachers College, Columbia University

Kevin Dougherty

Associate Professor of Higher Education

Teachers College, Columbia University

Kenny Neinhusser

Teachers College, Columbia University

Ernest Morrell

Professor of Education

Director, Institute for Urban and Minority Education

Sponsored by the Latina/o and Latin American Faculty Working Group and the Institute for Urban and Minority Education

IUME Culture Circle: African-American Literacies feat. Jamila Lyiscott and Crystal Belle

On February 25th, 2012, IUME had its second Culture Circle at Teachers College’s Edmund Gordon Campus in Harlem, which focused on African-American Literacies led by graduate students Jamila Lyiscott and Crystal Belle. Prior to critical discussion by all the participants, Jamila and Crystal co-performed deeply powerful two spoken words poems that sparks subsequent discussions.

Hello Everyone,

Come and join us Monday, March 19, 2012, 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., at Teachers College to hear Dr. Maisha T. Winn’s presentation, “Still Writing in Rhythm: Youth Poets at Work in the World”