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Michael Lindsey: CRSP Fall Lecture Series

December 5, 2019 By Apost Admin

Location Information Street parking is available on the streets adjacent to the Cathedral for $3.00 per hour. Parking may be available in Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall Parking Lot on Bigelow Boulevard; it is approximately $1.00 per hour. Address: 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15206 2017 Cathedral of Learning All lectures are from 12pm-1:15pm in […]

Tagged With: Black Youth, Center for Urban Education, CUE, Free, lecture, Mental Health, Speaker Series

#CUETalks – Finding Reason for Hope: Race, Inequality, and Educational Change

October 23, 2019 By Apost Admin

Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, Alumni Hall (4227 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206), 4-6 p.m. – Followed by a reception 6-7 p.m. This talk will explore educational inequality and trends related to inequality in U.S. society, focusing in particular on inequality in relation to race. Dr. Nasir will also explore both the ideology of structural racial […]

Tagged With: Center for Urban Education, CUE, CUETalks, dehumanization, education, equity, inequality, racial inequality, University of Pittsburgh

CUESEF 2019 (Center for Urban Education Summer Educator Forum)

July 18, 2019 By Apost Admin

July 18 – July 20, 2019 THEME: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Re-imagining Policies, Practices, and Politics in Education Systems Alumni Hall, Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, USA – Center for Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh The “school-to-prison pipeline” refers to the disturbing national trend in which children are funneled out of public schools and into juvenile and […]

Tagged With: Best Practices, Center for Urban Education, Conference, CUESEF, Education Systems, Politics, School to Prison Pipeline, Summer Educator Forum, University of Pittsburgh

Lunch & Learn: Insurgent Knowledges Book Talk

April 18, 2019 By Apost Admin

Thursday, April 18, 2019 – 12:00pm to 1:15 p.m. CUE Commons 4303 Wesley W. Posvar Hall Light refreshments will be available at 11:45 a.m. This dialogue with the authors, Damien M. Sojoyner and Sabina E. Vaught will both challenge and deepen our understanding of the school-to-prison pipeline, the relationship of schools and prisons, and cultures […]

Tagged With: book talk, Center for Urban Education, CUE, Damien Sojoyner, Educational Change, educational resistance, Lunch and Learn, Posvar Hall, prisons, Sabina Vaught, School to Prison Pipeline, schools

Spring Reflection into Action

March 27, 2019 By Apost Admin

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 5:30-7:30 p.m. Location: TBA Join our panel of local school, district, student group, parent and community representatives for a discussion designed to create collective strategies for advancing the ideas presented during Dr. H. Samy Alim’s #CUETalks lecture (March 21) into actionable plans for improving our schools and communities. Light refreshments will be available. […]

Tagged With: actionable plans, Center for Urban Education, CUETalks, Dr. H. Samy Alim, reflection, Spring, University of Pittsburgh

Sorry to Bother You: Education and the Disruption of White Cultural and Linguistic Hegemony in the U.S. and South Africa

March 21, 2019 By Apost Admin

Thursday, March 21, 2019 4-6 p.m. O’Hara Student Center Ballroom | 4042 O’Hara Street Presented by H. Samy Alim, Ph.D. Presenting data collected over the past 20 years, this talk will highlight how we can disrupt White cultural and linguistic hegemony by developing new paradigms for the study of language, race, and culture in education. Dr. […]

Tagged With: Center for Urban Education, CUE, CUETalks, culture, education, educational justice, hegemony, language, race, University of Pittsburgh

(Re) Imagining Black Boyhood: Strategies for Relational Learning at School

February 28, 2019 By Apost Admin

Thursday, Feb. 28th, 4-5:30 p.m. CUE Commons (4303 Posvar Hall) Speaker: Joseph Derrick Nelson, Ph.D. Cosponsored by Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program, the School of Education, and the Center for Urban Education This presentation challenges deficit-oriented perspectives of Black boys and disuses evidence-based “relational teaching strategies,” which are designed to both facilitate positive learning […]

Tagged With: black boys, Center for Urban Education, education, positive learning relationships, relational teaching strategies, schools, teachers

Lunch & Learn – Critical Language Pedagogy: Reimagining Dialects, Identity and Power in Urban Education

December 6, 2018 By Apost Admin

Lunch & Learn – Critical Language Pedagogy: Reimagining Dialects, Identity and Power in Urban Education December 6, 2018 – 12:00pm to 1:15pm , CUE Commons, 4303 Wesley Posvar, 230 S. Bouquet St. Light refreshments will be available at 11:45 a.m. Critical Language Pedagogy is an approach to teaching about language that acknowledges power, privilege, identity and racism in how […]

Tagged With: Center for Urban Education, Critical Language Pedagogy, CUE, Dr. Amanda J. Godley, Identity, Lunch & Learn, power, University of Pittsburgh, urban education

Lunch & Learn – Schooling in Racist America: White Teachers and Whiteness with a Soft Touch

November 8, 2018 By Apost Admin

November 8, 2018 – 1:00pm to 2:30pm 4303, Wesley Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet Street Light refreshments will be available at 12:45 p.m. This talk first argues that, as a descriptive and analytic phrase, “White supremacy” has certain advantages over the more folk use of “racism.” This utility is only becoming more obvious as white supremacy re-enters our national […]

Tagged With: Center for Urban Education, CUE, Lunch & Learn, racism, University of Pittsburgh, white supremacy, white teachers, whiteness

September Lunch and Learn: Meet the CUE Director

September 20, 2018 By Apost Admin

Thursday, Sept. 20 | 11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. 4303 Wesley Posvar Hall Center for Urban Education Auditorium Join Dr. T. Elon Dancy II for light refreshments and a discussion about this year’s theme: Reimagining Urban Education: Place, Space, and People. “Broadly, this theme aims to inspire our friends and networks to grapple with our imaginations […]

Tagged With: Center for Urban Education, CUE, Director, Lunch and Learn

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