Teaching Africa Workshop—K-16 Educators Indigenous Wisdom and Culture Saturday, February 24, 2017, 9am-3:30pm Join us at the University of Pittsburgh for the Teaching Africa Workshop – Indigenous Wisdom and Culture on February 24, 2017. Learn how to use free multi-media curriculum units to strengthen the teaching of African Studies in your classroom. Breakout sessions will […]
CUE Lunch & Learn Series
Practitioners Talking About Race With Students: One School’s Journey Thursday, February 16 Facilitated by Megan O’Brien, Christie Herring, Diana Gomez and Katie Pohl, in-service teachers, The Falk School 12 – 1:30 p.m., Center for Urban Education Conference Room (Posvar 4118) Click here to learn more and to register.
CUE Lunch & Learn Series
We Are Still Here: Declarations of Love and Sovereignty in Black Life Under Siege February 8, 2018 Facilitated by Cynthia Dillard, Mary Frances Early Professor of Teacher Education, Department of Educational Theory and Practice, University of Georgia 11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m., CUE Commons Click here to learn more and to register.
Simple Interactions Leadership Institute
Simple Interactions Leadership Institute Are you looking for an advanced professional development opportunity? APOST and The University of Pittsburgh School of Education are partnering to bring you the SI (Simple Interactions) Leadership Institute. This special six-week experience will help you identify ways to increase developmental interactions with youth in OST settings, positively supporting the social and emotional well […]
Meetup: Starting Critical Discourse in the Classroom
This Meetup will outline tools for white teachers to start and have successful conversations about race, based on research currently underway at the Center for Urban Education. Thursday, December 7, 2017 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh PA 15213 Second Opportunity! This event was first held on November 16th […]
Navigating Schools Inequality: How Parents Pursue Magnet School Admissions
Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fall 2017 Speaker Series Navigating Schools Inequality: How Parents Pursue Magnet School Admissions Littisha Bates, Ph.D. Thursday, November 2, 2017 12:00 pm in the Cathedral of Learning Q & A to follow The Center on Race and Social Problems announces its next speaker series lecture with Littisha Bates, Ph.D. of […]
Low-Skilled Jobs, and Racial Disparities in Immigrant Families
Low-Skilled Jobs, and Racial Disparities in Immigrant Families Kevin J.A. Thomas, Ph.D. Wednesday, October 25, 2017 12:00 pm in the Cathedral of Learning Q & A to follow The Center on Race and Social Problems announces its next speaker series lecture with Kevin J.A. Thomas, Ph.D. of the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Thomas’s research focuses […]
#CUEtalks presents Tyrone Howard
Why Race, Culture & Trauma Matter: Addressing Real Equity for Marginalized Populations Join the Center for Urban Education for the fall 2017 edition of #CUEtalks when we welcome Dr. Tyrone Howard from UCLA. In this talk, Howard will address the increasing complexities in today’s schools contexts, and how issues of race, culture, and trauma remain […]
University of Pittsburgh Parent Engagement Research Study Needs Participants!
Help researchers learn what keeps children engaged in school! The University of Pittsburgh School of Education and Social Work is partnering with local schools and community organizations to develop a way to measure parental involvement in education and to better understand how to support student motivation in math. They are inviting families to take a survey […]
CUE Summer Educator Forum: Culturally Responsive Education in Grades 6-12
2017 CUE Summer Educator Forum: Grades 6-12 Culturally Responsive Education in Grades 6-12 June 20-21 / 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Greenway Professional Development Center 1400 Crucible Street Pittsburgh, Pa. 15205 Last June, we shared two days of learning and growing together around culturally responsive teaching at the Center for Urban Education Summer Educator Forum […]