Sentences with phrase «preparing urban youth»
June Jordan prepares urban youth to be: Community members who show respect, integrity, courage, and humility; Agents of change in their school, their neighborhoods, and the world; and Intellectuals with the skills necessary to succeed in college and life.
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In urban schools students come and go all day.No 45 minutes is like the time that preceded it or the time that will follow.Urban schools report 125 classroom interruptions per week.Announcements, students going, students coming, messengers, safety aides, and intrusions by other school staff account for just some of these interruptions.It is not unusual for students to stay on task only 5 or 10 minutes in every hour.Textbook companies and curriculum reformers are constantly thwarted by this reality.They sell their materials to schools with the assurance that all the students will learn X amount in Y time.They are continually dismayed to observe that an hour of school time is not an hour of learning time.Many insightful observers of life in urban schools have pointed out that it is incredibly naive to believe that learning of subject matter is the main activity occurring in these schools.If one observes the activities and events which actually transpire — minute by minute, hour by hour, day in and day out — it is not possible to reasonably conclude that learning is the primary activity of youth attending urban schools.What does the process of changing what one does every 45 minutes and even the place where one does it portend for fulfilling a job in the world of work?If one is constantly being reinforced in the behaviors of coming, going, and being interrupted, what kind of work is one being prepared for?
As a teacher educator, he is committed to preparing teachers who see urban youth as assets in the teaching and learning process.
Because of the void that exists between high school counseling and college advising (Grites, 1979) and because of the additional obstacles and pressures that impinge on gifted urban minority students who attend college, the school counselor's role in preparing gifted urban minority youth for appropriate postsecondary school education can not be underestimated.
Fair Housing Initiative Program Grant Proposal 2008 Prepared education and outreach proposal to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development valued at $ 100,000 to provide mortgage lending and fair housing training to Dallas citizens including A Fair Housing Mortgage Lending Symposium, Train the Trainers Mortgage Lending Symposium, A Fair Housing Accessibility Forum for housing providers and developers, and the establishment of a Fair Housing Youth Council with an internship component in partnership with the Dallas County Consumer Credit Council and the Dallas Urban League.