Building Better Futures for All Children
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Mary Morrow, 973.655.7159
morrowm@mail.montclair.edu
Ann Frechette, 973.655.4333
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Montclair, NJ: Montclair State University's Department of Early Childhood, Elementary, and Literacy Education and the Montclair State University Network for Educational Renewal will host their annual spring educator's conference on April 1, 2006. Each year the conference honors the NAEYC's Week of the Young Child. This year's theme will be "Building Better Futures for All Children".
Dr. William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar from the University of Chicago at Illinois, will deliver the keynote address. A graduate of the Bank Street College of Education and Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Ayers has written extensively about the importance of creating progressive educational opportunities in urban public schools. His interests focus on the political and cultural contexts of schooling, as well as the meaning and ethical purposes of teachers, students, and families.
Dr. Ayers' articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, The Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers' College Record, The Nation, and The Cambridge Journal of Education. His books include The Good Preschool Teacher,Teaching for Social Justice, and To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher which was named Book of the Year in 1993 by Kappa Delta Pi.
Two workshop sessions will follow Dr. Ayers' address. Participants may choose from a wide variety of topics such as The Responsive Classroom, Teaching with Webquests, Children's Engineering, Success for Bilingual Students, Students as Peer Mediators, and many more. Each workshop will honor the conference theme by offering practical strategies which help address the broad range of student needs within a single classroom, enhance instruction, and support achievement for all students.
The conference is being held Saturday April 1 from 9:00-1:30. The conference will begin with the Dr. Ayers' address in the Student Center on the campus of Montclair State University. Workshops will be held in the College of Education's new building, University Hall.
For more information please contact Mary Morrow at (973) 655-7159 or send an email to morrowm@mail.montclair.edu.
Montclair State is New Jersey's second largest and fastest growing university. It offers the advantages of a large university--a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum with a global focus, a broad variety of superior graduate programs, and a diverse faculty and student body--combined with a small college's attention to students. More information on the University is available on its Web site at www.montclair.edu.MSU is located at the intersection of Valley Road and Normal Avenue in Montclair. The campus is one mile south of the junction of routes 3 and 46, 14 miles west of New York City.
March 20, 2006
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