Keynote Speaker
A former school teacher and university instructor, Crystal A. Kuykendall is founder and president of Kreative and Innovative Resources for Kids and founder of the Merchants of Hope Institute. She previously served as executive director of the National Alliance of Black School Educators and director of urban and minority relations for the National School Boards Association. She is a member of the Washington, D.C., Bar Association and a lifetime member of the National Urban League and NAACP. She has written four books including From Rage to Hope and the recently published Dreaming of a PHAT Century.
| Speaker Name | Topics |
|---|---|
| Christa Preston Agiro, Andrea Myers and Hannah Chai | Best Books: A Menu of Literature for Urban Youth |
| Samuel Burbanks | The Maafa and Western Pedagogy as the Roots of the Educational Dissonance of African Youth |
| Dr. Sue Brackenhoff, Mrs. Pam Tritsch, and Mrs. Lisa Miller | No Excuses University Schools: Creating a College Bound Culture |
| Flore Chevaillier | Classroom Assessment: the “One-Minute” Paper |
| Willis Bing Davis | The Arts as Agents Of Change |
| Jennifer Dohy and Jesse Bach | Guards in the Hallway: Does School Size and Urbanicity influence the Police State in American Schools? |
| Pamela Ellis | Passion, Power and Performance in College Completion: Practices for the 6-12 Pipeline |
| Brett Everhart | Using Research-Based Instructional / Curricular Models in Urban Physical Education |
| David Estrop | Innovations in Urban Schools |
| Holly Fidler | Braiding Together Two School Communities: The North Star Collaborative Model |
| Brian Harriman |
RTI (response to intervention) a classroom discipline and management for the differentiated classroom |
| Brenda Harper | Urban Administrators Fighting Turnover Fatigue: Perspectives from Urban Principals |
| Romena M. Garrett Holbert, Melanie N. Woods and Michelle Fleming | Passion for All People – Powerful Pedagogies for Preparing Teacher Candidates for Urban Education |
| Jon Hood | Our School Has Gone to the Dogs! – Using a Canine Companion to Seek School Improvement |
| Albertina Hughey, Jerrie C. Scott, Lloyd G. Haynes |
Rhetorical Power: Performances of Literacy Among Urban Students |
| Mark Kohan and Megan Kreaps | Attending to student voice, learning, and leadership through Freedom Writers-inspired afterschool partnership programs |
| Barbara Loach | Authenticity in Teaching: Resources for Maximizing Your Teaching Skills |
| Marla M. Marsh and Monica M. Marsh | The Power of “Yes!”- Creative Suggestions for Passionate Facilitators of Learning |
| Rochonda L.Nenonene and Pamela Cross Young | Urban Teacher Academy: Lessons Learned in Preparing Teachers for the Urban Classroom World of Teaching and Learning |
| Jack McKnight and Anna Lyon | Initiatives in Urban and Rural Education: The Challenge of Poverty and Teacher Preparation |
| Agatha I. Nnazor | A Sociological Framework for Understanding the Participation and Performance of African American Males in Higher Education |
| Michelle Pineda | Project Vantage Point |
| Susan Plemons | Welcome to Room 3C: Compassionate, Compelling Classroom |
| Diane Ross | Developing Cultural Consciousness through Immersion in Kampala, Uganda |
| JJ Sawyer | Collective Efficacy When Improving Student Achievement |
| Margaret Schauer, Jesse Bach and Carrie Love | Class mobility and cultural identity: Understanding social reproduction in urban schools |
| Nancy Nightingale Schwab | Presentation of a New Breakthrough in Early Childhood Literacy: Sound Shapes Precision Phonics |
| Helen Senu-Oke | Over-identification of African American Students for Special Education in Urban School Districts |
| Kimberly Casey | "Will It Be on the Test?": A Closer Look at How Leaders and Parents Think about Accountability in the Public Schools. |
| Brian Raison | Tips for Teaching: Kick-Start Your Talk with Great Opening Lines |
| Sharon Watson and Christopher Shaffer | Learning: A Family Affair |
| Annis N. Shaver | TESOL Strategies in the Mainstream Classroom |
| Gary Madison | Affective Pedagogy |
| Kwabena D. Ofori-Attah | Conditions of Learning in Elementary and High Schools in Ghana: Rural-Urban Dichotomies |
| Kevin Washington | Pedagogy of Empowerment: The Key to Elevating the Warrior Spirit in Black Boys |
| Chad Brennan | Accommodating Cultural Preferences in the Diverse Classroom |