All Workshops will take place at the Wheelock Brookline Campus, 43 Hawes Street.
Yes We Can, If We Choose: De-Traumatizing Black Boys
Free lecture: Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
All day workshop: Wednesday, October 31, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Benjamin Wright
Single-Sex School Activist and Chief Administrative Officer
Metro Nashville Public Schools, Nashville, TN
Boyz to Men? Teaching to Restore Black Boys' Childhood
Free lecture: Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
All day workshop: Wednesday, November 14, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Professor Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Past President, AERA
Playing with Anger: Engaging the Emotional Lives of Black Boys in Schools
Free lecture: Monday, December 10, 2007, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
All day workshop: Tuesday, December 11, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Howard Stevenson
Associate Professor and Director of the Professional Counseling and Psychology Program (PCAP)
Applied Psychology and Human Development Division
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education
Why Black Males are So Over-Represented in School Discipline Systems and How This Can Be Changed
Free lecture: Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
All day workshop: Thursday, January 17, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Jabari Mahiri
Associate Professor of Language and Literacy, Society and Culture
University of California Berkeley, Graduate School of Education
To Be Male, In School and Black: Connections and Consequences of Teacher Beliefs and Practice
Free lecture: Thursday, March 13, 2008, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
All day workshop: Friday, March 14, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Nelda L. Barrón
Assistant Professor in Elementary Education
Wheelock College
Lilia I. Bartolomé
Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics
University of Massachusetts - Boston.
Stephanie Cox Suarez
Assistant Professor in Special Education
Wheelock College
Felicity Crawford
Assistant Professor in Special Education
Wheelock College
Paula Elliott, Ed.D.
Educational Consultant
