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The Education of Black Male Youth Lecture Series

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Dates:	Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Hours:	4:00pm to 6:00pm
Ages:	Teens, Adults
Cost:	Free see below
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Wheelock College and the Delores Walker Johnson Center for Thoughtful Leadership at ATLAS Learning Communities are responding to the crisis confronting Black male youth with a series of public lectures to address the education of young black males. The series is being held in conjunction with a Principal Leadership Seminar Series.

Please join us for these free lectures that will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Lucy Wheelock Auditorium, located at 180 The Riverway, Boston. For more information please visit http://www.wheelock.edu/atlas/index.asp.

2006-07 ATLAS SEMINAR SERIES:
October 18 – The Education of Black Male Youth: What Steps Can School Leaders Take to Ensure the Success of Their Learners, with Ronald Walker, director and founder of the Delores Walker Johnson Center for Thoughtful Leadership and Dr. Roger Harris, Headmaster, Boston Renaissance Charter School.

October 23 - The Eagle Ideal: Providing the Building Blocks of Success for Tomorrow’s Visionary Leaders with David Banks, founding administrator of the Eagle Academy for Young Men, the first all-boys public high school in New York City in more than 30 years.

November 15 - Teaching and Preparing our Black Male Youth for the 21st Century:
Multi-level Opportunities and Uncomfortable Challenges with Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer, program director for the Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development, the W.E.B. Du Bois Collective Research Institute, as well as for the Center for Health Achievement Neighborhoods Growth and Ethnic Studies (CHANGES) at the University of Pennsylvania.

December 11 - Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males with Dr. Alfred Tatum, assistant professor in the Department of Literacy at Northern Illinois University who serves on the National Advisory Reading Committee of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and is the author of Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males.

January 10 - Leadership Perspectives in Confronting the Disproportionate Representation of Black Males in Special Education with Dr. Gwendolyn Webb-Johnson, assistant professor for the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development at the College of Education at Texas A&M University.

COST

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Open to the public

WEBSITE

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visit www.wheelock.edu/atlas/index.asp

LOCATION

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180 The Riverway, Boston, MA, 02215 map
Phone: 617-879-2250