10/07/2012
CGIL Joins Excellent Schools Detroit’s School Quality Review Team:
Formed in 2010, Excellent Schools Detroit is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that every child in Detroit has an excellent education. Through a coalition of Detroit leaders, it developed a bold 90/90/90 plan that will require that every Detroit child is in an excellent school by 2020. For more information click on the following link: http://excellentschoolsdetroit.org/school-quality-review
CGIL Participates in aha! Process Inc. Conference on Addressing the Challenges of Poverty: Solutions for K-12, Higher Education and Communities:
The conference brought together all sectors - businesses, schools, higher education, community organizations – to understand the underlying nature of how poverty shapes the individual’s mindset and behavior and to develop sustainable educational and personal development solutions that will help form a new mindset – a new paradigm – to lead the individual out of poverty. For more information click on the following link:
http://www.ahaprocess.com/School_Programs/Events.html
The CGIL is collaborating with two education-focused institutions applying leading neuroscience based brain learning and teaching principles:
In its effort to accelerate the scope of learning, the CGIL is collaborating with the Institute for Learning of the University of Pittsburgh and the American Education Research Association (AERA) to apply leading tools and methodologies that most effectively teach to the way our brain learns. CGIL President Dean Johnson stresses that: “We are facing tremendous challenges with the educational achievements of our youth, especially low income urban kids. To break the cycle of poverty and under achievement, we must dramatically change the way we teach and develop our kids. The Institute for Learning and AERA are two leaders in the field of researching and applying neuroscience based practices that significantly increase the scope of learning. Integrating personal development tools into the daily curriculum will accelerate how we teach and develop the whole person.” For more information on these two institutions, please click on the following links:
American Education Research Association – Brain, Neurosciences & Education http://aera-brain-education.org/
Institute for Learning, University of Pittsburgh - http://ifl.lrdc.pitt.edu/ifl/
For more information, please contact us at [email protected] or visit our web site at www.CGIL.us
Every child deserves to go to an excellent school. But how do we know if a school is excellent? And how do we measure it?
