Links:
The Black Star Project's website:
Black Star Journal:
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I
Am a Young Man: Honoring My Past,
Celebrating My
Present, Anticipating My Future
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COSEBOC Annual Gathering of Leaders
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Our young men are crying
out to be understood and recognized for their intelligence, talent and
possibility. The 9th annual Gathering of Leaders will support you, as
educators, to do so. We are building a movement of educators and their allies
to take the lead in creating a positive narrative and supportive learning
environment for all.
Join 700 educators on
the campus of the University of Memphis and share your passion for ensuring that
all boys and young men of color achieve academic success. Highlights will
include:
- Special session For School Principals
Only
- Special session For Members Only
held at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel
- Our traditional, extraordinary Call to
Action by young men of color
- COSEBOC Talks: Plenary sessions with
nationally-recognized speakers and educator/student respondents
- Workshops on research, policy, and practice
in the seven core areas of the COSEBOC Standards -
Assessment,
Parent/Family/Community Partnership, Curriculum and Instruction,
School Environment and Climate, School Leadership, School Counseling, and School
Organization
- Workshops led by COSEBOC School Award
winners
- The Barbershop Project
- FY15 COSEBOC School Award Dinner
- Networking Cafe
Please note: This year we are offering an early
registration rate available until March 1, 2015.
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 Sleep Quantity + Sleep
Quality = Better Math/Language Scores
By Rick Nauert, PHD,
Senior News Editor
January 9,
2015
A new study confirms that it is
worth a parents effort to ensure that their school-aged child receives a good
nights sleep.
Researchers from McGill
University and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Montreal found
that sleep quality and duration are linked to better performance in math and
languages - subjects that are powerful predictors of later learning and academic
success.
In the study, investigators found
that "sleep efficiency" was associated with higher academic performance in those
key subjects.
Researchers defined sleep
efficiency as a gauge of sleep quality that compares the amount of actual sleep
time with the total time spent in bed.
While other studies have pointed to links between sleep
and general academic performance, the Montreal scientists examined the impact of
sleep quality on report-card grades in specific subjects. Their findings: with
greater sleep efficiency, the children did better in math and languages - but
grades in science and art weren't affected.
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Join the Men of
Quinn Chapel AME Church
on Dr. Martin Luther King
Weekend
to
Take A Young Black Man To
Worship
On
Sunday, January 18, 2015
10:00 am
2401 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
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The Men and Boys of Quinn Chapel AME
Church with Pastor James M. Moody, Sr. (seated center, second row, 4th from
left)
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Beautiful,
historic Quinn Chapel AME Church has had many national leaders stand in the
Quinn Chapel pulpit including Presidents
William B. McKinley and William Howard Taft, human rights activist Ida B. Wells,
educators George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington, poet and literary
genius Paul Lawrence Dunbar, gifted preachers Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Chicago Mayor Richard
M. Daley, Illinois Congressmen Danny K. Davis, Bobby Rush, Jesse Jackson, Jr.,
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Illinois Senator Barack Obama (now President
Obama).
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Please
call 773.285.9600 to
have your place of worship invite young Black men to worship with you this
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The Men of Morehouse
Alumni Chicago Chapter
Will Mentor Hundreds of
Young Black Men and Boys
for
Dr. Martin Luther King Weekend
on
Saturday, January 17, 2015
10:00 am
Quinn Chapel AME Church
2401 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
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Please call
773.285.9600 to bring young Black men and boys or for more information about
this session.
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Bridgeport, Connecticut
Prepares
to Mentor Young Men
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Take A Young Black Man
to the Movies
Suggested Films, Movies and Documentaries
for
Dr. Martin Luther King Weekend
on
Friday, January 16, 2015
Please consider renting or purchasing or viewing these films:
1.
Selma, 2.
Ali, 3.
American
Promise, 4.
Amistad, 5.
Black Wall
Street, 6.
Bring Your "A"
Game, 7.
Central Park
5, 8.
Django
Unchained, 9.
Do the Right
Thing, 10.
Emmett Till - Untold
Story, 11.
Eyes on the
Prize, 12.
Glory, 13.
Hidden Colors 1, 2,
and/or 3, 14.
Hurricane, 15.
Malcolm
X, 16.
Marcus
Garvey, 17.
Powernomics, 18.
Pursuit of
Happiness, 19.
Red
Tails, 20.
Roots, 21.
Rosewood, 22.
Sankofa, 23.
School
Daze, 24.
Spit'in
Anger, 25.
Spook Who Sat By The
Door, 26.
Tuskegee
Airmen, 27.
Unforgivable
Blackness, 28.
When We Were
Kings, 29.
12 Years A
Slave
We highly recommend that you pre-screen
any movie or documentary that you might show for appropriate content and
tone.
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Illinois falls short in $20 million
effort to develop 1,000 teachers
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Francisco Castellon, a teacher at
Berwyn's Irving Elementary School, works with second-graders Brian Valdovinos,
left, and Itzel Vargas. Castellon is in his second year of teaching after
studying through the state's Grow Your Own Teacher program. (Nancy Stone,
Chicago Tribune)
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By Diane Rado and Juan Perez
Jr.January 9, 2015
The state has spent more than $20
million in the past decade to develop 1,000 teachers who would work in
distressed public schools and boost the number of minority educators in
Illinois.
But since the Grow Your Own
Teacher program was launched in January 2005 it has produced just 102 college
graduates, and only about 80 of those are teaching.
Hundreds of would-be teachers
dropped out after borrowing from the program for college tuition, fees and
books, and they didn't have to repay the loans under rules laid out by the
state, officials said. Millions of dollars went to colleges and community groups
tapped as program administrators, in some cases eclipsing money spent on the
teacher candidates, state financial records show.
Diversity of
teachers compared with students (infographic)
Teachers who launched their careers through the program
say it changed their lives, and lawmakers who support it stress the importance
of more minority teachers in a state with one of the biggest gaps in the country
between the percentage of minority students and the percentage of minority
teachers.
But critics such as state Sen.
Matt Murphy, R-Palatine, say Grow Your Own Teacher "hasn't worked and is
terribly inefficient."
"It is an example of politics
still trumping merit, in terms of whether a program warrants continued funding,"
Murphy said. "And again, the goal may be laudable, but the implementation of
this program has not produced a return on investments that is fair to
taxpayers."
The Grow Your Own Teacher program
was designed to help parents, community leaders and nonteaching school staffers
become teachers willing to work at public schools in low-income areas.
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