NJIT INFORMATION NIGHT
at
THE NEWARK PUBLIC LIBRARY
50 Hayes Street, Second Floor
Newark, New Jersey 07103
Please be advised that on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. NJIT has graciously agreed to conduct an information session for our students. This will take place at the Springfield Branch of the Newark Public Library and we encourage YOU to bring and/or send your children.
You will have a chance to ask questions and draft a plan of action if you are interested in NJIT. If you are college bound, you should take advantage of this opportunity. Children of color have traditionally been underrepresented in most of these high paying technology fields.
Please come out on:
Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 5:00 p.m.
Newark Public Library
50 Hayes Street, second floor
Newark, NJ 07103
Bus Nos. 25, 99, 1, and 31 are all within one block of the library located at 14th Avenue and Jones Street (across from New Horizon, New Community Charter School).
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Monday, December 08, 2008
Teaching African American History and TTEA
On Friday, December 5, 2008, the New York Daily News reported the following:
New York teacher binds black students during history lesson on slavery
By DORIAN BLOCK
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, December 5th 2008, 4:57 PM
A suburban middle school teacher who bound the hands and feet of two black girls, then made them crawl under desks representing slave ships, has sparked outrage by one of the girl's mother and the local NAACP chapter....Northern Rockland School District Superintendent Brian Monahan said he was having "conversations with our staff on how to deliver effective lessons."
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/12/05/2008-12-05_new_york_teacher_binds_black_students_du.html
Research in teaching the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans (TTEA) has resulted in the development of several educational websites, with global and multicultural perspectives. One site is from the acclaimed Schomburg Center in New York,it is called In Motion: The African American Migration Experience and is located at http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm
It includes text, photographs and lesson plans (http://www.inmotionaame.org/education/)
UNESCO also has an interesting educational website called African Passages http://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/africanpassageslowcountryadapt/introductionatlanticworld/trans_atlantic_slave_trade, which shows the connection between African, Caribbean and North American cultures.Lesson plans are available at http://www.cofc.edu/unescoafricanpassages/teaching.htm
New York teacher binds black students during history lesson on slavery
By DORIAN BLOCK
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, December 5th 2008, 4:57 PM
A suburban middle school teacher who bound the hands and feet of two black girls, then made them crawl under desks representing slave ships, has sparked outrage by one of the girl's mother and the local NAACP chapter....Northern Rockland School District Superintendent Brian Monahan said he was having "conversations with our staff on how to deliver effective lessons."
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/12/05/2008-12-05_new_york_teacher_binds_black_students_du.html
Research in teaching the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans (TTEA) has resulted in the development of several educational websites, with global and multicultural perspectives. One site is from the acclaimed Schomburg Center in New York,it is called In Motion: The African American Migration Experience and is located at http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm
It includes text, photographs and lesson plans (http://www.inmotionaame.org/education/)
UNESCO also has an interesting educational website called African Passages http://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/africanpassageslowcountryadapt/introductionatlanticworld/trans_atlantic_slave_trade, which shows the connection between African, Caribbean and North American cultures.Lesson plans are available at http://www.cofc.edu/unescoafricanpassages/teaching.htm
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