ULA Workshop: The Stories We Tell: Disrupting Narratives About “Other People’s Children" Wednesday, October 4, 2017 | 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

North Star Ballroom - St. Paul Student Center

The stories our country has told us about certain people distort our perceptions and create self-fulfilling stereotypes of low-performance. If we change our stories, we can change the ways we think about children and the ways they think about themselves. Increasing student performance is not just a matter of increasing rigor. We must develop a different set of lenses to really see the brilliance of the children before us.

Speaker: Dr. Lisa Delpit is the Felton G. Clark Distinguished Professor at Southern University College of Education in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dr. Delpit has earned accolades for her work on teaching and learning in urban schools and in diverse cultural settings. Delpit's placement as one of the foremost educators and writers on the subject of culturally-relevant approaches to educating students of color began with a series of eloquent and accessible essays in the Harvard Educational Review. Her work on school-community relations and cross-cultural communication was cited when she received her MacArthur "Genius Fellowship."

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For the past 22 years, the Urban Leadership Academy has provided programming and sustained dialogue focused on the continuous professional development of school leaders. Each workshop provides educational leaders the opportunity to explore the complexity of leading learning organizations in order to better serve students.