The 16th Annual Distinguished Speaker Series (Winter 2007)
Promises to Keep: The Challenge and the Opportunity to Provide Quality Education for All
What does it mean - and what would it take - to ensure quality educational services for all our children, including those with learning issues? In Bank Street's 2007 Distinguished Speaker Series, we will provide an overview of policies, programs, and practices launched to make good on educational promises for all our children. The series will also feature close-up description and analysis by outstanding educational administrators and teachers of what today's students with learning issues encounter in NYC public schools and classrooms. Looking toward the future, the series will conclude with a pathbreaking reserach presentation on collaborative interdisciplinary studies that have uncovered the "neural signature" of dyslexia and its remarkable link to creativity.
Featured Speakers:
- Want it to be different? Then you have to do it differently.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Reyes Irizarry: Superintendent of Region Four, NYC Department of Education
Nancy Needle: Deputy Assistant Superintendent for Special Education, Region Four, NYC Department of Education
Claire Wurtzel: Director of Faculty Development, NYC Schools Attuned Initiative
- Why is he in my class?... is not the right question.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Leonard Goldberg: Principal, Opportunity Charter School, NYC
Lydia McEachin: PTA President, Opportunity Charter School, NYC
Andrea Rousso: Teacher, Public School 321, NYC
- The Sea of Strengths Model of Dyslexia
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Dr. Sally Shaywitz: Professor of Pediatrics and Child Study, Yale University School of Medicine
Dr. Bennett Shaywitz: Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and Chief of Pediatric Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine
