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Panelists include : Larry Sykes, Board Member, TPS Crystal Ellis, Retired Superintendent, TPS

Community Forum: Effective Urban Education Tuesday, April 27 th , 9:30 am & 7:15 pm Gillham Hall 5100, University of Toledo Hosted by EDU 1700 “Introduction to Education” as part of the UT “Shrinking Cities Initiative”. Panelists include : Larry Sykes, Board Member, TPS

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Panelists include : Larry Sykes, Board Member, TPS Crystal Ellis, Retired Superintendent, TPS

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  1. Community Forum: Effective Urban EducationTuesday, April 27th, 9:30 am & 7:15 pmGillham Hall 5100, University of ToledoHosted by EDU 1700 “Introduction to Education” as part of the UT “Shrinking Cities Initiative” Panelists include: • Larry Sykes, Board Member, TPS • Crystal Ellis, Retired Superintendent, TPS • Suzanne Muggy, Principal, Steward Academy for Girls, TPS • Herneika Johnson, Principal, Robinson Middle School, TPS • William Armaline, Retired Founding Director, Center for Innovative & Transformative Education, BGSU, and Educational Consultant • Kathy Farber, Retired Founding Director, Partnerships for Community Action, BGSU, and Educational Consultant

  2. Urban Schooling within the “Shrinking Cities” Framework (Jane Jacobs, 1961, Death and Life of American Cities) • Lack of Industry to maintain jobs • Reduction of tax base in cities • Due to lack of jobs and relocation of industry • Funding choices • School funding formulas • War over education • Prison pipeline • Money to incarcerate over education • Educational inequity • Failure to deal with constitutional guarantee of equal treatment under the law • Universal declaration of human rights: Do we see education as an human right

  3. Questions for Panelists to Address 1.        What in your background best prepared you to be an urban educator?2.       What do you think it means to be an effective urban educator?3.       For preservice teachers preparing to go into classrooms, what are the most important skills, knowledge and dispositions to develop to be prepared to teach in current urban settings?4.       What do you think are the biggest challenges for us as a society and us as the teaching profession in accomplishing the goal of providing effective schooling for all students, especially in urban schools?

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