"Saving the African American Child"

We're excited to re-launch the "Creating Solutions Together" Blog with coverage of the 2012 National Black Education Agenda Working Summit: "Saving the African American Child."

A team of educators from the Alameda County of Education will join hundreds of educators, activists, and community organizers to address the structures and resources needed to achieve positive outcomes for African American youth. 

Some of the goals of the ACOE team related to this summit include:

• Delving more deeply into the goals of Educating the Whole Child
• Moving away from a deficit model of teaching the African America Child into models and paradigms that resonates more towards the intellectual and skill-driven assets
• Examining the perspectives of speakers and participants to interface with, inform and support the efforts and perspectives of the ACOE team for students in ACOE schools, especially(but not exclusively) as it relates to public health
• Recasting the term school into another concept/word to provide a more positive connotation of where structured education and learning take place
•  Moving deeper into the exploration of Social-Emotional Learning
• Translating actionable items into pedagogical practices
• Expanding the perspective of educating students with more attention towards other national and global paradigms*

 *from upcoming post Daphne Muse