Save the Dates (5) for the 2007 Fall Lecture Series!

The Education of Black Male Youth:
What Educators Need to Know and Be Able to Do

sponsored by Wheelock College and The Delores Walker Johnson Center for Leadership at Atlas Communities.

Yes We Can, If We Choose:
De-Traumatizing Black Boys
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 – 4pm – 6pm, Free Public Lecture
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 – 8am – 4pm, All Day Seminar ($175 registration fee)
Benjamin Wright
Single-Sex School Activist and Regional Superintendent
Victory Schools, Philadelphia, PA




Boyz to Men?
Teaching to Restore Black Boys’ Childhood
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 4pm – 6pm, Free Public Lecture
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 – 8am – 4pm, All Day Seminar ($175 registration fee)
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Professor Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education 
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Past President, AERA



Playing with Anger:
Engaging the Emotional Lives of Black Boys in Schools
Monday, December 10, 2007 - 4pm – 6pm, Free Public Lecture
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 – 8am – 4pm, All Day Seminar ($175 registration fee)
Howard Stevenson 
Associate Professor and Director of the Professional Counseling and Psychology Program (PCAP) 
Applied Psychology and Human Development Division
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education





Why Black Males are So Over-Represented in
School Discipline Systems and How This Can Be Changed
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 4pm – 6pm, Free Public Lecture
Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 8am – 4pm, All Day Seminar ($175 registration fee)
 Jabari Mahiri
Associate Professor of Language and Literacy, Society and Culture
University of California Berkeley, Graduate School of Education



To Be Male, In School and Black: Connections and Consequences of Teacher Beliefs and Practice
Thursday, March 13, 2008
All day workshop on Friday, March 14.
Nelda L. Barrón
Assistant Professor in Elementary Education
Wheelock College
Lilia I. Bartolomé
Associate Professor in the Applied Linguistics Graduate Program
University of Massachusetts - Boston.
Stephanie Cox Suarez
Assistant Professor in Special Education
Wheelock College
Felicity Crawford
Assistant Professor of Special Education
Wheelock College
Paula Elliott





*You Must RSVP for the FREE lectures
*There is a registration fee for the all day seminars
$175 per seminar (cost includes continental breakfast, lunch, and materials)
$600 for all four seminars (You must register for all four at the same time to receive the discounted price)

For more information, please contact Shana Scollo at Atlas Communities




*You Must RSVP for the FREE lectures
*There is a registration fee for the all day seminars
$175 per seminar (cost includes continental breakfast, lunch, and materials)
$600 for all four seminars (You must register for all four at the same time to receive the discounted price)

For more information, please contact Shana Scollo, at HYPERLINK "mailto:sscollo@atlascommunities.org" sscollo@atlascommunities.org.