National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) Conference in Salisbury Saturday
The Wicomico County Public School System will host the Maryland Multicultural Coalition/Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) Spring Conference from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. this Saturday at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center in Salisbury.
More than 325 people are registered to attend the conference, whose theme is "Success ~ Every Student Every Day: Eliminating the Achievement Gap." Participants will be able to choose breakout sessions including Strategies for Eliminating the Achievement Gaps/No Child Left Behind, Diversity/Relationships and Cross-Culture Competencies, Positive School Climate, Parent/Community Involvement, Education That Is Multicultural, Dances from Many Lands/Infusion of Culture and Dance, Developmental Assets and more.
This year the conference will provide information to assist schools as they implement their Bridge to Excellence Master Plans. One of the requirements for these plans is the inclusion of the components of the state’s Education That is Multicultural Regulation, said Dr. Judylynn Mitchell, MMC/NAME 2009 Conference Chair.
The opening from 9-9:20 a.m. will include Debbie Misiag, president of the Maryland Multicultural Coalition, Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education; East Salisbury Elementary students; Superintendent of Wicomico Schools Dr. John Fredericksen; and Dr. Fredericksen and his rock 'n' roll band The Edge-ucators.
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5 comments:
This may be wrong, but I remember the Wrestling coach from WiHI trying to solicit money for the Civic Center because of a lack of funding, and now this group with only 135 participants has the money??? I'm all for multicultural learning but I think this spending can be cut out or held at a high school where the costs were be far less than renting the Civic Center on top of the other expenses.
Each school in Wicomico County was strongly told to send ten teachers to this Saturday conference. There is no pay or comp time for attending like everything else we do beyond the work day and the schools had to pay the registration fee for their staff. Of course it should have been held at a school to cut costs, but the individual schools not the Bd. of Ed. got stuck with the bill. To close the gap Wicomico is spending all of its money on its lowest ability students and doing everything possible to hold back the best students. Of course this does not apply to athletics where it's ok to identify and spend money on a top group and not worry whether it's multicultural or not.
I'd really like them to stop teaching multi-culturalism and concentrate on teaching uni-culturalism- the AMERICAN culture. you don't taste the ingredients in a stew, you enjoy how they all fit together and make a wonderful whole.
Get back to teachinum, readen,righten and rithmatic...and how to walk on the sidewalk.
Mr Tv, you forgot how to pull their pants up above their underpants and how to tie their shoes...I meant 315 and not 135 in my original post BTW...
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