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Professional Development Institute: Tools and Strategies for Educating Young Men
Thursday, July 9 and Friday, July 10, 2009 - Eagle Academy for Young Men
Educating young men presents unique challenges and requires a specialized approach. Prepare yourself fo rthe the upcoming school year by joining the educators and administrators of the Eagle Academy for YOung Men at the Professional Development Institute.
“Breaking Barriers: Plotting the Path to Academic Success for School-Age African-American Males”
By Ivory A. Toldson, Ph.D.
CBCF and Rep. Danny K. Davis of Illinois on June 19, 2008, released the results of a comprehensive report exploring key factors impacting academic outcomes for African-American males during a forum on Capitol Hill. The report, “Breaking Barriers: Plotting the Path to Academic Success for School-age African-American Males,” analyzes academic success indicators from national surveys that together give voice to nearly 5,800 pupils from schools across the country. “Breaking Barriers” also suggests policy solutions that will assist policymakers, educators, school advocates, families and others in enabling African-American males to have greater success in the classroom and afterward.
"Raising Boys Achievement "
By Mike Younger and Molly Warrington
The 'Raising Boys' Achievement Project' (RBA) was a four-year project (2000-2004) which focused on issues associated with the apparent differential academic achievement of boys and girls at key stage 2 and key stage 4 in schools in England. This report highlights some of the dilemmas which are implicit within the debate, explores different interpretations and perspectives about boys' 'under-achievement', and challenges some common misconceptions.
Working with over fifty primary, secondary and special schools in England over four years, we have endeavoured to identify strategies which appear to have the potential to make a difference to boys' (and girls') learning, motivation and engagement with their schooling, and consequently to raise levels of academic achievement.
"Boys Selves: Identity and Anxiety in the Looking Glass of School Life"
By Michael Reichert and Peter Kuriloff
In the last decade, boys' lives, and particularly their school achievement, have come under increasing scrutiny. While dominant discourses have stressed boys as victims, schools as failing boys, and an essentialist view that boys will be boys, few take account that boys develop their self-concepts in teh looking glass of the variously gendered academic and social curricula of schools.
"Don't Love No Fight: Healing and Identity Among Urban Youth"
By Michael Reichert
A neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA, hard hit by violence, approached the local chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility on behalf of its youth. The chapter responded by developing a psychosocial after-school intervention for early adolescent males, which participants named Peaceful Posse. Youth showed up consistently for the groups, after school and on their own, sometimes for years. Yet the program recognized that there was a great deal not fully understood about the lives of its participants. The present study used careful analysis of individual interviews conducted with a sample of boys to extend the program's understanding.