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5th Annual Great Teachers Summit

Building Community Support for Urban Student Success

April 11 - 13, 2012

The 5th annual Great Teachers for Our City Schools National Summit: Building Community Support for Urban Student Success will take place April 11-13, 2012 at the Embassy Suites Denver Downtown Hotel in Denver, Colorado.

The overarching goal for the Great Teachers for Our City Schools National Summit is to build a national network where urban educators can share research findings, instructional practices, program strategies, policy initiatives and other resources aimed at developing and supporting the best and most effective teachers for students in high-need urban schools.

Click here to view and download the Preliminary Program

Featured Presentations

It's Who You Teach, Not Just What You Teach: Preparing Culturally Competent Teachers featuring Sonia Nieto, professor emerita of Language, Literacy and Culture, School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Educating African American Males in the Era of Opportunity Gaps featuring Peter Murrell, Professor of Urban Education, Loyola University Maryland and Robert W. Simmons III, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education and Affiliate Faculty, African and African American Studies, Loyola University Maryland.

Models of Urban Teacher Preparation Programs featuring grantees of U.S. Department of Education Teacher Quality Partnership Program.

Using Data and Inquiry to Build Equity-Focused College-Going Cultures featuring authors of the recent report from the National College Access Network.

Re-thinking Teacher Evaluation: Lessons Learned from Chicago featuring Sara Ray Stoelinga, Senior Director, Urban Education Institute, The University of Chicago.

To view and download the Preliminary Program, click here.

To see presentations of previous convenings of the Great Teachers for Our City Schools National Summit hover on "For Urban Networks" at the top of the page (on the far right).

Registration and Hotel Information

Our registration rates are as follows:

  • Early Bird Registration (available until March 1, 2012) - $300

  • Regular Registration (available until March 28, 2012) - $350

  • Late Registration (available until April 6, 2012) - $400

  • Daily Rate - $175.00

To register for the Summit, please click here to access our online system.

The Great Teachers for Our City Schools National Summit will be held at the Embassy Suites Denver Downtown Hotel. The Embassy Suites is offering our meeting participants a nightly room rate of $179, plus taxes.

Hotel rooms should be reserved on or before March 23, 2012. To take advantage of the group rate, call the Embassy Suites Denver Downtown at 303.592.1000 and mention the Great Teachers Summit. An online booking tool will be available for our room block in the coming weeks – please check back soon. For more information about our meeting location, click here.

 

Summit Collaborators

The Center for Urban Education at Metropolitan State College of Denver wishes to thank and acknowledge the following Summit collaborators: