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The Academic Mentoring & Education Network and Silent Cry Inc. presents CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP: A Culturally Specific Approach to Underachievement, an interactive learning workshop for Educators, Social Workers, and Youth Mentors working with students and youth across grade levels and ages.
The workshops learning objectives focuses on supporting education professionals in identifying performance attainment academic support models that are culturally specific and relevant to overcoming and closing the achievement gap impacting black students disproportionately from their white and even asian counterparts.
The workshop is an hour and a half and is interactive featuring graphic charts, dry erase white boards and Pedagogy flash cards. Sessions within the workshop cover 9 key areas:
The problem of underachievement
Accessing literacy data
Identifying the achievement gaps
Intervention as support or solution
Pedagogical keys of intervention
Intervention and program implementation
Collaboration with community, school and stakeholders
An introduction to the SLAM Lyrical Education model of intervention
Meeting other intervention educators and their pedagogies
Be prepared to engage other educators and community stakeholders in a lively discussion and workshop centering culturally specific and relevant alternative literacy pedagogies presented by education consultant Hakim Crampton, Founding Director of A.M.E.N. (The Academic Mentoring & Education Network) and creator of SLAM Lyrical Education Curriculum Series.
This workshop series is being offered in the State of Michigan for free and begins in Detroit December 5th. Other workshops will be offered in Lansing, Washtenaw County, Kent County, Kalamazoo and Benton Harbor in 2025. RSVP is strongly encouraged. Workshop materials will be available to all Registered attendees.
Register by Dec 4th for the upcoming Detroit workshop here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOs78xiKpQ_dLMvTRs7jB1N_JmsLjT5jdF4zQDyym5rRwYsA/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0
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