Join us this year as Dr. Marlene Ruck –Simmonds and Dr. Barb Hamilton Hinch join Dr. Michael Dennis to fine tune our relationship and engagement strategies with students of color in today’s Public education classrooms. With more than 20 years’ experience, the Africentric conference is still providing the best informed Provincial Professional Development to support educators, community & Education stakeholders, parents and guardians to bring a strong emphasis on how to support students of African ancestry within today’s public school system in the province of Nova Scotia. The Public School system fully recognizes the challenges providing deliverables, organizing relevant pedagogical approaches while providing culturally responsive instruction that will more importantly engage and provide the confidence students of African ancestry require in this public school system. This year our emphasis will center around " The Pre-Africentric Conference theme of INEQUITABLE OPPRESSION – EMERGENT CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN THE CLASSROOM: Ways in which we inadvertently /advertently oppress the growth of students of color in the classroom and how to overcome these challenges.
Place: Cole Harbor District High School
Cost: $65
Date: October 28, 2016
Time:08:30 AM-3 PM
DO NOT DELAY REGISTER TODAY: those folks with the Halifax Regional School Board can register by using the professional development online calendar on the HR SB website.
KENNETH M. FELLS
902-464-5220 (W)
902-219-3302 (C)
kfells@hrsb.ca
