CMSD to host urban educators, Bill Gates
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As many as 1,000 representatives from large urban school systems will converge in Cleveland in October for a conference that will feature Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates as the keynote speaker.
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CMSD will host the Council of the Great City Schools’ 61st annual fall conference from Oct. 18-22 at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown. The council represents 68 of the nation’s largest school districts.
The conference, returning to Cleveland for the first time in 40 years, will draw urban school superintendents and school board members, along with deans of colleges of education and senior school district administrators. They will discuss urban school achievement, professional development, leadership and governance, finance, bilingual education, immigrant and refugee issues and more.
Gates will speak on Thursday, Oct. 19. CNN contributor Van Jones and actress Rosario Dawson will speak on Friday, Oct. 20, with Jones also serving as moderator of a town hall meeting.
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Grant will help support, retain new teachers
CMSD will receive $1 million to help recruit, mentor and keep teachers in the critical but challenging work of urban education.
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The money, to be distributed over five years, comes from the Mid-American Conference, College Football Playoff Foundation and Cleveland and George Gund foundations.
Jon Steinbrecher, commissioner of the Mid-American Conference, a Cleveland-based intercollegiate athletics league, made the announcement Sept. 18 at CMSD’s Orchard School. The grant includes $500,000 that the MAC obtained through the College Football Playoff Foundation’s Extra Yard for Teachers program.
First Bard East class gets official welcome
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The first ninth-graders CMSD's Bard High School Early College Cleveland East Campus received an official welcome Sept. 15, and it was filled with reminders of the opportunity that awaits them.
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Bard East, the second school of its kind in Ohio and one of only six in the country, seamlessly integrates high school and college classes, so students can earn both a diploma and associate’s degree under the same roof in four years. CMSD operates the schools in partnership with Bard College of New York.
The school actually opened in August, but District and college officials gathered Sept. 15 for a ribbon cutting at the John Adams building on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Bard East's founding class will have the "super rare" experience of attending a degree-granting early college program, said John Weinstein, dean of early colleges for Bard College.
"A lot of people want to give you some college credits," Weinstein told the Class of 2021. "Bard is one of the very few that want to give you a whole degree."
CMSD, CSU celebrate opening of Campus International’s new home
Leaders cut the ribbon at the new home of CMSD’s Campus International K-8 School on Sept. 20, celebrating a building that is designed to reflect the spirit of its students and staff.
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The four-story building, which opened last month, is located at E. 22nd Street and Payne Ave., on land leased from Cleveland State University. The school is a partnership with the university.
Founded in 2010, Campus International K-8 is an open-enrollment International Baccalaureate school, teaching students to be global citizens, critical thinkers and agents for change. CSU faculty research school practices that can be applied across the District.
University President Ronald Berkman had envisioned development of an “education park” that expanded last month with the opening of CMSD’s Campus International High School.
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Facing History transforming culture at John Marshall IT
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In a history class at the John Marshall School of Information Technology, 10th-grader Jaja Cottingham stood alone under a sign that read “disagree.” It indicated that his beliefs were at odds with a phrase projected on the screen at the front of the room: “People are born with unalienable, natural rights.”
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Per the teacher’s instructions, each student had chosen to stand in one of four corners marked agree, strongly agree, disagree or strongly disagree. Jaja was by himself, but he held his own and gave an impassioned explanation of his stance.
“It’s true that some people are born with rights, but not everyone is born with rights,” Jaja told the class. “There are people in Third World countries that are under dictatorships, and they don’t have rights. We’d like to believe that we all do, but we don’t.”
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