CREC: Capitol Region Education Council
 
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Creating Waves Book Club: Understanding Current Trends in Education
Participants will attend six book club sessions on the following books: Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories & Multiplication Is for White People: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children.
Objectives
Participant will learn: a) why knowledge and content are as important as skills and b) how silencing discussion on public policy has hurt the education of students of color. Participants will grapple with their districts’ positions on these issues and the effects on children and youth’s education.
Notes

Books participants need to purchase:

  1. Hirsch, E.D. (2016).Why knowledge matters: Rescuing our children from failed educational theories. Boston: Harvard Education Press. ISBN: 978-1-61250-952-5 (approximately $30.00-35.00). “Why knowledge matters addresses critical issues in contemporary education in education reform and shows how truisms about education and child development have lead to negative and unintended consequences. Drawing on recent findings from neuroscience and data from France, Hirsch provides new evidence for the argument that a carefully planned knowledge-based elementary curriculum is essential in providing the foundations for children’s life successes and ensuring equal opportunity for students of all backgrounds.

Award
NO AUTO AWARD
Detailed Information 
Payment PricePayment price
A - MEMBERS – Individual$75.00
CREC Staff - Reduced Cost$60.00
Schedule(s):
Online MeetingDateStart TimeEnd TimeTitleLocationAddressRoomInstructor
08/15/20171:00PM3:00PM CREC CENTRAL111 CHARTER OAK AVENUE, HARTFORD, CT202
 
ELLEN RETELLE View Bio
10/02/20171:00PM3:00PM CREC CENTRAL111 CHARTER OAK AVENUE, HARTFORD, CT202
 
ELLEN RETELLE View Bio
11/29/20171:00PM3:00PM CREC CENTRAL111 CHARTER OAK AVENUE, HARTFORD, CT202
 
ELLEN RETELLE View Bio
01/23/20181:00PM3:00PM CREC CENTRAL111 CHARTER OAK AVENUE, HARTFORD, CT202
 
ELLEN RETELLE View Bio
02/27/20181:00PM3:00PM CREC CENTRAL111 CHARTER OAK AVENUE, HARTFORD, CTCouncil Room - 1st floor
 
ELLEN RETELLE View Bio
03/19/20181:00PM3:00PM CREC CENTRAL111 CHARTER OAK AVENUE, HARTFORD, CTCouncil Room - 1st Floor
 
ELLEN RETELLE View Bio