Since my summary won’t do justice to hearing the words yourself, below are links to the audio and webcast of Geoffrey Canada’s talk at Minnesota Meeting. Minnesota Public Radio airing of Geoffrey Canada View the webcast of Geoffrey Canada at Minnesota Meeting.
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When Geoffrey Canada spoke to a room of 1,000 people at the most recent Minnesota Meeting, everyone in the room was on the edge of their seats. With a renowned model of success at the Harlem Children’s Zone all were anxious to hear his advice and he did not waste any time mincing words. “If [...]
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I want to follow up on my previous post “It Takes a Village” in which I first mentioned the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ.) NAZ is a local collaboration of schools, organizations and institutions modeling their efforts after Geoffrey Canada and the Harlem Children’s Zone . They aim to align their resources and efforts to serve [...]
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New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a timely article on Harlem Children’s Zone. Brooks discusses a recent assessment of HCZ’s charter school, Promise Academy, which show stunning success rates. He says, “Forgive some academic jargon, but the most common education reform ideas — reducing class size, raising teacher pay, enrolling kids in Head Start [...]
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“In my shop, if a child does not succeed, it means the adults around him or her have failed.” Those are the words of Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone. Among the leading social entrepreneurs of our time, Geoffrey Canada has taken Harlem Children’s Zone from a one block pilot program in [...]
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Watch Geoffrey Canada talk about generational poverty on the Colbert Report. more about “Geoffrey Canada on ColbertNation.com“, posted with vodpod
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