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 you care [...]
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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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“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 1990 [...]
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At the same moment, two trains leave Chicago and New York. They move towards each other with constant speeds. The train from Chicago is moving at speed of 40 miles per hour, and the train from New York is moving at speed of 60 miles per hour. The distance between Chicago and New York is [...]
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Imagine on your first day of work walking into a board room filled with 30 of your company’s most important clients. You’re expected to present on the company’s core products. Sounds scary, right?
Ironically, this is what new teachers experience on their first day. They enter a classroom filled with our community’s most important clients: students.
After [...]
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Today, over 600 people attended the first Minnesota Meeting. It was the first in a three-part series on education titled Raising Expectations. I was incredibly excited to have many of you join us at At The Table. I think that all in attendance were both moved and alarmed by the cold, hard facts about the [...]
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