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Why Should I Financially Support VUE? NYU Metro Center proudly publishes Voices in Urban Education (VUE).  The open-access journal, VUE, endeavors to serve as a “roundtable-in-print” by bringing together diverse education stakeholders with a wide range of viewpoints, including leading educators, writers, and thinkers as well as essential–but frequently underrepresented voices in educational scholarship–such as students, parents, teachers, activists, and community members. Each issue of VUE is organized around a theme and strives to provide cutting edge analysis of a vital issue in urban public education formats including visual arts, articles, interviews, both video and written documentaries, poetry, and autoethnographies. VUE was initially published in 2003 and housed at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University for School Reform (AISR). In 2018, NYU Metro Center would acquire Voices In Urban Education to solidify and expand upon the journal’s grassroots engagement and connections to the education justice movement. VUE Thrives at NYU Metro Center Over the last six (6) years VUE has continued to flourish under NYU Metro Center and the leadership of Executive Director, Dr. Fabienne Doucet. Voices in Urban Education has published eight (8) engaging issues focusing on topics ranging from Re-imagining School Integration, Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education, Educational Research and Advocacy, Equity Issues in NYC Schools, and Resistance in Queer and Trans Education to name but a few. Starting in 2023, the academic journal, VUE, has been digitally hosted on Janeway, an online publishing platform. In addition to raising the visibility and prominence of the journal, NYU Metro Center has also installed a new editorial board for VUE to efficiently sustain this vital journal of urban, public education. VUE’s editorial team is composed of faculty members in the roles of the Editor-in-Chief and the Deputy Editor, and doctoral fellows who have stepped into the Senior Fellows, Junior Fellows, and Content Editor Fellows positions. How Can I Lend My Support to NYU Metro Center’s VUE Help Voices in Urban Education continue to uplift the voices and ideas of frequently overlooked education stakeholders. Do all that you can to attest to your support of a not-for-profit organization and open-access journal that works to improve educational equity. Stand with us in community, and let your voice be heard. Make your financial contribution in support of NYU Metro Center’s Voices in Urban Education today, here: bit.ly/3gK5foX #NYUMetroCenter #NYUSteinhardt #VUE #VoicesinUrbanEducation #equity #access #opportunity #financialsupport #sustain #support #grow #nurture #ideas #Voices #education #advocacy #justicemovement #stakeholders #research #integregation #culturallyresponsivesustainingeducation #financialcontribution #contribution #notforprofit #fundraiser

What becomes possible when you bring together culturally relevant art & design principles with AI and robotics in a high school setting? Check out this article by Nettrice Gaskins, Ph.D. & in NYU Metro Center's Voices in Urban Education (VUE). VUE articles seek to cover a wide range of disciplines with a strong emphasis on trans-sectional and transdisciplinary perspectives aimed at examining successes, problems, and questions in policy, advocacy, and teaching and learning practices in urban education. Read Art, AI, and Robotics: A New Pathway for Youth to Voice and Identity and other articles in this special issue of NYU Metro Center's Voices in Urban Education (VUE), here: bit.ly/3AiqxUD #NYUMetroCenter #NYUSteinhardt #VoicesinUrbanEducation #VUE #NettriceGaskins #STEM #STEAM #Art Youth #Voice #Identity #DesignPrinciples #CulturallyRelevant #Cyphers #SocialJustice #Equity #HighSchool #Engagement #StudentOutcomes #Science #Computing #Technology

Calling educators and families! Register for NYU Metro Center's inaugural salon. Join Dr. Shamari Reid & Dr. Wenimo Okoya, Ed.D., MPH in conversation about the importance of healing & belonging in education, as well as the new text, Humans Who Teach: A Guide for Centering Love, Justice, and Liberation in Schools. Dr. Shamari Reid is an assistant professor of justice and belonging in education at New York University. Shamari is the creator and host of the podcast Water for Teachers. Shamari is also the author of the new book Humans Who Teach: A Guide for Centering Love, Justice, and Liberation in Schools. Dr. Wenimo Okoya, Ed.D., MPH is a healing-centered educator, program developer, and researcher who has spent her career advocating for and partnering with communities of color. Wenimo started her career as a middle school teacher in Newark, NJ. To learn more about and register for this NYU Metro Center Salon, please read more here: bit.ly/3UCLvnR #NYUMetroCenter #NYUSteinhardt #Salon #ConversationsInEducation #Healing #Belonging #Love #Education #HumansWhoTeach #NewBook #Lab4Healing #Conversation #Webinar #Register #Families #Educators #Youth #Teachers #Equity #SocialJustice #StudentOutcomes #SchoolChange #SchoolTransformation #Administrators #Black #Latino #MarginalizedCommunities

Happening today... What are the practices & mindsets #educators can utilize to combat disproportionality in our schools? Embrace solutions from NYU Metro Center experts and Teachers College Press authors, Dr. Maria G. Hernandez, Reed Swier, and Hui-Ling Malone. Their new book, Dismantling Disproportionality in Practice: A Guide to Fostering Culturally Responsive Districts and Schools, is a resource that offers culturally responsive processes and concrete tools to address disproportionality and create more equitable schools. The authors draw on their work with school districts to demonstrate how using a theory of change can address disproportionate outcomes of special education placement and exclusionary discipline for students of color. Educational institutions can use this application guide to build educators’ capacities in culturally responsive–sustaining education (CR-SE) so that they respond better to the needs of racially, culturally, and linguistically marginalized students, families, and communities. Do not miss a critical conversation on how educators can best combat disproportionality this afternoon. Register for today's webinar here: http://bit.ly/3YcLTf3 #NYUMetroCenter #NYUSteinhardt #TeachersCollegePress #DismantlingDisproportionality #Education #studentoutcomes #academicoutcomes #educators #webinar #school #teachers #equity #youth #children #opportunities #Systemicracism #schoolchange #schooltransformation #CRSE #CulturallyResponsive #education #SpecialEducation #language #family #community #marginalized #discipline #capacity #webinar #book #conversation #ideas #learn #professionallearning

Calling all teacher leaders, coaches, & administrators looking to improve capacity and master protocols for strategic planning, data analysis, and improve equity in schools. Join @nyumetro_mlc for their Facilitative Leadership Seminar. Metro Learning Communities offers professional development opportunities for educators to promote facilitative leadership skills, collaborative learning spaces, data-smart schooling, and early career teacher mentoring to improve instructional practices and increase equitable outcomes for all students. Limited scholarships are available for the MLC's Facilitative Leadership Seminar Series. Learn more and register for Metro Learning Communities Facilitative Leadership Seminar Series, here: bit.ly/47yTjfU #NYUMetroCenter #NYUSteinhardt #MetroLearningCommunities #MLC #teachers #leaders #coaches #administrators #equity #strategicplanning #dataanalysis #professionaldevelopment #equity #socialjustice #capacitybuilding #protocols #practices #professionallearning #community

What are the mindsets & practices that will empower #educators to combat disproportionality in our #schools? Make sure to hear directly from the authors of the new Teachers College Press book, #DismantlingDisproportionality. Register for next week's webinar here: http://bit.ly/3YcLTf3

NYU Metro Center's 2025 Equity Now Conference issues Call for Submissions. Educators, youth, & parent/caregivers are invited to share conference workshop #proposals prior to November 22nd deadline. Equity Now Conference administrators look forward to receiving your 2025 Conference Submission Proposals in the following areas: -Welcoming, Affirming, and Healing School Policies and Practices This conference track includes elevating district and school policies, procedures and practices that have generated educational school spaces that welcome and affirm historically marginalized students’ experiences and identities, creation of community circles and restorative practices into behavior and discipline policies, practices and procedures, creating a culturally responsive culture and climate, and centering youth voice, in which youth are an integral and critical voice in district and school decision making processes. -Decolonizing Education Practices Decolonizing education practice sessions include approaches in operationalizing the tenets of critical and liberatory pedagogy, fostering curricular and instructional design and practices that center joy and brilliance of racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse students, and systemic liberatory education practices. Learn more about NYU Metro Center's 2025 Equity Now Conference and other proposal areas, here: bit.ly/3UlVMoC #NYUMetroCenter #NYUSteinhardt #EquityNow #EquityConference #Conference #Workshop #Proposals #Submission #DecolonizingEducation #CRSE #CulturalyResponsiveSustainingEducation #HealingSchools #Affirming #Welcoming #ProfessionalLearning #ProfessionalDevelopment #Educators #Teachers #youth @parents #caregivers #disprportionality #Equity #SocialJustice #SchoolTransformation #SchoolChange #liberation #love

What can we learn from the Free Speech Movement (FSM)? NYU Metro Center affiliate, Dr. Robert Cohen explores how this student rebellion helped define the 1960s as an era of unprecedented student protest in the United States. The story of the University of California, Berkeley rebellion is a dramatic one, filled with political confrontations that should be especially interesting to students since they involve conflicts between students and their elders—in this case, the administrators who set the rules for the Berkeley campus. The free speech crisis began at Berkeley in mid-September 1964 when the University of California administration ordered the closing of the students’ traditional free speech area, the strip of sidewalk on Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue, just outside of the campus’s southern entrance. Learn more about the Free Speech Movement, Civil Disobedience, and Mass Protests in the 1960s, here: bit.ly/4eJG92h #NYUMetroCenter #NYUSteinhardt #Berkeley #FreeSpeechMovement #FSM #MassProtests #CivilDisobedience #Teaching #Educator #Students #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #Classrooms #Youth #BlogPost # #Equity #SocialJustice #SchoolChange #SchoolTransformation #60thAnniversary #StudentProtest

How do we address inequity in schools? Join @metroynyu's Maria G. Hernandez, Reed Swier, & Hui-Ling Malone for webinar where they share practices to enact positive change in schools, as well as findings from their book, Dismantling Disproportionality in Practice: A guide to fostering culturally responsive districts and schools. The authors of Dismantling Disproportionality use “self to system” to refer to the simultaneous work individuals and institutions should engage in to create more culturally responsive environments. As educators develop critical self reflection around beliefs, policies and practices (BPPs) that lead to disproportionality, institutions must continuously examine how these BPPs live in the current system of schooling that is being upheld. This active and ongoing work makes space for more culturally responsive learning environments for students and adults. Learn more about "Self to System" Reflection and register for this webinar, hosted by the authors of Dismantling Disproportionality in Practice, here: bit.ly/3YcLTf3 #NYUMetroCenter #NYUSteinhardt #SelftoSystem #DismantlingDisproportionality #Disproportionality #Students #Schools #Equity #SchoolChange #SchoolTransformation #Educators #Newbook #Book #Text #TeachersCollegePress #Authors #Webinar #Practice #ProfessionalDeveloplement #ProfessionalLearningCommunity #Adults #Practices #mindsets #CulturallyResponsive #CRSE #CulturallyResponsiveSustainingEducation

How do we build community? Sharing stories of belonging & healing are part of the process. Celebrate Haitian, Afro-Dominican, Colombian, Afro-Colombian, Garifuna, Afro-Panamanian, Mexican, and Guatemalan cultures. This Sunday, join NYU Metro Center's Fabienne Doucet at the Brooklyn Festival of Arts and Music for a reading of her new book, Love is Still Winning/ El amor siempre triunfa. Fabienne Doucet will also participate in a discussion focusing on the concepts of home & "ubuntu". The panel discussion titled, Home The Brooklyn Way: A conversation on Home and Belonging, is centered around the idea of "ubuntu". "Ubuntu" acknowledges that one's identity is intertwined with one's relationships — and offers a powerful lens for understanding the concept of home. -But what does home truly mean to us? -What feelings does it evoke? -And how does Brooklyn, with its rich Afro-diasporic heritage, contribute to our sense of belonging? Learn more and register for the Brooklyn Festival of Arts and Music, here: bit.ly/3NjB44N #BrooklynFAM #Brooklyn #NYC #FestivalofArtsandMusic #Home #Community #Belonging #Healing #NewBook #Book #Author #ChildrensBook #Bilingual #Hope #Inspiration #Weekend #Activities #Love #LoveIsStillWinning #Ubuntu #Philosophy #Authors #AfroDiasporic #Culture #Haiti