Impact of a Pandemic and Social Injustice on Access and Equity in Education Friday, March 5, 2021, at 9:30 A.M
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Center for Access, Success & Equity (CASE) presents 2021 CASE VIRTUAL SUMMIT Impact of a Pandemic and Social Injustice on Access and Equity in Education Friday, March 5, 2021, at 9:30 a.m. Faculty, students and administrators The 2021 CASE Summit will in education are experiencing feature expert practitioners and unprecedented academic challenges leading voices in education who due to COVID-19 and social justice will share valuable research and struggles. The dual pandemic has recommendations for those created many challenges in regard to committed and engaged in the access and equity in education. development of education. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS GUEST PRESENTERS Angel Santiago Dr. Fabienne Doucet New Jersey William T. Grant Dr. Marc Lamont Hill Dan Habib Teacher of the Year Foundation officer Professor, author and Award-winning filmmaker social justice activist FACULTY MODERATORS Registration and information: Dr. Tyrone W. McCombs [email protected] JOIN ZOOM MEETING Meeting ID: 817 5181 1514 Dr. Susan Browne Dr. Beth Wassell Dr. Cory Dixon Erica Watson Dr. Qian Sun Dr. Brent Elder Passcode: 839980 Brown One tap mobile +13017158592,,81751811514#,,,, *839980# US (Washington DC) The CASE Virtual Summit is open to all members of the University and our educational partners. +13126266799,,81751811514#,,,, SPONSORS: College of Education, CASE, Diversity In Action Committee (DIA) and Department *839980# US (Chicago) of Interdisciplinary & Inclusive Education (IIE) 21-023 2021 CASE VIRTUAL SUMMIT SCHEDULE OPENING & WELCOME He has worked on campaigns to KEYNOTE SPEAKER II: 9:30 – 10 a.m. end the death penalty, abolish DAN HABIB prisons and release numerous Dr. Gaetane Jean-Marie Creating a Culture of Inclusion political prisoners. Dr. Hill has Dean, College of Education 11 – 11:55 a.m. also worked in solidarity with Dr. Tyrone W. McCombs human rights movements around Question & Answer Session Executive Director, CASE the world. He is the founder and 12 – 12:30 p.m. Dr. Susan Browne director of The People’s Education Drawing from his personal Chair, Diversity In Action Center in Philadelphia, as well as parenting experience and from Committee the owner of Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee conversations with thousands of & Books. families and educators around the Dr. Lisa Vernon country, documentary filmmaker Dotson, Chair IIE Department Ebony Magazine has named him one of America’s 100 most and parent-advocate Dan Habib KEYNOTE SPEAKER I: influential Black leaders. leads an interactive discussion and share powerful film clips with DR. MARC LAMONT HILL Dr. Hill is the author or co- attendees. 10 – 10:55 a.m. author of six books: the award- Habib shares how an inclusive Impact of a Pandemic and Social winning “Beats, Rhymes, and education and social life has Injustice on Access and Equity in Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy prepared his 21-year-old son Education and the Politics of Identity;” “The Classroom and the Cell: Samuel for transition to higher About Dr. Hill Conversations on Black Life in education and employment, as Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is one of the America;” “Nobody: Casualties of well as the powerful impact that leading intellectual voices in the America’s War on The Vulnerable inclusion has on students and country. He is currently the host from Ferguson to Flint and adults without disabilities. Habib’s of BET News and the Coffee & Beyond;” “Gentrifier;” “We Still presentation and films vividly Books podcast. An award-winning Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, show the innovative educational journalist, Dr. Hill has received and Possibility;” and “Except For approaches that help students numerous prestigious awards Palestine: The Limits of Progressive with physical, intellectual and from the National Association of Politics.” He has also published emotional/behavioral disabilities Black Journalists, GLAAD and the two edited books: “Media, to succeed. International Academy of Digital Learning, and Sites of Possibility;” About Dr. Habib Arts and Sciences. and “Schooling Hip-Hop: New Dan Habib is the creator of the Directions in Hip-Hop Based Dr. Hill is the Steve Charles award-winning documentary films Education.” Professor of Media, Cities and Including “Samuel, Who Cares Solutions at Temple University. Dr. Hill holds a Ph.D. (with About Kelsey?,” “Mr. Connolly Has Prior to that, he held positions distinction) from the University of ALS” and many other films on at Columbia University and Pennsylvania. His research focuses disability-related topics. Habib is a Morehouse College. on the intersections between filmmaker at the University of New Since his days as a youth in culture, politics and education in Hampshire’s Institute on Disability. the United States and the Middle Philadelphia, Dr. Hill has been a His latest documentary, “Intelligent East. social justice activist and organizer. Lives,” examines our society’s narrow perceptions of intelligence. 2021 CASE VIRTUAL SUMMIT SCHEDULE cont’d The Intelligent Lives project also moved to Gloucester Township on Equity and the Transformation contains four short films focusing Public Schools. of Schools and Institute for Human on effective practices in transition Development and Social Change. In Gloucester Township, Santiago for youth with disabilities from is often asked to provide Doucet was born in Spain, raised high school to higher education professional development for his in Haiti and migrated to the and employment. colleagues. For the last two years, United States at the age of 10. She Habib received the Champion of Santiago facilitated Young People embodies a hybrid identity that Human and Civil Rights Award of Character (YPOC). YPOC’s is mirrored in her interdisciplinary from the National Education mission is to bring together approach to examining how Association, and the Justice for fourth- and fifth-grade students immigrant and U.S.-born children All Grassroots Award from the from all backgrounds to serve of color and their families navigate American Association of People the communities in which they education in the United States. with Disabilities. In 2014, Habib live. YPOC members have written A critical ethnographer, Doucet was appointed by President letters to veterans in advance studies how taken-for-granted Barack Obama to the President’s of Veterans Day, cleaned up the beliefs, practices, and values in the Committee for People with school grounds for Earth Day and U.S. educational system position Intellectual Disabilities. volunteered for the Martin Luther linguistically, culturally, and King Jr. Day of Service among socioeconomically diverse children Habib and his wife Betsy live in other community service activities. and families at a disadvantage, and Concord, NH, with their sons seeks active solutions for meeting Isaiah, 24, and Samuel, 21. AFTERNOON SESSION II their educational needs. 1:30 – 2 p.m. AFTERNOON SESSION I Doucet has a Ph.D. in Human 1 – 1:25 p.m. A Research Funding Session: Development and Family Studies William T. Grant Foundation’s from UNC-Greensboro and was a Teaching: The Gateway to Equity focus on reducing inequality and postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Guest Presenter: improving the use of research Graduate School of Education Mr. Angel Santiago evidence with fellowships from the National New Jersey Teacher of the Year Guest Presenter: Science Foundation and the About Mr. Santiago Dr. Fabienne Doucet National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation. Mr. Angel Santiago graduated from Program Officer, William T. Grant Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is Foundation, Associate Professor, a member of the Phi Theta Kappa New York University SPECIAL BREAKOUT and Kappa Delta Pi honor societies SESSIONS About Dr. Doucet and holds a master’s degree in Question & Answer Session Fabienne Doucet, Ph.D., is a education and a bachelor’s degree with Mr. Angel Santiago program officer at the William in humanities. In 2009, received an 1:30 – 2 p.m. T. Grant Foundation and an Associate of Liberal Arts Degree associate professor of Early Individual Faculty Consultation in Education from Cumberland Childhood and Urban Education in 2 – 3 p.m. County College. the Department of Teaching and Share your research proposal with Mr. Angel Santiago taught in Learning at New York University Dr. Fabienne Doucet. Camden County his entire career. (on leave). She is also an affiliated He began teaching in Lindenwold faculty member of the NYU Public Schools, and in 2013, he Metropolitan Center for Research 21-023.