Promoting Higher Achievement for Urban Learners

ASCD and the National Urban Alliance (NUA) are dedicated to supporting and enhancing urban districts and schools through research-based programs, products, and services focused on learning, teaching, leadership, and ongoing high-quality professional development.

To promote higher student achievement in urban districts and schools, NUA is sponsoring several sessions at the 2009 ASCD Annual Conference:

• 1160 Special Feature: Transforming Urban Classrooms Through Strengths: Making Students Smart Again

• 1119: Working and Learning Together Without Boundaries

• 1304T: Assessing Urban Teachers' Learning from NUA Professional Development

• 2204T: Who, What, When, Where, and How: Connecting with Every Learner

• 2305T: Improving Special Students' High Intellectual Performance

• 2439: Spoken Word, Step Show, and Tupac's Lyrics: Focusing on Strength

• 3121: Engaging and Nurturing High Intellectual Performance Among Urban Students

Other sessions focused on urban education: 

• 1127T: Pushing the Effects of Poverty Out of the Classroom 

• 1130T: African American Males in Crisis: Literacy Strategies and Academic Language 

• 1136: Supporting Rigorous Mathematics Instruction for English Language Learners 

• 1224: Mayoral Leadership Matters: Lessons Learned from Mayoral Control of Large Urban School Systems 

• 1227: Imagining an Equitable Future: Teaching for Social Justice and Student Success 

• 1229T: EXCEL: Engaging, eXcellent Curriculum for English Learners 

• 1247: Accommodative Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Preschooler

• 1266: Changing Teacher Behavior 

• 1316: Transforming Preschool for Inner-City Children 

• 1321T: Dispelling the Myth: Low-Performing Schools Can Close Achievement Gaps 

• 1327: Year Up: Empowering Urban Talent to Reach Their Potential 

• 1351T: Inclusion: I Gave Them a 70%, Now What? 

• 1411: CHATS: Purposeful Planning for Multilingual Classrooms 

• 1415T: Desired Skills Versus Required Skills: Interview Tips for Urban Principals 

• 2120T: Lessons Learned About Leading Change for Improved Teaching and Learning

• 2128: Rap to Reading: Engaging Urban Youths to Learn Deeply 

• 2134: Linking Lessons Learned in Harlem to High Performance in Milwaukee 

• 2139T: Talking in Class: Oral Language and English Learners 

• 2149: Urban School Leaders Can Inspire Black Males' Intellectual Pursuits 

• 2164T: An Action Research Approach to School Reform: Lessons from Chicago 

• 2201: Create a High-Performing School System Through Inspiration and Transformation 

• 2222T: Math without Walls: Reaching Dyslexic, Reluctant, and Struggling Students 

• 2259T: Creating the Urban Outdoor Classroom 

• 2317: Differentiating for, with, and by Diverse Students in Reading 

• 2348: Reading Comprehension Strategies That Boost Creativity and Critical Thinking 

• 2352: Professional Learning Teams for Principals: Leading Change from Within 

• 2403T: Cogitate @ Northgate: Tapping into District Creativity Using Open Space Technology 

• 2408T: Building Leadership Teams that Take Responsibility for the Community

• 2434: Classroom Tools for Well-Being 

• 3128T: Thinking Our Way to Phenomenal Levels of Latino Student Achievement

• 3149: Breaking Expectations: Changing with the Healthy School Report Card 

• 3157: Crafting Principal–Assistant Principal Relationships That Support Teachers and Students 

• 3201T: Digital Language Arts: A 21st Century Approach to Instruction 

• 3218: Engaging the English Language Learner: Strategies for Success 

• 3219: Progress Happens: A Targeted, Collaborative Approach to Boosting Student Achievement 

• 3228: Cultural Intelligence: Closing the Achievement Gap 

• 3241: Building Academic Capacity in Schools Serving Hispanic Students 

• 3331T: Motivating, Educating, and Empowering the African American Male Learner  

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