Teachers, researchers, community members and other educational stakeholders committed to supporting youth in urban environments will gather in Nassau, Bahamas in November for the third biennial International Conference on Urban Education (ICUE).
Centered around the theme “Building and Sustaining Global Partnerships for Learning and Development,” the solutions-based conference will engage educators, school psychologists, faith-based leaders and health care, law enforcement and business representatives in sessions on PK-12 best practices, social justice and advocacy and education policy and leadership, among other timely issues in urban education.
ICUE is sponsored by The Urban Education Collaborative at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
“In putting together a conference like this, all of my research, all of the things that I do, are tied back to my experience as an urban student and what I did and did not receive during my time as a student,” said Dr. Chance W. Lewis, founding executive director of The Urban Education Collaborative and the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at UNC Charlotte.
“This international conference is really the only gathering globally that specifically focuses on urban education,” he added, noting that particular issues in urban education — such as allocating the proper amount of resources to schools and the economic impact of an education — transcend national boundaries.
Conference panel discussions, roundtables and poster sessions will delve into solutions-based discussions on 10 topics, or “strands,” relative to urban education.
The strands include PK-12 best practices that are working in urban schools across the globe; social justice and advocacy; adequate counseling for college and career readiness, in addition to mental health counseling; business development and economics; higher education; physical health and wellness; social work; school discipline and suspension prevention; and science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM).
