CWK Network

Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz is a professor at Teachers College Columbia University. Yolanda brings her knowledge of Culturally Responsive Education to ESI teachers. On May 19th Yolanda gave the keynote address at the ESI Conference. Seeing is an immediate response to sense impressions. Through seeing, we match images with established schemata. Noticing, however, involves experiencing and exploiting moments with complete and full attention. Noticing implies that a person is paying attention. It requires a set of practices for living in and hence learning from experiences that can inform future practice. We rarely notice unless we are being deliberate. I was honored to Read More >

Michael Prayor was principal of Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology, an ESI school. He is now HS Superintendent for Districts 17, 18, 20, 21, 22. Why did your school apply to ESI? We saw the benefits of being part of the initiative: At Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology (BKLAT), 70% of our student population are African-American males. We saw it as an opportunity to think directly about a majority of our student population and how best to serve them. We wanted ESI to be something new and exciting for our teachers. What resulted was an ongoing Read More >

What is All Star Code? All Star Code (ASC) is a nonprofit organization that attracts, prepares and places talented young men of color on pathways of leadership and success within the technology sector. Understanding the achievement gap between African-American and Latino boys and their peers, ASC exists to close the gap and cultivate untapped talent. All Star Code builds an “ecosystem of access and education” through programmatic initiatives that focus on education, mentorships, college guidance, industry exposure, parental education, and internship placement. Through this unique approach, ASC provides these young men with the skills, networks, and system know-how to become Read More >

For the last two years, I have participated in several CRE workshop Sessions facilitated by Dr. Michelle Knight. I am a social studies teacher at The School for Human Rights in Brooklyn. The CRE workshop sessions truly helped me to work better with my ninth and tenth grade students. These sessions have been some of the most useful, informative sessions I have been a part of since the beginning of my tenure with the Department of Education in 1981. We have discussed and done many exercises based on but not limited to the Danielson Framework for Teaching through a CRE Read More >