Loyola University Maryland’s Center for Innovation in Urban Education will co-sponsor a forum on renewing community engagement in urban schools on Thursday, Oct. 29. The event, which takes place from 6:30-8 p.m. at Barclay Elementary /Middle School at 2900 Barclay Street in Baltimore, is free and open to the public.
The forum will consider the impact of the Barclay/Brent Education Corporation, an engaged, pro-active, parent-led group that mobilized in the 1970s and 1980s to improve local schools. This event, a panel discussion, will consider how a similar organization might engage current and prospective parents today, particularly those at Barclay and Margaret Brent Elementary/Middle Schools. The panel will include an original Barclay Brent Education Corporation member, a current parent, a current teacher, and the immediate past president of the Charles Village Civic Association. Stephanie Flores-Koulish, director of Loyola’s Center for Innovation in Urban Education (CIUE), will moderate.
This event is the first in a series of talks, panel discussions, readings, and other programs sponsored by Loyola’s CIUE and designed to promote dialogue on education in Baltimore, as well as deeper understanding of the need for a new vision of urban education.
Seats for the forum, which is co-sponsored by Loyola’s CIUE and the Greater Homewood Community Corporation, can be reserved at 410-617-5094 or www.loyola.edu/urbaned.
Established in 1852, Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit comprehensive university comprising Loyola College, home to its arts and sciences programs; the Sellinger School of Business and Management; and the School of Education. Loyola enrolls 3,700 undergraduate and 2,400 graduate students from across the country.
