Black History Education Conference

media release: The 6th Annual Black History Education Conference will provide a venue where members from home, school and community across the state and country will be able to share policies, practices, programs and procedures that have proven effective in promoting high levels of achievement for those often being under served in our school systems and communities.

Friday, Feb. 16: 8:00a-8:00p and Saturday, Feb. 17: 7:30a-5:00p, Madison 4ollege -Truax

The itinerary for our journey this year will be guided again by our B.R.E.A.T.H. Board. The B.R.E.A.T.H. Board outlines how we organize our action steps towards fulfilling our mission and goals for breathing new life into our instructional practices and children.

Back by popular demand, this year’s keynote speaker Dr. Chike Akua will be joining us face-to-face in Madison!

Dr. Akua is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Clark Atlanta University and a leading authority on increasing the achievement of today’s students, especially those in some of the most challenging schools and communities. His cultural proficiency, equity and accountability work is known nationally for assisting school systems in improving school and community climate and culture.

Additional sessions include:

• A Wisconsin Multicultural Education Timeline
• Black on the Midwestern Frontier: Contested Freedoms, 1725-1868
• Black Business Owners and Illegal Slavery in Early Wisconsin
• Community Care and Collective Memory: Honoring The Ridge
• Igniting the Spark of Learning: Unleashing Imagination with the Dynamic Trio: Books, Blocks, Balls, and Vocabulary Words 
• Intergenerational Panel of Educators responding to Key Moments in MMSD Black History
• Leaving Legacies: Exploring the History of Wisconsin's Black Entrepreneurial Ecosystem 
• Overcoming Obstacles to Educate, Edify, and Empower   
• Schools, Behavior and Best Intentions Gone Wrong