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Garden City Telegram
Kansas State University s College of Education and its Center for Intercultural and Multilingual Advocacy are co-hosting a virtual conference on a critical teaching need: attracting and retaining students of color to the profession.
The event, Beyond Envisioning Equity: Situating Teacher of Color Voices, will be held March 5-6.
It will feature national scholars, education practitioners and members of the larger educations community.
The conference will highlight intersectionality; higher education recruitment, advising and retention; recruiting, inducting, mentoring and retaining teachers of color; preparing white educators for pedagogical action; and education policy.
Featured speakers include Travis Bristol from the University of California Berkeley, Davis Dixon from Hampton University, Ashley Griffin of Bowie State University, Belinda Flores of the University of Texas and Felicia Mensah from Teachers College at Columbia University.
Virtual speaker series with moderated conversations through June 2021
Published December 23, 2020 •
Updated on December 23, 2020 at 5:09 pm
Building on the annual Women of Impact event that highlights the contributions and achievements of women, Notre Dame’s Women of Impact Speaker Series brings successful women together to share their insight, wisdom, experience and perspective as leaders. Through short, moderated, virtual conversations in a webinar format, men and women of all ages and backgrounds are invited to participate in these important conversations in support of Notre Dame’s mission to educate young women with the knowledge and skills they “need to know for life.”
Coronavirus impacts on Christmas sales
Traders and shoppers in the Central Business District of Accra have ignored the COVID-19 pandemic safety protocols as they struggle to engage in brisk business for Christmas.
Most traders and customers, pedestrians, as well as window shoppers the Ghana News Agency, encountered on Friday during a tour of the Central Business District were without nose masks.
Some of the shoppers were using the nose masks while others have them on their chins. Hand washing was absent as most of the shops removed the veronica buckets in front of their shops.
All the safety protocols of the World Health Organisation and the Ghana Health Service and the Government COVID-19 preventive measures have been ignored at these markets.
COVID-19 affects Christmas sales
DEC 18, 2020
Traders and shoppers in the Central Business District of Accra have thrown away the COVID-19 pandemic safety protocols as they struggle to engage in brisk business for Christmas.
Most traders and customers, pedestrians, as well as window shoppers the Ghana News Agency, encountered on Friday during a tour of the Central Business District were without nose masks.
Some of the shoppers were using the nose masks while others have them on their chins. Hand washing was absent as most of the shops removed the veronica buckets in front of their shops.
All the safety protocols of the World Health Organisation and the Ghana Health Service and the Government COVID-19 preventive measures have been ignored at these markets.