QUESTION BRIDGE: BLACK MALES

Join the Ed Factory's Teachers Institute in Minneapolis for a yearlong examination of gender and the crisis of connection, with a focus on Black male identities, including stereotype threat, writing and the public self, gender and the crisis of connection.

Question Bridge will be exhibited at Juxtaposition Arts, with a discussion among Black men from North Minneapolis, Dr. Roderick Ferguson of the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, and Chris Johnson, the co-producer of Question Bridge, of California College of Art.

For all other events, please click on an event on the right to view its date and location in Minneapolis.

Niobe Way, author of Deep Secrets: Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection (Harvard University Press, 2011), is a professor of Applied Psychology at New York University in New York City, the co-founder with Carol Gilligan and Pedro Noguera of NYU's PACH (Project for the Advancement of our Common Humanity), and the co-director of the Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education at NYU. Way's work focuses on social identities, including gender and racial/ethnic identities, and the effects of gender and racial/ethnic stereotypes on adjustment and on friendships.
Lise Eliot is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at The Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science. A Chicago native, she received an A.B. from Harvard University, a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and conducted postdoctoral research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In addition to teaching and writing, Dr. Eliot lectures widely on children’s brains and gender development. Eliot is the author of Pink Brain Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps and What We Can Do About It (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009).
Saturday, 27 October 2012 | 9:30 AM 11:30 AM | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
FADWA ABBAS | English + Humanities Teacher
Originally from Khartoum, Sudan, Fadwa Abbas holds a BA in English from Columbia University, a minor in education from Barnard College, and an MA in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom. Fadwa has taught language arts and English in public, independent, and international middle and high schools, as well as in adult ESL (English as a Second Language). Fadwa is fluent in Arabic.
KEVIN TOLEDO | Middle School Mathematics + Science Teacher
Originally from the Bronx, New York, Kevin Toledo has taught for ten years in public elementary and middle schools in New York City. Kevin has an MA in Mathematics Leadership from Bank Street College of Education in New York City, and he currently teaches mathematics and science at United Nations International School in New York City.
Saturday, 12 December June 2012 | 9:00AM - 1:00 PM | University of Minnesota, STSS Building, Minneapolis
As a co-investigator with Claude Steele on test performance among African Americans and women, Josh Aronson's research seeks to understand and remediate race and gender gaps in educational achievement and standardized test performance. Aronson is a professor of Applied Psychology at New York University, and he has an MA and a PhD in Social Psychology from Princeton University. Aronson is the author of Improving Academic Achievement: Impact of Psychological Factors on Education (Academic Press, 2002), and, with Claude Steele, "Stereotypes and the Fragility of Human Competence, Motivation, and Self-Concept. In Carol Dweck & E. Elliot (Eds.), Handbook of Competence & Motivation (Guilford, 2005).
Thursday, 7 March 2013 | 9:30 AM 11:30 AM | University of Minnesota, STSS Building, Minneapolis

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