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Brown vs. Board Of Education
USF Uses $1 Million Grant To Launch New Program To Prepare Tampa Bay Region’s Science Teachers
Dozens of area teachers will receive professional develop- ment and mentorship aimed at improving student outcomes
The University of South Florida College of Educa- tion will soon launch a new fellowship program to pro- vide science teachers in the Tampa Bay region with the tools they need to become more effective instructors, advance science education curriculum and achieve greater student success.
Through a $1 million grant awarded to USF by
Wipro Limited, a select group of talented science teachers in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco County school districts will join the Tampa Bay Wipro Science Education Fellowship Pro- gram.
For each of the next three years, the program will welcome a new cohort of 20 science teachers who will undergo 250 hours of intense capability develop- ment training while contin- uing to teach in their respective schools.
The program welcomed its first group of educators at an induction ceremony
from4:30-6p.m.onMay 7 on the USF campus in Tampa. The program will begin in August 2018.
Facilitated by USF fac- ulty members Allan Feld- man, Karl Jung and David Allsopp, the proj- ect will provide opportuni- ties for teachers to engage in lesson planning and re- search activities to develop improvement programs for science curriculum in their schools.
Participants will also work alongside a USF fac- ulty mentor to better im- prove their individual professional development.
Discussion Planned
BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor
On Thursday, May 10th, a commemoration of the Brown vs. Board of Educa- tion will take place. The event will be held from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., at USF Gib- bons Alumni Center, Tradi- tions Hall.
The Brown vs. Board of Education is a landmark school desegregation case. The keynote address will be delivered by Ms. Cheryl Brown Henderson, daughter of the late Rev. Oliver and Linda Brown, one of the plaintiffs in the case.
The discussion is free and open to the public. However, those planning to attend are asked to contact Dr. Brenda L. Walker at brendawalker@usf.edu.
Ms. Henderson is one of 3 daughters born to the late Rev. Oliver Brown. In 1950, Rev. Brown, along with 12 other parents filed a lawsuit on behalf of their children against the local Board of Education. The lawsuit was led by attorneys representing the NAACP.
Joined by cases from sev- eral other states, the case was legally known as Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Rev. Brown died in 1961, never knowing the
CHERYL BROWN HENDERSON Keynote Speaker
impact of the landmark case. Now, 64 years later, his daughter, Ms. Henderson, is the founding President of The Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excel-
lence and Research.
Since founding the or-
ganization in 1988, she has provided scholarships to more than 100 minority stu- dents, presented awards to local, state, and national leaders, established libraries for children in low-income communities, and developed curriculum for educators across the country.
In 1990, under her lead- ership, the Foundation suc- cessfully worked with the U. S. Congress to establish the Brown vs. Board of Educa- tion National Park.
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