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Rivers
Run Deep Education Conference
Saturday, September 11, 2004 9a.m. – 1 p.m. Room
306B
 “The
Crisis and Promise in Black Education: Teachin’, Talkin’ and Takin’ Care
of Business ‘Choice, Change and Challenge’”
Presenting Organization: Rivers Run Deep Institute
· Key
Presenters: Dr. George McKenna
· Session
Moderator(s): Nzinga Heru and Subira Kifano
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Who Should Attend: Parents, teachers, administrators,
paraprofessionals,
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Service providers and community members
This 5th annual educational conference is a
must attend session. The theme is The Crisis and Promise in Black
Education: Teachin’, Talkin’ and Takin’ Care of Business with the topic
and focus on ‘Choice, Change and Challenge’.
The
purpose of the conference is to address the current “crisis in” and
the “promise for” the academic achievement of African American
students. As such, we have chosen to focus on charter schools, culture
and language, budgets, policy, staffing, instructional methods, and
curriculum as key indicators of African American students’ academic
success.
 Our
keynote speaker will be Dr. George McKenna.
As the Principal of George
Washington Preparatory High School located in South Central Los Angeles,
Dr. McKenna developed and implemented the Preparatory School Model, a
program stressing academic excellence at all levels.
Active in community work, Dr.
McKenna has been involved in the leadership of many organizations,
including the Council of Black Administrators of the Los Angeles City
Schools, where he previously served as president. He sits on the Boards
of Directors of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Los
Angeles Brotherhood
Crusade and is a member of the Urban League and the NAACP. He has also
been a member of the faculty of California State University at Los
Angeles, a California State Commissioner on
the Governor’s Educational Quality Commission, and a member of the
National Commission on Drug Free Schools. He is the Director of
Education of the 100 Black Men of Los Angeles. He served as
Superintendent of the Inglewood Unified School District in California,
Deputy Superintendent in Compton, California, Local District
Superintendent in the Los Angeles Unified School District where he began
his career and is now the Assistant Superintendent of Pasadena Unified
School District.
Rivers Run Deep Institute insists:
It’s
about CHOICE,
To select for our children the BEST education
It’s
about CHANGE,
To alter the current mis-education of our children,
It’s
about CHALLENGE!
To work and struggle to bring into
being a new world for our children
where they can realize their fullest potential.
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