Past Events
Expanding Learning Beyond the School Year
Learning About Learning Forum Series
| Location: | OSI-Baltimore |
| Event Date: | June 7, 2011 |
Children’s achievement in Baltimore’s public schools has slowly improved over the past decade and, with the arrival of Andrés Alonso to City Schools, this trend has accelerated. More children graduate, fewer are suspended, new schools have opened and ineffective schools have closed. Despite these successes, however, City children still lag behind their peers in other Maryland counties. Improvements in traditional classroom teaching and learning are likely to be a part, but not all, of the answer to this learning gap.
OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development program has launched a year-long forum series, Learning about Learning: Lessons for Baltimore, to examine Baltimore as a learning environment—with the goal of identifying ways in which it can expand, improve and amplify learning, in and outside of the classroom. In this forum series, OSI-Baltimore asks, “How, when, and where can our children learn best?”
In the first forum of the series, Brenda McLaughlin from the National Summer Learning Association will present recent research findings, trends, and needs, including research on summer reading and links between summer learning and high school graduation. She will discuss these findings and the importance of continued learning outside of the classroom during the summer months and how to provide access to opportunities for Baltimore City’s youth.
Space is limited. Please RSVP.
