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Lori Lutz 1975
Associate Director/The Roeper Institute
A MATTER OF EQUITY
This past summer, 23 teachers from DPSCD and Roeper came together on the campus of Wayne State University to learn how to identify and better serve their high-potential students of color and students from low-income households. Led by a team from the internationally recognized Center for Gifted Education at College of William & Mary and with the participation of outstanding national and local partners, including our own Roeper experts, the two-week MoE Summer Institute included sessions on conceptual foundations of giftedness, history of giftedness and inequity, talent development, social-emotional aspects of gifted children, gifted pedagogy, and curriculum and instructional differentiation for gifted children. Our inaugural cohort has continued their training during the course of this academic year with four weekend in-person trainings and through an online platform which every teacher may access on the iPad they received as a cohort member. We look forward to supporting these educators to become leaders in their host schools as we continue to build our MoE professional learning community with the welcoming of our second teacher cohort to our 2020 Summer Institute. We are incredibly grateful for the generous support of The Edward E. Ford Foundation, whose Educational Leadership Grant in 2018 allowed us to turn this vision into reality, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, and the very special group of individuals who believed in the value of this initiative to expand educational opportunity for Detroit’s population of gifted and talented children, and, in the process, continue Roeper’s legacy as a champion of equity in gifted education. F
COHORT PHOTOS BY LORI LUTZ
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ANTHONY MORROW
Interdependence — one of the hallmarks of The Roeper Philosophy. Just like the students it educates to be citizens of the world, George and Annemarie Roeper believed that the School must intentionally engage with the broader local, national, and global community. While we are proud of the School’s robust commitment to financial aid, that aid is not a sufficient solution to the pervasive racial and economic inequality which unfortunately characterizes our region. A Matter of Equity, a public-private collaboration between The Roeper School, The Roeper Institute, and the Detroit Public Schools Community District, was born from the conviction that Roeper should and could do more to narrow the inequality gap by expanding access to Roeper’s broad network of knowledge, people, and resources.
A Matter of Equity … was born from the conviction that Roeper should and could do more to narrow the inequality gap by expanding access to Roeper’s broad network of knowledge, people, and resources.
