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A MATTER OF EQUITY
KIT A MATTER OF EQUITY
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.
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
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.
COHORT PHOTOS BY LORI LUTZ
DONORS TO A MATTER OF EQUITY
Patti Aaron Joel & Carol Appel Buck Baker & Christie Peck Cohn Family Philanthropic Fund Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Steven & Ann Deneroff Dr. Raina Ernstoff & Mr. Sanford Hansell Joan Lessen-Firestone & Ira Firestone The Edward E. Ford Foundation Janice B. Friedlander Philanthropic Fund Harold & Bonita Gardner Dr. Hobart W. Harris Ms. Peggy & Dr. Jared Klein Dr. James & Ms. Linda Kohlenberg Joel Lutz, in memory of Barbara Lutz Lori Lutz & Gregory Gamalski Dr. Alvaro & Ms. Maureen Martinez Nicholson Family Fund Robert G. Sims & Denita Banks-Sims
THE ROEPER INSTITUTE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ann Deneroff Dr. Dante Dixson David Feldman Dr. Joan Lessen-Firestone Dr. Leslie Hosey Hon. Qiana Denise Lillard Justin Long Dianne O’Connor Dr. Robert Schultz Doug Winkworth
2019 INAUGURAL COHORT
23 Kiarra Ambrose Southeastern High School Lisa Brogdon Bates Academy Richard Byas Bates Academy Michelle Coleman Pulaski Elementary-Middle School Nicole Conaway Communication & Media Arts High School Scott Conwell Communication & Media Arts High School Kimberly Frederick Communication & Media Arts High School Rodney Fresh Communication & Media Arts High School Matthew Guyton Communication & Media Arts High School Stacy Holloman The Roeper School Hasan Humadi The Roeper School Dana Hurd Bates Academy Amy Hurley Communication & Media Arts High School Dan Jacobs The Roeper School Kimberly Kimbrough Bates Academy Susannah Nichols The Roeper School Rosezenia Paul Pulaski Elementary-Middle School Aaron Robinson The Roeper School Jacqueline Robinson Southeastern High School Samantha Shuk Southeastern High School Melissa Stewart Bates Academy Marcy Troy Pulaski Elementary-Middle School Robbyn Williams Communication & Media Arts High School F
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