Even though there is a current controversy with Toronto’s first Afrocentric school’s principal being under suspension at this time, the school appears to be doing well. This video from from TV Ontario’s program “Your Voice” from February 12, 2010 gives an update on how the school is doing.The panel features:
Carl James
Carl James is a professor at York University, Toronto, and teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs in the Faculty of Education, as well as in the graduate programs in Social Work and Sociology. His research and work includes identifying factors that contribute to high and low academic achievement, and the experience of black students. His latest book is “Race in Play: Understanding the Socio-Cultural Worlds of Student Athletes.”
Ainsworth Morgan
Facilitating equitable access to education is at the core of Ainsworth Morgan’s approach to teaching. It is this unwavering belief that social and cultural barriers can begin to be eradicated within the scope of an ordinary classroom that spurred his return to Regent Park as a teacher and enabled his active participation in the film “Invisible City”. For the past 9 years Ainsworth has worked for the Toronto District School Board as a grade 7/8 teacher at Nelson Mandela Park Public School, in Regent Park. He is currently on secondment from the Toronto District School Board, working as the Coordinator of Tutoring for The Pathways to Education Program-Regent Park. Ainsworth Morgan obtained his Bsc. In Criminology from the University of Toledo and received his BEd and MEd from the Ontario Institute for Studies In Education.If you click on you can listen to an interview that we did with Ainsworth Morgan at http://thevibeandvegasshow.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/vibe-and-vegas-show-ainsworth-morgan-his-story/
James Pasternak
Since 2006, Pasternak has been the Trustee for Ward 5 (York Centre) on the Toronto District School Board. Pasternak is Chair of the Audit Committee, Director, Toronto Lands Corporation and Vice Chair of the Special Education Advisory Committee. He has been an advocate for students with special needs, saving TDSB pools, and promoting seniors’ programs. Pasternak supports the values of parents, students, seniors and teachers. He helped adopt the TDSB genocide curriculum and has been an advocate of expanding our alternative school system. Pasternak has written on topics that promote the health, welfare, dignity and financial security of seniors. Pasternak has also taught. He received a fully funded two-year Teaching Assistant award at the University of Western Ontario and taught continuing education courses. James is a graduate of Leaside High School. He earned degrees from York University, The University of Western Ontario and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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