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OSI-Baltimore Launches Forum Series on Learning
Learning about Learning: Lessons for Baltimore
Children’s achievement in Baltimore public schools has slowly improved over the past decade and, with the arrival of Andrés Alonso, 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.
This forum series aims 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 year-long forum series, OSI-Baltimore asks, “How, when, and where can our children learn best?”
Our forums will focus on:
- Expanding Learning beyond the School Year: Summer Learning
- The Developing Brain: Lessons for Educators and Youth Workers
- Educating Young African-American Boys
- Informal and Incidental Learning: Technology as Teacher
- Learning is Child’s Play. Really!
- Revving up Baltimore’s Learning: An Afternoon with Sam Chaltain, author of Faces of Learning
