CUBE 38th Annual Conference: Building Culturally Competent Governance for Urban Schools
September 28-October 1, 2006
Phoenix, Arizona
In step with this year’s theme Building Culturally Competent Governance for Urban Schools, more than 200 attendees held a series of discussions on cultural diversity in urban schools during the general sessions, task force programs, district workshops and CUBE’s Conversation on Race. At the conference, Norfolk City Public Schools was awarded the 2006 CUBE Annual Award for Urban School Board Excellence. Houston Independent School District and the Miami-Dade County Public Schools were recognized for their efforts in governing outstanding urban districts.
Resources
- CUBE Conference Brochure and Agenda
The conference brochure and agenda
- Wake Up Call: Impact of Health Issues on Urban School Children
National urban health and behavioral data and trends, strategies urban districts are using to address health issues in a data-driven and coordinated way, and steps school policy makers can take to lead effective action on these challenges.
- Annual Federal Legislative Update
Impact of the second session of the 109th Congress legislative actions on urban public schools and anticipate proposals from the new 110th Congress.
- CUBE’s State of Urban Education Address (Video and Handout)
Presented by Dr. Brian K. Perkins, CUBE Steering Committee Chair and Board President, New Haven Public School District, New Haven, CT
- Communications Task Force: From Civil Disobedience to Civic Education
Learn how districts have turned potentially public relations disasters into opportunities for learning and understanding.
- Video of Keynote Address
by Dr. Rudolph Crew, superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL
- Evolution of Charter Schools
Review the Arizona law on charter schools and its outcomes for public schoolchildren and compare it to the impact of charter schools across urban districts.
- Briefing: Omaha Public Schools
CUBE Statement in opposition to the Nebraska state law dividing Omaha Public Schools into three racially identifiable districts.
- Flores v. Arizona School-Finance Lawsuit and Proposition 203, Arizona's English-Only Law
Learn how Arizona’s English-learner plan will impact the state and the rest of the country.
- Confronting the Urban Graduation Rate Issue
Lean the most promising models for helping high school students graduate with their peers.
- Serving Native American Students in Urban Schools
Learn some educational strategies to improve achievement of Native American schoolchildren.
- CUBE District Workshops
Difference Approaches to English Language Acquisition — Whole School vs. Separate Programs