Yvette Jackson
drjnua@gmail.com
Yvette Jackson, EdD, is internationally recognized for her work in assessing the learning potential of disenfranchised urban students. Her research is in literacy, gifted education, and the cognitive mediation theory of Reuven Feuerstein, PhD. She has applied her research to develop an integrated process to motivate and elicit potential in underachievers. This research was the basis for her design of the New York City Gifted Programs Framework when she was the director of gifted programs. As executive director of instruction and professional development for the New York City Board of Education, she led the development and implementation of the Comprehensive Education Plan, which optimizes the delivery of all core curriculum and support services in the public schools of New York City.
Jackson has served as the chief executive officer of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, founded at the College Board and Teachers College, Columbia University. She works with school district administrators and teachers across the country to customize and deliver systemic approaches to literacy development through instructional practices that integrate culture, language, and cognition to expand and accelerate student learning and achievement. She is a visiting lecturer at Harvard University, a member of ASCD’s Differentiated Instruction Cadre, and a keynote presenter at national and international conferences.
Jackson received a BA from Queens College of the City University of New York with a double major in education and French. At Columbia University’s Teachers College, she was awarded an MA in curriculum, an EdM in educational administration, and a doctorate in educational administration.
Robert Seth Price
robert@eggplant.org
Robert Seth Price’s most recent appointment was a full time position developing and implementing a school-wide critical thinking curriculum for all K-6 classes in an urban public school. Concurrently, he also served as a Senior Scholar with National Urban Alliance with whom he has worked for over 20 years. He designs and facilitates professional development trainings with whole school districts, schools, hospitals, and non-profit organizations on domestic and international stages. Prior to this, he taught grades 1-3 for ten years in urban public schools. He also designed and taught elective courses at a public arts high school, and was adjunct faculty for literacy and technology classes at the university level for elementary teachers in Los Angeles and Brooklyn.
Robert understands the power of lived stories. He uses the student’s and participant’s voices as part of his participant centered collaborations. He incorporates technology, social media, art, and music into his trainings and implementing his collaborations. He understands networking; system development; grass roots project development; progressive education implementation; and facilitating professional leadership development.
Robert Seth Price’s website – www.eggplant.org – provides further information on current and previous projects.