Cherrel Miller Dyce gives presentations at International Conference on Urban Education

Cherrel Miller Dyce, an assistant professor of education and faculty fellow for The Center for Race, Ethnicity, & Diversity Education, presented at the International Conference on Urban Education held Nov. 5-7, 2014, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, West Indies.
 
Miller Dyce participated in three presentations centering on asset-based frameworks for educating black males in America’s public schools. Her first presentation, “I’m More Than a Statistic: Using a Social Justice Framework to Prepare Teachers to Teach Black Males,” was with co-presenter Shadonna Gunn, principal of Grove Park Elementary School in Burlington, N.C.

For her second presentation, “Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Can Single Gender Classes for Black Males Close This Educational Chasm?”, Miller Dyce was a co-presenter with David Peay, a clinical professor in education at Winston-Salem State University, and Denise Pearson, senior associate dean & professor of education at Winston-Salem State University.

Finally, Miller Dyce presented, “Working Towards Black Male Success: Inside and Outside the School Building” with Dawn N. Hicks Tafari, a visiting professor of education at Winston-Salem State University.