Navigating Real Life Diversity with Our Kids:
​Communicating and Acting with Awareness and Bravery

 Have You Had the Talk… About the Power of One? 

March 13, 2017
6:30 PM-8:30 PM
 
Family Focus - 2010 Dewey Avenue
Presented by Corrie Wallace

Free and open to the public * Spanish translation provided * Childcare provided
  Learn what you can do to create a lasting impact for
​yourself, your family, your school, and our community. 

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Corrie Wallace is a product of Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and District 202, is deeply committed to equity work, and proud to be a member of the District 65 family. She started out teaching Spanish at ETHS and went on to teach in Tokyo and Singapore. Over the years, she's worked with immigrant and refugee families as well as traditionally underrepresented parents in helping them learn how to navigate the school system here in the USA. For the past three years, Corrie was the Director of Equity at Niles North ELL, leading efforts to close the “gap,” eliminate the racial predictability of student achievement, and address disproportionality in District 219 - one of the most diverse high school districts on Chicago’s north shore. She am a founding member of the Illinois Coalition of Educational Equity Leaders and since 2008 has presented on a variety of topics at numerous conferences across the United States. 

For more information about the program, please contact Heather Sweeney at navigatingdiversity@gmail.com.

Presented by the Evanston/Skokie PTA Council in partnership with, Evanston/Skokie School District 65, Evanston Public Library, Youth & Opportunity United (Y.O.U.), Family Focus, YWCA Evanston/North Shore, The Moran Center for Youth Advocacy, and the Organization for Positive Action and Leadership (OPAL)