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Professor Reuven Feuerstein To Present
at TFI:BTA Birmingham
The
National Urban Alliance for
Effective
Education is very pleased to announce that Professor
Reuven Feuerstein will personally be present at NUA’s
Teaching For Intelligence: Believe To Achieve Conference
in Birmingham, Alabama, which runs April 27 to 29, 2007.
Professor Feuerstein is an enlightened scientist, an
engaging speaker, a best selling author, and an advocate
for all children reaching their highest potential. He
will do a featured presentation on Sunday, April 29.
This is the first time that Professor Feuerstein has
traveled to the United States in more than five years.
ENHANCEMENT OF LEARNING POTENTIAL
International Partnership Formed to Improve Student
Achievement for Children of Color Washington, D.C. – The
National Urban Alliance for Effective Education (NUA)
announced today a partnership with the Israeli-based
organization called the International Center for the
Enhancement of Learning Potential (ICELP). Dr. Reuven
Feuerstein is the Chairman of ICELP, which currently
houses 70 centers in 30 countries around the world. The
partnership will be formally announced in Birmingham,
Alabama at the NUA conference, “Teaching for
Intelligence,” which will take place April 27-29.
The purpose and mission of the new partnership between
ICELP and NUA is to address the need for improved
student achievement, especially for children of color,
with a special interest and concern for underserved and
underperforming African American males in the United
States. ICELP’s target populations include students with
special-needs, and its program effectively improves
thinking and learning skills not only among the
culturally different and deprived, but also among
high-functioning individuals.
"Establishing a partnership with NUA is the fulfillment
of a dream of many years for me", said Feuerstein. "When
people are shown that they can dare to believe in the
innate flexibility and potential of the human mind, hope
is re-established and sustained. The programs we are
preparing can accomplish tremendously positive things in
the competitive global market and in the communities
that we will serve."
The ICELP programs are operated on the basis of Dr.
Reuven Feuerstein’s Structural Cognitive Modifiability
theory. The well tested and applied theory of structural
cognitive modifiability (SCM) views the human organism
as open, adaptive and amenable for change. The aim of
this approach is to modify the individual, emphasizing
autonomous and self-regulated change. Many behavioral
learning disabilities and emotional conditions become
modified through cognitive intervention. ICELP centers
have seen huge successes on cases that normally are seen
as hopeless throughout 30 countries, including South
Africa, Brazil, China, India, Spain, England and France.
NUA’s mission is to close the achievement gap for
America's urban students by working with local school
district administrators and classroom teachers to ensure
that all students receive high quality instruction every
day in all academic subjects. With its district partners,
NUA has been able to accelerate the achievement of urban
and metropolitan students sufficiently to enter a
college or university. NUA also partners with the
districts and with community stakeholders to promote
resolute belief in the potential of every student. It
views effective public education as the critical
equalizer to ensure that all children have fair
opportunity to realize that potential.
The innovative approaches of NUA recognize that each
school community faces distinct challenges, requiring
proven models of instruction adapted to meet the needs
of students. This understanding enables NUA to be a
partner in successful education initiatives in districts
across the country, including Seattle, WA., Albany, N.Y.,
Birmingham, Alabama, Bridgeport, Connecticut,
Indianapolis, IN, Newark, N.J. and Minneapolis, MN.
“This partnership will deliver on the promise of
education reform in America for underserved
schoolchildren and youth,” said Dr. Cooper, founder and
president of the National Urban Alliance for Effective
Education. “Armed with successful student data, we are
thrilled to be able to weave the lifelong work of Dr.
Feuerstein into the work of NUA's partnerships” NUA and
ICELP’s programs share a common belief that virtually
all students are capable of mastering a rigorous high
school curriculum, by focusing their programs on
engaging students through effective learning and
teaching practices. With the leadership of
superintendents from across the country, the partnership
recognizes that there is no more important task facing
the United States than improving the life trajectories
of all students.
The National Urban Alliance for Effective Education (NUA)
® was founded in 1989 with a vision of school reform
based upon three beliefs: all children are capable of
attaining high educational standards; intelligence is
modifiable, not fixed; and all stakeholders in the
community must be involved in addressing the social,
cultural, and intellectual needs of our youth.
Established and led by Prof. Reuven Feuerstein, the
International Center for the Enhancement of Learning
Potential (www.ICELP.org),
based in Jerusalem, has developed and executed programs
based on Prof. Reuven Feuerstein's theories of
Structural Cognitive Modifiability and Mediated Learning
Experience for more than four decades. Today, with a
staff of more than 160, ICELP targets diverse
populations including children with special needs,
communication or emotional disorders; the blind;
culturally different and deprived populations;
high-functioning individuals; the brain-injured; and the
aged and ageing. In addition to its own educational and
clinical services, ICELP has authorized training centers
in more than thirty countries
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