INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / October 16, 1991

 

 

 

Events
Calendar

 

Noon At New West -

Fall 1991 Concert Series

o October 17th, Barrie
Barrington, piano
(Lecture Recital)

a October 24th,
Violinworks

Community Coaches
Conference
a October 27th, Douglas
College.
Call Chris Johnson, 5041

Women’s Centre

a Introduction to Career
Planning for Women
Thursday, Oct. 17, 12 to 2
pm. Room 2720

a Introduction to Surviving
Single Parenthood for Women
Wednesday, Oct. 23, 12 to 2
pm. Room 2720

a Introduction to Interpersonal
Skills for Women
Tuesday, Oct. 29 12 to 2 pm.
Room 2720

Human Resource

Development

o Self-Defence for Women
Follow up session - Oct. 29/91
9 am to 4:30 pm, Room 1313

a Dealing with Difficult
Teens / Children
Thursday, Oct. 24, 9 am to 12
pm. Room 1630

a Effective Supervision
Thursday, Oct. 31, 9 am to 4
pm. Room 1630

Faculty Development

Workshops

o Persuasive Presentation Tools
with John Blackwell
Thursday, Oct.7, 1 pm to 3
pm. Room 0606

o Learning Styles
Monday, Oct. 21, 12 to 3 pm.
Room 1220 and Thursday
Oct. 31,9 am to 12 pm.
Room 1220

 

 

 

Revolutionary community educator
to speak at college conference

Educators in inner-city America are
using radical techniques to get the
community involved in education.
Can the same techniques be used
here in the lower mainland? Revolu-
tionary educator Dr. George
McKenna thinks so.

McKenna, who turned a south
Los Angeles high school plagued by
crime, violence and absenteeism
into a model school, is the keynote
speaker at Douglas College’s Com-
munity Partnerships Conference
October 17-19. He says his talk will
focus on how schools and colleges
can be used as instruments to
galvanize the community.

“There are so many ways we can

on to college. The success of
McKenna’s programs have led to
them being widely copied
throughout the US. His accomplish-
ments have been featured in
magazines such as Time, People,
and Ebony, and newspapers such as
the Los Angeles Times, the Wall
Street Journal, and the Christian
Science Monitor. He has appeared
on the CBS Evening News, ABC’s
Nightline, and the Oprah Winfrey
Show. He is also the subject of the
award-winning CBS Television
movie titled The George McKenna
Story. He currently serves as Super-
intendent of the Inglewood Unified
School District. m

 

connect to the community,

 

which we have not done
well in the past,” says Mc-
Kenna, speaking from
Inglewood, California.
“We've continued to try to
educate kids in isolation.”
Community connections
include extended use of
school buildings, parent
counselling sessions,
tutorials for students, after-
school recreational child
care, as well as more in-
novative programs like
student peer support
systems, and peer support
systems for parents where
the school coordinates the
activities of the parents of

 

 

 

 

the students. “We have
found significant success in
reducing dropouts through
student support, and the
same with parents support-
ing other parents. I’ve also
had success with putting
parents to work generating
parent support as a job.”
McKenna’s community
involvement programs have
resulted in kids waiting to
get into George
Washington Preparatory
High School, where he is
Principal. Eighty percent of
the school’s graduates go

 

Richard Marion, Acting President of DC
Student Society and Board members
Chris Mellalieu and Marie Kadatz listen
intently as candidates from Maple
Ridge-Pitt Meadows and Mission-Kent
ridings discuss their views on post-
secondary education. With a provincial
election fast approaching, candidates
from a wide range of parties and from
throughout the Douglas College region
participated in a series of forums
organized by the College. Watch the
next issue of INSIDE for a wrap-up of all
three all-candidates forums. m