Welcome to the WEB DuBois Chat Room

Hi Everyone:

We will engage in a chat on the ISAAC Round Table Working Paper. I sent everyone a copy and it is available on the website: www.coe.wayne.edu/ISAAC. The six Round Table speakers and two ISAAC advisory committee members, Yvonne Jackson and Rev. Wright have been invited to read/participate in the Chat.

Everyone has the schedule. The basic purpose of this chat is to get your thinking about how to conduct the actual Round Table in the afternoon. The time frame is 2 hours. We need time for introductions. How much time should be allocated for an opening statement by Jim Young? How much time should be allocated for an opening statement by each of the 3 panelists? What is your pleasure?

Introductions 5 minutes?
Opening statement by Jim Young 15 minutes?
Opening statement by each panelist 15 minutes which would equal 45 minutes
55 minutes remaining
Should Jim pose questions to the panelists?
Should we open the questions up to the audience and go from there?

The afternoon discussion should build upon The Situation that is presented in the morning. The focus of the afternoon is: The Solution. Please keep in mind that we are marketing this Round Table to school districts. Hopefully we will have gain activists, parents and concerned citizens through the mass media. However, there will be representatives from school districts who will be looking for suggestions, solutions and strategies that they can employ to improve educational outcomes for African American children.

We want to inspire the conferees to join us chairing and serving on committees as we provide support for African American children and parents. We want them to volunteer to join us in building ISAAC. However, we also want them to walk away having a deeper insight into cutting edge thinking related to solutions.