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March 19, 2021
#EdEquityVA Special Message
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The following special message includes important information about upcoming events hosted by the Office of Equity and Community Engagement. |
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A Look at Alternative Grading Practices that Center Equity
March 23, 2021
3:00-4:30 PM
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Presenters include:
Dr. Maria Pitre-Martin, Superintendent, Petersburg City Public Schools
Dr. Maria Pitre-Martin currently serves as the Superintendent of the Petersburg City Public Schools. Prior to that, she served as the Deputy State
Superintendent and the Chief Academic and Digital Learning Officer for the North Carolina Department of Education, serving approximately 1.5 million students.
As the former Superintendent of Schools for the Thomasville City School District in North Carolina the graduation rate increased 12% to an all-time high and the district saw double-digit gains in test scores. Before working in Thomasville, she served as the North Carolina State Director of K-12 Curriculum and Instruction; the Chief Academic Officer for the School District of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, and an Assistant Superintendent for the East Baton Rouge Parish School System in Louisiana. Dr. Pitre-Martin, a Broad Superintendents Academy Fellow, has a PhD in Educational Administration from Texas A&M University. As a principal in College Station, Texas, Dr. Pitre-Martin was named the Texas Middle School Principal of the Year and was one of the youngest presidents of the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals. She lives in Petersburg, Virginia with her loving husband Ken and her two dogs, Baby and Duchess.
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R. Erin Comninaki, Instructional Technology Resource Teacher, Lynchburg City Public Schools
Erin Comninaki is a Virginia native with a background in Special Education. She spent the first 11 years of her teaching career co-teaching in public schools in Brooklyn and Manhattan before moving back home to Virginia as a classroom teacher. Erin is currently an Instructional Technology Resource Teacher (ITRT) with Lynchburg City Schools. As a classroom teacher, she incorporated equitable grading practices in her classroom and continues to encourage teachers to regularly reflect on their own approaches to grading.
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Thomas Franco, Project Analyst in the Office of Technology, Virginia Department of Education
Thomas Franco is a Project Analyst in the Office of Technology at the Virginia Department of Education. He is currently a Master in Public Policy student at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he studies economic development and technology policy and leads Latinx-based initiatives. Prior to graduate school, Thomas taught sixth-grade math in San Jose, California as a Teach for America corps member. Thomas holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cognitive Science from Case Western Reserve University and a secondary teaching credential from Loyola Marymount University. In March 2021, Thomas was elected to city council as the first Latinx and first openly gay Alderman in Rutland, Vermont.
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Intentional and Strategic Best Practices that Allow ALL Students to Access Postsecondary Opportunity
April 13, 2021
3:00-4:30 PM
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Presenters include:
Sarah Bazemore, School Counseling Specialist, Virginia Department of Education
Erin McGrath, Assistant Director of College Access & PK-12 Outreach, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
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