Hampshire College

• Check our CYL Calendar for upcoming events, or to post events focused on Childhood, Youth, or Learning issues at Hampshire and in the Five College area.
• Academic Circus: Friday, September 5, 2008 1:00-5:00pm. Look for CYL under the Big Tent! Do you want to learn more about the many academic programs and schools at Hampshire? Would you like to meet faculty and other students with similar academic interests? The Academic Circus Event will feature faculty, and information about all of the academic programs and schools, along with food, games, and prizes.
• Look for our CYL program and Teacher Licensure program informational table outside the dining commons, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 9th and Thursday, September 11th.

Day in the Lab

Friday, November 21, 2008

Get involved in this fun science education event that brings urban middle schoolers to Hampshire to work with Hampshire students, staff, and faculty for an all-day event. Contact Robin Marion, Day in the Lab coordinator, at 559.5659 or e-mail: rmarion@hampshire.edu

The Critical Studies of Childhood, Youth, and Learning Program and the School of Social Science invite you to a public talk by

David Vazquez

"Developing a Community of Young Scholar-Activists:
One school's path to student liberation and empowerment."

Monday, September 22, at 4 p.m. in the West Lecture Hall
Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College


Mr. Vazquez is the founder and principal of UA Bronx Studio School for Writers and Artists at Casita Maria (BSSWA), a highly regarded public school in the South Bronx. The school's mission is "Preparing the next generation of community-based, scholar-activists to succeed in college and beyond, one student at a time."
BSSWA is a NYC empowerment school that was started in 2004 with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funding. Serving New York City's most economically marginalized community, this public middle and high school emphasizes a project-based, highly personalized, literacy-rich, and challenging learning environment that aims to prepare every student to write persuasively; read and think critically; and speak clearly and informatively on a broad range of topics. Significantly, while many urban schools have had to reduce or eliminate the arts from their curriculum, BSSWA has successfully fostered arts integration throughout the curriculum.