Presented by Geoffrey Canada, President, Harlem Children’s Zone®
Moderated by Ray Paul Biron, NexGen Education

Sponsored by NexGen Education

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How can educators ensure that middle school students are engaged and driven to master math concepts? This enlightening edWebinar introduces you to the winning strategies of the Harlem Children’s Zone®, which was founded with the vision of disrupting the cycle of intergenerational poverty by offering students the support they need to succeed from pre-K through college to become productive, self-sustaining adults.

Watch and learn how HCZ does this on an unprecedented scale, working with over 14,000 youth, many of them facing significant socio-economic and academic challenges. In order to achieve this vision, the HCZ team employs a unique set of strategies and best practices while leveraging data to provide individualized and timely support.

Over the past two years, HCZ has used a remote learning platform to support its middle school math instruction. This platform engages students through an AI-driven, rich curriculum while providing teachers and school leaders with the real-time progress and performance of all students, helping each student achieve their individual learning objectives.

Watch this fascinating presentation as Geoffrey Canada shares Harlem Children’s Zone’s model for success and how this remote learning platform has helped the HCZ team keep its middle school students on track in mathematics.

Viewers will walk away from this edWebinar with newfound knowledge of:

• The HCZ model and how it has found unprecedented success in some of the most challenging environments
• Teaching and learning strategies proven to be successful in remote learning classrooms
• How the HCZ team has leveraged a remote learning platform to keep its students on track

This recorded edWebinar will be of interest to middle school teachers, school and district leaders, directors of curriculum, math coaches, Title 1 math coaches, after school directors, and summer school directors.

About the Presenter

Having worked with the Harlem Children’s Zone® for more than 30 years, Geoffrey Canada is renowned worldwide for his pioneering work helping underserved children and families in Harlem, and as a thought leader and passionate advocate for education reform.

From 1990 to 2014, Mr. Canada served as the President and Chief Executive Officer for the Harlem Children’s Zone, which The New York Times called “one of the most ambitious social-policy experiments of our time.” In 2011, Mr. Canada was named to the TIME 100 list of most influential people in the world and, in March 2014, was named one of Fortune’s 50 greatest leaders in the world. As of July 1, 2014, Mr. Canada stepped down as CEO, handing the reins to COO Anne Williams-Isom. He continues to serve as President of the HCZ and Promise Academy Boards.

About the Moderator

Ray Biron is a business development and operations manager at Alef Education and a partner with NexGen Education. After graduating from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2017, where he specialized in education technology, Ray joined an Alef team in Abu Dhabi committed to revolutionizing the education system in the United Arab Emirates through the implementation of an adaptive, AI-driven platform. After two years managing the development of the platform’s digital curriculum and contributing to two major expansions, Ray moved to New York City in late 2019 to support the Alef pilot in the Harlem Children’s Zone and the expansion of Alef and NexGen Education in the United States.

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