National Urban Alliance (NUA) Mission

The NUA's mission is to substantiate in the public schools of urban America an irrefutable belief in the capacity of all children to reach the highest levels of learning & thinking demanded by our ever-changing global community.

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National Urban Alliance Focus

Our work is focused on learning & teaching. We build toward high intellectual performance through students’ culture, language, and cognition. Mentors in NUA’s network plan with school districts and provide ongoing professional development activities for teachers and administrators to improve classroom instruction, and to improve how school communities are organized for sustained achievement. NUA mentors are scholar practitioners--teachers and university faculty who promote higher student achievement through structural and instructional interventions incorporating the latest research on organizational development, cognition, reasoning, thinking, and higher-order comprehension skills.

Project Description 

The primary objective of the East Allen County School District and NUA Initiative is to plan and deliver professional development that significantly enhances the capacity of teachers and administrators to create and deliver classroom lessons that more effectively engage all students in rigorous intellectual discussions, research, written and oral presentations and student developed projects, in all curriculum areas, leading to higher levels of student engagement.

Links/Further Information

Putting East Allen ‘on the map' - Program shows teachers how to engage students; Ashley Smith, The News-Sentinel, 2/4/2009; As it has done in Seattle, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, and other locations the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education will be coming into the East Allen County Schools with the same goal in mind: Engage teachers to engage students.

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