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Executive Director, Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color (COSEBOC)
 Ron Walker is currently Executive Director of the Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color (COSEBOC). This organization is a network of schools that range from single sex, coed public, charter, and independent. They all have an agenda that places critical attention on the quality education of boys and young men of color. Ron Walker is the former Associate Director of ATLAS Communities, a comprehensive school reform organization with over 100 schools across the country in urban, suburban, and rural school districts. Mr. Walker shared responsibility with the Director for leadership and management of ATLAS activities and staff. Mr. Walker oversaw delivery of services to selected districts and worked in tandem with the Director in outreach, marketing, and related fund raising and development efforts. He identified and negotiated strategic alliances that strengthen ATLAS’ organizational capacity and had primary responsibility for the development and management of the annual Principals Institute and related leadership activities.
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Prior to becoming a New Leaders for New Schools principal, Dr. Tiffany Hardrick served as Director of Distance Education and as a business and mathematics instructor at East Arkansas Community College and a high school mathematics teacher in Memphis City Schools. At the end of the one year NLNS residency, Tiffany was named principal at Lanier Middle School in the Whitehaven community in Memphis and under her leadership the school experienced significant gains with 89 percent of students proficient or advanced in mathematics and 86 percent proficient or advanced in Language Arts.
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Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Alfred W. Tatum is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as Director of the UIC Reading Clinic where he hosts an annual African American Adolescent Male Summer Literacy Institute. Alfred authored the award-winning book, Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gap (2005). His second book, Reading for Their Life: Re (building) the Textual Lineages of African American Adolescent Males, will be available by Heinemann in August 2009. He has authored more than 25 publications on the topics of adolescent literacy, teacher profressional development in urban middle schools and high schools, and the literacy development of African American adolescent males. Dr. Tatum began his career as an eighth-grade teacher in Chicago.
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Teacher, Founder and School Director
KIPP Polaris College Preparatory Academy for Boys
 Education has come full circle for Shawn Hardnett. Raised and educated in the public schools of Rochester, New York where he was born, Shawn earned his teaching credential and an advanced degree before he returned to the city’s public schools where he taught seven years at the very middle school from which he graduated. He came to KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) when KIPP came to him, both nagged with the recalcitrance of the achievement gap and the clear disenfranchisement of those less fortunate. With a little more experience and the institutional knowledge of KIPP backing him, he has returned yet again to public education with the hopes of bringing solutions - and little more nagging.
He knows well the challenges of the communities that he serves. Of the 29 boys that grew up within the four corners of his own block, 17 are known to have been in prison, 3 are known dead, 5 are known to have graduated from high school while only 1 – Shawn Hardnett – is known to have finished college. KIPP Polaris College Preparatory Academy for Boys is a part of a calling that has welled up within him as a response to specifics struggles that young males of poverty face everyday. It is an attempt to restore hope to communities struggling to recover a former day of grace.
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Negro Education
Howard University
 Dr. Ivory A. Toldson is a professor at Howard University, Senior Research Analyst for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and was recently appointed the Editor-In-Chief of "The Journal of Negro Education." With world-wide readership and subscribers, "The Journal of Negro Education" has published distinguished scholars that include Horace Mann Bond, Ralph J. Bunche, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Kenneth B. Clark. Dr. Toldson is credited with over 30 publications and research presentations in over 20 US states, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Scotland and South Africa. He has recently been featured on C-SPAN2 Books, NPR News, and The Al Sharpton Show on XM Satellite Radio. Dr. Toldson is also the author of "Breaking Barriers: Plotting the Path to Academic Success for School-age African-American Males," which analyzes academic success indicators from national surveys that together give voice to nearly 5,800 pupils from schools across the country. He has held visiting research and faculty appointments at Emory, Drexel, and Morehouse School of Medicine.
Preyer Distinguished Professor
Principal Investigator, Promoting Academic Success (Boys of Color)
Oscar Barbarin is the L.Richardson and Emily Preyer Bicentennial Distinguished Professor for Strengthening Families in the School of Social Work and a Fellow of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Barbarin’s work has focused on understanding the roles that families play in preschool child competence, including the links between home and school, the early learning needs of African American children and families, early childhood mental health, ethnic and gender-based achievement gaps, and the factors associated with and outcomes of preschool quality...
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