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8:30
Coffee and muffins
8:45 What's Unique about Buncombe County Schools?
Cliff Dodson, superintendent,
Buncombe County Schools
9:30 Why Middle College?
Rob Curtis, principal, Middle College
10:10 Break
10:25 ESL Challenges for the Schools
Ximena Del Corral, coordinator,
Buncombe County Schools
11:05 Is Home Schooling a Reasonable Alternative?
Rex, Tricia and Brooke Hoffman
11:45 Group Processing: Issues, Concerns, Celebrations
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Randolph Learning Center: Metro School, Accelerated
Learning Center, KIPP Academy
Diana Wilson, principal, Randolph Learning Center
1:15 Building Tour and Return to Media Center
1:45 Asheville City Schools
Robert Logan, superintendent, Asheville City Schools
2:25 KIPP: Asheville Youth Academy--School Within a School
Shawn D. Jackson, program director, KIPP Academy
2:50 Visit KIPP Classrooms
Suggested Activities:
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School board meetings
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Visit your local
school and meet the principal
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Volunteer in a school
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Take a class at A.B.
Tech or UNCA
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Read to children; gift
books as gifts to children
Special thanks to Lettie Polite (LAS X) and Carolyn Hubbard and Pete
Fisher (LAS XVI)
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