The Blue Ribbon Project

Damian Pacheco teaches in the Alfred University / CITE Master's in Public Administration Program  which starts each fall. This is a weekend program, which students complete in 18 months. At $1095 for each 3-credit course, this is by far the lowest-cost weekend program in the NYC area.  For information on the program, please visit https://www.alfreddownstateeducation.com/mpa/  

Andrew Henry sits down with Dr. Steve Dorcely and Dr. Shawna Hansford to discuss:  earning a doctorate while working what their research unearthed about student learning and achievement gaps how Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education impacts student learning capacity 4 principles of CRSE the cognitive aspects of teaching and learning  how cultures impact learning  knowledge construction key fa...

Our Blue Ribbon Project episode today follows a group of principals in Brooklyn who have formed a PLC. They are reading a book together, The Fundamental Five, and working through the concepts in their schools. Before this conversation, they watched a number of videos of classroom teachers working with students in class that included English Language Learners. The problem of practice (POP) they foc...

CITE / St. Rose graduate Stephen Ritz has a dream, and it starts with the power of community. He brings this to life through his Green Bronx Machine, a non-profit he started to bring Urban Farming to a school in the Bronx. In this interview, Stephen recounts his journey, and highlights how his project helped turn around a school. He's a passionate educator, and his organization has taught national...

The Blue Ribbon Project is a conversation with change-makers in education, government, and mental health in NYC, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester, about how we support all community and school leaders as they learn and grow; how do they support their staff and students, so that all can succeed? We believe that if we give people access and opportunity, great things happen. In this intro to the Blue...

CITE is the Center for Integrated Training and Education. CITE’s mission is to disrupt the traditional model of higher education that just replaces the people at the top with carbon copies of themselves, who look and think just as they did. That old model stands in the way of growth, change, and diversity. Instead, CITE’s goal is to make high-quality training accessible to people who have been loc...