SU alum, Chance Lewis to host nationwide PTO meeting on Twitter
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Posted By: LaKeeshia Giddens on August 05, 2011 BATON ROUGE – Southern University alumnus Dr. Chance W. Lewis will host the first “National Parent-Teacher Organization Tweet Up” on Twitter from 6 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. EST on Monday, Aug. 8. The “Tweet Up” will provide a national forum for parents, teachers, principals and anyone with a vested interest in the education of the nation’s students to ask questions, gather feedback and express concerns about America’s failing schools and declining student achievement. Lewis developed the idea after spending the last 15 years teaching, researching and publishing books on education reform. He said he noticed that students in America are still not performing as well as students from Japan, China, Finland and other countries. With Twitter’s growing number of followers, he felt the social media’s platform would be the best way to engage millions of people to discuss the need to improve education in the U.S. To participate in the forum and tweet questions or comments, go to Twitter.com/DrChanceWLewis and become one of Lewis’ followers. Persons without a Twitter account can visit Twitter.com, type their full name, e-mail address and a password in the allotted spaces under “New to Twitter?” and click “Sign up.” They can then become one of Lewis’ followers. His “handle” is @DrChanceWLewis. Lewis is the newly appointed “Carolyn Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor” and Endowed Chair of Urban Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is also the Executive Director of the university’s Urban Research and Policy Collaborative at the school. In May, Lewis was selected to lead the United Negro College Fund’s reform for teacher training programs at selected universities. He earned his B.S. degree in Business Education in 1994 and M.Ed. degree in Education Administration and Supervision in 1998 from Southern. He completed his doctoral studies in educational Leadership/Teacher Education from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo., in 2001. Lewis has over 100 publications including over 50 refereed journal articles in some of the leading academic journals in the field of urban education and teacher education. He has received over $4 million in external research funds; authored, co-authored or, co-edited 7 books and has provided professional development and research consultative services to over 100 school districts and universities across the country and Canada. If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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