The NUA's mission is to substantiate an irrefutable belief in the capacity of all public school children to achieve the high intellectual performances demanded by our ever changing global community. Our focus is teacher and administrator quality through professional development which incorporates current research from cognitive neuroscience on learning, teaching, and leading. We partner with school districts to support the building of their capacity to advocate community-wide responsibility for realizing the learning potential of its children.
OUR ACTION
NUA mentors go into schools to assess how each one is organized for instruction, examining its school climate and how data are used to “tune” instruction to each student. By demonstrating lessons in math, science, reading, and writing with groups of students, mentors coach instructional staff to accelerate student learning. Mentors deliver state-of-the-art theory & practice to school communities and classrooms. Click here for a list of NUA’s current ongoing collaborations with school districts and organizations.
OUR VISION
We are passionate in striving toward a world in which barriers to high levels of learning borne of racism, sexism and economic disadvantage are eliminated for all children and youth, especially those of color living in urban area.
OUR WORK
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.
