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Cecelia Traugh, Director
E-mail: cecelia.traugh@liu.edu
Telephone: (718) 488-1088
Our Center for Urban Educators (CUE) was established with a grant
from the Henry Luce Foundation.
CUE’S MISSION
The mission of the Center for Urban Educators (CUE) is the reform
of urban teacher education. The vision of teaching and schools guiding
the Center’s work is one which supports teachers as socially
responsible people who are intellectually engaged and act as advocates
of children, parents, and their communities. The Center works within
the School of Education of the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University
and in partnership with New York City public schools.
CUE’S PHILOSOPHY
CUE’s core values are beliefs in human capacity and worth and
in the importance of educating for democracy. The Center puts diverse
perspectives and experiences alongside each other with the aim of
getting beyond convention and creating new possibilities for teaching.
In order to create these opportunities, CUE supports educators’
use of observation, description, and story as ways of generating
understanding out of the lived experiences of teaching and learning.
CUE incorporates descriptive inquiry to enact its values.
THE CUE COMMUNITY
In its efforts to further its mission, CUE has developed a multi-faceted community
of future teachers, university professors, and teachers and administrators in
public schools. CUE works with New York City public schools, forms collaborations
with educators both within and beyond the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University,
and supports publications.
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