WINGSPREAD Information

Wingspread is an informal consortium of pre-school through graduate school teams of educators, administrators, judges, lawyers, law schools and students all committed to working across the education continuum to improve participation, persistence and success of diverse students in high school and college with the goal of enhancing their aspirations and capacity to move into positions in the legal profession and national leadership. Wingspread started from 7 law-school centered teams meeting in 2004, and has grown to become 40 law schools strong with a total of 145 organizations. The purpose of the Wingspread meetings are to bring together these teams of educators from the P-20 spectrum to work toward school reform using a model that involves law schools and education and liberal arts schools as strong partners with their P-20 colleagues. Teams and projects vary. For example, the New Mexico team has included the UNM law school, medical school, New Mexico State, and the Enlace Latino pipeline project; the Georgetown team
includes its Law Center, University, the Citizens Commission on Civil Rights, and Thurgood Marshall Academy, a law themed charter school. Teams seek to determine how we can foster high cognitive and expressive learning, critical thinking, social awareness, and due process in learning and personal skill development for students traditionally excluded from a rich educational setting. While teams and projects very, all are committed to evaluation and efforts to define best practices and offer models that can be replicated.

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