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Essence Magazine Highlights Ida Byrd-Hill’s Excellence Based Community Activism
Detroit, MI --
Apr 30, 2010 --
Essence Magazine states in the article Helping Our Children Achieve Excellence, "For her, the incident is emblematic of the kind of activism needed in her city, where the implosion of the auto industry has led to 30 percent unemployment." "Byrd-Hill is the very personification of Detroit's refusal to surrender."
If you have not viewed the article, go to www.upliftinc.org and read it. Or better yet, go and purchase a copy of Essence Magazine, the leading magazine that caters to African American women ages 18-49. Ida Byrd-Hill has taken her 20 years of corporate experience in Finances, Human Resources and Executive Search to create a new brand of community activism. Here is my community activism track record:
Detroit School of Arts 2008-2009
- Instituted Integrating Math and Science in Every Day Life workshop series
- Served as Evening/Weekend tutor Carnegie Math Credit Recovery Algebra/Geometry
- MME Math proficiency increased to 17.58% from 12.70%
- MME Science proficiency increased to 27.27% from 23.53%
Hustle & TECHknow Preparatory High School 2006-2007
- Created unique English class to solve illiteracy problem
- Class moved schools’ collective Lexile Reading grade level from 4.2 to 7.8
- Sent three quarter finalist to the National Vocabulary Championship
- 80% graduation rate,100% postsecondary matriculation
- Educational Program of the Year 2007, Automation Alley
Duke Ellington Conservatory of Music and Art 2005- 2006
- Orchestrated merger of two existing Detroit Public Schools.
- Increased Middle School MEAP scores to 84% in Reading from 44%
- Enhanced teacher –parent partnership
- Increased parent involvement at home and at school
Hanstein Elementary 2002-2004
- Orchestrated increase in MEAP scores to 78% in Reading from 28% in Reading Orchestrated increase in MEAP scores to 69.1% in Math from 39.1% in Math
- Enhanced teacher –parent partnership
- Increased parent involvement at home and at school
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