Speaker Series: LeDerick Horne
March 23, 2023 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
@ Mays Landing Campus - Walter Edge TheaterOpen to faculty, staff and students
This informative and entertaining presentation provides strategies for increasing the academic performance, self-determination, and self-advocacy skills of students with and without disabilities. As an entrepreneur and performance poet with a learning disability who has worked as an advocate on the national, state, and local level, LeDerick Horne provides a unique perspective on our school system and issues related to creating a more equitable society for people with disabilities. This emotionally stirring talk is filled with moving verses, funny stories, and empowering information that will prepare the audience to challenge stereotypes and support the needs of people with disabilities.
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This event was made possible through the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) and is aimed at addressing the strategic priority of the grant to consider career and technical education program delivery through an equity lens.