Warner School receives urban teaching grant

The three-year grant from Philip Morris Companies will be used to develop a consolidated approach to encouraging community college students to make careers of teaching in urban schools.

With some of the funds, the three post-secondary institutions, the Rochester City School District, and local corporations and agencies will establish a forum where the entire community will exchange views on teaching in urban schools.

A second part of the project will involve developing and teaching a course on urban education to undergraduate and graduate students. The course will be offered at one of the institutions, but students from all three could be enrolled.

"What I think is valuable is getting people together across institutions to discuss urban schools and teaching," said David W. Hursh, an associate professor at the Warner School, who will coordinate the project. "These conversations don't happen frequently enough. I think this will get people excited and want to be in urban schools as teachers."