ERIC Number: EJ1362089
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 4
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Co-Leadership and Community Involvement at the Clerc Center
Belsky, Marianne; Sutliffe, Nicole
Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, v22 p32-35 2021-2022
Deaf education in the United States began in 1817 with the bilingual co-leadership of Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. In 2018, Marianne Belsky and Nicole Sutliffe, a bilingual, deaf/hearing team, were officially appointed as co-leaders of the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center. In this article, Belsky and Sutliffe share the initiatives underway at Clerc Center to address critical issues facing deaf education today: collaboration, leadership, equity, reimagination, and community (CLERC). Each of these themes contributes to the final Clerc Center mission: excellence in deaf education across the United States.
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Partnerships in Education, Cooperation, Leadership, Equal Education, Imagination, Institutional Mission, Educational Quality, Leadership Training, Electronic Libraries, Educational Technology, Language Acquisition
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center. Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Avenue NE, KS 3600, Washington, DC 20002. Tel: 800-526-9105; Tel: 202-651-5340; Fax: 202-651-5708; e-mail: odyssey@gallaudet.edu; Web site: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Alabama; Florida; Georgia; Kentucky; Louisiana; Mississippi; North Carolina; South Carolina; Tennessee
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