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Jevon Hunter, assistant professor of elementary education and reading, will share his research as part of the Year of the City Emerging Scholar series on Thursday, March 21, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center North. This series of presentations provides faculty members with an opportunity to share their intellectual work with the rest of the campus.

Aligned with the "Year of the City" campus theme, his presentation, "Situating Community-Relevant Learning: Toward the Development of a Pedagogy of Urban Promise," shares a few of the triumphs and struggles gained from designing course activities that use technology to bring various community voices and artifacts in concert with the evolving pedagogical practices and learning stances of prospective, preservice, and present P–12 classroom teachers attending Buffalo State. Part illustrative, part conversational, part technologically creative, this presentation pushes on the notion of "best practices" as decontextualized, sometimes intentionally neglectful, routines disconnected from the lived experiences of urban education community stakeholders and their encompassing and inherited history. Instead, this presentation argues for the importance of identifying and incorporating community assets as part of the emerging instructional practices and beliefs about learning of future and current classroom teachers through the use of technology, while also reflecting the instantiation of a research agenda that seeks to develop more critically conscious classroom teachers and educators.