SED‘s Deaf Studies Program is hosting an expected 300 attendees for their Deaf Deaf World (DDW) event tonight from 5-7 in the GSU’s Metcalf Ballroom.  The event will be is an opportunity for ASL, Deaf Studies and Deaf Education graduate students to step out and begin to experience and appreciate Deaf Culture and learn about the Deaf world.  The DDW experience consists of visiting  booths to engage in a conversation regarding specific Deaf life experience.  The event will include role-playing and is free and open to the public.

The School of Education (SED) will host their annual Junior Pinning ceremony tonight at 7:30 PM in SMG 105.  SED established the event to honor students as they enter the final professional coursework of their academic programs and to provide an opportunity for those students to celebrate their commitment to the education profession. During this ceremony, the junior class will affirm their dedication to the profession by reciting the Boston University Educators’ Affirmation and hear an address from guest speaker Greg Forbes Siegman.  Families of our juniors , faculty, staff and alumni are invited to attend the dinner and ceremony.

The program, which supports both children and their parents, is designed to teach English and equip families with the skills and information needed to adapt to everyday life in the United States.  It serves anywhere from 75 to 90 families at a time, and over the course of approximately 20 years has helped more than 2,400 families.  In addition to English, the program teaches things like understanding job applications, newspaper articles, citizenship materials, and financial forms. Classroom discussions also cover fire safety, crime prevention, lead paint, and even trash day.

SED is hosting a screening of Waiting for Superman, an acclaimed documentary from Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim tonight at the Coolidge Corner Theatre at 7PM. The filmmaker takes an in-depth look at the current state of public education in the US, spotlighting the lives of five public school students and several educators in their pursuit of academic growth. The private screening is open to SED students, faculty, staff and alumni.

SED was recently ranked in the top twenty large universities for the amount of graduates it provided to the 2010 Teach for America (TFA) corps. Out of the 4,500 new corps members in 2010, 35 of them came from Boston University.  Director of Educational Initiatives at SED Amy Slate said, “We have found our partnership with TFA to be mutually beneficial and are proud to be a significant contributor to their corps.”  TFA corps members are top college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in underserved schools and become lifelong leaders in the pursuit of educational equity