2022 Rural College Access and Success Summit

9800 Talking Stick Way,Scottsdale AZ 85256

24 April, 2022

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Ensuring that rural youth have the opportunity to successfully transition from high school to college and career. Partners for Education at Berea College and co-host Education Forward Arizona are excited to invite you to the 2022 Rural College Access and Success Summit. This event will be from April 24th to April 26th, 2022 at the Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. One of the few national convenings to focus on rural America, the Summit brings together teachers, principals, superintendents, higher education leaders, legislators, and non-profit leaders to share ideas and strategies for ensuring that rural youth have the opportunity to successfully transition from high school to college and career. Summit Keynotes Geoff Canada, founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone, will address obstacles facing our youth and the need to create intellectually challenging and socially and emotionally supportive educational environments to aid their pursuit of the American Dream. The unprecedented success of the Harlem Children’s Zone has attracted the attention of the media and leaders around the world. In 2011, Canada was named one of the world’s most influential people by Time magazine and as one of the 50 greatest leaders by Fortune magazine in 2014. President Barack Obama created the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative to replicate the Harlem Children’s Zone model across the country. He was featured in a documentary about the dire state of American education, Waiting for Superman, and has received more than 25 honorary degrees including ones from Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia. Day two of the Summit will kick off with Jimmy Wayne a former foster kid turned award-winning country recording artist whose songs and story highlight his mission to raise awareness for children in foster care. Jimmy’s hits include “Stay Gone,” “Paper Angels,” “I Love You This Much” and “Do You Believe Me Now,” which earned BMI’s prestigious Million-Air Award for receiving more than one million radio spins in America. In 2010, Jimmy walked halfway across America (from Nashville to Phoenix) to raise awareness for kids aging out of the foster care system. While walking, he wrote the Christmas novel Paper Angels (2011, Simon & Schuster). In 2012, Jimmy lobbied to pass legislative bills extending the age of foster care from 18 to 21 in California and Tennessee. Please contact Talk Stick Resort to reserve your room in the Rural College Access and Success room block. Early Bird Registration Opens on December 15th! Post Session fees included in registration. If you have additional questions, please email [email protected].