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| College Broadband, Inc. (CBB) dedicates itself to increasing access to higher education. The company pursues this mission through focusing primarily on mathematics, writing, and college guidance. Clients include schools that contract for professional development services, K-12 students who enroll in CBB's academic enrichment programs, parents who attend CBB workshops on general educational topics of interest that will help them support their children's improved academic performance, and companies that want to make CBB's resources available to their employees. | Consulting projects have included (1) training a Boston high school faculty on the teaching of writing, across all curriculum areas and grade levels; (2) coaching an urban high school on redesigning their approach to teaching students to write the college application essay; and (3) designing and delivering a customized writing and mathematics summer enrichment program for Long Island middle school students. | |
| CBB maintains active partnerships with One Hundred Black Men, Inc. and United Parents Associations of New York City, Inc. The company's Advisory Board includes leaders from higher education, business, technology, and the nonprofit world. | ||
| Visit www.collegebroadband.com for additional information on CBB's educational products and services. | ||
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Turusma: A Young Man's Journey to College, CBB's first educational video, won the Berkeley Video and Film Festival's "Award for Excellence" in the Education category. The film screened as an Official Selection (2002) at the Mill Valley (CA), Newport International (RI), and Urbanworld (NY) Film Festivals, as well as at the Auburn International Film and Video Festival for Children and Young Adults in Sydney, Australia. | |
| Turusma introduces a high school senior who becomes the first in his family to go to college. CBB produced the film for use as a college guidance tool. Booklist (August 2002) identifies it as "A good choice for sparking discussion about stereotypes, the limits sometimes imposed on African American youth, and college admissions." Video Librarian (September/October 2002) calls it "A useful springboard for discussion, especially for minority youth...Sincerely made." The film's fifteen-minute format allows for screening and discussion in a single class period. To order, call CBB's California Sales Office at (916) 939-9623. | ||
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| CBB offers classes and workshops at regular intervals in New York City and periodically at other locations around the country. Detailed course descriptions appear at www.collegebroadband.com. Contact CBB for registration information and/or to learn about bringing CBB's classes and workshops to your school, company, or community. | |||
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A former Ivy League admissions officer teaches these three modules. Module I (Grades 9-11) focuses on improving one's academic, extracurricular, and standardized testing profile prior to the senior year in order to maximize the chances for success during the college application experience in grade twelve. Module II (Grades 11-12) offers strategic preparation for the Scholastic Aptitude Test I (SAT I), with the assistance of a nationally renowned mathematics instructor. Module III (Grades 11-12) concentrates on the writing of a successful college application essay. |
Participants in grades 8-10 construct the basic elements of a five-paragraph analytical essay, a format that they can use in multiple academic contexts. Skills taught include developing a thesis statement, supporting that statement with evidence, and self- and peer-editing. |
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Students in grades 6-8 investigate number patterns and graph linear functions on a coordinate plane. The instructor uses a Japanese teaching style called "Lesson Study" that focuses on student collaborative problem solving rather than teacher-centered instruction. |
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Students in grades 6-8 use journalism to hone their writing skills. In Workshop I, students outline, research, write, and edit an article on a topic and in a journalistic genre of their choice. In Workshop II, each participant researches, outlines, writes, and edits (1) a factual article designed to inform and (2) an opinion piece intended to persuade on self-selected topics. Students learn self- and peer-editing techniques that they can apply to writing in other contexts as well. |
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In addition to teaching for almost a decade, CBB Founder and CEO Eva Ostrum has consulted to education think tanks and government agencies; has developed curriculum at the school and district levels; and has designed, written successful grant proposals for, and directed teacher professional development programs. Her articles have appeared in Education Week and Teacher Magazine and she has appeared on NBC's Today show as an education expert. Ms. Ostrum produced CBB's first educational film, Turusma: A Young Man's Journey to College, which has received critical acclaim in both the film and education worlds. She is also the author of the upcoming CBB's Straight-Talking A to Z Guide to College Admissions, scheduled for publication in 2003. |
Ms. Ostrum received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1986, where she later worked as an assistant director for undergraduate admissions. She earned master's degrees from Harvard and Boston Universities, the former of which named her a Conant Fellow in 1997. Ms. Ostrum's professional profile represents the high caliber of CBB faculty members. |
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