Hutton Honors College

Informal Discussion Supper with Ron Clark,
Disney Teacher of the Year

• Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 4:45-6:15 p.m.
• Harlos House, 1331 E. Tenth St.
• SIGN-UP REQUIRED
• Public lecture: Tues., March 27, 7 p.m., Alumni Hall (IMU)
• Lecture title: "Educating America: The Ron Clark Story"

If you were to design the PERFECT SCHOOL, a school every child would want to attend, what would it be like? What would it take to ensure every child who attended, no matter from what economic circumstances, was successful? Called "America's Educator," Ron Clark has worked with disadvantaged children in rural North Carolina and inner-city Harlem and is setting out to create "the perfect school," a private, non-profit school for low-income 5-8th graders in Atlanta with a unique curriculum that includes international travel every year.

Ron Clark has been lauded for his work to improve education in low-income areas. The author of The Essential 55," a New York Times Bestseller that sets out his "rules" for "discovering the successful student in every child," Mr. Clark has been a guest three times at the White House and twice on the Oprah Winfrey Show. He recently founded the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta. Ms. Winfrey named him her first "Phenomenal Man," and his work as a teacher has been dramatized in a made-for-tv movie, "The Ron Clark Story," which starred Matthew Perry.

Mr. Clark is being brought to campus by Union Board and will deliver a public lecture, "Educating America: The Ron Clark Story," at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27. The lecture, which will be held in Alumni Hall (IMU), will be followed by a half-hour Q&A and a book-signing. In addition to the Union Board, co-sponsors of the lecture include the Hutton Honors College, Wells Scholars Program, and Collins Community Council. The supper is co-sponsored by the Hutton Honors College and Wells Scholars Program, in collaboration with Union Board.

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