Dr. Steve Perry's "Education Truth Tour" comes to the Triad SPECIAL TO THE CHRONIC! F QuaJity Education Academy (QEA) of Winston-Salem, The College Preparatory and Leadership Academy of High Point and Torchlight Academy of Raleigh brought education activist Dr. Steve PetTy to a few hundred of their parents, students, staff, and community supporters on Aug. 14. PeiTy is revolutionizing education in America," QEA says, and shared with the North Carolina charter schools' communities how to change their mindset using the "Power of Yet." 6 6 Perry is the founder and former principal of Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, Conn. Capital Prep has sent 100 percent of its predominantly low-income, minority, first-generation high school graduates to four-year colleges every year since its first graduating class in 2006, not unlike QEA since its first graduating class of 2008. B 6 In addition to starting another school in Harlem, N.Y., he is an education contrib utor for CNN and MSNBC, an Essence Magazine columnist, best-selling author, and host of TV One's "Save My Son." Perry also talked with QEA, The Point and hundreds of other charter school mem bers at the NC Alliance for Charter Public Schools' annual Charter School Conference this past March in Greensboro. The charter schools were thrilled that he made his tour stop in the Triad again to share about how teachers of black and Latino children must teach a different way to help their students. He told the young people in the crowd that "setbacks are a part of growth, effort is the path to mastery, and that they should take more educational risks." Perry had some rather tough words for the teachers in the audience about how they have helped create a generation that has a "fixed" mindset that doesn't try and is afraid of new challenges. He told teachers that "they must have higher expectations of their students and that if they want to help children grow, they must have a growth mindset themselves." For more information about future events sponsored by QEA and The Point, go to www.qeschools .org. Submitted Photo (Above) Education Activist Dr. Steve Perry speaks to The Point and Quality Education Academy teachers. (Left) QEA CEO Simon Johnson (left), Dr. Steve Perry and The Point Leader Dr. Michelle Johnson (right). JSEEHD to sponsor Community Conference m . T~ SPB#L TO TOE CHRONICLE ,u ' The Center of Excellence for the Elimination of Health D|sparftie$ (CEEHD) and School of Health Science at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) will sponsor a "Community Conference: Sustaining and Strengthening Communities to Improve Health Outcomes" today (Sept. 17) from 8 am. to 3 pjn. at the Millennium Center on 101 W.fifth St. The objectives of this conference are as follows: dis cover proven, innovative and creative interventions/pro jects that positively impact health disparities in communi ties; learn new and creative interventions/projects to engage communities as partners in improving health out comes; explore transformative changes in the nation's healthcare system that leads to health equity among communities; and explore strate gies that reduce the negative impact of social determinants on individual and community health. Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines will be one of the conference speakers. Joines original ly was elected mayor in November 2001. His emphasis is on building the economy and uni fying the community. Other speakers at the event will include the r> "VY" . ? ? '! ? . ' ? ' following: Thomas A. LaVeist, Ph.D., the William C. and Nancy F. Richardson professor in Health Policy and direc tor of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the John's Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Noble A-W Maseru, Ph.D., M.P.H., serves as the health commissioner for the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, and has 30 years experience in human services, academia and public health; Alexis D. Bakos, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N., senior adviser to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Minority Health and Office of Minority Health at the U.S. Department of'Health and Human Services; Marlon Hunter, wh