UNC Center for Urban Education Celebrates 2021 Graduates
UNC alumni have a saying, "Once a bear, always a bear," which refers, of course, to the school's iconic mascot, Klawz the Bear. On Saturday, May 8, 2021, the
UNC Center for Urban Education held a small, face-to-face graduation celebration to honor thirteen 2020 and 2021 forever-bears.
Families and friends attended virtually via Zoom, thanks to a generous donor who brought in his own equipment to record and livestream the graduation. Kay and Jerry Frunzi, grandparents of a 2021 graduate, helped make the celebration possible by organizing the event. We are very grateful!
Love Is All You Need
The keynote speaker at the event was Mr. Chris Denmark, Executive Principal at Global Village Academy, a K–8 language-immersion program in Aurora Public Schools. His address focused on the concept of love. “It really does begin with loving everything you do as an educator,” he said, “which starts with where you learned to love kids. One of the things I know about this program is you were trained correctly. You were trained by people that loved you. You were trained by people that prepared you to be successful.”
You were trained by people that loved you.
You were trained by people that prepared you to be successful.
