Essence Magazine Highlights Excellence Based Community Activism

May 3, 2010 - PRLog -- Essence Magazine states in the article,  Helping Our Children Achieve Excellence "For her, the incident is emblematic of the kind of activism needed in her city, where the implosion of the auto industry has led to 30 percent unemployment." "Byrd-Hill is the very personification of Detroit's refusal to surrender."

If you have not viewed the article, go to http://www.upliftinc.org and read it. Or better yet,  go and purchase a copy of Essence Magazine, the leading magazine that caters to African American women ages 18-49.

Ida Byrd-Hill has taken her 20 years of corporate experience in Finances, Human Resources and Executive Search to create a new brand of community activism. Here is my community activism track record:

Detroit School of Arts                                                      2008-2009                                  
•   Instituted Integrating Math and Science in Every Day Life workshop series
•   Served as Evening/Weekend tutor Carnegie Math Credit Recovery Algebra/Geometry
•   MME Math proficiency increased to 17.58% from 12.70%
•   MME Science proficiency increased to 27.27% from 23.53%

Hustle & TECHknow Preparatory High School                 2006-2007
•   Created unique English class to solve illiteracy    problem
•   Class moved schools’ collective Lexile  Reading grade level from 4.2 to 7.8
•   Sent three quarter finalist to the National Vocabulary Championship
•   80% graduation rate,  100% postsecondary matriculation
•   Educational Program of the Year 2007,    Automation Alley      

Duke Ellington Conservatory of Music and Art                2005- 2006
•   Orchestrated merger of two existing  Detroit Public Schools.
•   Increased Middle School MEAP scores to 84% in Reading  from 44%
•   Enhanced teacher –parent partnership
•   Increased parent involvement at home and at school

Hanstein Elementary                                                          2002-2004
•   Orchestrated increase in MEAP scores  to 78% in Reading from 28% in Reading
•  Orchestrated increase in MEAP scores  to 69.1% in Math from 39.1% in Math
•   Enhanced teacher –parent partnership
•   Increased parent involvement at home and at school

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Ida Byrd-Hill is President of Uplift, Inc., www.upliftinc.org, a 501 (c) 3 non profit Idea Incubator and an teen advocacy firm. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and 17 years of experience as a Financial Advisor, Executive Search Consultant and Human Resources Coordinator has prepared her to create ideas to revolutionize education.