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For Immediate Release
RE: MBU hosts 400 teachers for Imagine Schools Conference
MBU hosts 400 teachers for Imagine Schools Conference
August 12, 2007
Nearly 400 educators convened inside Missouri Baptist University’s Pillsbury Chapel and Dale Williams Fine Arts Center Aug. 8 for Imagine School’s annual Missouri Region Professional Development Conference.
Eileen Bakke, co-founder of Imagine Schools, addresses teachers Aug. 8 inside MBU's Pillsbury Chapel and Dale Williams Fine Arts Center.
Imagine Schools is a non-profit organization that manages charter schools of more than 20,000 K-12 students nationwide. A charter school is a publicly funded school that has been granted a charter exempting it from selected state or local rules and regulations.
Eileen Bakke, vice president for education and co-founder of the organization, was the event’s keynote speaker.
“The success of St. Louis City children is right in this room,” Bakke said during her address. Bakke urged the teachers in attendance to not only instill knowledge in their students, but “to be change agents” in their students’ lives.
About 20 percent of children who live in St. Louis City will attend an Imagine School this year, she noted.
All charter schools must obtain sponsorship through either an institution of higher learning, the school governing body or a municipal government, according to Missouri statutes. MBU began sponsoring St. Louis City charter schools in 2006 in an effort to assist schools as they strive to form leaders of tomorrow. MBU sponsors Ethel Hedgeman Lyle Academy; Imagine Academy of Academic Success; Environmental Science and Math; and Imagine Academy of Careers.
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Missouri Baptist University is a premier Christian university in Saint Louis, offering graduate and undergraduate studies in over thirty specialized fields and nine degrees. MBU's education and fine arts programs are nationally known in addition to business, religion, administration of justice, and more. MBU is one of the fastest growing higher education institutions in Missouri with an enrollment of over 4,500 students at five locations in the bi-state region — West County, Lincoln County, Jefferson County, Franklin County and the new Illinois extension at Lewis and Clark Community College.
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