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| Board Members George A. Duncan,President, has over 22 years of experience working with minority youth and providing educational and mentoring support to school age children. Mr. Duncan is the founder of Eagle’s Nest Learning Center. He oversees development and implementation of Eagle’s Nest’s programming, staffing, curriculum, site selection, student recruitment, and relations with parents and school administrators. Mr. Duncan first recognized the urgency of this cause through his work as a police officer; he witnessed first-hand the negative consequences of youth without direction. Mr. Duncan has experience managing and directing after school academic and enrichment programs in Boston. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology, and a Master’s degree in Elementary Education both from Boston College. Tanya M. Duncan serves as Operations Manager and Executive Board Member. Ms. Duncan oversees Development, Special Events, Marketing, Public Relations, and Operations Management for Eagle’s Nest Learning Center. She also is an independent consultant to the Massachusetts Bankers Association (MBA) working to advance the advocacy, public policy and financial literacy goals of the banking community. She formerly served as MBA’s Director of Housing and Federal Policy, advancing government policy for the Association and its members at the federal level and initiating numerous campaigns, conferences and publications. Prior to joining MBA, Ms. Duncan served as the Director of Education and Outreach at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) in Boston. Ms. Duncan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and earned her MBA from the University of Detroit-Mercy. Dr. Earl O. Darlington, Eagle's Nest Board Member | Associate Pastor, International Family Church , North Reading, MA and past Principal, Agape Christian Academy. Dr. Brian L. Johnson, Eagle's Nest Board Member | Associate Professor of English and Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs, Johnson C. Smith University Charlotte, NC. Stephen C. Williams, Eagle's Nest Board Member | Co-Pastor, Grace Temple, Albion, MI and a past principle in public and private schools. Advisory Board Mary F. Edouard | Teacher, Boston Public Schools. Dr. Janet Meesa | Former Principal of Agape Christian Academy. Marie T. Oates |Communications Consultant. She assists Eagle's Nest with its communications and assists with development and special projects. She is the principal of Boston PR Group, Inc. Her firm assists companies, non-profits and foundations with strategic planning, development and communication projects. Dr. Rosa A. Smith | Former Superintendent, Columbus, Ohio Public Schools. Regional Education Director, New Leaders for New Schools. Ron Walker | Associate Director of ATLAS Communities, a national comprehensive school reform design that has been implemented in over 100 schools across the country in urban, suburban and rural school districts Frank Wharton | Social worker, Grammy Award-winning Flutist . |
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| Mission Eagle’s Nest Learning Center’s mission is to cultivate in boys a passion to know and live by Christian virtue. It also seeks to motivate and inspire them to excel academically, and to develop in them a sense of responsibility to self and others that will help transform their communities. |
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| Vision Eagle’s Nest Learning Center ’s vision is to rebuild the foundation of education for young boys by establishing learning centers that provide tutoring, mentoring and character development in impoverished urban areas. Eagle’s Nest will help boys develop habits of hard work, strong ethics, and positive self-images to enable them to make the most of their God-given talents, to mature into upright men who will be instruments of renewal, breaking the cycle of poverty and violence that ensnare so many generations of young men in America ’s urban areas. |
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| History In the mid 1980’s while working as a police officer, Eagle’s Nest’s founder George Duncan noticed that much of the negativity and trouble that youth experience could be avoided with early intervention programs. Several years, a career change and two college degrees later, the opportunity for an all boys program was tested. Working as a middle school teacher in 1998, Mr. Duncan noticed that often, at the end of the school day, many of his male students would hang around. He saw this as a perfect chance to help some young boys. This led to the creation of an all-boys, after school program at the Mary Curley Middle School in Jamaica Plain, aimed at supporting the academic, social, and moral development of adolescent males. A huge success, the program inspired its participants to approach school as a mission. There was an overall increase in completing in-class assignments and homework, and cooperation with teachers. Moreover, disciplinary problems decreased dramatically. The school principal, parents, teachers, and students alike supported the program. Based on the impact and success of this program, and after gaining work experience as a site director and Program Director in other organizations, Mr. Duncan developed the idea for Eagle’s Nest. |