An Evening with M. Night Shyamalan: I Got Schooled
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica;"><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The public is invited to join Senator Bryan Townsend, Delaware's 2015 Teacher of the Year Megan Dalfovo-Szabo, and DelaCORE leaders for a lively discussion and book signing with filmmaker and education advocate M. Night Shyamalan. </span><br style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><strong><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Background</span></strong><br style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Famed director, screenwriter and producer M. Night Shyamalan has long had a serious interest in education. The foundation he and his wife started once gave college scholarships to promising inner-city students, but Shyamalan realized that these scholarships did nothing to improve education for all the other students in under-performing schools. When he learned that some schools were succeeding with similar student populations, he traveled across the country to find out how they did this and whether these schools had something in common.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Got-Schooled-Unlikely-Moonlighting-Education/dp/1476716455/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440683508&sr=8-1&keywords=i+got+schooled" target="_blank"> "I Got Schooled"</a> details Night's journey of learning. </span> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><em style="font-weight: inherit;">" '</em></span><em>I</em><em> Got Schooled' is a breezily written, research driven call to change America's approach to education. Shyamalan is smart and sincere, and his innovative ideas are unbound by the educational establishment.' " -<span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">John Wilwol, NPR</span></em></p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><em style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></em></p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">M. Night Shyamalan-screenwriter, director, and producer-has captured the attention of audiences around the world with his original films for almost two decades. His films include <em>The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village </em>&<em> The Happening</em>. He and his wife, Dr. Bhavna Shyamalan, co-founded the M. Night Shyamalan Foundation, dedicated to empowering communities one leader at a time.</span></p> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica;"> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica;"> </div> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br /></span></div>