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Greetings!
We will be at three upcoming conferences that we want to remind you about. We'll have a full display of Rethinking Schools books and magazines at each of these.
Please attend if you can, and share this email with friends and colleagues.
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Saturday, October 12
Mission High School, San Francisco
This is one of our favorite conferences of the year, one that has inspired others around the country. Morning keynote is June Jordan School for Equity & Justice Matters presenting "Visions of Transformative Teaching--Social Justice Practice in Schools and Classrooms." Closing keynoter is David Stovall, University of Illinois-Chicago professor (and Rethinking Schools contributor.)
Rethinking Schools editors Linda Christensen and Jody Sokolower will lead workshops, and editorial associate Grace Gonzales and I will staff the Rethinking Schools exhibit.
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Friday, October 18
South High School, Minneapolis
The conference focus is racial justice. The day will feature a keynote panel on racial justice in education, workshops, a resource fair, and facilitated action dialogues on "Teach for America Out of Minneapolis," "Opting Out of High Stakes Testing," "Solutions not Suspensions," and "Against Standardized Curricula".
Marketing director Kris Collett will represent Rethinking Schools at the resource fair.
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Saturday, October 19
6th Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference
Chief Sealth International High School, Seattle
Keynote speaker this year is Curtis Acosta one of the inspiring teachers in the now-outlawed Mexican American Studies program in Tucson, Arizona. And there will be lots of workshops by Rethinking Schools editors and writers, including Linda Christensen, Wayne Au, Adam Sanchez, Özlem Sensoy and Beth Marshall (editors of Rethinking Popular Culture and Media), Tim Swinehart, Brian Gibbs, Katy Swalwell, Noah Zeichner, Katharine Johnson, and Katie Kissinger. Jesse Hagopian will anchor a panel on "Scrap the MAP: How to Boycott a Standardized Test."
Topics of the almost-60 workshops include science fiction and social justice, teaching against Islamophobia, using the Hunger Games to teach social class, talking about skin color with young children, rethinking mathematics, education and capitalism, and more. Special musical guest is David Rovics, leading a session, "Troubadour: Teaching People's History Through Music." The conference also features a Resource Fair with dozens of grassroots social justice organizations and publishers. |
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Please join us at one of these upcoming conferences-- and wherever you are, support the grassroots movement against corporate education reform.
Thanks for your support of Rethinking Schools.
Bill Bigelow
Curriculum Editor
Rethinking Schools
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