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SUMMARY:Everyday Solidarity: Interracial Organizing Stories from The Sum of Us
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, February 5\, 2024: Everyday Solidarity: Interracial Organizing Stories from The Sum of Us \nPolicy advocate and author Heather McGhee will discuss The Sum of Us: How Racism Hurts Everyone\, the young readers’ edition of her bestselling book. \nHeather McGhee is distinguished lecturer of urban studies at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. Her best-selling book\, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together\, was adapted into a young adult readers’ version and has a podcast companion series. In addition to testifying before Congress\, drafting legislation\, and developing strategies for organizations and campaigns\, McGhee is chair of the board of Color of Change. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/everyday-solidarity-interracial-organizing-stories-from-the-sum-of-us/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Multicultural Education Book Launch & Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Rethinking Multicultural Education editor Wayne Au and Rethinking Schools editors Jesse Hagopian\, Dyan Watson\, Bill Bigelow\, Linda Christensen\, Ursula Wolfe-Rocca\, Moé Yonamine\, and Cierra Kaler-Jones for a launch and celebration of the third edition of this new Rethinking Schools book on bringing racial and cultural justice to the classroom. \n  \nFrom book bans\, to teacher firings\, to racist content standards\, the politics of teaching race and culture in schools have shifted dramatically in recent years. Contributors will offer story-rich examples from their teaching and organizing that provide strategy\, hope\, and inspiration during a time of dangerous legislation\, pushback to antiracist teaching\, and McCarthy-era chilling effects on educators.   \n  \nRegister for the free Zoom link and a pre-order discount code for the third edition of Rethinking Multicultural Education — filled with new articles \n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/rethinking-multicultural-education-book-launch-celebration/
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SUMMARY:Michael Hines on the Fight for Black History in Schools
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, November 13\, 2023\, historian Michael Hines will discuss his book A Worthy Piece of Work: The Untold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools\, which details how African Americans educator activists in the early twentieth century created new curriculum around race and historical representation. \nMichael Hines is a historian of American education\, an assistant professor of Education\, and an affiliated faculty member with the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Bill Lane Center for the American West. His work focuses on the educational activism of Black teachers\, students\, and communities during the Progressive Era (1890s–1940s). Besides his book\, A Worthy Piece of Work\, Dr. Hines has published articles and book chapters in the Journal of African American History\, History of Education Quarterly\, Review of Educational Research\, and the Journal of the History Childhood and Youth\, and in popular outlets including the Washington Post\, Time magazine\, and Chalkbeat. \nHines will be in conversation with a teacher. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/michael-hines-on-the-fight-for-black-history-in-schools/
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SUMMARY:16th Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference
DESCRIPTION:16th Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference\n“Rethinking Our Classrooms\, Organizing for Better Schools”\n Saturday\, October 21\, 2023\n9am – 3:30pm\n Parkrose High School\nPortland\, Oregon\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote Speakers\nCharles E. Cobb Jr. is a former field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)\, a journalist\, and the author of a number of books including Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project (with Robert Moses) and This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get you Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible (Basic Books\, 2014). \nRenée Watson is an author of both picture books and young adult novels. Her novel\, Piecing Me Together\, received a Coretta Scott King Award and Newbery Honor. With Nikole Hannah-Jones\, Watson wrote The 1619 Project: Born on the Water. Many of her books are inspired by her experiences growing up as a Black girl in the Pacific Northwest. Her poetry and fiction center around the experiences of Black girls and explore themes of home\, identity\, body image\, and the intersections of race\, class\, and gender. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLEARN MORE HERE
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/16th-annual-northwest-teaching-for-social-justice-conference/
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SUMMARY:Blair L. M. Kelley on Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, October 16\, 2023\, author Blair L. M. Kelley will discuss her latest book\, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class\, which uses personal narratives to highlight the community and networks of resistance that Black laborers built in the face of racism and segregation. \nBlair L. M. Kelley is an award-winning author and assistant dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and International Programs in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and associate professor of History at North Carolina State University. Kelley has produced and hosted her own podcast\, has been a guest on MSNBC and NPR\, and  has written for the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, The Root\, The Grio\, Ebony\, Salon\, and Jet Magazine. Kelley was highlighted as one of the top-tweeting historians by History News Network. \nKelley will be in conversation with a teacher.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/blair-l-m-kelley-on-black-folk-the-roots-of-the-black-working-class/
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SUMMARY:Censored Teachers Speak Out: Stories from the Fight to Teach Truth
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \n\n\nAcross the country\, educators face extreme backlash for teaching the truth and creating inclusive classrooms. As of June 2022\, the Washington Post identified at least 160 educators who lost their jobs or resigned because they taught about race or LGBTQ+ issues — and there are undoubtedly scores more who have been pushed out of the classroom that have gone unreported. Mainstream media often misses crucial aspects of the larger story: the historical context that led to this dangerous wave of legislation\, the student-led organizing and educator resistance\, the parents who defend teachers\, and how teachers are forced to find their own legal and financial support in the wake of termination. Hear directly from teachers facing termination and censorship and offer solidarity and support. \nPanelists: \nMelissa Tempel (she/her) is a National Board Certified public school teacher activist and co-author of the ALA Stonewall Honor book\, Rethinking Sexism\, Gender\, and Sexuality from Wisconsin. Melissa has over 20 years experience teaching primary grades in bilingual and dual language classrooms in public schools. In April 2023\, Melissa was abruptly removed from her position as first-grade dual language teacher after a tweet she made brought national attention to harmful school board policies that impacted students and educators in her school district. She was ultimately terminated and in September 2023 Melissa filed a federal lawsuit against the district. \nMatthew Hawn has taught Economics\, World History\, Contemporary Issues\, and Personal Finance while coaching baseball\, softball\, and football for 16 years in the Sullivan County School System in Tennessee. He also served as the teacher advisor to SCHS PRIDE\, the sole LGBTQIA student organization in Sullivan County. On May 5\, 2021\, the same day that the Tennessee General Assembly passed a contentious bill regarding divisive concepts in education\, he was dismissed by Sullivan County Schools. His dismissal arose from his commitment to teaching racial equity and justice lessons in an upper-level contemporary issues class. The catalysts for the dismissal included assigning an article by Ta-Nehisi Coates following the January 6 insurrection and presenting the poem “White Privilege” by the avant-garde poet Kyla Jenee Lacey during the Derek Chauvin trial in April 2021. Matthew became the first tenured public school teacher dismissed for teaching lessons related to racial equity and justice during a nationwide debate on Critical Race Theory. \nAmy Donofrio is an award-winning teacher in Duval County Public Schools in Florida. She was removed for declining to take down a Black Lives Matter sign from her classroom at a high school named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee with a student population that’s more than 70 percent Black. Donofrio and her students had previously co-founded EVAC Movement to address the racism they faced as Black youth and had presented at Harvard and the White House. Students’ protests of Donofrio’s removal made national news and the Southern Poverty Law Center sued DCPS on her behalf. One month later\, then-Florida Department of Education Commissioner\, Richard Corcoran\, gave a headline-making speech at Hillsdale College bragging he “made sure she was terminated”  despite Donofrio still being employed and no opened state investigation. Soon after Donofrio publicly contested his comments\, DCPS terminated her and the Florida Department of Education placed her under investigation. Her licensure hearing is set for this fall. \nDr. James Whitfield is an award-winning educator who’s centered on creating safe\, nurturing\, and equitable learning environments. Over the course of nearly two decades in education he’s served as a classroom teacher\, assistant principal and principal at the middle and high school levels. He’s known for disrupting systemic barriers\, building positive culture\, and driving innovation to build excellent learning environments for all students. Education changed the course of his life and he’s driven by a deep sense of purpose to ensure every student feels seen\, heard\, valued\, and has access to a great school experience. \nThe panel is moderated by Jesse Hagopian.  \nJesse Hagopian has been an educator for over twenty years and taught for over a decade Seattle’s Garfield High School–the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test.  Jesse is an editor for the social justice periodical Rethinking Schools\, is the co-editor of the books\, Black Lives Matter at School\, Teaching for Black Lives\, Teacher Unions and Social Justice\, and is the editor of the book\, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing.  \nParticipants will need access to Zoom. Register for the Zoom link and get a discount code for Rethinking Schools magazine. \nREGISTER HERE \nASL Interpretation will be available. \nThe event is free. To make events like this available to more educators and activists\, we would greatly appreciate your solidarity donation.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/censored-teachers-speak-out-stories-from-the-fight-to-teach-truth/
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SUMMARY:Teaching About the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, September 11\, 2023\, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) veterans Courtland Cox\, Jennifer Lawson\, and Judy Richardson will discuss the SNCC Legacy Project and the importance of teaching about SNCC today. Attendees will be introduced to the new SNCC Legacy Project digital platform\, an invaluable resource for teachers. \nThe SNCC Legacy Project was established after the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of SNCC to collect\, present history\, and analyze the organization’s work from the inside out emphasizing the thinking of SNCC veterans. \nCourtland Cox worked with SNCC in Mississippi and Lowndes County\, Alabama\, served as Program Secretary for SNCC in 1962\, was the SNCC representative to the War Crimes Tribunal organized by Bertram Russell\, and in 1963 served as the SNCC representative on the Steering Committee for the March on Washington. \nJennifer Lawson served as SNCC’s deputy director for an adult education program in Mississippi before relocating to Washington\, D.C. where she worked as art director for the bookstore and publishing company\, Drum and Spear. In 1989\, Lawson was hired by PBS as their first chief programming executive\, making her the highest ranking Black woman to have served in public television. \nJudy Richardson worked with SNCC in Georgia\, Mississippi\, and Lowndes County\, Alabama and ran the office for Julian Bond’s successful first campaign for the Georgia House of Representatives. She founded the children’s section of Drum and Spear Bookstore and was children’s editor of its Press. She is also a documentary filmmaker. \nThey will be in conversation with a teacher. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/teaching-about-the-student-nonviolent-coordinating-committee/
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SUMMARY:Resisting Debt\, Funding Justice
DESCRIPTION:What can we do to resist the growing student\, teacher\, and school debt? How does an economy increasingly reliant on debt shape our schools? What can educators do to teach about debt and inequality? \nJoin Rethinking Schools and Debt Collective for a webinar to launch the special summer issue of Rethinking Schools about resisting debt and funding justice. Hear from the authors of several articles in the issue. This discussion will examine the shaky foundations of U.S. school funding and the growing monster of school debt on top of it\, the impact of teacher debt\, activism to abolish student lunch debt\, and how to — and how not to — teach about the debt economy. \nPanelists: \nFreda Anderson is a loving partner and parent. Freda has been teaching history and activism at public high schools for the last seven years. \nRichelle Brooks is a momma\, an educator\, organizer with Debt Collective and the founder of ReThink It – an organization dedicated to providing resources to mitigate the harm of systemic racism. \nStan Karp is a Rethinking Schools editor and a policy advocate for New Jersey’s Education Law Center. \nElizabeth Lester-Abdalla is a founding member of the Pennsylvania Cancel Lunch Debt Coalition. \nNick Marcil is a founding member of the Pennsylvania Cancel Lunch Debt Coalition and an Organizer and Branch Leader with Debt Collective and the Pennsylvania Branch. \nHyung Nam is a social studies teacher at Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School in Portland\, Oregon. \nEleni Schirmer is a writer\, educator\, and organizer\, living in Montréal. She works as a postdoc at Concordia University’s Social Justice Center. \nThe panel is co-moderated by Cierra Kaler-Jones\, Adam Sanchez\, and Jason Thomas Wozniak. \nCierra Kaler-Jones is the Executive Director of Rethinking Schools. \nAdam Sanchez is the Interim Managing Editor of Rethinking Schools. \nJason Thomas Wozniak is an assistant professor in the Educational Foundations and Policy Studies Department at West Chester University\, Pennsylvania. He is Political Education Organizer with Debt Collective and Pennsylvania Debt Collective Branch Leader. \n\nParticipants will need access to Zoom. Register for the Zoom link and get a discount code for Rethinking Schools magazine. \n>>REGISTER HERE\nASL Interpretation will be available \nThe event is free. To make events like this available to more educators and activists\, we would greatly appreciate your solidarity donation.
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SUMMARY:Teach Truth Day of Action June 10
DESCRIPTION:It’s time to take action. . . . again.\nFor the past two summers\, teachers rallied across the country at historic sites to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The teacher-led rallies received national media attention\, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. \nOnce again\, we invite educators\, students\, parents\, and community members to rally across the country and pledge to #TeachTruth and defend LGBTQ+ rights on June 10\, 2023. \nThe situation is urgent. \nLawmakers in at least 44 states have introduced legislation or pursued other measures that attempt to require educators to lie to students about the role of racism\, sexism\, heterosexism\, transphobia\, and other forms of oppression throughout U.S. history. These laws and restrictions have been imposed in at least 18 states. The Right has declared war on teaching the truth about structural racism and sexism and on LGBTQ+ youth. \nBooks by Black\, Indigenous\, authors of color\, and LGBTQ+ writers are increasingly being banned. \nAs Jesse Hagopian points out\, \nJust as the Red Scare and the Lavender Scare were used to purge teachers from the late-1940s through the early-1960s\, the current attacks on what history deniers have labeled “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” are directly connected. \nIn Florida\, Gov. DeSantis’s so-called “Parental Rights in Education” bill — better known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — prohibits classroom instruction related to gay\, lesbian\, or transgender issues\, and sexuality or gender identity more broadly. Florida is one of six states that censor discussions of LGBTQ+ people or issues in school\, and one of eighteen that bans transgender students from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity. \nWhile claiming to “protect” young people\, the right-wing legislators block any efforts to address gun violence (the leading cause of death for young people) and the existential threat of climate change. \nThis is a national call. \n \nAlthough bills and budget resolutions are being proposed (and in some cases passed) in specific states\, the threat to teaching — and the need for solidarity — is everywhere. \nWe invite people to participate from all over the United States. You can plan a virtual event or gathering at a historic site. From our freedom to vote\, to our children’s freedom to learn\, to everyone’s freedom from gun violence\, certain politicians want to overturn the will of the people and block the policies we need for our students\, families\, and communities to thrive. By coming together\, we can rewrite the rules to ensure safe\, affirming\, and welcoming schools and the freedom to learn for our children — across race\, place\, and gender identities — no exceptions. \nHow to Plan An Action in Your City\nTo make our voices loud and clear\, we hope to see actions (of all sizes — from one person to 100+) all over the United States. \nIt is important to sign up so that we can send you more resources and support. While the step-by-step guide further below (after the co-sponsor list) is detailed\, the process is simple: \n\nOrganize a gathering at the site (or online) with fellow educators\, family members\, students\, and community members. The group can be any size. If you don’t have time to organize a group\, pick a site and go on your own or with a friend. Every voice and action counts!\nInvite teachers to share their commitment to teaching truthfully\, parents to share why they want their children to have an uncensored education\, and students to share why learning the truth about history and respecting all identities is important to them. You can plan other activities. See ideas in the slides and detailed description further below.\nPost photos and videos to social media with the hashtag #TeachTruth\n\nBelow are examples of day of action activities\, from prior events around the country. \n  \n  \n  \nSign Up to Host an Event \n\nLeadership\nThese events are coordinated by the Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change)\, Black Lives Matter at School\, and the African American Policy Forum. \nCLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE AND RSVP
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/teach-truth-day-of-action-june-10/
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SUMMARY:Meet Rethinking Schools’Executive Director Cierra Kaler-Jones
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, May 31st for a virtual meet-and-greet with Rethinking Schools’ first-ever Executive Director\, Dr. Cierra Kaler-Jones. Rethinking Schools’ editor\, Jesse Hagopian\, will moderate a conversation with Cierra in a Q&A format. Cierra will discuss her background\, reflections from her first few months\, and vision for the work ahead. After the Q&A portion\, Cierra will share her love of storytelling by guiding attendees through a creative mini-writing workshop. The workshop will introduce a writing prompt that encourages attendees to reflect on the world they’re dreaming of and fighting for\, and how they’re building it every day. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect in small groups about their reflections. Please join us for this community celebration to commemorate this exciting time in our organization’s history. \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/meet-rethinking-schoolsexecutive-director-cierra-kaler-jones/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Where Do We Go From Here?
DESCRIPTION:How do we build the schools\, classrooms\, and learning communities that every student needs and deserves? What role do teachers play in creating these conditions and possibilities? \nJoin Rethinking Schools and the Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning Collective as we continue the conversation among teachers and students\, which we began in the January 2023 webinar Beyond “Schools in Crisis.” This discussion brings together educators\, students\, and community organizers to examine the realities we face in our schools. In this webinar\, we will ask: Where do we go from here? We’ll explore not only the possibilities that we dream of\, but those that already exist in our classrooms\, our schools\, and our communities. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \nPanelists: \n\nNeema Avashia is a veteran educator in the Boston Public Schools\, working as an Ethnic Studies Coach.\nAlykhan Boolani is an educator from Berkeley\, California. He is the co-principal at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience\, a public school in Oakland Unified School District.\nJackson Potter is a Chicago Public Schools graduate\, co-founder of the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE)\, and Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union.\nAdam Sanchez is a social studies teacher at Central High School in Philadelphia\, on the editorial board of Rethinking Schools\, and the editor of Teaching a People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War.\nCatlyn Savado is a student and community organizer on Chicago’s South Side.\nCarla Shalaby works at the intersections of writing\, research\, teacher support and development\, and organizing in and out of schools.\n\nThe panel is co-moderated by Nataliya Braginsky\, Dan HoSang\, and Cierra Kaler-Jones. \n\nNataliya Braginsky is a history educator and organizer with the Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective in Connecticut.\nCierra Kaler-Jones is the Executive Director of Rethinking Schools.\nDaniel Martinez HoSang is a Professor of Ethnicity\, Race & Migration at Yale and a member of the Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective Steering Committee\n\nASL Interpretation will be available. \nThe online event is free. We would greatly appreciate your solidarity donation to make events like this available to more educators and activists. \n 
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/where-do-we-go-from-here/
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SUMMARY:Jeanne Theoharis on Starring Mrs. Rosa Parks: Film Excerpts and Behind the Scenes Commentary
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, February 6\, 2023\, author Jeanne Theoharis will discuss Rosa Parks’ activism prior to the Montgomery Bus Boycott\, her trip to the Highlander Folk School\, and the decades she dedicated to challenging racism in the North. This session will include clips from the new documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks\, based on the book of the same name by Theoharis. \nJeanne Theoharis is a distinguished professor at Brooklyn College. She is the author or co-author of nine books and numerous articles on the Civil Rights and Black Power movements and the politics of race and education. Her books include the award-winning titles The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History. \nTheoharis will be in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/jeanne-theoharis-on-starring-mrs-rosa-parks-film-excerpts-and-behind-the-scenes-commentary/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230123T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230123T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T011210
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SUMMARY:Dayo Gore on Want to Start a Revolution? Black Women Radicals Confront the Red Scare
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, January 23\, 2023\, author Dayo F. Gore will discuss Black women radicals who were active in the revolutionary struggle during the period known as the Red Scare. \nDayo F. Gore is an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies at Georgetown University\, author of Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War\, and co-editor of Want to Start a Revolution: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. Gore is a member of Scholars for Social Justice and currently working on a book-length study of African American women’s transnational travels and activism in the long Twentieth Century. \nGore will be in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/dayo-gore-on-want-to-start-a-revolution-black-women-radicals-confront-the-red-scare/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230119T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T011210
CREATED:20230111T143638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230111T144531Z
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SUMMARY:Teach Climate Network Workshop: “We Will Not Drown\, We Will Fight”: Teaching Climate Change\, Island Solidarity\, and Indigenous Rights
DESCRIPTION:In this hands-on workshop from Climate Generation\, participants will engage with a suite of teaching activities centering the resistance of Indigenous Pacific Island peoples to environmental injustice and the climate crisis. The workshop explores both historical and recent experiences of different island territories and nations through engaging in role play and in connecting with the Pacific Climate Warriors movement through poetry. Attendees will leave with new ideas about what it means to “teach for climate justice” and creative pedagogical strategies that work across grade levels and content areas. \nMoé Yonamine has been a high school social studies teacher for 10 years. She is a Rethinking Schools editor\, author of multiple articles\, and co-editor of the third edition of The New Teacher Book. \nUrsula Wolfe-Rocca taught high school for 20 years. She is currently a program manager for the Zinn Education Project and a Rethinking Schools editor. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/teach-climate-network-workshop-we-will-not-drown-we-will-fight-teaching-climate-change-island-solidarity-and-indigenous-rights/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230110T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230110T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T011210
CREATED:20221227T194222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221227T194726Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond “Schools In Crisis”: Teachers and Students on Our Present Realities and Collective Possibilities
DESCRIPTION:Invitation to an event hosted by the Anti-Racist Education Collective\, the New Haven Federation of Teachers\, and Recovery for All Connecticut. \nEvery day\, we hear about the great teacher resignation and shortage\, student learning loss\, and the many crises facing our schools. Absent from these debates have been the voices of the educators and students at their center\, who share a far more nuanced understanding of what is truly taking place within in our schools.\nStudents and educators understand the problems schools face\, and the long-standing conditions that the pandemic built upon and compounded. Their creativity\, ideas\, and insights are crucial to building a just future for all public schools. \nThis panel centers the voices of educators and students as we consider: \n\nWhat are the contours of the crises in our schools?\nHow did these conditions precede the pandemic and which aspects are unique to this era?\nWhat power can we harness to transform our schools into the ones our students have long deserved?\n\nThe event will be held on Zoom with ASL interpretation. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/beyond-schools-in-crisis-teachers-and-students-on-our-present-realities-and-collective-possibilities/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221017T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221017T193000
DTSTAMP:20260423T011210
CREATED:20220222T191833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220222T191833Z
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SUMMARY:Ashley Farmer on Queen Mother Audley Moore
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, October 17\, 2022\, author Ashley Farmer will discuss Queen Mother Audley Moore (1898 – 1997)\, one of the most influential activists and thinkers of the 20th century. Moore was an important progenitor of Black Nationalist thought and activism. \nAshley Farmer is an associate professor in the Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book\, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era\, is a comprehensive study of Black women’s intellectual production and activism in the Black Power era. She is also the co-editor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition\, an anthology that examines central themes within the Black intellectual tradition. Her next book is Queen Mother Audley Moore: Mother of Black Nationalism. \nFarmer will be in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian. \nREGISTER
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/ashley-farmer-on-queen-mother-audley-moore/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220912T193000
DTSTAMP:20260423T011210
CREATED:20220222T191105Z
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SUMMARY:Alaina Roberts on Black Freedom on Native Land
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, September 12\, 2022\, historian and writer Alaina Roberts will introduce the Reconstruction era connections between Black freedom and Native American citizenship in the context of westward expansion onto Native land. \nAlaina Roberts\, the author of I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land\, is an award-winning historian who studies the intersection of Black and Native American life from the Civil War to the modern day. She is an assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. She writes\, teaches\, and presents about Black and Native history in the West\, family history\, slavery in the Five Tribes (the Chickasaw\, Choctaw\, Cherokee\, Creek\, and Seminole Indian Nations)\, Native American enrollment politics\, and Indigeneity in North America and across the globe. \nRoberts will be in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian and Cierra Kaler-Jones\, a social justice educator and director of storytelling at the Communities for Just Schools Fund. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/alaina-roberts-on-black-freedom-on-native-land/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220725
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220729
DTSTAMP:20260423T011210
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SUMMARY:Conference to Restore Humanity!
DESCRIPTION:Join the Human Restoration Project’s (HRP) virtual Conference to Restore Humanity! July 25-28\, 2022. Designed for K-12 and college educators to center the needs of students and educators toward a praxis of social justice. Featuring Dr. Henry Giroux\, Dr. Denisha Jones\, and tracks on disrupting discriminatory linguistics\, ending carceral pedagogy\, building for neurodiversity\, and promoting childism\, this conference aims to change systems and reimagine education. \nRegister now to receive the earlybird rate of $150 through April (regularly $200). Discounts are available for members of the BIPOC\, AAPI\, Trans\, and/or Disabled communities. \n>>REGISTER HERE\nParticipants will receive special discounts on Rethinking Schools books and magazine subscriptions.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/conference-to-restore-humanity/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220718
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220720
DTSTAMP:20260423T011210
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SUMMARY:Summer Institute for Climate Change Education
DESCRIPTION:Rethinking Schools editors Bill Bigelow and Ursula Wolfe Rocca will be presenting together at the virtual Summer Institute for Climate Change Education. Save the date and stay tuned for more details!
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/summer-institute-for-climate-change-education/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220606T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220606T193000
DTSTAMP:20260423T011210
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SUMMARY:Kelly Lytle Hernández on the 1910 Mexican Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Monday June 6\, 2022: Kelly Lytle Hernández on the 1910 Mexican Revolution \nKelly Lytle Hernández will speak about the magonistas\, a group of agitators who challenged Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century. As noted in the description of her new book\, Bad Mexicans\, “Their cross-border insurgency\, launched from U.S. soil\, was a landmark revolt against the U.S. empire and the suffocating power Anglo-Americans held over Mexican lives. Through protest and armed rebellion\, the magonistas ignited the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Pursued by the nascent FBI\, the rebels wrote in secret code and organized thousands of workers to their cause. Lytle Hernandez documents how the magonista uprising\, and the failed Anglo-American campaign to stop them\, proved foundational to the history of race\, immigration\, and violence in the United States.” \nKelly Lytle Hernández holds the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. A 2019 MacArthur fellow\, she is the author of Bad Mexicans: Race\, Empire\, and Revolution in the Borderlands\, Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol and City of Inmates: Conquest\, Rebellion\, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/kelly-lytle-hernandez-on-the-1910-mexican-revolution/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220509T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220509T193000
DTSTAMP:20260423T011210
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SUMMARY:Kidada E. Williams “Seizing Freedom”
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, May 9\, 2022\, author Kidada E. Williams will speak with Jesse Hagopian about two seasons of Seizing Freedom\, a Black history podcast that tells stories “drawn from archives of voices from American history that have been muted time and time again.” \nKidada E. Williams is the author of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I. She teaches courses on African American and U.S. history and historical research methods at Wayne State University. Williams is also one of the co-developers of #CharlestonSyllabus\, a crowd-sourced project that helped people understand the historical context surrounding the 2015 racial massacre at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church. \nWilliams will be in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian. \n\n>>REGISTER HERE
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/kidada-e-williams-seizing-freedom/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220425T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220425T193000
DTSTAMP:20260423T011210
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SUMMARY:Johanna Fernández on the Young Lords
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, April 25\, 2022\, author and teacher Johanna Fernández will speak about the history of the Young Lords\, the Puerto Rican counterpart of the Black Panther Party. The dialogue will highlight the multiracial dimensions\, innovative urban strategies\, and global solidarities of the Black Freedom Struggle. \nJohanna Fernández is associate professor of History at Baruch College of the City University of New York. She is the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History and the editor of Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal. With Mumia Abu-Jamal\, she co-edited a special issue of the journal Socialism and Democracy\, titled The Roots of Mass Incarceration in the U.S.: Locking Up Black Dissidents and Punishing the Poor. \nFernández will be in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/johanna-fernandez-on-the-young-lords/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220406T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220406T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T011210
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SUMMARY:Oregon Council of Teachers of English Spring Conference "Windows\, Mirrors\, and Sliding Doors"  
DESCRIPTION:Join Rethinking Schools editor Linda Christensen at the Oregon Council of Teachers of English virtual spring conference for her keynote address\, “Teaching for Joy and Justice During Hard Times.” \nTeaching for Joy and Justice During Hard Times\nApril 6\, 2022 via Zoom\nFree\nLearn more and register here \nHow do we teach in a way that our literacy work does not reproduce inequities\, injustices\, and racism? In this workshop/talk\, Christensen will share strategies to nurture students’ capacity to intervene when they confront injustice at the same time they practice literacy skills. In order for students to inhabit the lives of literary characters through “windows\, mirrors\, and sliding glass doors\,” they need to understand the parallels of hurt\, struggle\, and joy across intersecting lines and figure out how to make the world right again. \nLinda Christensen\, director of the Oregon Writing Project\, is an author and editor of several books: Reading\, Writing and Rising Up\, 2nd Edition\, Teaching for Joy and Justice\, Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice\, and most recently The New Teacher Book: Finding purpose\, balance\, and hope during your first years in the classroom\, 3rd Edition. She was awarded the 2020 Distinguished Service Award from the National Council of Teachers of English.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/oregon-council-of-teachers-of-english-spring-conference-windows-mirrors-and-sliding-doors/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220327
DTSTAMP:20260423T011210
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SUMMARY:WSU Interdisciplinary  Social Justice Conference (WSU SJCon)
DESCRIPTION:“Re-storying” Social Justice: Constructing Coalition at the Intersections of Theory\, Community\, Positionality\, and Practice\nFriday\, March 25th and Saturday\, March 26th\, 2022\nWashington State University – Virtually over Zoom \nWayne Au — a Professor in the School of Educational Studies at University of Washington Bothell and an Editorial Board Member of Rethinking Schools — will provide our Saturday closing keynote event through a Q&A with WSU graduate students. The Q&A will focus on being an academic/scholar\, an activist\, and thinking through our collective work as part of institutions of higher education. \nJoin Rethinking Schools editor\, Ursula Wolfe-Rocca for Panel #13: “Pipeline Protests: Putting Climate Civil Disobedience into the Curriculum.” This is an interactive workshop where attendees will walk away with classroom-ready curriculum suitable for multiple content areas in grades 7-12 based on role plays drawn from the documentary film\, Necessity: Oil\, Water\, and Climate Resistance\, which details the story of multiple cohorts of climate activists: Indigenous leaders in the climate justice movement\, valve turners using civil disobedience to stop the flow of oil\, and the legal team that uses the “necessity defense” in the courts. \n\nFull Conference Program: https://tinyurl.com/47h5fkuw\nConference Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/yf4n7c3p
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/wsu-interdisciplinary-social-justice-conference-wsu-sjcon/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220314T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220314T193000
DTSTAMP:20260423T011210
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SUMMARY:Vikki Law on Myths About Mass Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, March 14\, 2022\, journalist Victoria Law will address prison resistance and myths about incarceration. \nVictoria Law is a journalist who researches and writes about incarceration\, gender\, and resistance. She is the author of “Prisons Make Us Safer” and 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration\, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women\, and the co-author of Prison by Any Other Name. Law is a co-founder of Books Through Bars–NYC and editor of the zine Tenacious: Art and Writings by Women in Prison. \nLaw will be in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/vikki-law-on-myths-about-mass-incarceration/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220221T193000
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SUMMARY:Martha Jones on Black Women in the Fight for Voting Rights
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, February 21\, 2022\, historian Martha S. Jones will speak about the role of Black women in the long and ongoing fight for voting rights. \nThanks to a donation from the publisher\, our Zinn Education Project will raffle 20 copies of the new paperback edition of Jones’ book Vanguard:  How Black Women Broke Barriers\, Won the Vote\, and Insisted on Equality for All to teachers who attend the event. \nMartha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at The Johns Hopkins University. Her books include Vanguard:  How Black Women Broke Barriers\, Won the Vote\, and Insisted on Equality for All and Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. \nJones will be in conversation with Cierra Kaler-Jones\, a social justice educator and director of storytelling at the Communities for Just Schools Fund. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/martha-jones-on-black-women-in-the-fight-for-voting-rights/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220110T193000
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SUMMARY:Martin Luther King on the “Unspeakable horrors of police brutality.”
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, January 10\, 2022\, Historian Jeanne Theoharis will shed light on Dr. King’s longstanding critique of police brutality for the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history class. Join and learn more about his ideas about U.S. structural racism and how northern ghettos functioned as a “system of internal colonialism” where police and the courts acted as “enforcers.” \nAs she notes in an article in The Atlantic\, “Critics of Black Lives Matter have held up King as a foil to the movement’s criticisms of law enforcement\, but those are views that King himself shared. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed\, ‘We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.’ King understood that police brutality — like segregation — wasn’t just a southern problem.” \nTheoharis\, author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History\, will be in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian. \n>>> REGISTER\nNote that these online classes with people’s historians are held at least once a month (generally on Mondays) at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for 90 minutes. In each session\, the historian is interviewed by a teacher and breakout rooms allow participants (in small groups) to meet each other\, discuss the content\, and share teaching ideas. We designed the sessions for teachers and other school staff\, however\, parents\, students\, and others are welcome to participate.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/martin-luther-king-on-the-unspeakable-horrors-of-police-brutality/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211206T193000
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SUMMARY:Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, December 6\, The Zinn Education Project is hosting Jarvis Givens for a talk on his book Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching in conversation with Jesse Hagopian and Cierra Kaler-Jones. The current assault on critical race theory and antiracist pedagogy by right-wing is unintelligible without the insights offered in Fugitive Pedagogy and Givens’ inspirational stories of Black educators who faced down intellectual abuse and physical violence to create counter-narrative curriculums that were “a literary genre inaugurated by runaway slaves . . . Black curricular imaginations of the post-Emancipation era . . . informed by a fugitive literary culture with antebellum roots.” \nThe Zinn Education Project is a collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. \nGivens’ work details the long assault on Black education that occurred from the period of enslavement through the life of one of the founders of the Black studies tradition\, Carter G. Woodson. Givens notes\, \nAnti-literacy laws targeting Black people were older than the United States itself. The first law of this kind was a slave code enacted in 1740\, in reaction to the Stono Slave Rebellion of 1739 in South Carolina. \nGivens aptly describes the “intellectual surveillance” of Black people that has always been part of U.S. education and the paranoia that white supremacists have had about Black education. He underscores this point by quoting abolitionist Frederick Douglass’ enslaver who said that a slave who learned to read and write against the will of his master was tantamount to “running away with himself.” \nCentral to Givens’ telling of the role of education in the Black freedom struggle is his portrait of Woodson who wrote numerous textbooks to counter white supremacist lies about Black history; founded Negro history week\, which later became Black History Month; and wrote one of the seminal text in the Black studies tradition\, The Mis-Education of the Negro. \nLearn more by joining us on December 6. \n>>> REGISTER HERE \nNote that these online classes with people’s historians are held at least once a month (generally on Mondays) at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for 90 minutes. In each session\, the historian is interviewed by a teacher and breakout rooms allow participants (in small groups) to meet each other\, discuss the content\, and share teaching ideas. We designed the sessions for teachers and other school staff\, however\, parents\, students\, and others are welcome to participate. ASL is provided.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/fugitive-pedagogy-carter-g-woodson-and-the-art-of-black-teaching/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211108T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211108T193000
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SUMMARY:Online Class on The Kaepernick Effect with Dave Zirin
DESCRIPTION:On November 8\, 2021\, author Dave Zirin — the people’s sports writer—will join educator Jesse Hagopian in dialogue for the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history class to discuss his new book\, The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee\, Changing the World.\n\nThe Zinn Education Project is a collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. \nThis extraordinary book is the essence of “people’s history.” So much of what’s been written about Colin Kaepernick focuses on his struggle with NFL owners\, his impact on other pro athletes\, or the debate in the media. Through extensive interviews with high school and college students around the country\, the bulk of The Kaepernick Effect is dedicated to understanding how young people were inspired to launch a social movement from below. Zirin’s defines the “Kaepernick effect” in the introduction to the book: \nWhen this project began\, “The Kaepernick Effect” referred\, in my mind\, to the forgotten hundreds if not thousands of young athletes who took a knee during the national anthem in protest of racism and police brutality. They were\, of course\, echoing the actions of former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick…. But now\, after interviewing many of these people across the United States\, I understand that the “The Kaepernick Effect” was not the result of someone else’s protest\, but a cause\, a catalyst for something far greater. It was the warning for a future that came to pass after the police murder of George Floyd\, coming on the heels of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. \nDave Zirin\, The Nation’s sports editor\, is one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World” and is the author of ten books on the politics of sports — none more important than The Kaepernick Effect for helping educators understand how young people can change the world. \nASL interpretation provided. \nProfessional development credit certificate provided upon request for attendees.\n\n>> REGISTER HERE \nNote that these online classes with people’s historians are held at least once a month (generally on Mondays) at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for 90 minutes. In each session\, the historian is interviewed by a teacher and breakout rooms allow participants (in small groups) to meet each other\, discuss the content\, and share teaching ideas. We designed the sessions for teachers and other school staff\, however\, parents\, students\, and others are welcome to participate.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/online-class-on-the-kaepernick-effect-with-dave-zirin/
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SUMMARY:Navigating Turbulent Waters: Back-to-School Organizing
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nAbout the Event\n\n\nAs educators and students go back to school this fall\, they face multiple crises: a still-raging pandemic\, right-wing censorship of educational content\, and — despite billions in federal aid — a chronic lack of funding. Join us as we hear from union leaders\, teachers\, and community activists about how they are organizing through these turbulent waters to build their unions and protect their classrooms. From San Antonio\, where community members and educators are demanding grassroots input into how federal relief funds should be spent; to Seattle and across the country\, where teachers are pledging to Teach Truth; to Arizona\, where educators are demanding protections for themselves and their students in a state where legislators seem to believe that COVID doesn’t exist. We can all take inspiration and lessons from these organizing stories as back-to-school 2021 tumbles and turns into a new school year. \nJesse Hagopian is a high school teacher in Seattle\, an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine\, and a founding member of Black Lives Matter at School. Jesse edited the book More than a Score: The New Uprising Against High Stakes Testing and is the co-editor of the books\, Teacher Unions and Social Justice\, Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice. and Teaching for Black Lives. \n\nAlejandra Lopez grew up in the southwest side of San Antonio and has been involved in social justice movement work in Europe and the United States for more than 15 years with focuses on immigration\, racial\, and economic justice. She currently serves as the president of the San Antonio Alliance of Teachers and Support Personnel\, a union that represents more than 2\,000 education workers in SAISD\, and is a founding member of PODER\, the union’s rank-and-file social justice caucus. \nCecily Myart-Cruz is a teacher\, activist\, and the United Teachers Los Angeles president. The first woman of color in the union’s 50-year history — having previously served as NEA Vice President for six years. Cecily has taught for 26 years\, at both elementary and middle school levels\, most recently at Angeles Mesa Elementary. As a UTLA Area leader\, she has worked with schools\, parents\, students\, and the community to oust 23 “bully principals.” Cecily has collaborated with school communities in initiating the year-long boycott of district periodic assessments in protest of excessive testing of students. She is no stranger in taking direct action\, whether it is fighting against co-locations\, demanding Ethnic Studies for students\, declaring the end to the criminalization of youth\, local and statewide lobbying efforts\, and much more. \nRodrigo Palacios-Tenorio is a public school educator in Arizona since 2002\, with two decades of experience in the classroom. A career-long member of his local teachers’ union and a member of Arizona Educators United since 2018\, Rodrigo Palacios was the recipient of the Chicanos Por La Causa Latino Teacher Award in the Spring of 2021. This award recognizes educators working to better the lives of their Latino community and students. \n\nModerated by Zakiyah Ansari. Zakiyah Ansari is the Advocacy Director of the New York State Alliance for Quality Education (AQE)\, the leading statewide organization fighting for educational justice in New York State. Zakiyah is the mother of eight children and grandparent of four. Zakiyah has dedicated more than 20 years of her life to the fight for educational justice and ending the oppression of Black and Brown people. Zakiyah was named one of City and State magazine’s “25 Most Influential in Brooklyn.” Zakiyah volunteers her time with the NY Justice League and Resistance Revival Chorus. Zakiyah is a 2020 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity. \nThe event is hosted by Rethinking Schools and co-sponsored by the Urban Education Justice Project. \nParticipants will need access to Zoom. Register for the Zoom link and get a 20% discount code for Rethinking Schools books and magazine. \nASL Interpretation will be available \n>>REGISTER HERE \n\nThe event is free. To make events like this available to more educators and activists\, we would greatly appreciate your solidarity donation.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/navigating-turbulent-waters-back-to-school-organizing/
LOCATION:Zoom
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