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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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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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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
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Teacher Unions and Social Justice: Building Power Through Labor and Community Partnerships
DESCRIPTION:Teacher Unions and Social Justice\nBuilding Power Through Labor and Community Partnerships\nTuesday\, June 8th at 4pm PT\, 6pm CT\, 7pm ET\n\nJoin Rethinking Schools and the Bargaining for the Common Good Network for a lively discussion of the whys\, the challenges\, and the how-tos of building partnerships for power. \nREGISTER HERE\nAmanda Kail\, Ingrid Walker-Henry\, and Esperanza Martinez will participate in a 75-minute conversation about how labor and community organizations are beginning to realize that together\, we are stronger. Strategies such as Bargaining for the Common Good require sustained and mutually respectful partnerships between unions\, community organizations\, and school families. Moderated by Bianca Cunningham.  \nBianca Cunningham is a former Verizon Wireless worker who led her coworkers in seven stores across Brooklyn\, New York\, to join Communication Workers of America (CWA) in 2014\, making them the first unionized retail workers in the company. She is on staff at Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE)\, working at the intersection of economic\, racial\, and gender equity. She is the national campaign director for the Bargaining for the Common Good Network. \n\nAmanda Kail is a teacher organizer in Nashville\, Tennessee. She is the president of the Metropolitan Nashville Education Association (MNEA). \nIngrid Walker-Henry is a 20-year teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools. She serves as a vice president at the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association and is the union’s Teaching and Learning organizer. \n\nEsperanza Martinez is a former community organizer with the LA Labor and Community Strategy Center and the Bus Riders Union. She was hired by United Teachers Los Angeles in 2014 as a parent organizer. She currently serves as a Community Schools Coach for UTLA.  \nThe event is hosted by Rethinking Schools and co-sponsored by the Bargaining for the Common Good Network.  \nParticipants will need access to Zoom. Register for the Zoom link and get a 25% discount code for Rethinking Schools books and magazine. You will also get pre-readings from Teacher Unions and Social Justice: Organizing for the Schools and Communities Our Students Deserve.  \n\nASL Interpretation will be available \nREGISTER HERE\n 
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/teacher-unions-and-social-justice-building-power-through-labor-and-community-partnerships/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America with Clint Smith
DESCRIPTION:May 10\, 2021: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America | Clint Smith is a poet\, staff writer at The Atlantic\, and teaches writing and literature in the D.C. Central Detention Facility. Smith\, in conversation with Cierra Kaler-Jones\, will talk about his new book\, How the Word Is Passed\, an examination of how monuments and landmarks tell myths or truths about the central role of slavery in U.S. history and its legacy today. \nMore Information
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/how-the-word-is-passed-a-reckoning-with-the-history-of-slavery-across-america-with-clint-smith/
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SUMMARY:The Black Panthers You Didn't Learn About in School With Jesse Hagopian
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Black Panther Party was one of the most important organizations in the history of the Black freedom struggle and yet its legacy has been deeply distorted in American history textbooks. In some textbooks\, the Panthers are barely mentioned and in others\, they are maligned as anti-White and the cause for the demise of the Civil Rights Movement. \nThe rise of the Black Lives Matter movement has inspired a new appreciation for the Black Panthers—and the battle for the truth about their legacy is more important than ever. \nJoin Jesse Hagopian\, co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives\, for an interactive lesson on the Black Panther Party and an examination of their importance to the struggle for racial justice today. \nA Zoom webinar link will be emailed 24 hours before the event to all who RSVP. If you have questions please email: dei-events@oes.edu. \nREGISTER HERE>>>https://www.oes.edu/aboutoes/dei/dreaming-justice
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/the-black-panthers-you-didnt-learn-about-in-school-with-jesse-hagopian/
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SUMMARY:Rhythm and Resistance: A Conversation About Teaching and Writing Poetry
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nJoin award-winning author\, Renée Watson\, and Rethinking Schools editor\, Linda Christensen\, for a conversation about teaching and writing poetry. They will discuss creating generative spaces for students to take risks as writers\, finding poetry models that move students into writing\, as well as tough questions about revising and grading poetry. Dyan Watson\, Rethinking Schools editor\, will introduce the evening. \nRenée Watson is a New York Times bestselling author\, educator\, and activist\, and Rethinking Schools contributor. Her young adult novel\, Piecing Me Together (Bloomsbury\, 2017) received a Coretta Scott King Award and Newbery Honor. Her poetry and fiction often center around the experiences of Black girls and women\, and explores themes of home\, identity\, and the intersections of race\, class\, and gender. Renée served as Founder and Executive Director of I\, Too\, Arts Collective\, a nonprofit committed to nurturing underrepresented voices in the creative arts\, from 2016-2019. Renée grew up in Portland\, Oregon\, and splits her time between Portland and New York City. \nLinda Christensen taught high school language arts for 30 years. She currently works as the director of the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis & Clark College. She is the author of Reading\, Writing\, and Rising Up and Teaching for Joy and Justice; co-editor of Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice\, The New Teacher Book (3rd edition)\, and Rethinking Elementary Education. \nDyan Watson\, Rethinking Schools editor and Director for Inclusion at the Oregon Episcopal School in Portland. Some of her works include Teaching for Black Lives\, Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice\, and Rethinking Elementary Education. \nThis event is hosted by Rethinking Schools. Participants will need access to Zoom. The event is 75 minutes. ASL Interpretation is available. \nTuesday\, April 6 at 4pm PT\, 6pm CT\, 7pm ET. \nREGISTER for the Zoom link and a 25% Rethinking Schools book and magazine discount code.\nThis event is free to attend. To make events like this available to more teachers\, we would greatly appreciate your solidarity donation.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/rhythm-and-resistance-a-conversation-about-teaching-and-writing-poetry/
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SUMMARY:Renée Watson and Elizabeth Acevedo Discusses Love is a Revolution
DESCRIPTION:About the Event  \nRenee Watson is a New York Times bestselling writer\, educator\, Rethinking Schools contributor and community activist. Her children’s and young adult novels have won several awards and entertained countless readers around the world. So we are excited and honored to be hosting the launch event for Renee Watson’s newest book Love is a Revolution. Join us on publication day for a conversation between Renee and another superstar writer\, Elizabeth Acevedo. They will discuss the new book\, take questions\, and have a general good time celebrating the launch/birthday of Renees’ highly anticipated new book\, Love is a Revolution. \n>>>>Register here \nAbout the Book \nFrom New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Renée Watson comes a love story about not only a romantic relationship but how a girl finds herself and falls in love with who she really is.  \nWhen Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night for her cousin-sister-friend Imani’s birthday\, she finds herself falling in instant love with Tye Brown\, the MC. He’s perfect\, except . . . Tye is an activist and is spending the summer putting on events for the community when Nala would rather watch movies and try out the new seasonal flavors at the local creamery. In order to impress Tye\, Nala tells a few tiny lies to have enough in common with him. As they spend more time together\, sharing more of themselves\, some of those lies get harder to keep up. As Nala falls deeper into keeping up her lies and into love\, she’ll learn all the ways love is hard\, and how self-love is revolutionary. \nIn Love Is a Revolution\, plus size girls are beautiful and get the attention of the hot guys\, the popular girl clique is not shallow but has strong convictions and substance\, and the ultimate love story is not only about romance but about how to show radical love to the people in your life\, including to yourself. \nAbout the Authors \nRenée Watson is a New York Times bestselling author. Her novel\, Piecing Me Together\, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her books include Love is a Revolution\, Ways to Make Sunshine\, Some Places More Than Others\, This Side of Home\, What Momma Left Me\, Betty Before X\, co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz\, and Watch Us Rise\, co-written with Ellen Hagan\, as well as two acclaimed picture books: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem’s Little Blackbird\, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée grew up in Portland\, Oregon\, and splits her time between Portland and New York City. \nElizabeth Acevedois the author of The Poet X–which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature\, the Michael L. Printz Award\, the Pura Belpré Award\, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award\, and the Walter Award–as well as With the Fire on High and Clap When You Land. She is a National Poetry Slam champion and holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland. Acevedo lives with her partner in Washington\, DC. You can find out more about her at www.acevedowrites.com.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/renee-watson-and-elizabeth-acevedo-discusses-love-is-a-revolution/
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SUMMARY:Using Restorative Practices in Schools
DESCRIPTION:The Wisconsin Education Association Council Invites you to “Using Restorative Practices in Schools.” \nRestorative Practices values relationships and is centered on creating a sustainable community of engaged learners through the implementation of classroom circles. This 6-week course is interactive and reflective as evidenced in powerful group chats\, didactic discussion\, and reflective personal writing. Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of what it means to operate from a restorative lens and how the practices can be used in classrooms and schools. \n  \nLearn to strengthen your circles by integrating curriculum that sequentially builds students social\, emotional\, and academic skills. Specifically\, this course focuses on building your students active listening skills\, handling strong emotions\, and respecting differences. When a problem does occur\, you’ll be equipped with strategies to repair harm and build student-to-student and student-to-adult relationships. \n  \nNext session: January 26\, 2021 – March 31\, 2021. Participants must purchase the Restorative Practices Handbook for Teachers\, Disciplinarians\, and Administrators. This course is available for enrollment with or without 3 graduate credits through Viterbo University.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/using-restorative-practices-in-schools/
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SUMMARY:Teacher Unions and Social Justice Online Book Launch and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join Teacher Unions and Social Justice co-editors Jesse Hagopian\, Michael Charney\, and Bob Peterson along with contributors Michelle Gunderson and Arlene Inouye for the launch of a new Rethinking Schools book on the promise of social justice teacher unionism. \n>> CLICK HERE TO REGISTER \nEditors and contributors will participate in a 75-minute conversation about building alliances with the community\, the role of bargaining for the common good\, the important roles of rank-and-file union caucuses\, and how teachers can organize for racial and economic justice in our schools. \nJesse Hagopian teaches Ethnic Studies and is the co-adviser to the Black Student Union at Garfield High School in Seattle. He is a Rethinking Schools editor\, co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives\,  co-editor of\, Black Lives Matter at School\, and editor of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing.  \nArlene Inouye is UTLA secretary and co-chair of its bargaining team. She has been a speech and language specialist for 18 years in the Los Angeles Unified School District. \nMichelle Gunderson is an educator and union activist from Chicago. She serves as a trustee for the Chicago Teachers Union and is the former co-chair of the Caucus of Rank and File Educators. \nBob Peterson is a founding editor of Rethinking Schools\, a former president of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association\, and currently serves on the Milwaukee Board of School Directors. He is co-editor of several books\, including The New Teacher Book\, Rethinking Elementary Education\, and Rethinking Columbus. \nMichael Charney taught social studies in the Cleveland Public Schools for more than 30 years. He served as vice president of the Cleveland Teachers Union\, where he led efforts to motivate teachers and paraprofessionals to change their schools. \nThe event is hosted by Rethinking Schools. \nParticipants will need access to Zoom. Register for the Zoom link\, a free copy of the book’s introduction\, and a 20% Rethinking Schools book/magazine discount code. The book is now available for pre-order. The estimated ship date is Feb 1\, 2021. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/teacher-unions-and-social-justice-online-book-launch-and-discussion/
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SUMMARY:Online Class About Rosa Parks with Jeanne Theoharis
DESCRIPTION:On Jan. 11\, 2021\, at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET\, the Zinn Education Project will host a Teach the Black Freedom Struggle people’s history class with Professor Jeanne Theoharis\, who will speak about 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. \nSpecial Offer of Advance Copy of Young Readers Edition for Participants\nThis session is based on the young readers edition The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert\, to be released in February 2021. \nRosa Parks was a powerful\, strategic\, and dedicated activist whose witness inspired this nation to do things previously thought impossible. Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert have overturned simplistic descriptions of Mrs. Parks with extraordinary research\, writing\, and compassion. This is a must-read for young people hoping to understand the power we all have to make a difference. —Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy \nTo truly honor Mrs. Rosa Parks is to set the record straight. She was not an accidental heroine or just a tired old lady; she was a lifelong rebellious freedom fighter in every sense of the word. Theoharis has captured the beauty and complexity of Mrs. Parks’s life. Deeply researched and engaging\, this rich chronicle of Mrs. Parks’s life is a page-turner for adults and youth alike. Theoharis and Colbert have told Mrs. Parks’s life with so much love\, care\, and truth telling. Bravo! —Bettina L. Love\, author of We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom \nThanks to Beacon Press\, participants can purchase advance\, autographed copies of the young readers edition when they register. The list price for the book is $18.95 and it will be released in early February. The advance copies for Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class participants will be available for $17\, including shipping! They will be shipped from the warehouse in early January. \nFormat\nAs usual\, this session is for 75 minutes. There will be breakout rooms for 12 minutes about half-way through the session to allow participants (in small groups of five or six) 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. \nRethinking School editor Bill Bigelow wrote a classroom lesson based on the book that is available for free download from the Zinn Education Project. \nPrevious Classes with Jeanne Theoharis\nTheoharis helped the Zinn Education Project develop the very first people’s historians online classes at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Her previous online classes include Teenagers in the Civil Rights Movement\, Rethinking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\, and The Civil Rights Movement in the North. Here is some feedback from participants: \nAs always\, Dr. Theoharis is such an encyclopedia and I feel like at this point there is such a community feel after all of these weeks. \nI thought the connection to intersectionality and sexism that affected the ways that Rosa Parks was portrayed in history was very important. I also loved the last messages that Professor Theoharis shared about the importance of acting again and again and again as opposed to just focusing on one moment in history. \nThis was an incredible session. It was informative and invigorating. I am looking forward to many more. Thank you for making this accessible. \nI learned so much about Watts that I didn’t know before. I’m inspired to dig deeper and learn even more. I was already committed to teaching “the long story” but it’s SO important to be mentored and encouraged\, so I’m really grateful for today. \nDr. Theoharis and Mr. Hagopian do such an amazing job of making history come alive and help us see how to share these important stories with our students.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/online-class-about-rosa-parks-with-jeanne-theoharis/
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SUMMARY:Teaching Poetry for Joy and Justice
DESCRIPTION:EVENT DETAILS\n\nThrough poetry\, we invite our students’ lives — the “landscape and bread” of their homes\, their ancestors\, their struggles and joys — into classrooms as subjects worthy of study. While students learn the language of the academy about stanzas and line breaks\, similes and metaphors\, they must first learn that poetry can be playful\, that it can use ordinary\, everyday language\, and sound like their grandma or their aunts laughing together on the front porch\, that it can be written in house slippers. In this poetry workshop\, participants will reclaim any part of our lives that society has degraded\, humiliated\, or shamed\, and raise it up\, share it\, and sing praises to the “unanimous blood/of those who struggle\,” as the Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton urged us in his poem “Like You.” \nLinda Christensen is the director of the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis & Clark College\, a Rethinking Schools editor\, and author of Reading\, Writing\, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word\, Teaching for Joy and Justice\, and  co-editor of Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice. \nREGISTER HERE \n\nThis event is part of the online workshop series from Rethinking Schools called Teaching for Social Justice During the Pandemic: Lessons from The New Teacher Book. Join The New Teacher Book editors\, authors\, and early career teacher-scholars who wrote and shaped this book. Sign up for the entire workshop series or sign up for one workshop at a time.Space is limited in these workshops to 30 participants. \nWorkshops will not be recorded. ASL interpretation is available by request. Registrants will be emailed a special discount code for The New Teacher Book.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/teaching-poetry-for-joy-and-justice/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201203T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201203T193000
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UID:26784-1607018400-1607023800@rethinkingschools.org
SUMMARY:From Pronouns to Curriculum: Supporting Our LGBTQ+ Students
DESCRIPTION:EVENT DETAILS\n\nIn a time of incredible isolation\, LGBTQ+ students are cooped up in homes that may or may not allow them to be their authentic selves. They may be dealing with teachers and learning management systems that cannot get their names or pronouns right. They may have peers who find ways to bully them online. What are educators doing to create online spaces that welcome and normalize LGBTQ+ lives? In this workshop\, we will queer the curriculum in order to show all Youth that being LGBTQ+ is normal. \nMykhiel Deych is a language arts teacher at Grant High School in Portland\, Oregon. They have published articles in Rethinking Schools. They are an Oregon Writing Project coach. \nREGISTER HERE \n\nThis event is part of the online workshop series from Rethinking Schools called Teaching for Social Justice During the Pandemic: Lessons from The New Teacher Book. Join The New Teacher Book editors\, authors\, and early career teacher-scholars who wrote and shaped this book. Sign up for the entire workshop series or sign up for one workshop at a time.Space is limited in these workshops to 30 participants.Workshops will not be recorded. ASL interpretation is available by request. Registrants will be emailed a special discount code for The New Teacher Book.\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/from-pronouns-to-curriculum-supporting-our-lgbtq-students/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201119T193000
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SUMMARY:Engaging Strategies in Social Justice Units: Using the Tuskegee Syphilis Study as a Model
DESCRIPTION:EVENT DETAILS\n\nParticipants will examine two strategies to use in social justice units that are active and engaging as well as how to use warm-ups to connect to students’ lives. We will discuss what to highlight and what to avoid when teaching about injustices across content areas. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study will be the model and we will also look at a brief history of the study. \nGretchen Kraig-Turner is a science teacher at Burlington-Edison High School in Washington. She is on the Rethinking Schools Science Editorial Committee. \nREGISTER HERE \n  \n\nThis event is part of the online workshop series from Rethinking Schools called Teaching for Social Justice During the Pandemic: Lessons from The New Teacher Book. Join The New Teacher Book editors\, authors\, and early career teacher-scholars who wrote and shaped this book. Sign up for the entire workshop series or sign up for one workshop at a time.Space is limited in these workshops to 30 participants.Workshops will not be recorded. ASL interpretation is available by request. Registrants will be emailed a special discount code for The New Teacher Book.\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/engaging-strategies-in-social-justice-units-using-the-tuskegee-syphilis-study-as-a-model/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201105T193000
DTSTAMP:20260423T023818
CREATED:20200924T021658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T184619Z
UID:26774-1604599200-1604604600@rethinkingschools.org
SUMMARY:“We are not drowning. We are fighting\,”: Teaching Climate Change\, Island Solidarity\, and Indigenous Rights
DESCRIPTION:EVENT DETAILS\n\nThis workshop will demonstrate activities for teaching about climate justice with the resistance of Indigenous Pacific Island peoples at the forefront. Participants will explore 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. \nMoé Yonamine teaches at Roosevelt High School in Portland\, Oregon. She is a Rethinking Schools editor and co-editor of the third edition of The New Teacher Book. \nREGISTER HERE \n\nThis event is part of the online workshop series from Rethinking Schools called Teaching for Social Justice During the Pandemic: Lessons from The New Teacher Book. Join The New Teacher Book editors\, authors\, and early career teacher-scholars who wrote and shaped this book. Sign up for the entire workshop series or sign up for one workshop at a time.\nSpace is limited in these workshops to 30 participants.Workshops will not be recorded. ASL interpretation is available by request. Registrants will be emailed a special discount code for The New Teacher Book.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/we-will-not-drown-we-will-fight-teaching-climate-change-island-solidarity-and-indigenous-rights/
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