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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Posted
1:18 PM
by Susan Darst Williams
For English Language Learners Thanks to Susan Smith of the Nebraska Advisory Group (nagsusansmith@yahoo.com), a strong opponent of illegal immigration, for supplying the disturbing agenda of an education conference coming up this weekend in Los Angeles. It’s listed below. If we see this caliber of propaganda creeping in to teacher inservices and so forth in Nebraska, we need to nip it in the bud. Whoa! No wonder there’s such an achievement gap between Hispanic students and Caucasians. There’s not a single practical, explicit skill being taught in this conference agenda to instruct teachers how to help Hispanic kids do better in school. It might be worth it to forward this story to members of your local school board or ESU board to make it clear that any taxpayer-provided continuing education program for teachers in Nebraska must focus specifically on academic topics. Our educational organizations frequently hire consultants and provide inservices at taxpayer expense but offer little or no taxpayer input as to the content. So let’s make sure they concentrate on making English Language Learners better at reading, writing, arithmetic and the other school subjects, and NOT cause school staff to get propagandized by despicable content such as this. You can also email the San Diego-based sponsoring organization of this conference and communicate your outrage: info@associationofrazaeducators.org Here’s the conference agenda: Association of Raza Educators Education Conference "Rethinking Social Justice in Education: Ser Pueblo, Hacer Pueblo, y Estar Con El Pueblo" Saturday, February 28, 2009 Santee Education Complex 1921 S. Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011(FREE PARKING!!!) Keynote Speakers: Omali Yeshitela, Chairman, African People's Socialist Party and Former Black PantherDonaldo Macedo, Professor, Univ. of Massachusetts, Co-author of Critical Literacy w/Paulo Freire Sakeenah Shabazz, President, African Revolutionary Student Organization, Lincoln High School Student Partial List of Workshops: PANEL - Surviving the Neo-Colonial School District: Black Listed Teachers Speak Out! Amitis Motevalli, Former teacher at Locke H.S. Black listed for refusing police searches and organizing students Karen Salazar, Former Jordan HS Teacher Black listed for teaching Malcolm X and student organizing Marisol A lba, Celerity Charter Elm, Black listed for teaching a poem about Emmitt Till Rethinking the “Line Between Us”: Bringing History Alive in the Classroom Bill Bigelow, Rethinking Schools magazine The Politics of Education and Community Empowerment: How To Struggle, How To Win Aremi Lopez & Maria Ochoa Association of Raza Educators, San Diego Chapter Teaching through Lies: Critical Ideological Literacy and Corporate Rap Patrick Camangian, University of San Francisco Raising Political Consciousness through Education: Effectively starting & sustaining an ARE Chapter Juan Orozco, ARE Statewide Council Mariana Ramierz, ARE Statewide Council Miguel Zavala, ARE Statewide Council A Barrio Pedagogy: Identity, Intellectualism, Activism, and Academic Achievement through the Evolution of Critically Compassionate Intellectualism Sean Arce, Tucson Unified School District Augustine Romero, Tucson Unified School District Hacer Pueblo in Higher Education Edelina Burciaga, University of California, Irvine Irene Vea, University of California, Irvine Karina Cuamea, University of California, Irvine Infusing Curriculum with Action and Critical Thinking Skills : Chicano/ Latino Theatre at Evergreen Valley College Lisa Edsall – Giglio Evergreen Valley College, San Jose, CA Film: Voices from War Peter Dudar, Arlington West Culturally Responsive Teaching: The Raza Perspective Javier San Román, Association of Mexican American Educators A Revolutionary Pedagogy: Going Beyond the Classroom and into Our Communities in Search of True Liberation Sakeenah Shabazz, A.R.S.O. African Revolutionary Student Organization Jona than Flores, M.E.Ch.A_Lincoln High School PANEL: 1948 to 2008: 60 years of Occupation, Oppression and Ethnic cleansing in Palestine Pouneh Behin & Suzie Abajian Mujeres de Maiz: Harvesting Hope and Healing in Your Community Through the Arts Felicia Montes, Mujeres de Maiz Mass Appeal: Creating Community Ciphers and Fostering Youth Action in Our Classrooms Tan Laurence, Joanna Alatorre, Elizabeth Silva, and Beverly Castillo Watts Youth Collective Deconstruction of the Colonized Mind Through Critical Media Literacy: Ernesto Bustillos, Coordinator of the Raza Press and Media Association Teatro For Your Pueblo: Rosa Gonzales & Luís ‘xago’ Juárez, headRush Association of Raza Educators, Oakland Chapter Patricia Isasa's Fight for Social Justice: Argentine Torture Survivor Speaks, excerpts from El Cerco Patricia Isasa RAZA SI PINTAS NO! EDUCATION, NOT INCARCERATION! From the School Hall to Juvenile Hall, The Criminalization of Raza Youth Under Colonial Education Institutions Francisco Romero, Chicano Mexicano Prison Project PANEL: Military-Education Industrial Complex Marisela Guzman, Jefferson HS grad, Veteran, AFSC Arlene Inouye, CAMS Kiki Ochoa, ARE San Diego Jonathan Flores, MEChA de Lincoln HS, Somos Raza, San Diego The Struggle Within The Struggle, La Mujer Magdalena Montrond & Jennifer Astudillo, Somos Raza Student Org. San Diego Social Justice in Elementary Education Carolina Valdez, Association of Raza Educator, Los Angeles Chapter The Role of Public Education in our Society Edin Barrientos & Danny Monterroso, Coalition for Educational Justice A-G Electives as a Practice of Freedom: Creating and Implementing A Chicana/o Latina/o Studies Class and Program at your High School—An Intimate Portrait of Raza Pedagogy in Pomona, Califas Cati de los Rios, Pomona High School & The Eastside Café Zapatismo: Creative Resistance and Lessons Learned Olmeca, Artist in Rebellion from Los Angeles Labels: academics, English Language Learners, objectionable topics at teacher inservices (1) comments Monday, February 02, 2009
Posted
9:53 AM
by Susan Darst Williams
State Legislators Really CAN Cut State Aid Without Wrecking Schools http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/AboutUs/ArticleView.aspx?id=2501 (1) comments
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