2008 Teachers 4 Social Justice Conference: Submit a workshop!

Please consider leading a workshop for fellow educators at this year’s 8th annual Teachers 4 Social Justice Conference! This conference is all about grass roots professional development for teachers by teachers and community educators so that we can collectively build power and make change in our classrooms, our practice, in the community at large, and for and with the youth. We need your contribution to continue making this conference a powerful experience and place of real learning for all! Last year’s T4SJ conference reached 1200 educators from the Bay Area and across the country and featured 40+ social justice teaching workshops for teachers to choose from—these workshops are really the heart of the conference.

Conference Details:

8th Annual Teachers for Social Justice Conference: Building Power, Making Change
October 11, 2007
San Francisco, CA
9:00 am-5:00 pm

You can download the Request for Workshops 2008 at the T4SJ website, www.t4sj.org.
The deadline to submit a workshop proposal is by July 11 (for community organizations) and September 9 (for teachers).

Critical Teaching in Action Conference – Saturday, April 5 2008

Mount St. Mary’s College Center for Cultural Fluency and the Education Department present:

“Critical Teaching in Action Conference”

Saturday, April 5, 2008

8:30a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Critical Teaching in Action is a one day conference on the Doheny campus bringing together educators at all levels who are engaging in activist education with Los Angeles’ diverse youth. Throughout the city, individual educators and organizations, often in isolation, are enacting innovative curricula for social transformation. Inside and outside the classroom, they engage and inspire multicultural youth in critical educational projects towards a society that is just, equitable, and democratic.

Mount St. Mary’s conference will serve as a focal point to bring practitioners and youth together to share their visions and best practices at the K-12, college, and community level. Participants will leave the CCF conference with not only inspiration and a sense of community, but specific teaching tools and contacts/resources they can use to engage diverse youth.

Conference highlights

Keynote Speaker: Sandra Robbie is the writer/producer of the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children / Para Todos los Ninos. Mendez tells the story of the Orange County school desegregation case that ended legal school segregation in California seven years before Brown v. Board of Education.

Workshops/Presentations on: Using Popular Culture in the Curriculum; Teaching Critical Media Literacy; Teaching Arts and Social Justice; Creating Alliances with Parents; Defining Your Own Social Justice Mission and many more!

For more information…

“THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN EDUCATION” – 2nd Annual ARE Conference

“THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN EDUCATION”
2nd Annual Assoc. of Raza Educators Conference

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Lincoln High School, San Diego, CA

Confirmed Speakers: Dr. Antonia Darder (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Chamapain), Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade (SFSU), Chente Jimenez (Somos Raza)

SPEAKERS • WORKSHOPS • DIALOGUE • CULTURA

Registration: http://www.sdareconference2008.eventbrite.com

For more information:
www.associationofrazaeducators.org
info@associationofrazaeducators.org

Ninth Annual White Privilege Conference: April 2-5, 2008 in Springfield, MA

http://www.uccs.edu/wpc

The annual White Privilege Conference (WPC) serves as a yearly opportunity to examine and explore difficult issues related to white privilege, white supremacy and oppression. WPC provides a forum for critical discussions about diversity, multicultural education and leadership, social justice, race/racism, sexual orientation, gender relations, religion and other systems of privilege/oppression. WPC is recognized as a challenging, empowering and educational experience. The workshops, keynotes and institutes not only inform participants, but engage and challenge them, while providing practical tips and strategies for combating inequality.

The conference participants and presenters include corporate and non-profit community members, students, educators, activists, musicians and artists. This conference is not about beating up on white folks. This conference is about critically examining the society in which we live and working to dismantle systems of power, prejudice, privilege and oppression.

* Registration is very limited; early bird discounts available until Feb 28.

* Book your hotel rooms now for discounted conference rates!
Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place 1-800-426-9004

* Academic credit and continuing education units available

* Sponsorship opportunities also available