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, http://www.t4sj.org.
The deadline to submit a workshop proposal is by July 11 (for community organizations) and September 9 (for teachers).

How To Read A Film: A Visual Literacy Workshop for High School Teachers

How to Read a Film

A Visual Literacy Workshop for High School Teachers and Media Educators
Thursday and Friday, June 19 and 20, 2008

The Pacific Film Archive presents a two-day intensive teacher workshop, How to Read a Film, now in its tenth year. This popular practicum is designed to help high school teachers and media educators equip young people with the critical viewing skills necessary to master twenty-first-century visual culture—from cinema space, through the video trace, to the vastness of MySpace—while encouraging the exploration of film and video as unique art forms.

For information about presentations, fees, and enrollment, please contact PFA Video Curator Steve Seid at (510) 642-5253 or seidtrak@berkeley.edu.

How to Read a Film: A Visual Literacy Workshop for High School Teachers is made possible by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bernard Osher Foundation, and the Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Download the How to Read a Film brochure (PDF).

Mind Power Collective presents 2nd Sundays Salon

Arts Integration: A Vehicle for Social Justice Pedagogy and Educational Equity?
Join a group of educators and artists for an reflective inquiry into the connections between arts integration practice and social justice pedagogy and educational equity.

Sunday, March 9, 2008
2:00pm-4:00pm
Epic Arts Studios
1923 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, CA

Complimentary Refreshments
Featuring Mimosas, Tea and Cream Puffs

SPONSORED BY MIND POWER COLLECTIVE
www.mindpowercollective.org

In partnership with the Alameda County Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership
http://www.artiseducation.org

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:
http://www.associationofrazaeducators.org
info@associationofrazaeducators.org

Education for Liberation Network

SOCIAL JUSTICE + CURRICULUM + COMMUNITY

We are a national coalition of teachers, community activists, youth, researchers and parents who believe a good education should teach people—particularly low-income youth and youth of color—to understand and challenge the injustices their communities face.

Check out the EdLib Lab, an interactive laboratory for experimenting with new liberatory educational materials. Find educational materials on social justice topics. Share materials you have created. Comment on the contributions of others.

Favela Rising: Sunday Salon for TEAMS Educators in the Bay Area

Sunday, February 10th, 2008 – 2:00pm

TEAMS is collaborating with BAYCES, Mind Power Collective, and Art is Education to bring you a Sunday Salon with progressive, Bay Area teachers. It will be held at the legendary Parkway Theatre in Oakland!