Showing posts with label Activism. Show all posts
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Born Out of Struggle: A Book Talk by David Stovall

October 6, 2016 0 comments




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Calling Educators and Organizations for TSJ Curriculum Fair 2014!

September 15, 2014 0 comments



The deadline to apply for the 2014 CF has passed... please plan to apply for the 2015 CF. 

 TSJ Curriculum Fair 2014 Is Back!

1. Exhibit Curriculum, or
2. Have a Resource Table, or
3. Present a Workshop!

Applications Available Below!

 
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Do you want to exhibit your curriculum at the TSJ CF?
Click here to apply.

What does it mean to "exhibit" curriculum at the CF?
Each teacher/exhibitor gets a table at the Fair to set up her/his materials. Many teachers exhibit curriculum by bringing a tri-fold board (like those science fair boards) and bring lesson or unit plans, student work, assignments, artifacts, video, whatever, to share their curriculum ideas. Many bring their students along who sit at the table and explain the work with their teachers. The CF is set up so that we can browse the "exhibits," talk with each other, and share lessons.
Do you want to present a workshop? Click here to apply.

What are the workshops?
Although the main focus of the CF is person-to-person contact through the exhibitors at their tables, we also have a limited number of workshops. These range from curricular innovations about social justice pedagogy to, for example, using multicultural children's literature to organizing for educational justice. These provide more in-depth, interactive ways for teachers and students to share what they've been learning and doing in their classrooms, and for activists/organizers to create dialogue and spaces for learning and for all of us to bring democracy to education and Chicago. These are our schools!
Do you want to have a resource table? Click here

What's the difference between an "exhibit" and a "resource table?"
Exhibitors are usually teachers who have taught a lesson, unit, or project, or who have some developed ideas to teach. We really encourage classroom teachers who are doing this work. Resource tables are usually for organizations that produce curriculum and resources for teachers and want to share them w/ others.
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National Day of Action!

December 5, 2013 0 comments

Monday, Dec. 9th at 4:15PM at City Hall
  
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Some powerful and relatively mainstream national organizations have come together to call for a National Day of Action Dec. 9, to defend our schools. They include the national AFT, NEA, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, SEIU, and several national campaigns with strong grassroots bases including Dignity in Schools Campaign and Journey for Justice. See here for more info.

The actions will vary from city to city focused around local issues, but they are united by a national platform that TSJ is generally aligned with-see the principles here.

This is significant because of who is involved and the national scope and common program. It is definitely a sign that the growing education movement is beginning to coalesce nationally and that the national teacher unions are moved to act by the militance of locals and the movements around them.  

Please come out! We are all meeting at City Hall at 4:15, see attached flyer. 
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