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Free Minds Free People Conference - Request for Proposals

October 16, 2010

Proposal Deadline:  January 21, 2011 
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BACKGROUND

Free Minds, Free People is a national conference presented by the Education for Liberation Network,
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, the Chicago Freedom  School and Youth in Action that brings together teachers, high school and college students, researchers, parents and community-based activists/educators from across the country to build a movement to develop and promote education as a tool for liberation.
The conference is a space in which these groups can learn from and teach each other, sharing knowledge, experience and strategies. 

Education for liberation prepares the most excluded, under-served members of our society, in particular low-income youth and youth of color, to fight for a more just world by: 
  • Exploring with students the causes of inequalities and injustices in society and how communities
    have fought against them. 
  • Helping students to develop both the belief in themselves that they can challenge those injustices
    and the skills necessary to do that. 
  • Supporting students in taking action that leads to disenfranchised communities having more power.

The goal of Free Minds, Free People is to provide a forum for sharing knowledge, experiences and
strategies that support the use of education as a tool for liberation by:
  • Building and sustaining connections between people from different backgrounds with an interest in justice-oriented education work 
  • Supporting participants in developing and deepening their practice as learners and educators
    committed to social justice 
  • Nourishing justice-oriented education work in various communities, with an emphasis on the host city, by making strategic connections to collective action in other parts of the country 
  • Acting as a catalyst for the continued development of a social movement around education for
    liberation 
  • Supporting and promoting youth-led education and organizing efforts  
  • Utilizing a collaborative conference planning process that elevates the leadership of students, parents, teachers, researchers and community-based organizers/educators.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We invite K-12 teachers, community-based educators, students, activists/organizers, artists, parents and academic researchers to submit proposals

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Another Education is Possible at the US Social Forum!

June 18, 2010 0 comments

Join TSJ at the US Social Forum in Detroit-- June 22nd to June 26th (http://ussf2010.org for info). We've partnered with progressive education groups around the country to put on a workshop and People's Movement Assembly and we'd love to see you all there!

Another Education is Possible:
WEDNESDAY JUNE 23rd 3:30-5:30 Cobo Hall: W2-58

Across the country, we are facing a critical moment of national 'reform' that will ultimately define the future of education in the US. Many of the initiatives garnering national attention, while supposedly created and implemented with intentions to “close the achievement gap,” often carry negative side effects that both harm low-income students of color and reinforce a profit-driven and capitalist system.

As teachers and community-based educators for liberation, we tend to spend a significant amount of time analyzing and tearing these programs to pieces, fighting both locally and nationally against privatization. While we have become increasingly adept to identifying the enemy and knowing what we are against, it can sometimes be difficult to articulate what alternative visions can be presented and advocated for.

We invite USSF participants to join teacher activists from across the country in this workshop where we will explore the current moment in education by connecting the dots between seemingly disparate educational reforms such as school closings and takeovers, exponential growth of charter schools, budget cuts, teacher lay-offs, merit pay, attacks on teacher unions, and high-stakes standardized testing to paint a complete picture of the impact of such ‘solutions’ on low-income students and students of color.

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University Students in Puerto Rico strike and occupy campus to defend public education

June 13, 2010 0 comments

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Curriculum: Visual & Cultural Backgrounds through the Art of Robert Grober

September 5, 2009 0 comments

The contemporary artist Robert Gober gives subversive meaning to wallpaper in an installation at the AIC.

Using juxtaposition and repetition, he turns the racist history that makes up America’s cultural background into a visual background. My lesson invites high school students to consider how to make their American cultural background visible by using Gober’s wallpaper form to juxtapose and repeat images from the mainstream news media after editing them.


Curriculum Writer: Katie M.

Level: High School

Area: Visual Art

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Curriculum: Movement and Storytelling in Art

February 5, 2009 0 comments

Movement is a powerful means of expression, and many artists have made
attempts to capture the feel of motion in their artwork. To get students to begin to
think about movement in their daily lives, specifically on their way to school (the
kinds of transportation used, the kinds of things they see in motion on their way,
and even the path they take through their neighborhood), and in preparation to
be thinking about puppet performance later in the semester, students will be
asked to engage themselves in studying various kinds of motion through
performing and line drawings to better their understanding of how to create the
illusion of movement, and how movement is involved in their own lives and in the
arts.

Curriculum Writer: Joshua R.

Level: Early Elementary

Area :Visual Art

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