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Showing posts with label social justice. Show all posts
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The Challenge of Teaching in a Racially and Politically Polarized Time

October 18, 2016 0 comments



Our panelists will address the complex issues faced by K-12 teachers struggling to help students make sense of the current tumultuous environment: the heated rhetoric around race, immigration and xenophobia in the 2016 election, the debates around race and policing here in Chicago and throughout the country and other  controversial issues.  What are the challenges of these developments for teachers and what are the different ways that educators meet these challenges?  The panelists will address how to engage students in meaningful discussion, how to create safe classroom spaces and how to develop a mind-set of civic responsibility.

Dr. Horace Hall, Associate Professor, DePaul College of Education will present introductory remarks and moderate the panel.

Panelists include:

Liz Robbins, Social Science teacher, Lindbloom High School; Civic Instructional Specialist for Chicago Public Schools

Mario Perez, Coordinator and Social Science teacher, the Newcomer Center, Township High School District 214, Arlington Heights

Johnae Strong, Elementary school teacher and restorative justice coordinator, Chicago Public Schools

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Criminalization of Black Teachers

April 22, 2015 0 comments


Teachers for Social Justice
TSJ Spring General Meeting
Sat, April 25, 11-1

UIC College of Education (ETMSW)
1040 W. Harrison St
Room 2433 (2nd Floor)
-ALL ARE WELCOME-

Agenda

1. Political Discussion:
Co-Facilitated by Aja Reynolds (TSJ) and Monique Redeaux (CTU Black Caucus)
Criminalizing Black teachers: Atlanta's cheating scandal and the racist underbelly of education reform

We will discuss the commentary named above, written by Brittney Cooper, pls read before  coming. You can read it online here, or download it here. 

2. TSJ summer and fall actions, programs, projects
  • Elected Representative School Board Campaign. We got 90% of the votes in favor of an elected school board. Now we have to get the law changed. Learn about city-wide strategy to win an elected Board of Education, sign up to get involved
  • TSJ Summer Inquiry to Action Groups (Itags)
  • TSJ book club
  • 2015 Curriculum Fair (announcement date, committees and sign up volunteers
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Students Teach: Racial Profiling, From the Classroom to the Street

January 12, 2015 0 comments




Public Event on Racial Profiling: From the Classroom to the Street

2229 South Halsted Street
SEIU Healthcare 
Chicago, IL 60608
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This educational after-school event brings together a diverse group of CPS students, Chicago youth leaders, social justice organizations, CPS teachers, and other educators. This event will allow youth and educators to discuss how the events outside of school can and should shape teaching and discipline policies in schools. The event will provide some specific teaching tools that educators can use to continue the discussion/activism in schools and connect students and educators to existing social justice organizations, campaigns, and activism taking place in Chicago that is part of the larger new 21st century youth movement. 

Youth from schools are encouraged to bring their teachers and teachers are encouraged to bring youth from their schools in the hope that groups pursue ongoing activity and activism both in school-through ideas like service learning projects, lessons and extracurricular activites-as well as outside of school. Individual teachers and students are also welcome to attend and participate.

Co-Sponsors: Alternatives, Black Youth Project 100 - Chicago, Chicago Freedom School, Chicago Teachers Union, Mikva Challenge, Project NIA, Teachers for Social Justice, VOYCE (Voices of Youth in Chicago Education), We Charge Genocide

 


January 19th King Day Rally for:
Elected, Representative School Board & Sustainable Community Schools
Rainbow PUSH Headquarters
930 E. 50th Street
12 Noon

Email here to RSVP or for further information
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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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