• Art Education
• Dances, Songs and Concepts of the Nahuatl Traditions
• Social Studies—Peace throughout the city
• Printmaking—Chicago Ecology Map Prints
• Youth Voice, Student Leadership
• Art and Hip Hop Culture
• Art and Recycling
• Language Arts, Social Studies, and Immigration
• Critical Chemistry
• Social Justice in the Art Classroom
• Mathematics and Visual Art—Urban Development
• Art—Graffiti Message
• Art Education
• Art Education and Democracy
• History, Social Studies
• Critical Mathematics
• Special Education, History
• Science Literacy and Critical Thinking; Various Environmental Issues
• Social Studies and History Art Integration—Objects of Labor
• Art Education—Self in Community
• GLTB awareness, bullying, name-calling and teasing
• Fair Trade in the production of chocolate and sports equipment
• Critical Consciousness, Community/Family Collaboration, Anti-Racist
• Art Education
• Science, Music, and History
• The People’s Chicago—Our Stories of Change and Struggle
• Democratic Grading in the Classroom
• Chemistry, Properties of Metals & Redox
• Language Arts, Creative Writing, Spoken Word 
• Environmental Science and Water Quality
• Action Civics in the Classroom
• Art—Prisons, environmental racism, neighborhood violence
• Myths and Stereotypes of American Indians and Thanksgiving
• Transnational Identities
• Sculpture—Building a Community through Shape and Balance
• Examing the Roots of Youth Violence
• Social Justice in Early Childhood  
• Identity and Hierarchy in Contemporary Art  
• Math-analyzing data, making graphs, maps—Criminalized Image of Youth

Lunch is provided for all, to sustain us as we move through our day. Live art, paintings & banners from local movement artists will inspire & amaze, and there's even word (or rumor!) of a raucous after party in the mix... 

Update: Childcare will be provided!  From 10am-5pm. Courtesy of volunteers from the Chicago Childcare Collective. Childcare registration will take place through Online Registration for the Fair.

Update: Our Setup/Cleanup committee has committed to recycling paper & plastic this year and TSJ is striving to have a plastic-water bottle free event. Please bring a bottle of your own.

We hope you'll help us shape this space to be accessible for people with disabilities, accommodating to those with language & dietary needs, and safe for all people to be their full selves.

Register, volunteer, come to a meeting! We'll appreciate you dearly!



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Following on the US Social Forum in Detroit in June, the national upswing in education organizing, the victory in Milwaukee against Mayoral takeover of their public schools, and the recent tremendous victory by CORE for Chicago Teachers Union leadership, we recognize the need more than ever to build the momentum of the Education for Liberation movement.

For 10 formative years of the Curriculum Fair, we have come together based on our commitment to education for social justice. Along with educators countrywide, we are working toward classrooms and schools that are anti-racist, multicultural / multilingual, and grounded in the experiences of our students. We believe Another Education is Possible and understand that we must take on discussions of school policy in order to create more just and humane schools, but we're also connected to a national & international network of educator activists and recognize together more and more that Another World is Necessary.

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