Reclaiming Our Schools
Education for and by the People
4th Annual Conference
May 9-10, 2014
**Please note our new location**
__Mission Hill School * 20 Child St. * Jamaica _Plain_ * Boston, MA
We are pleased to present this conference, including breakfast and lunch, free of charge. Any donations will be gratefully accepted.
Keynote Speakers
Asean Johnson is an education activist and 4th grader at Marcus Garvey Elementary School in Chicago. Shoneice Reynolds started her activism in 2012 with the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike. She participated as a union member and a parent. She is also Asean's mom. Asean and Shoneice's passion for public education grew in January 2013 when Chicago Public Schools announced the proposed closing of over 100 public elementary schools, including Asean’s school. They became involved in the Save Marcus Garvey School Campaign. They started a petition, letter drives to elected officials, community rallies, and other events to get the community involved. Shoneice and Asean gained national attention when Asean delivered a heartfelt, impromptu speech to save his school. After all the community efforts, Marcus Garvey was saved from closing! Shoneice and Asean continue to be a national voice for parents and students in education and have been featured in several documentaries and interviewed widely. They continue to fight against education reform, high stake testing, unequal funding, racial inequalities, and lack of teacher-parent-student voice. Shoneice encourages parents and students to hold elected officials responsible for the disinvestment in public education. She is an active member of Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), C.O.R.E, and newly founded Badass Moms (BAM). |
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Schedule
Friday Night Kick-Off Join us at 7pm for an inspiring youth-led open-mic and dance party! Saturday Conference Schedule 8:30 Breakfast and Registration 9:00 Opening 9:15 Youth Panel 10:10 Workshop Session #1 11:20 Workshop Session #2 12:30 Lunch and Setting up Open Sessions 1:50 Open Sessions and Workshop Session #3 3:00 Keynote Speakers Asean Johnson and Shoneice Reynolds |
Youth Panel
Moderater: Amatullah Mervin, Community Organizer, Boston-area Youth Organizing Project Panelists: Imani Jiles is a member of the Boston Youth Organizing Project and attends 12th grade at the Josiah Quincy Upper School. “As a member I became interested in all the campaigns BYOP introduced to me. When the opportunity to run & receive a position I jumped on it. I didn’t exactly know what I wanted to do but I knew I was interested in becoming an organizer and I also believed in what the organization was about. I was excited to get out and fight for issues that were important to me and decide the way in which the battle was fought.” Glorya Stamfard-Wornum is a Junior at the Edward M Kennedy and has been with Boston Student Advisory Council for 2 years. ”I work with BSAC because I believe that every student should know their rights and that we all no matter in what district should have equal learning.” Ana Calderon was born in the Dominican Republic, is currently a senior at Brighton High School, and has been a at Youth Community Organizer Sociedad Latina for 2 years. “Working in SL I have the opportunity to advocate for myself, but more importantly for people whom have similar experience to me. We always help each other be better leaders and try to learn new things from different students. We also help the community by creating activity that both educates/ informs them and connects them to their own as well as different cultural roots since we live and work in a diverse community. Working at SL has helped with my college process as well as with what I want to do after I graduate from college. I plan to study psychology.” |
WORKSHOPS
Session 1
Activism Is Alive!
The grassroots activism of history continues in young people's communities today. Learn how to reclaim the classroom through research, analyze, and join local activism movements.
Leila Quinn--Generation Citizen
Leila Quinn--Generation Citizen
Cariño: Bringing Authentic Caring into Schools
Education researcher Angela Valenzuela's concept of "cariño," or "authentic caring," brings attention away from test scores and back to relationship-building between students and educators. As socially engaged educators, we all have our own experiences and ideas around what it means to authentically care for our students. This workshop aims to facilitate skill-sharing around this vital issue while providing diverse examples of what caring looks like in different education environments. Case studies will include ethnic studies at Cristo Rey Boston, a conflict resolution middle school program, and a hip hop high school.
Adrienne Price, Ellen Lathrop, Tri Huynh, Natalia Cuada-Saez, Carol Stoll, Jeff Zheng, Ana Carolina Brito, Caitlyn Hayes, Sara Cole--Radical Educators, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Adrienne Price, Ellen Lathrop, Tri Huynh, Natalia Cuada-Saez, Carol Stoll, Jeff Zheng, Ana Carolina Brito, Caitlyn Hayes, Sara Cole--Radical Educators, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Code of Conduct
We will be talking about the code of conduct of the BPS. We will use the context of the school to prison pipeline, restorative justice and the progress made from the Code of Conduct Advisory Council to discuss the current status of the Code of Conduct.
Damien J Leach and Teena Marie Johnson--Boston Student Advisory Council
Damien J Leach and Teena Marie Johnson--Boston Student Advisory Council
East Somerville Community School PTA: How we built an active, multi-ethnic parent organization
Members of the PTA will describe the work that enabled them to build and sustain a parent organization with leadership shared among English-speaking and immigrant parents.
East Somerville Community School PTA
East Somerville Community School PTA
Education and Capitalism: The Fight for Public Education
This workshop will lay out the role of education under capitalism, and attempt to understand the attacks on public schools through that lens.
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, a conservative, bipartisan consensus dominates the conversation about what's wrong with our schools and how to fix them. In each case, those solutions scapegoat teachers, vilify our unions, and promise more private control and market mentality as the answer. In each case, students lose--especially students of color and the children of the working class and the poor.
The workshop will put forward a different kind of understanding of what's wrong with our schools--the neoliberal attack and move towards privatization. Furthermore, it will lay out a vision for how we can fight to win back our schools, through organizing teachers, students, families, and community members.
Peter Lamphere--New York City public school teacher, union activist, and member of the Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE)
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, a conservative, bipartisan consensus dominates the conversation about what's wrong with our schools and how to fix them. In each case, those solutions scapegoat teachers, vilify our unions, and promise more private control and market mentality as the answer. In each case, students lose--especially students of color and the children of the working class and the poor.
The workshop will put forward a different kind of understanding of what's wrong with our schools--the neoliberal attack and move towards privatization. Furthermore, it will lay out a vision for how we can fight to win back our schools, through organizing teachers, students, families, and community members.
Peter Lamphere--New York City public school teacher, union activist, and member of the Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE)
Israel/Palestine: Into the Classroom [and Into the Streets!]
Does discussing Israel/Palestine in schools feel a little "too complicated?" Familiarity with the politics and history of the region and its people can help us incorporate the Middle East into our classrooms - and beyond - in an informed and fulfilling way. Jewish Voice for Peace Boston's education working group has spent months developing a curriculum intended to prepare people of all ages for Israel/Palestine activism, and this interactive, multimedia workshops will touch upon the most key issues, including: An Historical Overview; Zionism & the Founding of the State of Israel; The US Role; Attempts Toward Peace and History of Resistance; Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions. You will also gain a list of resources for learning more.
Michelle Weiser, and others--Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston
Michelle Weiser, and others--Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston
Love Me, Don't Sell Me: The Reality of Modern Day Slavery
We will share our view on the major causes and solutions to human trafficking through discussion, reading, videos, and music. We will begin with an activity discussing the different stereotypes and the media's portrayal of pimps vs. prostitutes (commercially sexually exploited individuals). The lesson discusses both the dehumanizing aspects of the industry as well as its economic effects on today's world. Through videos and discussion, we hope to give our audience a greater insight into this silenced issue.
Maya Shaked, Julia Lejeune, Marisa Lazar, and Avery Grace--Students Against Human Trafficking (SAHT), Brookline High School
Maya Shaked, Julia Lejeune, Marisa Lazar, and Avery Grace--Students Against Human Trafficking (SAHT), Brookline High School
Media Literacy & Social Justice: Making Massachusetts a Leader
This interactive workshop will share the efforts of Mass Media Literacy, a grassroots organization that supports legislation to include media literacy in all MA public schools and develops media literacy curricula for public school classrooms. The workshop will begin with a discussion of legislative and curricular efforts thus far, inviting participants' input and insight on the process. We will then share and work through curriculum pieces that emphasize social justice. Lesson plans are drawn from the MA curricular guidelines, designed to work into already existing classes and subjects so that teachers need not "reinvent" their classrooms or run the risk of having comprehensive media literacy be cut from their plans. Allison Butler and Lexi Ladd will lead practice activities in comprehensive media literacy, training participants in media literacy and encouraging alterations and feedback; the workshop is designed to be collaborative and community building.
Allison Butler, Lexi Ladd, Bernadette Reid--Mass Media Literacy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Allison Butler, Lexi Ladd, Bernadette Reid--Mass Media Literacy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
No Such Thing as a Positive Stereotype: Dismantling the Model Minority Myth
How does the model minority myth affect the way educators think about Asian American students? In this interactive workshop, we examine the roots of the myth, study how statistical manipulation often creates divisions amongst communities of color, discuss the rarely heard issues Asian American students face today, and explore how this toxic myth causes division within the Asian American community as well.
Katie Li--Massachusetts Asian-American Educators Association
Katie Li--Massachusetts Asian-American Educators Association
Pre-Texts: The Arts Interpret
Pre-Texts develops avid and creative readers by using classic literature as a prompt for making art. It is a flexible approach that integrates three areas of development: literacy, innovation and citizenship. Pre-Texts draws its inspiration from, cartoneras, informal publishing houses established by artists and teachers from Latin America and Africa, who turn clean garbage into first rate books with new literature donated by famous and new writers alike.
Doris Sommer--Cultural Agents, Harvard University
Doris Sommer--Cultural Agents, Harvard University
Testing: The Next Generation
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education wants to replace MCAS with PARCC on-line tests, starting as early as next fall. But the final decision has not been made. Citizens for Public Schools will show samples of PARCC and MCAS test items. We will explore what's similar and what's different about PARCC and what participants can do about it – starting with influencing the Boston school committee's decision about whether to use PARCC or MCAS next year. That decision must be made by July.
Alain Jehlen, Lisa Guisbond--Citizens for Public Schools
Alain Jehlen, Lisa Guisbond--Citizens for Public Schools
Using all our senses: Creating a classroom for our whole self
In a school system filled with tests and rows, regulations and limitation, how can we use all of our senses to brake out of these barriers? This workshop is participatory. Bring your ideas to share with all! From food to music, theater to textures, plants, stories and more! We will learn and grow together.
Laura Evonne Steinman--The Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, hand in hand arts
Laura Evonne Steinman--The Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, hand in hand arts
Using Circles for Building Community, Addressing Harm, and Valuing Every Voice
"Peace-making" circles can used for addressing harm, running a meeting, building community, doing justice organizing in a new way. The workshop will offer opportunity to experience through practice and materials the use of circles and principles of restorative justice in addressing harms and building community.
Catherine Hoffman and Victor Jose Santana--Cambridge Restorative Justice working Group
Catherine Hoffman and Victor Jose Santana--Cambridge Restorative Justice working Group
Session 2
Community Organizing 101 For Parents
Parent voice has played an important role in cities and towns across the country in pursuit of educational justice for schools and communities. How can parents join efforts so that they are not just advocating for their own student's schools? What are effective strategies that parents can use to get organized? How can parents work with other groups to amplify parent voice? Learn about efforts that parents in other cities have used to improve the public education systems in their cities.
Khalida Smalls--BPS parent, Boston Truth member, and Director of Community Support and Partnerships at SEIU Local 615
Khalida Smalls--BPS parent, Boston Truth member, and Director of Community Support and Partnerships at SEIU Local 615
Cultural Proficiency
Cultural proficiency can be a gateway for increasing trust and understanding in our classrooms where students and teachers come from so many diverse backgrounds and cultures. Youth from Sociedad Latina will model and facilitate scenarios in which participants will be asked to role play various situations that portray negative and positive experiences in classrooms stemming from the issue of cultural proficiency. Participants will be asked to debrief and discuss what best practices and concerns they have from the different scenarios.
Jonathan Rodrigues, Jerry Pyram, Ana Calderon, Jerson Familia--Sociedad Latina
Jonathan Rodrigues, Jerry Pyram, Ana Calderon, Jerson Familia--Sociedad Latina
Home Visits Bridge, Bond and Build Connections For Student Success
Come learn more about a relational model of home visits that is proven, cost effective and can easily be adopted, scaled and sustained at local schools and districts. Just last year, our national partners conducted over 20,000 home visits in over 16 states, including Massachusetts! This interactive session will be led by parents, teachers and students directly involved in the home visiting experience and will address logistics and barriers to successful home visiting efforts.
Carrie Rose, Director, Yesenia Gonzalez, Nancy Fong--Parent/Teacher Home Visit Project
Carrie Rose, Director, Yesenia Gonzalez, Nancy Fong--Parent/Teacher Home Visit Project
Mental Health Liberation: Demythologizing the Drugging of Children
This workshop will include a discussion of perspectives from psychiatric survivors and advocates for mental health liberation on the growing epidemic of drugging and pathologizing schoolchildren. Through sharing personal stories and perspectives, we will explore the roots of psychiatric diagnoses, the impact on labeling on children, and the long-term effects of psychiatric drugs.
This workshop is inspired by a growing body of anti-oppression work concerned with the damaging and dehumanizing impacts of the psychiatric process. We will reflect on alternative paradigms that honor and empower children's differences, recognize the effects of trauma, and respect the body of scientific research concerning the drugging of children.
Matthew Cohen--Advocate, Educator, Consultant, Personal Change Facilitator
This workshop is inspired by a growing body of anti-oppression work concerned with the damaging and dehumanizing impacts of the psychiatric process. We will reflect on alternative paradigms that honor and empower children's differences, recognize the effects of trauma, and respect the body of scientific research concerning the drugging of children.
Matthew Cohen--Advocate, Educator, Consultant, Personal Change Facilitator
PFLAG
30% of parents kick their LGBTQ children out of their homes. 42% of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ. The number one way to insult someone
beginning in first grade is to call them gay. LGB youth in MA are over 7x more likely to attempt suicide than their straight peers. The statistics are startling!
Learn how to support LGBTQ family members and friends and what you can do to step up and stand up for your LGBTQ loved ones.
Pam Garramone--Executive Program Director, Greater Boston PFLAG
beginning in first grade is to call them gay. LGB youth in MA are over 7x more likely to attempt suicide than their straight peers. The statistics are startling!
Learn how to support LGBTQ family members and friends and what you can do to step up and stand up for your LGBTQ loved ones.
Pam Garramone--Executive Program Director, Greater Boston PFLAG
Powerful Literacy as Social and Educational Justice
Powerful literacy -- the ability to read closely and critically with full understanding, the ability to think deeply, analytically and critically, the ability to communicate effectively and clearly in standard English are civil rights. When these rights are denied our students, they become victims of educational injustice. Boston Teachers Reading and Writing Group Off-Script believes that this deep literacy, which fosters the self-esteem and motivation that liberates, will occur in classrooms where students acquire a knowledge of themselves: their ancestral, racial, ethnic, cultural stories--- their history.
For the past 14 years, TRWG Off-script has pushed to support and validate teachers committed to developing powerful literacy for themselves and their students. We believe that powerful literacy, exemplified for example by Paulo Freire, promotes social justice, as students are introduced to the ancestors on whose shoulders they now stand and whose journeys and lives have contributed abundantly and significantly to the American story. This introduction -- family reunion -- begins to chisel the main building blocks of self-worth, that set the foundation for full self-actualization.
Our workshop participants will participate in writing activities and discussions about powerful literacy. We will share concrete, classroom-tested curriculum and activities for encouraging, facilitating and nurturing empowering literacy. In addition, we will present diverse related data, reading materials, video clips and student voices (visual and written) that show how our work can ignite and kindle the intrinsic desire to work hard to reach one's full academic potential.
Junia Yearwood, Kristie McElhaney, Stephen Gordon -- Boston Teachers Reading and Writing Group Off-Script
For the past 14 years, TRWG Off-script has pushed to support and validate teachers committed to developing powerful literacy for themselves and their students. We believe that powerful literacy, exemplified for example by Paulo Freire, promotes social justice, as students are introduced to the ancestors on whose shoulders they now stand and whose journeys and lives have contributed abundantly and significantly to the American story. This introduction -- family reunion -- begins to chisel the main building blocks of self-worth, that set the foundation for full self-actualization.
Our workshop participants will participate in writing activities and discussions about powerful literacy. We will share concrete, classroom-tested curriculum and activities for encouraging, facilitating and nurturing empowering literacy. In addition, we will present diverse related data, reading materials, video clips and student voices (visual and written) that show how our work can ignite and kindle the intrinsic desire to work hard to reach one's full academic potential.
Junia Yearwood, Kristie McElhaney, Stephen Gordon -- Boston Teachers Reading and Writing Group Off-Script
Raise Your Voice: Using Documentary Theatre to Empower Your Classroom and Community
This hands-on workshop is designed to give educators and community-engaged theatre artists the tools they need in order to create an original piece of documentary theatre with their students and/or members of the community. Participants will learn how to engage students in the choosing of a relevant social, political, or cultural issue that matters to their classroom or community, and explore this topic through discussion, research, theatre games, and writing activities. Inspired by the work of the Tectonic Theater Project, Anna Deavere Smith, and The Civilians, this session will teach and engage participants in several techniques used in creating documentary theatre, including interview skills, improvisation, and moment work. Theatre is a powerful tool for learning about and changing the world around us, and this session will empower participants to adapt the theatrical form to meet the needs of their particular students or community, allowing the work to spring from and speak to the issues that matter most to them.
Melissa Bergstrom--Boston based teaching artist and educator
Melissa Bergstrom--Boston based teaching artist and educator
Speak Up! Storytelling for Social Justice
Youth's stories about identity are at the heart of Boston Mobilization's approach to teen-led social justice education and community organizing. In this interactive, story-based workshop, participants will dive into their own stories, imagine how stories can be used in school and out of school educational settings and hear powerful stories from teens about identity, oppression and hope.
Asha Carter, Kate Oldshue, and others--Boston Mobilization
Asha Carter, Kate Oldshue, and others--Boston Mobilization
Teen Dating Violence 101
This workshop will begin a conversation on how to be an ally to youth who may be experience abuse in their dating relationship. Through interactive activities participants will reflect on your own experiences as a teen/youth when it came to dating and your relationships with adults. As adults we often forget how challenging it can be to be a young person. This workshop will bring visibility to young people's oppression and its impact on their dating relationships.
Robert Le--Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
Robert Le--Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
Understanding Youth Power and Adultism
“If you really want to make change, graduate and give back,” said by a Boston Public School teacher to a youth leader. Not sure what adultism looks like or feels like, it’s the above quote. In Boston, teenagers are mobilized and fighting back against a political and social environment that discriminates against youth, leaves them with few job options, and regularly silences youth voice. Come learn how to become an effective adult ally, and how young people are engaged and leading in the struggle for justice in Boston now and not waiting until they are older.
Ziquelle Smalls--The City School
Ziquelle Smalls--The City School
Using Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) to Engage Young People in Interrogating Their Schooling Experience
This workshop will feature both young people and their teacher who engaged in Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) at Boston Arts Academy. In addition, we will share our stories of implementing this type of pedagogy, as well as curricular and pedagogical resources for other teacher and researchers who want to do this work with young people.
The purpose of the workshop will be twofold. First and foremost, we want to highlight the work of young people who interrogated their educational experiences at their own school as well as within their district. Note: we want the young people to highlight the work themselves and, as such, we will invite at least 2-3 students to present along with their teacher (Dara Bayer) and the researcher (Chris Buttimer). Student research topics fell under two overarching categories -- curriculum and discipline -- and students then focused on sub-topics that included the role of ethnic studies in schools, the school-to-prison pipeline, and the role of arts-based education, to name a few. Second, the researcher and teacher-researcher want to share our experiences in implementing YPAR, including the challenges and successes, along with more practical pedagogical and curricular tools that audience members can take with them and use in their own educational settings
Chris Buttimer (Harvard Graduate School of Education), Dara Bayer (Humanities Teacher - Boston Arts Academy), and high school students from Boston Arts Academy
The purpose of the workshop will be twofold. First and foremost, we want to highlight the work of young people who interrogated their educational experiences at their own school as well as within their district. Note: we want the young people to highlight the work themselves and, as such, we will invite at least 2-3 students to present along with their teacher (Dara Bayer) and the researcher (Chris Buttimer). Student research topics fell under two overarching categories -- curriculum and discipline -- and students then focused on sub-topics that included the role of ethnic studies in schools, the school-to-prison pipeline, and the role of arts-based education, to name a few. Second, the researcher and teacher-researcher want to share our experiences in implementing YPAR, including the challenges and successes, along with more practical pedagogical and curricular tools that audience members can take with them and use in their own educational settings
Chris Buttimer (Harvard Graduate School of Education), Dara Bayer (Humanities Teacher - Boston Arts Academy), and high school students from Boston Arts Academy
Session 3 (Concurrent with Open Sessions)
Better Ways To Assess Student Learning
Standardized tests are a narrow and limited measure of what students have learned. Many schools, including some in Boston, use far more comprehensive and useful approaches. We will present some leading examples and discuss what it takes to make them work.
LisaGuisbond--Fairtest
LisaGuisbond--Fairtest
Creative and Effective Ways to Fight High-Stakes Testing
Students from across Providence have formed a strong union that has developed creative protest tactics like a zombie march, challenging public officials to take a high-stakes test, and many others that can be used by other groups.
Providence Student Union
Providence Student Union
Dance for Social Justice
This workshop is designed for people interested in voicing their demands through movement, dance, and voice.
Through composition exercises participants will learn how to share their stories by choreographing their stories. They will be able to collaborate, create community, and exercise their confidence as they create and perform dance for social justice.
Marsha Parrilla, Marissa Molinar, Gabriela Silva, Kara Fili--Danza Organica
Through composition exercises participants will learn how to share their stories by choreographing their stories. They will be able to collaborate, create community, and exercise their confidence as they create and perform dance for social justice.
Marsha Parrilla, Marissa Molinar, Gabriela Silva, Kara Fili--Danza Organica
Different Schools, Different Rules: Who Benefits and Who Doesn’t?
Commonwealth charter schools, “in-district” charters, pilot schools, exam schools, other district schools — they don’t all follow the same rules. Some select their students in a variety of ways. Some have more money. They recruit and treat staff differently. What advantages and disadvantages come from having these different types of schools? Are they fair? Are there ways to keep the benefits of school autonomy without hurting students or staff? This workshop will be a follow-up to the Teacher Activist Group’s forum on equity and school autonomies last March 31. Come share your ideas and experiences!
Members of TAG-Boston
Members of TAG-Boston
Dealing With Difference In Our Schools: What Can the Rwanda Genocide Teach Us about Othering and Compassion?
Come see part of Coexist, an award-winning documentary about post-genocide Rwanda, recently broadcast on World Channel, and hear how the film and its Teacher's Guide are fostering a culture of upstanders at an urban high school in Connecticut. All workshop attendees will receive a free copy of Coexist. In this highly interactive workshop, participants will learn about post-genocide societies and consider questions, such as: Can genocide education cultivate empathy and compassion for the suffering of victims? Can it encourage concern for the moral injury of perpetrators and teach us about rehumanization? Can it help us consider the perilous impact of us-them thinking?
We will draw parallels between our own struggles with difference, blame, revenge, and forgiveness, and the struggles Rwandans have faced for the past twenty years since the 1994 genocide.
Mishy Lesser--Coexist Learning Project Director
We will draw parallels between our own struggles with difference, blame, revenge, and forgiveness, and the struggles Rwandans have faced for the past twenty years since the 1994 genocide.
Mishy Lesser--Coexist Learning Project Director
Leveling the Playing Field: Equity of Access for ALL Students to Life and Career Readiness Curriculum and Real-World Experiences
The purpose of this workshop is to examine and talk openly with the people most directly affected (students and teachers) about the lack of equity of access to college and career readiness learning opportunities for public school students. There is a lot of discussion about leveling the playing field for students so they can graduate having the necessary skills and knowledge to thrive in a 21st century workforce. Unfortunately, there is very little movement in secondary education to deliver college and career readiness activities through life skills curriculum and internships enabled by school-business partnerships.
This interactive workshop will ask participants to help create a list of the core lessons students want to be ready for life. The list will inform the creation of a new organization. Two social justice advocates in this space will co-lead. Amy Carrier is a former BPS teacher who developed and implemented a life skills curriculum program in one Boston high school. She will co-lead the session with her former student, Antionetta Kelley, a young woman who has tremendously benefited from Ms. Carrier's lessons and is now working on building a movement to ensure that all students have the same experiences she had.
Amy Carrier, and Antionetta Kelley--Empowerment Through Education
This interactive workshop will ask participants to help create a list of the core lessons students want to be ready for life. The list will inform the creation of a new organization. Two social justice advocates in this space will co-lead. Amy Carrier is a former BPS teacher who developed and implemented a life skills curriculum program in one Boston high school. She will co-lead the session with her former student, Antionetta Kelley, a young woman who has tremendously benefited from Ms. Carrier's lessons and is now working on building a movement to ensure that all students have the same experiences she had.
Amy Carrier, and Antionetta Kelley--Empowerment Through Education
National Student Bill of Rights
Boston Youth Organizing Project
Screen Free Week: how do media & screen time impact your student/child, and what should we be doing about it?
This presentation will be about Screen Free Week & statistics regarding the impact of media/screen time of kids/youth. It will include screening of clips from "Consuming Kids: the Commercialization of Childhood," a presentation of media literacy lesson plan ideas & resources, and will be followed by a Q&A and discussion.
Katherine Jenkins Djom's--Teacher, Randolph Public Schools, and Dorchester resident & parent
Katherine Jenkins Djom's--Teacher, Randolph Public Schools, and Dorchester resident & parent
Teachers, Students, Parents, and Community Members United—Building a Multi-Stakeholder Movement for Educational Justice
On any given day in Boston, there are multiple groups taking meaningful action to create educational justice. This workshop will highlight the work of Boston Ed Truth—a youth-community partnership coalition. As we have tried to ‘converge on our multiple dreams,’ we have felt the added value of our interconnectedness and it’s power; but also grappled with tough questions that our work presents. This workshop will allow participants to hear a broad overview of our work to date—including the community voice in the superintendent search and school equity—as well as our challenges and future plans.
Boston Truth Steering Committee members
Boston Truth Steering Committee members