Just a few months ago, Lewis & Clark professor of education Zaher Wahab was asked to take on a nearly impossible assignment—come to Kabul immediately and work with the deputy minister of education to revise Afghanistan’s literacy plan.

The Spring 2012 edition of Rethinking Schools features writing from Dyan Watson, Assistant Professor of Education at Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, and OWP Teacher Consultant Mark Hansen. 

Linda Christensen, director of the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis & Clark, reflects on being a veteran teacher who still sometimes fails to connect curriculum to her students’ lives—and about the dire consequences of that failure for her students.

The IWOK Summer Academy brings the lens of Indigenous knowledge and issues to topics of academic study and involves families in supporting Native students’ college aspirations.
Dates: June 17-29
Location: Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR

Lewis & Clark’s Indigenous Ways of Knowing Program helps members of Portland’s Native community explore traditions of honor and respect for “Two Spirit” individuals—those who today might be called lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.

Education faculty offer opportunities for working teachers to reflect and renew through the Courage to Teach program.

Christina Cooke’s project, The Second-Hand Society, a thesis for the nonfiction writing M.F.A. program at Portland State, tells the stories of people in Portland, Oregon who make use of objects others discard.