BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 RDATE:20140309T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 RDATE:20141102T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140418T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140418T180000 LOCATION:Madison High School\, Library\, 2735 NE 82nd Ave. Portland\, OR 97220 GEO:45.542001;-122.580809 SUMMARY:Teaching and Organizing for Justice DESCRIPTION:Join us for this public talk with Curtis Acosta to learn more about the successful Mexican American Studies (MAS) program in Tucson\, Arizona schools\, and Acosta's curriculum\, stance\, and strategies that changed Latina/o students' lives and academic achievement. \; Discus sion will focus on how the MAS curriculum spoke to students previously fa iled by Tucson schools. Co-sponsored by the Oregon Writing Project at Le wis &\; Clark\, and Rethinking Schools. \; Event Details &\; R egistration Join us from 4-4:30 to catch up with colleagues. The program begins at 4:30.Registration is now closed\; this event is full to cap acity. \; About the Presenter Curtis Acosta has taught high school for nearly 20 years in Tucson\, where he developed and taught Chicana/o L iterature classes for the renowned Mexican American Studies program. An a ward-winning educator\, he has been featured in the documentary Precious Knowledge\, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart\, and his classes were subjec t of multiple profiles by CNN\, PBS\, The New York Times\, and The Los An geles Times. Acosta's articles have appeared in multiple publications and he is the founder of the Acosta Latino Learning Partnership\, an educati onal consultation firm. He is also a founding member of the Xican@ Instit ute for Teaching and Organizing (XITO)\, which supports the Xicana/o-Lati na/o community through teacher preparation\, social justice pedagogy\, an d community organizing.New workshops and trainings are added to our calen dar regularly. For the latest on professional development related to your specific interests\, sign up for our mailing list! (https://lclark.tfafo rms.net/4735441) \; X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join us for this public talk with Curtis Acosta to learn more about the successful Mexican American S tudies (MAS) program in Tucson\, Arizona schools\, and Acosta's curriculu m\, stance\, and strategies that changed Latina/o students' lives and aca demic achievement. \;
Discussion will focus on how the MAS curriculum spoke to students previously failed by Tucson schools .
Co-sponsored by the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis &\; Clark\, and Rethinking Schools. \;
Join us from 4-4:30 to catch up with colleagues. The program begins at 4:30.
Curtis Acosta has taught high school for nearly 20 years in Tucson\, where he developed and taught Chicana/o Literature classes for the renowned Mexican American Studies p rogram. An award-winning educator\, he has been featured in the documenta ry Precious Knowledge\, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart \, and his classes were subject of multiple profiles by CNN\, PBS\, T he New York Times\, and The Los Angeles Times. Acosta's art icles have appeared in multiple publications and he is the founder of the Acosta Latino Learning Partnership\, an educational consultation firm. H e is also a founding member of the Xican@ Institute for Teaching and Orga nizing (XITO)\, which supports the Xicana/o-Latina/o community through te acher preparation\, social justice pedagogy\, and community organizing. p>
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