NW Teaching for Social Justice conference workshop proposals due, July 1
Open gallery
Educator and activist friends in the Pacific Northwest:
Please consider writing up a proposal to offer a workshop at this year’s NW Teaching for Social Justice conference on Saturday, October 18th, at Madison High School in Portland. Check out the website, www.nwtsj.org, and click on “Workshop Proposal Application” in the upper left. Proposals will be accepted until July 1st.
We are looking for all kinds of workshops–those that demonstrate social justice teaching approaches in different disciplines and at different grade levels, especially “underrepresented” areas like early childhood, special education, English Language Learners, and science education; those that offer insights about the state of public education and strategies to preserve and transform it–test boycotts, teacher-parent partnerships, etc.; those that deal with issues that affect public education, like the school-to-prison pipeline or growing wealth inequality.
Recent workshops have included: Gender and Sexuality 101; The Cost of Stuff; Hidden Agender; Where Did All the Buffalo Go?; Teaching against Islamophobia; Trayvon Martin—Turning Tragedy into Critique; Revival of the Strike; Indigenous Peoples Confront the Climate Crisis; Slam Poetry—A Tool for Cross-cultural Collaboration; Supporting Undocumented American Youth in Uncertain Times; Talking about Skin Color with Children; and Troubadour: Teaching People’s History Through Music.
In addition to proposing a workshop, you can register for the conference at anytime: www.nwtsj.org.
Sponsoring organizations include: Portland Area Rethinking Schools, Puget Sound Rethinking Schools, Social Equality Educators (Seattle and Portland), the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis & Clark College, and Rethinking Schools magazine.
If you attended any of the past Northwest Teaching for Social Justice conferences, you know how inspiring these are. Please help us make this upcoming NWTSJ another successful gathering.
We will email you again, later this summer with details about participating in the resource fair during the conference too, but we wanted to make sure that you also had an opportunity to propose workshops as well.
Thank you,
Hyung Nam
NWTSJ Committee
