Upcoming Conferences, Courses and Events

NATIONAL EVENTS

May 27-31, 2008 National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, Orlando, Florida. Keynote speakers include Angela Davis, Winona LaDuke, Tim Wise, Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Manning Marable, Ranjit Sidhu, Morris Dees, Rinku Sen, and many more. There are lots of workshops, pre-conference institutes and other special events. Teaching for Change will have a booth at the conference -- we hope to see you there.

June 4-7, 2008 Knapsack Institute: Transforming the Curriculum, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. The Knapsack Institute: Transforming the Curriculum supports faculty across the nation as they create or revise courses to integrate race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class and other forms of social inequality. The Knapsack Institute is a program of The Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, the home of the White Privilege Conference.

June 7-8, 2008 5th International Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice, Chicago, Illinois, Hosted by the University of Illinois-Chicago, College of Education Organized by the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education

July 8, 9 and 10, 2008 Teaching for a Multicultural World: Bringing Diverse Lives, Stories and Histories into the Curriculum will be offered at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Bill Bigelow, veteran teacher and editor of Rethinking Schools and Beverly Braxton elementary teacher in the Warwick NY school district will facilitate the Institute. Geared for upper elementary teachers and secondary language arts and social studies teachers, participants will explore a wide range of multicultural teaching strategies and apply these approaches to their own curriculum. Download this flyer (PDF) for details.

July 7-18, 2008 The Teaching of Africa Summer Institute An intensive introductory course in African Studies for educators and other professionals. Offered by the Council on African Studies, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, New Haven, Connecticut. Brochure in PDF

July 24-27, 2008 Public Education as a Consitutional Right: 25 years of the Algebra Project: Changing the national discussion about quality public school education as a constitutional right. Jackson State University, Jackson, MS Sign up to be on our mailing list by emailing Becca. becca@algebra.org

August 11-17, 2008 Teachers Social Justice Tour: The Dominican Republic 2008 Exploring Global Migration and Human Rights The Price of Sugar: Haitian-Dominican Migrant Workers. For more information, write to teacher Kevin LaMastra (ESL/World Languages- Linden, NJ) klamastra@linden.k12.nj.us

Aug 19-21, 2008 Developing a Multicultural Curriculum. 13th Annual Summer Institute. Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Ledyard, CT The three days will follow a model based on four key steps to becoming a multicultural educator: awareness, knowledge, skills and action. These steps include awareness of how culture affects teaching and learning, the knowledge we need to be culturally responsive, how to create multicultural lesson plans; and how to develop an individual and organizational action plan. Sponsored by the Connecticut State Department of Education, Bureau of Choice Programs Brochure in PDF.

September 26, 2008 IAHHE International Association For Hip Hop Education "I Am Hip Hop Ed" 2nd Annual Conference 2008 The IAHHE is hosting its second annual conference and is looking for researchers, scholars, documentary filmmakers, artists and publishers in hip hop to present their work.  The one-day conference will take place at The National Music Center in downtown Washington DC.

October 8, 2008 13th Annual New England Conference on Multicultural Education (NECME) Connecticut Convention Center Hartford, Connecticut Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Carlos E. Cortés "Multicultural Education: Building a More Inclusive American Future." More information and call for proposals www.necme.org

October 11, 2008 Teachers 4 Social Justice 8th Annual Conference "Teaching for Social Justice: Building Power, Making Change" San Francisco, CA

November 12-16, 2008 National Association for Multicultural Education 18th Annual International Conference, New Orleans, LA

DC AREA EVENTS

For information on progressive events in the Washington, DC area, visit the following: Busboys and Poets Transafrica Forum Washington Peace Center