[RSCT] Register now! NYCoRE Announces 2010 Inquiry to Action Groups (ItAGs)
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NYCoRE Announces 2010 Inquiry to Action Groups (ItAGs)
New York Collective of Radical Educators
Inquiry to Action Groups 2010
Registration Open Now
at www.nycore.org
This year's groups:
Walk the Walk in your Teaching
Applying Popular Education
Transforming Mainstream Curriculum
A Space for Beginning Teachers
Restorative Justice
NYCoRE
New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE) is a group of public school educators committed to fighting for social justice in our school system and society at large, by organizing and mobilizing teachers, developing curriculum, and working with community, parent, and student organizations. We are educators who believe that education is an integral part of social change and that we must work both inside and outside the classroom because the struggle for justice does not end when the school bell rings
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To Register visit our website
ItAG Kick Off Meeting
A general kick-off meeting for all ItAG participants will be held Friday, January 22nd, 6:00- 8:00 p.m. at NYU, 3rd floor Pless Lounge, 82 Washington Sq. East between Greene and Washington Square Park. Dinner provided.
NYCoRE's 1st Annual Conference!
This years ItAG's will culminate in a one-day conference open to the public. 3/20/2010
Register at www.nycore.org/conference/
Dear NYCoRE Member,
We are pleased to offer an opportunity for teachers to build community and develop as activists. Educators will participate in Inquiry to Action Groups linking social justice issues with classroom practice. Small groups will meet weekly (for a total of six, two-hour sessions plus a kick-off and finale) between January and March to share experiences, respond to readings, exchange ideas and develop plans of action. The groups will culminate with a presentation at NYCoRE's first annual conference.
1. Be The Change: "Walk the Walk" in your Teaching
In this ItAG our group will explore the “teaching” in teaching for social justice. How does social justice impact our teaching practice? Participants will explore the “how” and “why” of creating/maintaining a socially just classroom. Collectively, as social justice educators, we will generate a list of shared values and discuss how they inform our practices. Our goal is to develop an active list of tangible strategies that can be used immediately.
Facilitators: Ama Codjoe is the poetry teaching artist of A.C.T.I.O.N. (a social justice and arts program) and the coach of the Dance Department at DreamYard Project (a teaching artist organization) in the Bronx. Maile Ogasawara is a former high school math instructor at Washington Irving High School and is currently the School Partnerships Coordinator at DreamYard Project.
Location: Washington Irving High School, 40 Irving Place (at E. 16th St. and Irving Pl.) Rm. TBD
Dates: Mondays 6-8PM. Kick off on 1/22, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/22, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15* and the finale on 3/20.
*tentative date may change depending on group availability.
2. Applying Popular Education in the Classroom
This ItAG will explore Paulo Freire's pedagogy and Augusto Boal's repertoire and how they can contribute to an education for liberation in NYC public schools. Texts will include excerpts from Pedagogy of the Oppressed [red edition], Games for Actors and Non-actors, and assorted letters and "talking chapters" by Freire and others. The goal is to bring these texts to life and make sense of them for NYC Public School- - finding ways for people to put radical pedagogy into their daily practices, while also using theater of the oppressed tools and practices. We will look at how different groups and collectives have used Freire’s pedagogy and Boal’s techniques to do educations around particular topics, like Palestine, Puerto Rico, and Hurricane Katrina. This ItAG is a joint collaboration between NYCoRE and members of the Palestine Education Project (PEP) in addition to other radical educators from NYC. For more info on PEP visit www.thinkpalestineact.org.
Facilitators: Una Osato, an educator, performer and babysitter, has been working with NYCoRE and PEP for years. Ora Wise develops multi-media curriculum and facilitates with PEP and is the Director of Education at Kolot Chayeinu, a progressive Jewish congregation in Brooklyn. Brian teaches theatre at Brooklyn College Academy and works with PEP. Lindsay Hockaday is a teaching artist who has studied Theater of the Oppressed techniques and feminist pedagogy.
Location: TBA in Manhattan
Dates:
TBA
Tuesdays or Thursdays 6-8PM. Kick off on 1/22,
(If Thursdays 1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/25 3/4, *3/11and the finale on 3/20.)
(or Tuesday would be: 1/22, 1/26, 2/2, 2/9, 2/23, 3/2, 3/9, *3/16 and the finale on 3/20
*tentative date may change depending on group availability.
3. Revolutionizing the Classroom: Transforming Mainstream Curriculum into Social Justice Teaching
In this study group, participants will explore what social justice in teaching means to them and how to achieve this in the current standards crazed context of NYC. Participants will examine mandated curriculum for opportunities to incorporate cultural relevance and social action. Teachers will work together to transform their own curriculum while still reaching the required standards.
Facilitators: Adam Manson Weinstock is in his 7th year at Tompkins Square Middle School, now as a dean of students and formerly as a 7th grade Humanities teacher. Novella Bailey is a 10th year humanities and performing arts teacher at West Side Collaborative Middle School in Manhattan.
Location: Tompkin Square Middle School: 600 East 6th street
Dates: Mondays 5:30-7:30 PM. Kick off on 1/22, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/22, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15* and the finale on 3/20.*tentative date may change depending on group availability.
4) What does it Mean to be a Radical Educator? A Space for Beginning Teachers to Explore and Learn
This ITAG is designed to explore and extend the definition of what it means to be a "radical educator" through the perspective of new teachers. The goal of this ITAG is to empower new teachers with the language, skills, and mindset that it takes to transform classrooms into communities for change. Radical teaching happens not only in the content of our curriculum, but also in the way we speak about, view, and interact with the world, our community, and the students in our classroom. In both theory and practice, we wish to radically re-write the stories that our students hear about the world and tell about themselves.
Facilitators: Marissa Torres works with Elementary students at the Hamilton Heights Academy in Harlem. Annie Schmutz works with Middle and High School students at the Henry Street School for International Studies in LES, as well as being a part-time instructor at City College of New York.
Dates: Thursdays 6-8PM. Tuesdays 6-8PM. Kick off on 1/22, 1/26, 2/2, 2/9 2/23, 3/2, 3/9, 3/16* and finale on 3/20.
*tentative date may change depending on group availability.
Dates: Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 W. 120th st. Room TBA
6) Restorative Justice in Schools
Evidence shows that suspensions in schools lead students on a downward spiral toward getting left back and dropping out of school. Suspensions often serve as a student's first step into the criminal justice system. This ItAG looks at the theory and philosophy behind alternative systems of discipline. We will examine systems of discipline that shift the question of what the student did to what the student needs and consider the value of restorative justice approaches.
Facilitators: Dolan Morgan teaches English and Liana Maris is the Student Services Coordinator at the Bronx International High School.Location: Bronx International High School in Morris Campus, 1110 Boston Road, Room 317
Dates: Wednesdays 5:30-7:30. Kick off on 1/22. Wednesdays, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17*, finale on 3/20.
*tentative date may change depending on group availability.
Register Now
The registration fee is $30.
Multiple teachers from the same school can register together for the same ItAG for a reduced rate of $25 each.
You will be able to pay your registration fee over paypal.
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