Workshops / Chat Rooms E

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WORKSHOPS (Saturday, 1:45 pm)

Liberating Teaching and Learning from the Conventions of Schooling (AR)

Rock Creek Academy, University of Maryland, College Park

Participants will learn how Action Research into School Exclusion (Project ARISE) teaches students to develop workshops for adult educators. This workshop will focus on how to develop a student-led workshop for adults about student-teacher conflict. This interactive presentation includes short video interviews with students and teachers about trigger behaviors.

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Jail is Not a True Rites of Passage! The Over-Incarceration of Black and Latino Youth (CY)

Each One, Teach One

Jail is Not a True Rites of Passage provides youth-friendly activities and tools that seek solutions to America’s obsession with youth incarceration by exploring three topics: over-policing of schools and streets; criminalization of youth in the media; and ineffective youth development.  PHOTOS      COMMENTS

How Can Youth Work Better with Adults to Make Schools Safer? (SBO)

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)

Participants discuss youth-adult partnerships by focusing on what brings youth and adults together and what pushes them apart. Participants will explore the common goals that youth and adults share in social justice and other struggles.  In particular, participants will gain a framework for youth-adult partnerships in establishing Gay-Straight Alliances in middle and high schools. COMMENTS

Getting to Youth-led: Building and Supporting Youth Leadership in School and Community Based Education for Liberation Programming (YL)

Umoja Student Development Corporation

A central goal of youth development is to build youth leadership capacity and support young people to have more power.  Yet when it comes to program and curriculum design, we constantly struggle to find the right balance between adult and youth driven. This session, co-facilitated by Umoja staff and youth leaders, will provide a space for reflection and dialogue on this crucial tension.

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Mathematics for the Struggle: Analyzing Driving While Black or Brown

Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago

Several Chicago public high school students will take session participants through a social justice mathematics project that they did in their mathematics classes. The project is about racial profiling. Participants will learn about probability simulations and how they can use mathematics to “check up” on the police and verify if police are really stopping people randomly or if something else is going on. The session will look at data from a real racial profiling suit filed in Illinois against the police. PHOTOS      COMMENTS      HANDOUTS

Maroon Warrior Stand UP! Cultural Arts Education of the African Diaspora for Social Justice (AS)

The Legacy Circle, New York Collective of Radical Educators

Despite being 75% African American and Latino, NYC public schools do not formally incorporate the cultural arts of its youth. Join a group of teachers and teaching artists to learn how they collaborated to create a book of lesson plans, curricula and activity ideas to help teachers incorporate cultural arts into teaching social justice. Focusing on the cultural arts of the African Diaspora that surge from maroon communities and traditions, this workshop will explore how you too can create a collaborative learning process that includes experiencing cultural arts hands on and bridging the needs of youth and social justice/community organizing. COMMENTS

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Changing Media/Changing Minds—Abolishing the Incarceration Nation (CY)

Beyondmedia Education

This panel will discuss the nation's over-reliance on incarceration and how alternative media is one strategy to introduce prison abolition into the public sphere. Panelists will focus on describing community-based methods—from an alternative high school to an interactive website—for creating a future without prisons. This panel will also screen multimedia clips and performed staged readings from Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance.

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Educating Organizers: The Role of Liberatory Education in Youth Organizing (SBO, CBO)

Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, the Baltimore Algebra Project, North Lawndale College Prep High School; Moderator: Thomas Nikundiwe

How should youth organizers be educated? To what extent should the emphasis be on intellectual development and to what extent should it be on reaching campaign goals? How is the education process for organizers different in the school setting and outside of it? What are the challenges that face teachers/organizers? To what extent should teacher/organizers share their own political views and to what extent should they allow students to draw their own conclusions?

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