Here are just a few of the conference activities you could enjoy:
- BorderLands/La Frontera Literature Study: Engaging students with Racism, Community, & Local Issues
- Arne Duncan's American Education
- Those Who Control the Math Control the Outcome
- Youth Liberation: Roots to Revolution
- Culture, Health, and Female Empowerment through Tribal Belly Dance
- Pop, Lock, and Drop It—Popular Education By and For Street Based Youth
- Creating a Safe Space with Queer & Questioning Youth
- Hip Hop as a Tool for Liberation
- What Kids Know That Tests Don't Show: Cultural Literacy in School and Community
- Science Education for Liberation
- Toward a Research Agenda--Informing Practice with Data
The next Free Minds, Free People will take place in Providence, RI from July 7 to 10, 2011. Please save the date!
Our call for proposals is for the 2011 conference is ready! We invite K-12 teachers, community-based educators, students, activists/organizers, artists, parents and academic researchers to submit proposals for workshops, panels, poster sessions and kids' activities. Please click here for proposal guidelines. When you have written your proposal you can submit it online . You can also sign up to receive updates about Free Minds, Free People by joining our conference mailing list.
Help spread the word! Download a flier for the 2011 conference here.
Free MInds, Free People 2009 was fantastic! A huge thank you to all those who planned, presented at and participated in the conference. More than 450 youth, parents, teachers, researchers and community-based educators from across the country gathered in Houston to continue building a movement to develop and promote Education for Liberation. This national, intergenerational conference featured more than 70 activities on a variety of topics including educating new teachers, youth participatory action research, Arne Duncan, science and social justice education, youth organizing, a bike tour of Houston, quilt-making and hip hop as a tool for liberation.
"I loved it," said one high school student from Utah. Read more comments from participants, view our captioned slideshow of conference highlights or read press about the conference on the Archive page.
The Agenda page now features photos of individual events at the conference.
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