Testing, Charters, & Strikes Panel at NWTSJ
Published on Oct 31, 2015
Testing, Charters, and Strikes, Oh My!: Resisting Corporate Education Reform in Seattle and Beyond -
Oct 17, 2015 at the Northwest Teaching for Social Justice conference.
The Seattle area has been a hotbed of education activism in recent months, including significant victories in the
defense of democracy and public education. In this panel discussion and conversation, local education activists
Dora Taylor, Jesse Hagopian, and Wayne Au will talk about the local movement to opt out of high-stakes
testing, the political gains earned during the Seattle educators’ strike, and the recent Washington State Supreme
Court ruling declaring charter schools unconstitutional here. Local strategies as well as implications and nation
connections will be discussed. Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Parents, General
Dora Taylor is co-editor of the Seattle Education blog, founding member and president: Parents Across
America, co-author of Digital Networking for School Reform and Left Behind in the Race to the Top: Realities
of Education Reform, Featured Writer of The Progressive’s Public School Shakedown, League of Women
Voters of King County Board Member and League of Women Voters Education Committee member. Jesse
Hagopian is an editor of Rethinking Schools magazine, a history teacher and co-adviser to the Black Student
Union at Garfield High School. He is also the editor of, and contributing author to, More Than a Score: The
New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, a founding member of Social Equality Educators (SEE), a recipient
of the 2012 Abe Keller Foundation award for excellence and innovation in peace education, and won the 2013
Secondary School Teacher of Year award and the Special Achievement Courageous Leadership award from the
Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. Wayne Au is an associate professor at the University of Washington
Bothell and an editor of Rethinking Schools magazine.
Dear Northwest Teaching for Social Justice friends,
There are only a couple more days to get in your workshop proposals for this year's Northwest Teaching for Social Justice conference, which will be held Saturday, Oct. 18, at Madison High School in Portland.
Proposals will be accepted through July 1st.
Please consider joining the community of educators and activists who will be sharing their knowledge with conference participants.
As part of the
online proposal process on the conference website, you'll fill out a form and upload a workshop outline similar to the example we've posted
here. Or just go to
www.nwtsj.org, and click in the upper left: "Workshop Proposal Application." If you encounter problems or have questions, write
rfp@nwtsj.org.
As always, we are looking for a diversity of workshops: those that demonstrate social justice teaching approaches in different disciplines and at different grade levels, those that offer insights about the state of public education and strategies to preserve and improve it, those that deal with broad school policy concerns ... Check out past conference programs on our website to see examples.
And in addition to proposing a workshop, you can also
register for the conference anytime.
Our keynote speaker this year will be Enid Lee. Enid is a brilliant anti-racist educator, who works with school districts across the United States and Canada. One of our all-time most popular Rethinking Schools articles is her interview, “Taking Multicultural, Antiracist Education Seriously,” which was featured in the first edition of Rethinking Our Classrooms, and has been widely anthologized. Enid’s keynote talks are funny, poignant, informative, and inspiring. You won’t be disappointed. And numerous Rethinking Schools writers and editors will be leading workshop sessions, too.
Sponsoring organizations include Portland Area Rethinking Schools, Puget Sound Rethinking Schools, Social Equality Educators (Seattle and Portland), the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis and Clark College, and Rethinking Schools magazine.
As a participant in past NWTSJ conferences, you know how inspiring and educational these are. Please make this next gathering even better.
See you in Portland.
Best,
Bill Bigelow for the NWTSJ Conference Planning Committee
www.nwtsj.org
Dear Northwest Teaching for Social Justice friends,
There is only one more week to get in your workshop proposals for this year's Northwest Teaching for Social Justice conference, which will be held Saturday, Oct. 18, at Madison High School in Portland. Please consider joining the community of educators and activists who will be sharing their knowledge with conference participants.
As part of the
online proposal process on the conference website, you'll fill out a form and upload a workshop outline similar to the example we've posted
here. If you encounter problems or have questions, write
rfp@nwtsj.org.
Proposals will be accepted through July 1st.
As always, we are looking for a diversity of workshops: those that demonstrate social justice teaching approaches in different disciplines and at different grade levels, those that offer insights about the state of public education and strategies to preserve and improve it, those that deal with broad school policy concerns ... Check out past conference programs on our website to see examples.
And in addition to proposing a workshop, you can also
register for the conference anytime.
Our keynote speaker this year will be Enid Lee. Enid is a brilliant anti-racist educator, who works with school districts across the United States and Canada. One of our all-time most popular Rethinking Schools articles is her interview, “Taking Multicultural, Antiracist Education Seriously,” which was featured in the first edition of Rethinking Our Classrooms, and has been widely anthologized. Enid’s keynote talks are funny, poignant, informative, and inspiring. You won’t be disappointed. And numerous Rethinking Schools writers and editors will be leading workshop sessions, too.
Sponsoring organizations include Portland Area Rethinking Schools, Puget Sound Rethinking Schools, Social Equality Educators (Seattle and Portland), the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis and Clark College, and Rethinking Schools magazine.
If you've attended any of the past NWTSJ conferences, you know how inspiring and educational these are. Please make this next gathering even better.
See you in Portland.
Best,
