What Have You Done to Teach/Promote Social Justice Lately?
Monday, January 12th (5:00-7:00)
Legacy Books and Café
5249 Delmar St. Louis, Missouri 63108
Come share how you have been teaching and/or acting to promote social justice! We will share ideas, strategies, questions and issues that have arisen for us lately as social justice teachers. This is a great way to network with other progressive teachers.
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Social Justice Social -- All-Call for Social Justice Groups!
Thursday, January 29th (5:30-8:30)
Legacy Books and Café
5249 Delmar St. Louis, Missouri 63108
(just east of Union Blvd. in a shopping plaza)
The Literacy of Social Justice Teachers Research Group would like to invite all people, groups and networks involved in the social justice movement in the St. Louis area for a meet and greet Social Justice Social at Legacy Books and Cafe. Our social will be a time for groups to network with others and to unite. Together we stand but divided we fall! Bring your pamphlets, business cards, petitions, and flyers to band with our group, and others. We look forward to meeting you! Music and food will be available! First 15 people through the door receive a free drink ticket!
Cabbage Patch Kids(TM) vs. Garbage Pail Kids (TM): Evaluating Personal Biases in Classroom Pedagogies
Monday, February 9 (5-7 pm)
June Christian
Legacy Books and Café
5249 Delmar St. Louis, Missouri 63108
(just east of Union Blvd. in a shopping plaza)
It is widely agreed upon that teachers extraordinarily impact students. Teachers have the especially powerful task of modeling ways of making meaning of the world. To this end, what might students learn through obvious and unseen actions in the classroom? What might it mean for students to know? Finally, which concepts of knowledge are privileged and which are silenced? Centered on experiential exercises and visioning techniques, teachers/researchers will evaluate the ways in which their pedagogical frameworks may privilege and/or target students.
Developing a Progress Report on Education: Obama’s First 100 Days
Tuesday, February 24
Public Forum
Carpenter Branch Library
3309 S. Grand Blvd. St. Louis
5:30-7:30 pm
Educational reform is one of our nation’s top legislative priorities. We need to make sure that those of us who work in education are involved in determining the direction of this reform.The purpose of this forum is: to provide an update on legislative issues, to identify and prioritize critical issues, assess the current status of these issues and determine an action plan for expanding and enhancing educational opportunities, particularly within the first 100 days of the Obama Administration.
Co-sponsored by LSJTRG, The Justice Institute, MASW, ABC's of Literacy
Debating the Merits of Merit Pay
Monday, March 9 (5-7 pm)
Meredith Labadie
University of Missouri-St. Louis
South Campus, Marillac Hall – Technology and Learning Center
Conference Room II
Merit pay or “performance pay” is being considered in many cities as part of education reform initiatives. It often includes cash incentives for teachers who will relinquish tenure and raise students’ test scores. What are the issues surrounding merit pay? What school districts and schools have adopted merit pay? Is merit pay effective? What are alternatives to merit pay? Come find out in this interactive workshop where we will collectively analyze the issue and brainstorm strategies for strengthening public schools.
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Social Justice and the Limits of Democracy: Towards a Critical Pedagogy for the Twenty-First Century
Monday, March 30th (6:30-8:00 pm)
Dr. Peter L. McLaren Professor UCLA
Saint Louis University, Lecture Hall Bare Fuller
(co-sponsored with Saint Louis University)
This talk will focus on the expectations and the realities of social justice in the age of neoliberal capitalism, and in light of the recent election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. Prospects of social justice education will be discussed as well as the necessity to rethink critical pedagogy from a classroom approach to a revolutionary social movement.
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Monday, May 4th
Curriculum Fair Preparations
University of Missouri-St. Louis
South Campus, Marillac Hall – Technology and Learning Center
Conference Room II
Have a lesson plan, unit, book study that you want to share with other educators at the curriculum fair but unsure how? Come join others for feedback on putting together a table display or workshop to share your social justice teaching.
Mark your calendars!
5th Annual Educating for Change Fair
Saturday, September 26th 9 am – 3 pm
Featuring: Jill Freidberg of Corrugated Films
University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Directions:
Adult Learning Center: 5078 Kensington 63108
The Center is on the corner of Kensington and Academy.
From I-70, go South on Kingsghighway to Delmar, Right on Delmar to Academy (first street on right), Right on Academy - two blocks to Kensington.
From I-64, go North on Kingshighway to Delmar, Left on Delmar to Academy, Right on Academy - go two blocks to Kensington.
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