[YEP-DC] Risks and Rewards of Teaching for Democracy: Activism in the Classroom

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Risks and Rewards of Teaching for Democracy: Activism in the Classroom

A forum for D.C.-area teachers

THUR, MAY 3 6:00pm-8:00pm Presentation and discussion with special guests:  MAUREEN COSTELLO Director, Teaching Tolerance  GENEVIEVE DEBOSE, teacher, Bronx JULIAN HIPKINS, teacher, D.C.

This session was prompted by the recent attacks on ethnic studies in Tucson and the firing of Brooke Harris in Michigan for supporting a student fundraiser for Trayvon Martin's family. The teachers in Tucson's Mexican-American Studies program heard the same message her superintendent gave to Ms. Harris: "You were hired to be a teacher, not an activist." Now is a key time for teachers in the D.C. area to come together to proactively share strategies and build community to defend teaching for social justice.

The format will include brief presentations from the guest presenters and then time for small group discussion and sharing on the following topics:

• Activist teaching in your class/school
• Obstacles to activist teaching
• Examples of overcoming the obstacles
• How to support activist teaching

Join us at the
African American Civil War Museum
1925 Vermont Ave NW

(a block away from the U Street Metro station)

The event is free and open to the public.

Please RSVP on Facebook.

Sponsored by Teaching Tolerance and Teaching for Change.

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monét cooper
10th Grade English | Capital City Public Charter School
3220 16th Street NW | Washington DC 20010
(p) 202-387-1102 x231

class blog: mscooper.posterous.com

"Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him."
Anna Julia Cooper

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum to the women and men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." 
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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