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2011 Program 2011 Program

1-quarter credit or clock hours available. Please pre-register.

Overnight housing will be available in Portland. If you would like to stay with local teachers and community activists, please email nwtsj2012@gmail.com to make arrangements.

5th Annual Northwest Conference on Teaching for Social Justice

“Rethinking Our Classrooms, Organizing for Better Schools”

Saturday October 20, 2012
8:00 – 4:30

Madison High School,
2735 NE 82nd
Portland, OR 97220

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2012 Keynote: Bob Peterson
President of the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association
Founding editor of Rethinking Schools magazine

2011 Keynote: Karen Lewis, President of the Chicago Teachers Union
Watch last year's keynote address!
A video of Karen's opening remarks to a townhall meeting.
See videos of the previous year's keynote speaker, Sonia Nieto.

2011 Special Guest: Stan Karp
Rethinking Schools editor Coordinator of ‘Not Waiting for Superman’ project

Samples of Scheduled Workshops:

  • Closeted Silence
  • Unpacking the Ode
  • The Politics of Naming
  • Gender and Sexuality 101
  • From Real to imagined ELL
  • Stories of Subversion: Mathematics in Action
  • Do Your Students Know Enough to Go to War?
  • Helping Undocumented Students Get to College
  • Using Scandal to Create Inquiry-based Discussion
  • Nature and Labor: From Disposability to Sustainability
  • Honoring Our Ancestors: Bringing Students' Lives into the Classroom

We would like to keep the Northwest Conference on Teaching for Social Justice green. Please plan to bring your own water/coffee/beverage container as we will not provide bottled beverages.