5th Annual Northwest Conference on Teaching for Social Justice
“Rethinking Our Classrooms, Organizing for Better Schools”
Saturday October 20, 2012
8:00 – 4:30
2735 NE 82nd
Portland, OR 97220
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.