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Virtual Keynote: Praxis of Joy, Healing, and Transformation – Sat Nov 7, 10a EST

Folks, I’ll be speaking about joy, healing and transformation in the midst of COVID-19 and Racial Injustice this coming Saturday at 10am EST

Hosted by the SUNY New Paltz Humanistic/Multicultural Education Program

Registration concludes tomorrow (Wednesday, Nov 4, 2020)

Praxis of Joy, Healing, and Transformation in the Midst of Dual Pandemics

Saturday, November 7, 10am-11:30 am (virtual event)

Educators, youth and families face even more challenges in 2020, as we live through a global pandemic and ongoing insurrections against racial injustice and antiBlackness. In the midst of dual pandemics, it is particularly important we attend to visions and practices of healing, joy and transformation as we collectively work toward social and educational justice.

In his keynote, Dr. Edwin Mayorga invites participants to make connections across our learning spaces, to consider what pandemic praxes for joy and healing look, sound, and feel like for social justice educational communities. What role do healing and joy play in our work toward abolitionist teaching, decolonization, and racial & ethnic studies? What resources and interconnections can we draw upon that center our humanity and our relationship to the land that can amplify our work at a historical moment where the earth is on fire, we are physically isolated, and our streets are resounding with calls for racial justice? How can we look to each other–particularly those who have been historically disappeared by systems of oppression– in order to enliven the praxis of healing and transformation that are so necessary today?

Edwin Mayorga, Ph.D. (he/him/his) is a parent-educator-activist-scholar, and Associate Professor of Educational Studies and Latin American/Latino Studies at Swarthmore College (PA). Edwin teaches and writes about racial neoliberal urbanism, scholar-activism, participatory action research (PAR) entremundos, decolonization, critical racial/ethnic studies and community+school collaboration.

Hosted by SUNY New Paltz Humanistic/Multicultural Education Program.

Registration for this event is on a sliding scale (pay what you can), starting at $0. If you are able, please consider donating $10, $20, $30 or any amount you are comfortable with.

Registration is required and closes at the end of the day Wednesday, November 4.

Go to: https://newpaltz.edu/ed2020registration

 

Radio: Teaching for Justice in the Midst of Dual Pandemics

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Tune in to Encuentros Políticos/Political Encounters, Tuesdays at 4p & Sundays at 5p EST on USALAmedia.com

Episode: Teaching for Justice in the midst of the dual pandemics of Covid-19 and Racial Injustice, with Tamara Anderson, Dana Carter and Alma Sheppard-Matsuo

As the school year gets underway online here in Philadelphia, questions about teaching in this context abound. Continuing our series on pandemic schooling we turn our focus to teachers and teaching. I’m pleased to have Tamara Anderson, Dana Carter (Racial Justice Organizing Committee), and Alma Sheppard-Matsuo from Teacher Action Group Philly

Download the podcast (mp3)  or find it on Spreaker
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Dana Carter graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls and then obtained her Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration from Delaware State University. While working as a Literacy Intern Teacher with the School District of Philadelphia in 2001, Ms. Carter developed a love for Urban Education. She received her Master’s Degree and certification in Elementary Education from Arcadia University in 2007.

Ms. Carter added an international perspective to her teaching when she traveled to the United Arab Emirates in 2013 to teach English for the Abu Dhabi Education Council for two years. Ms. Carter is a core member of Melanated Educators Collective and the Racial Justice Organizing Committee. Ms. Carter serves as the Racial and Social Justice Policy Advisor for both organizations. Ms. Carter has dedicated her career to eliminating the school to prison pipeline by being an advocate for urban learners.

Tamara Anderson is currently an adjunct at West Chester University in the Education Policy Department. She is one of the founding steering committee members of the National Black Lives Matter Week of Action at Schools, a core member of the Racial Justice Organizing Committee, a core organizer of Philly-Black Lives Matter Week at Schools, Opt Out Philly, a previous steering committee member of the WE Caucus, and a diversity consultant for American Association of Physics Teachers.

 

Alma Sheppard-Matsuo is an English teacher at Dobbins CTE High School, where they are the faculty advisor for both the GSA (Gender & Sexuality Association) and the Anime & Comics Club.  They are a core member of Teacher Action Group Philly (TAG).  Prior to joining the school district, they lived in Brooklyn, NY where they were a teaching artist, illustrator and community organizer, working with groups like Bread & Puppet Theater, Great Small Works and The People’s Puppets.

Download the podcast on Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/user/usalamedia/pdc-ple-e39

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join us! Rethinking Ethnic Studies book group

Summer Reading Series Announcement

Join Chris Rogers & Edwin Mayorga in a reading of Rethinking Ethnic Studies (RES) from Rethinking Schools!

Built around the themes of indigeneity, decolonization, anti-racism, and activism, RES offers vital resources for educators committed to the ongoing struggle for racial justice in our schools and the world.

The book group will center on understanding the history of critical racial/ethnic studies and thinking about the ways we can work through a critical racial/ethnic studies framework in our classrooms, our politics and our communities.

Ten copies of the book will be available free of charge to participants

No worries if you are unable to attend all of the meetings

Location:

Paul Robeson House

4951 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19139

Meetings: Thursdays, 5-7p

6/20, 6/27 & 7/11

To register http://bit.ly/2019readingregistration

#ethnicstudies #ethnicstudiesphl

New Date: 4.16.15 Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon – Book Talk by Author Vanessa Pérez Rosario

Becoming Julia de Burgos  Cover, courtesy VPerezRosario

Becoming Julia de Burgos Cover, courtesy VPerezRosario

The Latin American Studies program, the Department of Educational Studies, ENLACE, the program in Spanish, the Gender & Sexualities Studies program, and the Department of English present:

Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon

A Book Talk by
Dr. Vanessa Pérez Rosario

Note new date & room:

Thursday, April 16, 2015
6-8pm
Kohlberg Room 115, Swarthmore College 

While it is rare for a poet to become a cultural icon, Julia de Burgos has evoked feelings of bonding and identification in Puerto Ricans and Latinos in the United States for over half a century. In the first book-length study written in English, Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos’s development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in New York City, the poet’s home after 1940. Pérez Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of Burgos’s life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico’s peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities. This talk will also feature newly discovered archival material not included in the book that focuses on the poet’s legacy in the New York City Public Schools in the 1970s.

Follow: #LatinoLit, #LatinoEdu,  #TeacherLives

For questions: emayorg1@swarthmore.edu

About the Author

Courtesy of VPerezRosario

Courtesy of VPerezRosario

Vanessa Pérez Rosario (@VanessaYPerez) is Associate Professor of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College—City University of New York. Her research and teaching interests include Transnational Feminism, Latino Cultural Studies and Spanish in the United States. She is the author of Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon (University of Illinois Press, 2014) and the editor of Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement (Palgrave 2010). She has received numerous fellowships including the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship, a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, an American Association of University Women fellowship and a library fellowship at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Her work has appeared in Centro Journal, Meridians, and Translation Review. She currently serves on the board of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage project at the University of Houston. She is Interim co-Principal Investigator of the CUNY—New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals.

 

Information on Julia de Burgos

García, N. Julia de Burgos (en Español). La Respuesta Magazine

Relevant Curricular Material

Pérez, V. (2015). CUNY-NYSIEB Guide to Translanguaging in Latino/a Literature. Retrieved February 4, 2015, from http://www.vanessayperez.com/page-c/

Book reviews:

Book Review: Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon by Vanessa Pérez Rosario

#TeacherLives Speaker Series

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The #TeacherLives Speaker Series is a set of talks sponsored by the Department of Educational Studies at Swarthmore College. The series centers on the lives of teachers, topics and perspectives that intersect with teaching for social justice.

Follow the ongoing conversation on Twitter at #TeacherLives.

 

#TeacherLives Speaker Series Events (Spring 2015)

“More than a Score: The New Uprising Against High Stakes Testing”: A conversation with Jesse HagopianShelf-MoreThanAScore_jpg_800x1000_q100

Friday, February 13th | 3:00-5:00 pm | Science Center 104

More Than a Score is a collection of essays, poems, speeches, and interviews—accounts of personal courage and trenchant insights—from frontline fighters who are defying the corporate education reformers, often at great personal and professional risk, and fueling a national movement to reclaim and transform public education.

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Courtesy of J. Hagopian

Book editor, Jesse Hagopian, teaches history and is the Black Student Union adviser at Garfield High School, the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test in 2013.

More info


Courtesy of VPerezRosario

Courtesy of VPerezRosario

Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon A book talk by author Dr. Vanessa Pérez Rosario

Thursday, March 5th  |  6:00-8:00 pm  | Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall

Becoming Julia de Burgos  Cover, courtesy VPerezRosario

Becoming Julia de Burgos Cover, courtesy VPerezRosario

In the first book-length study written in English, Dr. Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos’s development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in New York City, the poet’s home after 1940. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of Burgos’s life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico’s peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. This talk will also feature newly discovered archival material not included in the book that focuses on the poet’s legacy in the New York City Public Schools in the 1970s.

*This event cosponsored by Deaprtment of Educational Studies, Program in Latin American Studies, ENLACE, the Spanish Program, the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, & the Department of English

More info


Ileana_Jimenez_97_20_smallTeaching feminism in high school: A Conversation with Ileana Jiménez

Thursday, March 19th  |  4:30-6:30 pm  | Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall

Teacher, activist, and blogger, Ileana Jiménez, M.A., is a teacher at LREI (Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School) in New York, NY and founder of Feminist Teacher, feministteacher.com. For eighteen years, Ileana Jiménez has been a leader in the field of feminist and social justice education. In an effort to inspire teachers to bring women’s and gender studies to the K-12 classroom, she launched her blog, Feminist Teacher, in 2009; she is also the creator of the #HSfeminism and #K12feminism hashtags. Since then, Feminist Teacher has become recognized by educators nationally and globally. A frequently-asked speaker on feminism in schools, she travels nationally and globally to speak to educators in both secondary and higher education.

More info


Past #TeacherLives Speaker Series Events (Fall 2014)

Jose Luis Vilson & Dr. Bree Picower

Jose Luis Vilson & Dr. Bree Picower

 

Courtesy of NYCoRE

Practice What You Teach : Dr. Bree Picower
Sunday, October 26th | 4:00 pm | Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall, Swarthmore College

Dr. Picower will discuss ideas from her book, Practice What You Teach. The book follows three different groups of educators to explore the challenges of developing and supporting teachers’ sense of social justice and activism at various stages of their careers. This timely resource helps prepare and support all educators to stand up for equity and justice both inside and outside of the classroom and offers a more nuanced portrait of what the struggle to truly “make a difference” looks like.

Dr. Bree Picower is an Assistant Professor at Montclair State University in the College of Education and Human Development. She is the co-editor of the annual Planning to Change the World: A Planbook for Social Justice Teachers published by the New York Collective of Educators (NYCoRE) and the Education for Liberation Network.

 

 


 

From: thejosevilson.com

 

This is Not a Test:José Vilson

Sunday, November 16th | 4:00 pm, Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall, Swarthmore College

In his book This Is Not a Test A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education, José Vilson writes about race, class, and education through stories from the classroom and researched essays. In this talk he will describe his rise from rookie math teacher to prominent teacher leader which takes a twist when he takes on education reform through his now-blocked eponymous blog, TheJoseVilson.com. He calls for the reclaiming of the education profession while seeking social justice.

José Luis Vilson is a math educator for a middle school in the Inwood / Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Syracuse University and a master’s degree in mathematics education from the City College of New York. He is also a committed writer, activist, web designer, and father.

 

For questions about the series please email Edwin Mayorga (emayorg1@swarthmore.edu)

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