Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference: Registration Open

Dear Portland Area Rethinking Schools friends,

It's still hot. It's still summer. But it's not too early to begin thinking about this fall's exciting 2nd Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice conference, to be held in Olympia, Wash. on Saturday, Oct. 3. Registration is now open at the www.nwtsj.org website.

Keynote speaker is Ira Shor, who has written such wonderful books on social justice teaching, including one of the first: "Critical Teaching and Everyday Life." Ira is also co-author with Paulo Freire of the excellent "A Pedagogy for Liberation."

Workshops are being finalized, but there will be a diverse offering of sessions from educators around the northwest.

Again: www.nwtsj.org.

Also, if you didn't get the summer special issue of Rethinking Schools magazine in the mail, then your subscription has lapsed. Time to renew, and time to go to Powell's downtown, Concordia New Seasons, Broadway Books, People's Food Store, or Alberta St. Cooperative Grocery and buy a copy. It's a special issue: "Teaching for Environmental Justice," and also includes the introduction from Linda Christensen's fantastic (I'm not biased) new book, "Teaching for Joy and Justice."

Have a good rest of your summer.

Bill Bigelow
bbpdx@aol.com
for the Portland Area Rethinking Schools steering committee