Northwest Teaching for Social Justice conference/Oct. 3

Dear Portland Area Rethinking Schools friends,

The 2nd Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice conference is Saturday, Oct. 3 in Olympia, Wash. Details at www.nwtsj.org. Come for inspiration, come for new ideas, come for community, come to make a difference in the world. Register now.

Keynote speaker is Ira Shor, who wrote one of the first books on social justice teaching: "Critical Teaching and Everyday Life," and co-authored the excellent "A Pedagogy for Liberation" with Paulo Freire. This is a rare west coast appearance for Ira Shor.

And there will be three sessions of outstanding workshops by educators from around the Northwest. The full listing of workshops is at www.nwtsj.org.

Workshops include:

"A Pedagogy of Ecology: Nurturing Children's Relationship to Place," with Ann Pelo

"Black Student/White School," with Nathan Bowling

"Can't Buy Me Love: Teaching About Clothes, Class, and Consumption," with Linda Christensen

"Right to Math, Right to Water," with Jana Dean and Lorri DeFloor

"Connecting Primary Children to the World," with Katie Johnson

and many, many more.

There will also be a Resource Fair with materials from social justice groups from around the region, and a full display of Rethinking Schools books (at conference discount rates.)

Come

Interested in car-pooling? Have a ride to offer? Contact Bill Bigelow at bbpdx@aol.com.

The NWTSJ conference is sponsored by Olympia Educators for Social Justice, Puget Sound Rethinking Schools, Coalition X (Tacoma), Portland Area Rethinking Schools, and Rethinking Schools magazine.