Thanks and James Loewen workshop

Dear Portland Area Rethinking Schools friends,

Thanks to all of you who attended and led workshops at yesterday's 2nd Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice conference in Olympia. It was a joyous, thought-provoking, and inspiring gathering -- with over 400 people in attendance and 30 plus workshops throughout the day. Next year's conference will be in Portland and we'll be starting to plan for this later in the fall. This is a collective effort, so we'll be sending out "please join the planning" notices as soon as we catch our breath.

In the meantime, Portland Area Rethinking Schools has endorsed James Loewen's workshop at Lewis and Clark College on Friday, Oct. 16th, 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.: "Teaching What Really Happened." Loewen is author of the valuable book, "Lies My Teacher Told Me," about biases in corporate-produced U.S. History textbooks. It should be a lively and informative event.

For details, please go to the website: http://www.lclark.edu/graduate/programs/continuing_education/news/story/...

Bill Bigelow
for the Portland Area Rethinking Schools steering committee