Voices Silenced and Voices Mandated In the Classroom

Unlock the Power of Literacy:

It’s Your Civil HUMAN Right

The momentum continues…

Join us as we turn the page from our year long series of forums and events focused on banned books to a new chapter as we kick-off a year dedicated to . . .

Voices Silenced and Voices Mandated in the Classroom

October 20, 2009

1– 3 p.m.

Legacy Books and Café
5249 Delmar Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63108

Bring your favorite banned book and join us for light refreshments and announcements of upcoming events as we continue to
UNLOCK the POWER of LITERACY!

Reading Banned Books

These photos were taken in Adult Education classrooms as part of the Reading Banned Books bookclub project (described a few posts back). Click on the photo below to view the album.

Media Lab

5th Annual Educating for Change Curriculum Fair “Reclaiming Education as a Civil Right”

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5th Annual Educating for Change Curriculum Fair
“Reclaiming Education as a Civil Right”

Saturday, September 26th from 9 am to 3 pm
University of Missouri-St. Louis, South Campus
Marillac Hall
8001 Natural Bridge Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63121 (next to South Campus Metro Station)
Free Parking and Lunch

Flyer attached for distribution.

Join us for a day filled with...

Resource Tables from local organizations committed to social justice.

Poster Presentations by educators including findings of teacher-research, lesson plans, books, videos, resources, curricular guides and inspirational ideas for teaching.

Hands on and interactive workshop sessions with educators and activists on themes such as: the school-to-prison pipeline, bilingual education, understanding institutionalized poverty, using art and movement to enhance learning, designing culturally diverse curriculum.

Featured Speaker:
JILL FRIEDBERG is a Seattle-based filmmaker, editor and community radio producer who founded Corrugated Films. Jill's work focuses on education, media and social change. Her films "Granito de Arena" and "Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad" document how teachers sparked a resistance movement against neoliberal education policies that aim to dismantle public education.

Cost: $10 suggested donation

Lunch will be provided.

Sponsored by:
The Literacy for Social Justice Teachers Research Group; Dean’s Committee on Social Justice in the College of Education, UMSL; Literacy Roundtable; The Justice Institute; Women's Voices Raised

For more information contact: Kathryn Pole 314-977-7107 or kpole@slu.edu

Organizing For Adult Education

Banned Books Book Clubs

During the Spring of 2009, the ABC's of Literacy Committee has been booktalking a selection of 5 books in adult education classrooms in the St. Louis Metro Area. The adult learners in these classrooms are then asked to choose one of the books to read as a book club in their classroom. The books are funded through a donation through LIFT-Missouri, specifically for adult learner book clubs, the Sue Gallup Book Club Fund.

The committee has book-talked the following books at St. Louis Public Schools AEL - The Adult Learning Center, Lewis and Clark Community College Adult Basic Education, St. Louis Community College AEL - Meramec and South County Campuses, and St. Louis Public Library GED class at Carpenter Branch.

You Hear Me: Poems and Writings By Teenaged Boys edited by Betsy Franco
The Giver by Lois Lowery
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
A Light In the Attic by Shel Silverstein
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

One classroom, The YMCA Literacy Council, specifically requested children's books and the adult learners chose from these titles:

Pinkerton, Behave! by Steven Kellog
A Light In the Attic by Shel Silverstein
And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and illustrated by Henry Cole
In The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

The books were chosen from the list of 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books from 2001-2008 compiled by the American Library Association. Each classroom will have the opportunity to vote on the book it will read as a group. In addition we are asking the classrooms to document their experience with digital photos and recordings of the discussion (we will provide cameras and recorders). Then a team of volunteers from each classroom will work with the committee to make a digital presentation of the process of doing the book clubs which will be shown at a celebratory event this summer.

Progress Report On Education

JOIN US!
Developing a Progress Report on Education:
Obama's First 100 Days

February 24, 2009
Carpenter Branch Library
3309 South Grand
St. Louis, MO 63118
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

"Educators Assessing Education"

IN THIS FORUM WE WILL:

• PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON LEGISLATIVE ISSUES
• IDENTIFY CRITICAL ISSUES
• ASSESS THE CURRENT STATUS OF THESE ISSUES
• DETERMINE AN ACTION PLAN FOR EXPANDING AND
ENHANCING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES,
PARTICULARLY WITHIN THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

Sponsors:

Missouri Association of Social Welfare
The Justice Institute
The Literacy for Social Justice Teacher
Research Group
The ABC’s of Literacy
"Educators
Assessing
Education"
RSVP:

Marcia Harris-Hayes
Marcia.Hayes-Harris@slps.org,

or

Rebecca Rogers:
Rogersrl@umsl.edu
(314) 516-5797