Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Blogging from the WE LEARN Conference
A group of attendees is blogging about the workshops as the WE LEARN conference this weekend. I think some of you might find the discussions interesting. Some of the topics include: Choosing Books that Change Our Lives, Student Leadership, and Women's Literacy and Social Justice. Learn more by visiting the blog here.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Building Together: Art, Education and Democracy
Building Together: Art, Education and Democracy
Sunday, March 21, 2010
1 – 3 PM
Plus 3 more biweekly sessions -
schedule to be determined by participants
1627 N. 19th St (upstairs)
St. Louis MO 63106
(on the corner of 19th and Madison)
All ages and people welcome – young people, students, teachers, community members, artists, grandparents!
A test-driven curriculum pushed the arts to the margins of our schools. Arts based projects at the forefront of our educational planning secure a strong future for our students. In this Inquiry to Action Group (ItAG) – Art, Education and Democracy – we will collaborate to create art in order to take a deeper look at our personal and community environment, a key part of social growth and understanding. Dail Chambers, teaching artist, will guide participants as they work together to create free-standing sculptures and participate in discussions focused on: art's role in historical social movements; multicultural arts; contemporary art activism and arts based collaboration in classroom activity.
Through our inquiry, creation and action, participants will find ways to transfer basic art techniques & processes learned into their work as citizens, parents and educators. No previous art experience is needed. Participants are asked to bring one small to midsized item that is attached to an experience, place or memory. The requested item will not be used in making of artwork. People should commit to attending 4 sessions.
About the Facilitator :
Dail Chambers is a community based, teaching artist. She studied photography at St. Louis Community College Florissant Valley and received her BFA from Memphis College of Art in Clay, with a minor in Art History. Chambers’s artwork is centered around african art, women's issues and social constructs. Most recently she has completed her Community Arts Training Institute fellowship. Chambers has curated numerous exhibitions, and founded the AIDS Project in Memphis TN. She is currently collaborating with National artist Carl Moore. Both artists will share the topic of "Moving Back: Our experiences living in the American "South," generations after the Great Migration. The exhibition is to be held in St. Louis at the Vaughn Cultural Center, January 2011. Her two Spring 2010 shows include From the Center Now!, a national exhibition juried by Lucy Lippard, held in Chicago Ill; and Art as Activism juried by Yolanda Lopez, held in St. Charles, MO.
This four-session Inquiry to Action Group is offered FREE by the Literacy for Social Justice Group with the support of the Doerr Center for Social Justice. It is part of a larger project called “Public Education, Public Voices.” To register, contact Kathryn Pole at 314 977-7107 or email kpole@slu.edu by March 15th.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
1 – 3 PM
Plus 3 more biweekly sessions -
schedule to be determined by participants
1627 N. 19th St (upstairs)
St. Louis MO 63106
(on the corner of 19th and Madison)
All ages and people welcome – young people, students, teachers, community members, artists, grandparents!
A test-driven curriculum pushed the arts to the margins of our schools. Arts based projects at the forefront of our educational planning secure a strong future for our students. In this Inquiry to Action Group (ItAG) – Art, Education and Democracy – we will collaborate to create art in order to take a deeper look at our personal and community environment, a key part of social growth and understanding. Dail Chambers, teaching artist, will guide participants as they work together to create free-standing sculptures and participate in discussions focused on: art's role in historical social movements; multicultural arts; contemporary art activism and arts based collaboration in classroom activity.
Through our inquiry, creation and action, participants will find ways to transfer basic art techniques & processes learned into their work as citizens, parents and educators. No previous art experience is needed. Participants are asked to bring one small to midsized item that is attached to an experience, place or memory. The requested item will not be used in making of artwork. People should commit to attending 4 sessions.
About the Facilitator :
Dail Chambers is a community based, teaching artist. She studied photography at St. Louis Community College Florissant Valley and received her BFA from Memphis College of Art in Clay, with a minor in Art History. Chambers’s artwork is centered around african art, women's issues and social constructs. Most recently she has completed her Community Arts Training Institute fellowship. Chambers has curated numerous exhibitions, and founded the AIDS Project in Memphis TN. She is currently collaborating with National artist Carl Moore. Both artists will share the topic of "Moving Back: Our experiences living in the American "South," generations after the Great Migration. The exhibition is to be held in St. Louis at the Vaughn Cultural Center, January 2011. Her two Spring 2010 shows include From the Center Now!, a national exhibition juried by Lucy Lippard, held in Chicago Ill; and Art as Activism juried by Yolanda Lopez, held in St. Charles, MO.
This four-session Inquiry to Action Group is offered FREE by the Literacy for Social Justice Group with the support of the Doerr Center for Social Justice. It is part of a larger project called “Public Education, Public Voices.” To register, contact Kathryn Pole at 314 977-7107 or email kpole@slu.edu by March 15th.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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!
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!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
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.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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
Friday, June 12, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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.
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.
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