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AFTOC General Meeting: Donuts & Discipline

AFTOC is having its next general meeting on Tuesday, October 5th, from 5-6 in ED AD 308. The topic of discussion will be focusing on disciplinary policies within K-12 education. Elementary and Secondary education students are encouraged to attend, as well as those that wish to combat these policies within the classroom. AFTOC will be providing doughnuts and handing out our merch (t-shirts) at the event!

 

If anyone has any questions, please email Christianna Lapine (Christianna.lapine@wsu.edu) or Amir Gilmore (amir.gilmore@wsu.edu).

SWEA Meeting — Evan Hecker

Evan Hecker, Kamiak Elementary School principal, will be joining us and we will be discussing advice for first year teachers and preparing for evaluations from when administrators come into a teacher’s classroom. He will also be open to any questions we have about our first year teaching and what a principal might expect from us. If we breeze through that, the hiring process and tips for interviews/resumes is also a great topic to cover. He will share information he has with us and we will also ask him any questions we have!
Zoom: https://wsu.zoom.us/j/96427598926
Meeting ID: 964 2759 8926

SWEA Meeting

This will be our first SWEA meeting of the Spring 2021 semester. We will go over any housekeeping things and talk about upcoming events! I will share this Google Calendar with everyone and talk about our upcoming events!
Zoom: https://wsu.zoom.us/j/96427598926
Meeting ID: 964 2759 8926

8th Annual AFTOC Conference

The 8th annual event will include an interactive workshops with Jesse Hagopian, an award-winning educator and a leading voice on issues of educational equity, the school-to-prison pipeline, standardized testing, the Black Lives Matter at School Movement, and social justice unionism.

The agenda includes: 

11:00 – 11:15: Welcome and Introduction to Keynote Speaker: Jesse Hagopian

11:15 – 12:15: Jesse Hagopian’s Keynote: Taking a Knee to Level the Field: Athlete Activism from the Campus to the NFL

12:15 – 1:00: Break/Stretch/Lunch

1:00 – 3:30: Workshop/Lessons Led By Jesse

3:30 – 4:00: Reflections/Closing Thoughts/ Questions

Expect a day full of discussion, teaching, learning, and fun!

Interactive Workshop: Teaching Mathematics in the 21st Century

YOU’RE INVITED!

As part of WSU’s commitment to preparing The Next Generation of STEM Teachers, some of our STEM education faculty from WSU Vancouver are hosting a workshop to highlight the mathematics in STEM.

Drs. Kristin Lesseig and David Slavit will summarize the critical shifts being called for in K-12 mathematics instruction; examine what productive mathematical discourse looks and sounds like; and explore the implications these shifts have on all of us involved in teacher preparation and mathematics teaching at the university level.

This workshop is appropriate for:

  • Mathematics, science, education, and engineering facultyieneie
  • Education supervisors
  • Mathematics and STEM graduate students
  • Community partners.

There will be meeting rooms on each of WSU’s campuses, with a zoom connection cross-campuses.

Zoom link: https://wsu.zoom.us/j/890991249.

A Balancing Act: Faculty and First Gen

SUPPORTING OUR FIRST GEN COUGS

A NASPA First Forward Webinar

Navigating higher education as a first-generation college students can be challenging. Becoming faculty and identifying as first-gen adds a contextual layer to the higher education journey that must be discussed and explored! Presenters will share testimonials and personal narratives about how their intersecting identities, personal backgrounds, and life experiences inform their pedagogy and research practices. They will also share how identifying as first-gen continues to influence their academic identities. As such, the live briefing will focus on the lived.

This event is sponsored by: the WSU Division of Student Affairs, Office for Access & Opportunity, College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP), TRIO Student Support Services, TRIO Ronald E. McNair Achievement Program, Multicultural Student Services, Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center, Global Campus, College of Education, The Bookie, Common Reading Program and the ADVANCE grant.

Guest Speaker — On the Power of the Memoir: Writing Black Lives Into the Future

Graphic showing Sharnell Moore with text to the side giving information about the event.

There will be a book signing and tasty appetizers to follow on the Pullman Campus.  WSU Global Campus will stream the event from 6:00-7:00 p.m. PDT through a closed registration feed.

General you tube: https://youtu.be/yiRxdH_r-fE

Best place to watch and write comments https://connections.wsu.edu/watch-live/

If people from your campus would like to submit questions for the speaker, please make sure that you are connected to global connections link (and not the youtube link). Someone from Global Campus will monitor the chat for questions. I will be sure to frequently check in with the feed for TC, Van and Spokane questions. The set up for the event will be more of a dialogue than a lecture (per his request), so I anticipate lots of room for questions. Instead of him delivering a lecture at the podium, he will be seated with David Leonard, and Lisa Guererro and they will have a conversation about his work.

 

About the author

Darnell L. Moore is the author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. He is currently Head of Strategy and Programs at Breakthrough US and is the former Editor-at-Large at CASSIUS (an iOne digital platform) and a senior editor and correspondent at Mic. He is co-managing editor at The Feminist Wire and an edi-tor of The Feminist Wire Books (a series of University of Arizona Press). He is also a writer-in-residence at the Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social Justice at Columbia University.

Darnell’s advocacy centers on marginal identity, youth development and other social justice issues in the U.S. and abroad. He hosted Mic’s digital series, The Movement, which was nominated for a Breakthrough Series: Short Form Award at the 2016 IFP Gotham Awards. He has led and participated in several critical dialogues including the 58th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women; the 50th Anniver-sary of the March on Washington National Panel on Race, Discrimination and Poverty, the 2012 Seminar on Debates on Religion and Sexuality at Harvard Divinity School, and as a member of the first U.S. delegation of LGBTQ leaders to Palestine in 2012.

A prolific writer, Darnell has been published in various media outlets including MSNBC, The Guardi-an, Huffington Post, EBONY, The Root, The Advocate, OUT Magazine, Gawker, Truth Out, VICE, Guernica, Mondoweiss, Thought Catalog, Good Men Project and others, as well as numerous aca-demic journals including QED: A Journal in GLBTQ World Making, Women Studies Quarterly, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media & Technology, Transforming Anthropology, Black Theology: An International Journal, and Harvard Journal of African American Policy, among others. He also edited the art book Nicolaus Schmidt: Astor Place, Broadway, New York: A Universe of Hairdressers (Kerber Verlag) and has published essays in sev-eral edited books.
Darnell has held positions of Visiting Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Yale Divinity School, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University and the Institute for Research in African American Stud-ies at Columbia University. He is presently Writer-in-Residence at the Center on African American Religion, Sexuality, and Social Justice at Columbia University. He has taught in the Women and Gender’s Studies and Public Administration departments at Rutgers University, Fordham University, City College of New York City and Vassar College. Darnell has also provided keynote addresses at Harvard University, Williams College, Stony Brook University, New Jersey City University, Stanford University, and the New School.

Darnell received the 2012 Humanitarian Award from the American Conference on Diversity for his advocacy in the City of Newark, where he served as Chair of the LGBTQ Concerns Advisory Commission. He is the recip-ient of the 2012 Outstanding Academic Leadership Award from Rutgers University LGBTQ and Diversity Re-source Center for his contributions to developing the Queer Newark Oral History Project. He received the 2013 Angel Award from Gay Men of African Descent and the 2014 Gentleman of the Year Award from the Gentlemen’s Foundation. He was listed as a one of Planned Parenthood’s Top 99 Dream Keepers in 2015, was featured in USA Today’s #InTheirOwnWords multimedia feature on contemporary civil rights activists, was named among EBONY Magazines’s 2015 Power 100, Time Out New York’s Eight LGBT Influencers, Be Modern Man 100, and The Root 100 2016 and 2018.

He assisted in organizing the Black Lives Matters Ride to Ferguson in the wake of Mike Brown’s tragic murder and along with Alicia Garza, Patrisee Cullors, and Opal Tometti (#BlackLivesMatter Co-Founders) developed the infrastructure for the BLM Network.

Workshop: Mistaken Identity: A reflection of the Mixed-Race Experience 

#UnderTheSkin

About the Workshop

Dear followers of the Mestizo Center, we continue with our series of workshops this Fall 2017, exploring the complexities of identity formation. This Thursday, Faith Price, Assistant Director of the WSU’s Native American Programs, will share her experience as a mixed-race human being. In Faith’s words, in this workshop “we will explore the parts that make us whole, and the complexities of phenotype and racial identity”. This will also be a unique opportunity to learn from Faith’s skills to design and we will be co-creating with her a collective art piece. As usual, we will have wonderful food, conversations, and a great time.

Thank you for supporting #UnderTheSkin by spreading the word among your networks. Everybody is welcome. See you on Thursday, 2:00pm Cleveland Hall 121

About Faith Price

Faith Price is the Assistant Director of WSU’s Native American Programs. She is of Wampanoag/African American/European descent. She grew up on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, and graduated from the University of Montana.  She has one daughter who is even more mixed race than she is 🙂 In her free time, Faith loves to sew and has her own fashion line called Powwow Baby.

www.etsy.com/shop/powwowbaby 

2017 (Fall) Suwyn Family Lecture Series in Education


Introducing
Megan Bang

Megan Bang (Ojibwe and Italian descent) is an associate professor of the Learning Sciences and Human Development in Educational Psychology at the University of Washington. She teaches in the Teacher Education Programs and is affiliated faculty in American Indian Studies. She is the former Director of Education at the American Indian Center (AIC), where she served in this role for 12 years. In addition she was the counselor and GED instructor at the Institute for Native American Development at Truman College, a community college. She served on the Title VII parent committee for 6+ years for Chicago Public Schools. She is a former pre-school, middle-school, high-school, and GED teacher, youth worker, and museum educator. She has directed professional development programs with in-service and pre-service teachers, and after school programs in community-based organizations. She is currently the Director of Native Education Certificate Program at the University of Washington to support in-service, pre-service and informal educators working in and with Native communities.

Megan’s research is focused on understanding culture, cognition, and development broadly with a specific focus on the complexities of navigating multiple meaning systems in creating and implementing more effective learning environments with Indigenous students, teachers, and communities both in schools and in community settings.  Her work focuses on decolonizing and indigenizing education broadly with a focus on “STEAM.” More specifically she works to create learning environments that build on Indigenous ways of knowing, attend to issues of self-determination and work towards socially and ecologically just futures.

Megan serves on several editorial boards including: Journal of American Indian education, Curriculum & Instruction, Mind, Culture, and Activity, and Curriculum Inquiry. She serves on the board of Directors for Grassroots Indigenous Multi-media and organization focused on Ojibwe language revitalization and Na’ah Illahee Fund an organization focused on empowering Indigenous women and girls.

Megan is the birth mother of three and has raised many of her nieces and nephews. She is a daughter, niece, sister, and partner as well.

ABOUT THE TALK

From Megan Bang: “This talk will focus on the role of Indigenous science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics education in bringing about just and sustainable futures that ensure the thriving of Indigenous communities. Indigenous peoples ways of knowing are based in relations with our homelandswaters and the relational responsibilities we have. While historically science and science education had been tools of colonialism and empire,  decolonial landwater based education can transform the the pedagogical paradigms we utilize in educational spaces in ways the support thriving and resurgent Indigenous youth. In this talk I will share work in a ISTEAM programs with K-12th grade Indigenous youth that not only ensures they have opportunity to learn and continue Indigenous science – something Indigenous peoples have always done – but also achieve and appropriately utilize western science towards generative ends.”

 

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