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NAME’s 20th Anniversary International Conference
Nov. 3-6, 2010
at the Rio Hotel & Conference Center in Las Vegas
Registration is OPEN for the NAME Conference! Join NAME’s community of educators, activists, researchers, scholars, social change agents and students committed to multicultural, equitable education and social justice.
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ON-LINE REGISTRATION is now OPEN!
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Over 200 presentations, keynote speeches, interactive sessions, and special Intensive Institutes offer outstanding professional development opportunities.This NAME conference will focus on complexities and possibilities of culturally responsive praxis and research, and multicultural literacy and citizenship development, at levels P-20. Presentations will address this central issue from a variety of vantage points, including:
- providing examples of compelling new collaborative research and programs that link universities with P-12 teachers
- linking multicultural education with evidence of student learning
- examining education policies through an equity lens
- examining approaches that invigorate student learning and support students in viewing themselves as powerful learners
- recognizing outstanding programs, strategies and resources
- synthesizing, analyzing, and critiquing existing research
- examining the concept of educational leadership for multicultural education
- developing strategies that can open lines of communication and improve school-family relationships
NAME 2010 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION LINK
HOTEL INFO: Reserve your room at NAME’s Conference Hotel–The Rio All-Suites Hotel & Conference Center and receive the discounted room rate by clicking here:
http://www.harrahs.com/CheckGroupAvailability.do?propCode=RLV&groupCode=SRNAMEO
or Call Toll-Free: 800.746.6955 and use the group code SRNAMEO
CALLING Multicultural and Educational
Exhibitors & Vendors!
Reserve your space now at the 2010 NAME International Conference!
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This year’s 20th Anniversary Conference celebrates and continues NAME’s tradition of outstanding keynote speakers, concurrent sessions, Founders’ Roundtables, Visioning Forum, Student Diversity Day, great networking opportunities, unique exhibitors, MCE Film Festival, and other popular components. This year also offers a new structure, based on previous participants’ input. There are rich and varied opportunities for intensive training throughout the conference and the Awards Banquet–with dancing and The Electric Slide–has moved to Friday night for greater access!
Keynote speakers will include:
Arnetha Ball, Standford University; President-Elect, AERA
Augustine Romero, Social Justice Project, Tucson Public School District
Gary Howard, Founding President REACH Center & The New Wilderness Project
Kevin Kumashiro, University of Illinois-Chicago, Center for Anti-Oppressive Education & Asian American Studies Program
Christine Sleeter, NAME President-Elect & Conference Co-Chair
Click to jump to more information on Keynoters & their presentations
Intensive Training Sessions:
Take advantage of the conference structure that will enable more participants to take advantage of new, exciting full- and half-day intensive training opportunities from noted NAME educator/activists, including:
- Bill Howe: Developing a Multicultural Curriculum: Keys to Student Achievement
- Gary Howard: Growing Good White Folks: Essential Work for Closing the Gaps
- Victor Lee Lewis: Healing the Heart of Justice: A New Transformational Model for MCE/SJ
- Kevin Kumashiro: The Five Lenses of Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy
- Christine Clark & Mark Vargas: Religion, Faith, Spirituality, & Secularity in Public Schools
- GLSEN’s Safe School Training: Creating Safe Schools for ALL Students
- Mara Sapon-Shevin: Teaching for Social Justice in Inclusive Elementary Classrooms
- Meeting NCATE Standards for Diversity: Standard Four & Beyond
…. and others just as exciting. Come back to the website for additional details as they develop.
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Help spread the word about NAME’s exciting 20th Annual Conference with your colleagues, students and friends! NAME: The Change you work for in the world!
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 In response to the bill signed by Governor of Arizona on May 11, 2010 banning ethnic studies in the public schools of Arizona, NAME has issued a press release expressing the organization’s outrage that the bill passed. NAME believes the bill flies in the face of research on textbooks and multicultural curricula, research on U.S. history, and the track record of Tucson’s Mexican American/Raza Studies department to successfully educate Mexican American students.
The bill presumes that the standard curriculum is not biased and represents no ethnic point of view. However, those who study race/ethnicity point out that white people are also ethnic, making that presumption incorrect. . . . By attacking the work of the Mexican American/Raza Studies department in Tucson, the bill ignores the fact that its work has been substantially improving the academic achievement and graduation rates of Chicano/a students. . . . For these reasons, we condemn this new law. Further, because of the strong integrity of the work of the Mexican American/Raza Studies department in Tucson, and its proven track record successfully education Chicano/a students, we will be featuring its former director, Dr. Augustine Romero, as a keynote speaker at our Annual Conference, which will be held November 4-6, 2010 in Las Vegas.
Members of NAME and supporters of ethnic studies programs are encouraged to download the complete press release for their continuing advocacy and educational efforts.
Click to download the complete NAME Press release on Arizona’s policy against ethnic studies.
For additional information contact Rose Duhon-Sells: roseduhonsells@suddenlink.net
Phone: 504.286.1760/504.288.3118
For twenty years, the National Association for Multicultural Education has been a productive network and think-tank of leading social justice and multicultural educators from across all levels and categories of education. NAME has served its members by incorporating every aspect of education and all spheres of diversity into its inclusive, activist definition of multicultural education. This expanded forum facilitates our ability to form coalitions, leverage resources and develop our professional capacities to advocate and educate
for excellence and equity for all in our schools and society.
Joining NAME and participating in NAME events provides access to a rich professional network, opportunities to interact with noted scholars and researchers, exposure to cutting-edge work, and the support of the extended NAME collegial family.
Mark your calendars to learn with NAME in your local community:
ANNOUNCING the Call for Presenters––
Missouri NAME’s
3rd Annual Conference
October 9, 2010
Kansas City MO
Theme: Promoting Diversity & Equity Through Inclusive Practices
Keynote Speaker: Etta Hollins
Professor & Endowed Chair for Urban Teacher Education
Click here for the CALL FOR PRESENTERS
Deadline for electronic submissions JUST EXTENDED to July 15, 2010
or Contact Rotha Perkins at perkinsro@umkc.edu
For conference details, contact Omiunota Ukpokodu at
ukpokodun@umkc.edu or phone: 816.235.2469
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MoNAME invites applications for a one-year paid membership available to new members. Contact for details:
JamineAbidogun@MissouriState.edu
Early Notice! Fall NAME Conference Dates
Plan early to be there for
New England’s oldest and largest annual conference on
multicultural education.
The 15th Annual
New England Conference on Multicultural Education (NECME)
Hartford Marriott
Farmington, CT
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Sponsored by CT-NAME & Region One NAME members! For additional information, please contact:
William Howe, email: bill@billhowe.org
Input from NAME members has been requested! The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) announces the public review period for Early Childhood Generalist Standards and Middle Childhood Generalist Standards.
NBPTS Standards reflect the Five Core Propositions that are the foundation of National Board Certification; identify specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes that support accomplished practice, while emphasizing the holistic nature of teaching; illustrate how a teacher’s professional judgment is reflected in action; and describe how the standards come to life in different settings.
The Early Childhood Generalist Standards and the Middle Childhood Generalist Standards will be available for public review August 11?September 1, 2010.
The standards can be accessed at:
Early Childhood: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ecgen
Middle Childhood: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mcgen
Please visit the NBPTS website for information on standards development. For assistance or additional information about the public review process, please contact NBPTS at nominations@nbpts.org
Annually our friends at Skipping Stones recognize outstanding multicultural teaching resources and children’s literature with their Honor Awards. Besides offering great reading adventures, the honored books are exemplary works that promote understanding of cultures, cultivate cooperation, develop appreciation for the Earth’s diversity, ecological richness, respect for multiple viewpoints and close relationships within human societies. The 25 winners are presented in three categories–Nature Books, Multicultural & International Awareness Books and Teaching Resources. NAME congratulates the winners! Click here to download the complete list of Skipping Stones winners. More information about Skipping Stones, the multicultural literary magazine for children and teens is available at http://skippingstones.org
Dr. Dorothy Height, a great leader and architect of the Civil Rights Movement, passed on April 20th at the age of 98. We at NAME owe much to her tireless work for racial and gender equality, for her vision and her indomitable spirit. Called “the Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement” by President Obama, Dr. Height made significant contributions that helped shape the Movement. She was the first modern activist to stress the intersectionality of equality for African Americans with equality for women. She also served as President of the National Council of Negro Woman for 40 years and co-founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus with Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm and others in 1971.
To read more about her life and significant impact on American culture and history, click here for the New York Times obituary.
The Call for Presenters for the 2010 NAME National Conference has now closed.
Thank you! to all who submitted a proposal.
FYI: You may still learn more about the conference by
Click here to download the Call and Rubric.
NAME raises a prayer of thanks to the life and work of
Howard Zinn
Great American Teacher, Author, Playwright, Activist
1922-2010
With sadness, we learned of the passing of Howard Zinn on Wednesday, January 27th. NAME celebrates his life and the vast contributions to Social Justice fields by this outspoken teacher and author. His book, People’s History of the United States, demystified American History and transformed our concept of democracy. NAME is thankful to have his words and work to continue to guide us as we work for the People’s United States. Zinn was 87 and living in Boston at the time of his death. His work continues and his legacy is well served with the extensive resources available on the rich website:
Teaching A People’s History: Zinn Education Project.
Check out this beautiful, informative calendar for 2010 from the good people at Global Women of Faith Network. The Religions for Peace Multifaith Women’s Calendar for 2010 includes basic information and holy days of 10 world spiritual traditions. It can be downloaded at:
http://religionsforpeace.org/file/resources/media/womens-interfaith-calendar.pdf
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