NAME 2011Internat’l Chicago Conference

Thanks to EVERYONE who contributed to the Success of 

NAME’S 21st Annual International Conference
November 2-5, 2011 in
Chicago, Illinois.

HERE are the details from the 2011 NAME Chicago Conference:

Theme:
Reworking Intersections
                       Reframing Debates
Restoring Hope

Across the United States and around the world, we can hear public debates that narrowly frame the problems and possibilities of education.  We are asking only certain questions about the goals of schooling, or debating only certain answers about what and how to teach, or how and why to improve the learning and the healthy development of our next generation.  The recent U.S. media blitz about public schooling is but one indication that we need to broaden our perspectives … and that multicultural education can help.  But even those of us who are working to improve education can find ourselves stuck in narrow frames.  In other words, even for practitioners, researchers, and advocates of multicultural education, a central challenge is to see more complexity and contradiction, to see the bigger picture.

Advancing equity and social justice requires that we address multiple dimensions of diversity that correspond with varying forms of bias and injustice, and none of these exist in isolation.  Our identities and oppressions overlap and intersect in such a way that challenging one form of injustice often results in indirectly contributing to other forms of injustice.  This happens not only at the micro-level of teaching and counseling, but also at the macro-level of leadership and policy.  Education reform will continue to be contradictory and impoverished if it does not connect with the bigger picture historically, globally, and politically, which cannot be done without reworking intersections and reframing debates.

The 21^st Annual International NAME Conference will enrich multicultural education research and practice by grounding our work in new perspectives of this bigger picture. Together, teachers from preschool through university, education leaders and counselors, and community activists will examine constructive ways of grappling with intersecting identities and oppressions. We will explore the paradoxes and promises of examining the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, language, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, immigration status, and other dimensions of diversity. Our work will contextualize the current attack on multicultural education within broader movements, institutions, and discourses, and that help us develop concrete strategies and resources for improving our practices, programs, and policies. Expanding on over four decades of research, P-12 educators, as well as higher educators and other activists, will highlight successes with multicultural teaching and learning, and will share cutting-edge theory and research on how to prepare teachers for multicultural education.

As we imagine viable alternatives with creativity and courage, we will continue to remake education into the site and the source of hope for our next generation.

NAME 2011 Conference KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

The 2011 International NAME Conference–November 2-6, 2011–  featured several plenary sessions that challenged and inspired multicultural educators to address the conference themes. The following speakers presented at NAME’s 2011 Conference in Chicago:

-Plenary Session Frame :
Questioning Common Sense about Multiculturalism & Reframing the Debate:

Bill Ayers

Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar (retired), University of Illinois–Chicago
Editor of Handbook of Social Justice in Education
http://billayers.org

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Plenary Session Frame:
Intersectionality and Multicultural Education
Patricia J. Williams
James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia University
Author of Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race
http://madlawprofessor.wordpress.com/

-Plenary Session Frame:  Seeing the Bigger Picture of Multicultural and Global Contexts

Vijay Prashad
George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and
Professor of International Studies, Trinity College
Author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World
http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1000767

-Plenary Session Frame:  Intersections of Disability, Race, Gender,
Language, and Discipline
Speaker Alfredo Artiles

Professor of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
Editor of English Language Learners with Special Needs:
Identification, Placement, and Instruction
https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/741711
and
Erica Meiners

Professor of Education and Women’s Studies, Northeastern Illinois University
Author of Right to be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies
http://www.neiu.edu/~edfn/faculty_meiners.htm

-Plenary Session Frame:  Educators Organizing for Social Justice
Speaker:
Karen Lewis, President, Chicago Teachers Union

 
and
Edwin Mayorga

NYCoRE, New York Collective of Radical Educators

A wide selection of
INTENSIVE INSTITUTES
was offered during this year at the 2011 Chicago NAME Conference.

Leading NAME scholars, activists and educators will be providing in-depth training
on focused topics related to equity and social justice in education, before and during the NAME Conference. Half-and full-day options are available and are designed to provide participants with opportunities for hands-on exploration into current issues impacting the field of multicultural education.

Click here to jump to details of NAME’s Intensive Institutes.

FULL DAY Institutes:

• Developing a Multicultural Curriculum: Keys to Student Achievement. Presenter: Bill Howe, CT Department of Education, NAME Past President

• Meeting the NCATE Standards for Diversity: Standard Four and Beyond. Presenters: Maureen Gillette, Northeastern Illinois University;  and  Donna Gollnick, NCATE, NAME Past President

•Promoting Culturally & Linguistically Responsive Education for English Language Learners Through Language Standards. Presenters: Tim Boals,  Mariana Castro, & Lorena Mancilla, WIDA Consortium, U-WI

• From Diversity to Systems Change: Part 1-Preparing Effective Teachers for All Students; Part 2-Teachers of Color: Recruiting & Retention. (Run as 2 half-days, Fri. am and Sat. am). Presenters: Rachelle Rogers-Ard, Teach Tomorrow Oakland CA, & Anne Hallet, Grow Your Own Chicago

SPECIAL TRAINING OPPORTUNITY: Saturday, FULL DAY

• PeaceJam Ambassadors Certification Training: Connecting Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and Youth to Change the World. Presenter: Kate Cumbo, Director, PeaceJam Foundation.

HALF-Day Institutes:

• Diving Into the Wreckage: Quality Education for All. Presenter: Bill Ayers, U of IL-Chicago

• Moving Beyond Differences: Religion & Diversity Education. Presenter: Mark Fowler & Anshu Wahi, Tanenbaum Center

• Women: Reworking, Reframing, Restoring Sisterhood. Presenters: DaVerne Bell, Pathways to Excellence & Leilani Russell, PeaceJam NW

• Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline. Presenters: Erica Meiners, U-IL-Chicago and Crystal Laura,

• Teaching for Social Justice in Inclusive Elementary Classrooms. Presenter: Mara Sapon-Shevin, Syracuse University

• Gaining Media Access for Multicultural Education. Presenter: Lewis Diuguid, KC Star

• Writing for Publication: Having Your Work Published. Presenters: Multicultural Perspectives Editors, Penelope L. Lisi,Central CT State Univ. ;Richard Milner, Vanderbilt University and incoming senior editor, Urban Education, and Carl Grant, U-WI , NAME Past President

• Teaching From an Indigenous Perspective. Presenters: Cornel Pewewardy, Portland State U., & Jolene Aleck, Chicago PS Indian Education Programs

• Supporting LGBT Students of Color in Schools. Presenters: Jenny Beta and Justin Anton Rosado, GLSEN

• Frames & Pedagogies for Sharpening the Struggle Against Intersectional Oppression & Privilege. Presenter: Carl Grant, U WI

• Navigating Academia for Multicultural Educators. Presenter: Sonia Nieto, UMass, Amherst

• Addressing Equity Issues in School Discipline. Presenters: Marta Larson, U-MI, &  Shana Ritter, IN-U

• Multicultural Literature Across the Curriculum. Presenter: Deborah Setliff, Tennessee Tech U.

• Let’s Get Real about Racism. Presenter:: Lee Mun Wah, Stirfry Seminars

• Breaking through Student Resistance in MCE Courses. Presenter: Omiunota Nelly Ukpokodu, Univ of MO-KC

• Not Waiting for Superman: How to Design Culturally Responsive Lessons to Spark the Genius of All Students. Presenters: Geneva Gay, U of WA,  Lavonne Neal, NIU & Regina Lewis, Pikes Peak Community College.

• Learning in Multicultural Math Classrooms: Building on Students’ Identity & Classroom Community. Presenter: Bernd Ferner, Portland State U.

NAME Chicago School & Community Tours:

NAME’s School & Community tours are designed to emphasize the relationship between local schools and the communities they serve and strengthen.  Each of the tours will included visits to at least one school and at least one community agency that works in partnership with the school to improve not only the lives of students, but life in the community.

Bette Tate Beaver, National Director, NAME
Donna Gollnick, NCATE
Tasha Lebow, U of MI
Lisa Zagumny, Tennessee Tech University
Gina Wells, Capella UniversityChloe Hughes, Western Oregon University
Mitchele Tate Beaver, Student
DaVerne Bell, Pathways to Excellence
Leilani Russell, Peace Jam NW
Lewis Diuguid, KC Star