National Association for Multicultural Education

Provide Input on Early & Middle Childhood Standards

NAME — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:20:57 +0000

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

NAME’s 2010 Conference: Nov. 3-6 REGISTER NOW!

NAME — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:55:32 +0000

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

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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:
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or Call Toll-Free: 800.746.6955 and use the group code SRNAMEO

CALLING Multicultural and Educational
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Keynotes & Intensive PD Opportunities: 2010 Conference

NAME — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:58:10 +0000

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

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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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NAME Assails AZ’s New Education Policy

NAME — Sat, 15 May 2010 18:22:24 +0000

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

Skipping Stones 2010 Children’s Book Awards

NAME — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:38:49 +0000

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

Celebrating the Life & Work of Dorothy Height

NAME — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:16:39 +0000

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.

NAME 2010 Call for Presenters

NAME — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:25:50 +0000

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
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NAME: Where Social Justice for All Means ALL

NAME — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:05:13 +0000

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.

Honoring Howard Zinn’s Life and Work

NAME — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:07:04 +0000

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.

2010 Interfaith Calendar: Religions for Peace

NAME — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:45:38 +0000

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