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If you register now you can “add-on”additional options–including Intensive Institutes, School Tours, Special Events and other special NAME Conference programs, when they [...]]]> Advance registration for the 2013 Annual NAME Conference in Oakland CA, November 6 -10 is now open.This option is intended for people who need to register before full registration is posted, July 15th.

If you register now you can “add-on”additional options–including Intensive Institutes, School Tours, Special Events and other special NAME Conference programs, when they are announced in July.

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ANGELA Y. DAVIS

JAMES BANKS

CARL GRANT

Addressing  the  Demographic  Imperative: Recruiting  and  Preparing  Diverse  and   Highly  Effective Teachers & School Leaders

Sponsored  by  the  National  Association  for  Multicultural  Education  (NAME)

Host: Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois

Per participant feedback, the 2013 [...]]]> REGISTER NOW for NAME’s SUMMER INSTITUTE
June 24-26, 2013

Addressing  the  Demographic  Imperative:
Recruiting  and  Preparing  Diverse  and   Highly  Effective Teachers & School Leaders

Sponsored  by  the  National  Association  for  Multicultural  Education  (NAME)

Host: Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois

Per participant feedback, the 2013 Summer Institute will continue the conversation with new and returning topics and presenters. Teacher education programs, teaming with school districts, and community partners, are invited to participate in the NAME Summer Institute. Sessions focusing on the recruitment, preparation, and retention of teachers of color and/or language minorities, will be facilitated by leaders of nationally recognized programs.

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THE DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to MAY 20th, 11:59 pm PST.

Conference Theme: Erasing the Shadows, Embracing the Light: Re/visioning Multicultural Education

In the light – no closets, no basements, no margins, no [...]]]> Announcing NAME’s 23rd Annual International Conference
Nov. 6-10, 2013
Oakland City Center Marriott,
Oakland CA

THE DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to MAY 20th, 11:59 pm PST.

Conference Theme: Erasing the Shadows, Embracing the Light:
Re/visioning Multicultural Education

In the light – no closets, no basements, no margins, no shadows – a vocal and activist-oriented majority, is demanding attention and justice.  Our communities challenge those in power, calling on all to reconsider who belongs, whose voices count, how to engage in teaching and learning, and how to embrace a multicultural democratic society: Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going? What constitutes “the public?”  Today individuals and communities critique those systems of power that dismiss their rights and offer a vision and a powerful hope for the future. A better world, better schools, and better classrooms are possible.

Multicultural social justice-oriented educators and community activists foster diversity in education — incurriculum, pedagogy, assessment, and stewardship of schools and communities. We especially encourage the submission of proposals that explore creative and culturally responsive practices for multicultural education. Teachers and students are reframing the purposes of education to better serve the needs of students, families, caregivers, community activists, and advocates.

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THE DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to MAY 20th, 11:59 pm PST.

We write to express our deepest condolences to the Sandy Hook Elementary School community, and to join the nation in pausing to mourn, to pay respect, and to reflect on what it means to come together as a community to work towards a better tomorrow for [...]]]> Dear NAME Members and Friends: 

We write to express our deepest condolences to the Sandy Hook Elementary School community, and to join the nation in pausing to mourn, to pay respect, and to reflect on what it means to come together as a community to work towards a better tomorrow for all of our nation’s youth.  The image of schools as places that educate, nurture, and embrace can be shattered when violence and trauma strike.  Not all tragedies grab media attention, but throughout the year and across the nation, schools and communities confront tragedies that should call on us, as a nation, to do better for our children, for our underserved communities, and for the educators who work most directly with them.  The courageous acts of the Sandy Hook educators serve as a profoundly visceral reminder that at the heart of what it means to be an educator is the deepest commitment to the well-being of our children.  Throughout the year and in countless ways educators are caring for our children, are devoting their talents and their resources and their lives, often in direct contrast to the rhetoric and the “reforms” that would have us believe that teachers are to blame for all that is wrong in schools and society today.  And perhaps one of the greatest ironies is that these “reforms” are recklessly eliminating the very things that can help to address the underlying problems, because rather than gutting public education, we should be ensuring that every school offers the best education that our nation has to offer, including supports for the social and emotional health and educational success of every child, and respect for every school personnel.  As we mourn the loss of precious lives, our nation must stand up to the rhetoric and the “reforms” that are hurting our children, and insist on a more ethical, more effective, more courageous vision for American education.

Kevin Kumashiro, NAME President

Rick Ayers, NAME Co-President Elect

Francisco Rios, NAME Co-President Elect

Christine Sleeter, NAME Immediate Past President

Bette Tate-Beaver, NAME Executive Director

Rose Duhon-Sells, NAME Founder/Founding Director

Resources for educators are available online at the websites of organizations that share NAME’s vision of equity and justice for all of our nation’s youth,

including the New York Collective of Radical Educators (www.nycore.org) and Teaching Tolerance(www.tolerance.org). 

Many of the presenters have made their note and presentations available. Jump to RESOURCES to find these.

The program and related discussion will  continued at the 2012 Annual NAME Conference in November.

Free Download—NAME Toolkit!!

CLICK to download  NAME Media Toolkit on Evaluating Teachers 

NAME developed and offers this toolkit to assist NAME chapters, members, and other advocates of equity and social justice in education to collectivize and speak out through the media.

This toolkit includes: • Tips for collectivizing and [...]]]>  

Free Download—NAME Toolkit!!

CLICK to download  NAME Media Toolkit on Evaluating Teachers 

NAME developed and offers this toolkit to assist NAME chapters, members, and other advocates of equity and social justice in education to collectivize and speak out through the media.

This toolkit includes:
• Tips for collectivizing and for speaking through the media, including links to many other resources
• A research brief with background information on this legislative trend, and where you can learn more

This toolkit was produced by the NAME Political Action Committee, the NAME Public Consciousness-Raising Committee, and in particular, research assistant Michael Barnes. We hope that, together, we can use this toolkit to speak collectively on the real dangers that rushed teacher-evaluation reforms can have on our schools and our children.

Great news and activities from chapters across the country. CLICK to DOWNLOAD NAME Summer 2012 NEWSLETTER 

The National Association for Multicultural Education expresses its deep opposition to recently passed state laws designed to drive out undocumented immigrants. We call for repeal of laws that punish immigrant children and their families, and for a campaign to [...]]]> NAME has just issued the following Position Paper on the recent anti-immigration policies and laws…

The National Association for Multicultural Education expresses its deep opposition to recently passed state laws designed to drive out undocumented immigrants. We call for repeal of laws that punish immigrant children and their families, and for a campaign to educate U.S. citizens about the rights and contributions of immigrants, and about U.S. policies that have prompted people to come to the U.S. seeking work.

Georgia’s HB87, enacted in April 2011, requires private employers to verify the immigration status of employees, and to hire only documented residents. Alabama’s HB56, enacted in June 2011, took Georgia’s law several steps further. It prohibits undocumented immigrants from receiving any public benefits at either the state or local level. It requires every P-12 public school to report the immigration status of every student and every student’s parents, although it does not prohibit school attendance of undocumented students. Further, HB56 bars undocumented immigrants from attending public colleges or universities. Additional requirements are designed to discourage undocumented immigrants from being in Alabama. Among other things, in addition to prohibiting hiring undocumented immigrants, the law requires police to attempt to determine the immigration status of anyone they stop, and it prohibits landlords from renting to undocumented immigrants.

The Alabama law has created a hostile climate for Latino students, whether documented or not. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which implemented a hotline for people concerned about the law, reports between September and mid-November, receiving nearly 4,000 calls from terrified Latino immigrants – undocumented and documented alike. Children who are citizens are afraid to go to school, fearing their parents will be deported. Latino students (documented or not) are being bullied by classmates, and harassed by teachers who question their immigration status. Undocumented older students who came to the U.S. as very young children worry that they will not be able to continue their education regardless of the merits of their academic record. No one should have to fear going to school on the basis of identity, but this law is creating such fear.

We are also concerned that the laws in both states rest on inaccurate but largely uncorrected assumptions: 1) that undocumented immigrants do not pay taxes (at the very least, all immigrants pay sales tax on purchases in the U.S.); 2) that they contribute nothing (an assumption that ignores immigrant labor for very low wages); and 3) that the U.S. bears no complicity in the reasons why people are undergo major hardship to find work in the U.S. What most U.S. citizens do not realize is that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has enabled the U.S. to flood Mexico with cheap, subsidized produce that has shut down many Mexican farms and displaced millions of rural Mexican farmers, while turning profits for large agricultural corporations.

Because of the hostile education climate these laws create, and the inaccurate assumptions on which many people support them, we call for their repeal, and for an education campaign about the roots of immigration.

Click here to download NAME’s Position Paper on Anti-Immigration Policies