Teacher Action Group

TAG and the Philadelphia Writing Project are excited to announce that we're co-sponsoring an upcoming Inquiry-to-Action Group on Education Reform in Philadelphia. We're hoping to connect various teachers, administrators, students, parents, and community members in order to have an in-depth study of the current trends in local (and national) education reform, how things are evolving in Philadelphia, and the potential consequences on our communities and schools.

We're teaching at a time when classroom lessons are too often reduced to standardized test prep and scripted curriculum at the expense of building classroom community, developing student engagement, and giving students opportunities to relate their education to their actual lived experience. Given the pressures of scripted curriculum (like Corrective Reading/Corrective Math) in our Empowerment Schools and the potential of seeing even more of it in Renaissance Schools/Promise Academies, it is integral for us teachers to raise our concerns in public dialogue.

Monday, May 17th
6:00pm
1910 N. Front St
(Berks Stop on the Market-Frankford El)

(Food served at meeting)

Join other educators from across the city to push forward the movement for education justice in Philadelphia. We will be discussing many of the issues raised at the Education for Liberation Curriculum Fair, and will be continuing to build our collective campaigns. Even if you've never been to a meeting before, you are definitely welcome. Together, we can work toward demanding that education reform benefits students, teachers, schools and communities.

Simply put, Saturday was an incredible day! As one fair-goer commented upon leaving, "This was one of the most inspiring and empowering spaces I've been a part of in a long time."

From the powerful and inspiring words of all of the Keynote Speakers, to the opportunity for networking and exchange between educators, to the variety of useful curriculum that attendees walked away with, we felt that the Curriculum Fair was an exceptionally dynamic and positive space for engagement around our shared values and continued work as justice-seeking educators.