Philadelphia’s Second Annual
Education for Liberation Curriculum Fair and Citywide Summit
Toward an Anti-Racist, Pro-Student, Non-Standardized Education
Building OUR Power for School Change in OUR City
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
9:30am – 5:00pm
Location: Folk Arts and Cultural Treasures School
1023 Callowhill Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
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Curriculum Fair
9:30am — Registration Opens. Have a cup of coffee, check out the curriculum tables, sign up for a workshop (workshops are on a first-come-first-serve basis.)
All Day — Curriculum Exhibits and Resource Tables. Connect and exchange with educators and community groups, gather ideas for your practice, and grab some new curriculum. Click here for a list of exhibitors.
10:15am — Opening Ceremony. Come together with hundreds of teachers, students and community members to begin our day.
Hye-Won Gehring and Anissa Weinraub, TAG members
Crystal Pulle, 9th grade poet, Kensington Urban Education HS
Khalif Dobson, PSU alum and CCP student
Multimedia Presentation
10:45 – 11:45am — Workshop Session #1 Click here for the list of workshops
12:00 – 12:45pm — Lunch Free Lunch will be provided!
1:00 – 2:00pm — Workshop Session #2 Click here for the list of workshops
Citywide Summit
2:15pm — Opening Panel — The State of OUR Schools
Speakers will address the on-the-ground realities in Philadelphia schools.
Angela Chan, TAG member and 3rd grade teacher
Parent from West Philadelphia HS SAC
Student from Philadelphia Student Union
Rico Gutstein, Teachers for Social Justice -Chicago
3:00 – 4:30pm — Breakout Sessions
Hear from students, teachers, and parents who are working to address the problems in our schools. Also, each session will include community activists from all over the country who are working for true school reform. Choose from one these three sessions:
Ending the School to Prison Pipeline
Beyond the Standardization of Education
Fighting School Takeover and Privatization
4:40 – 5:00pm — Building OUR Power for School Change in OUR City
End the day with hundreds of educators, students, parents and community members, as we build unity to work for education justice in Philadelphia.
Special Performance by PSU’s Original Soundtrack Team.
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Co-Sponsored by Philadelphia Student Union and ACTION United
