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Session 11: Sunday, February 9, 2003 from 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.Please note: This is a draft schedule as of January 5, 2003 and is subject to change before the event is held. We post this to give you a good idea what workshops will be at the event. Please consult the final schedule once you receive your program book at the summit itself. Most rooms will not be announced until summit participants receive their program book at the summit itself. Allied
Voices for Conservation: Bringing Faith-Based and Scientific Messages
to Policy Makers
Allied Voices for Conservation: Bringing Faith-Based and Scientific Messages to Policy Makers Many faith-based groups have strong traditions that support conservation. In addition, the scientific community has a great deal of expertise to inform environmental decision-making. When these faith community and scientific voices join together to advocate for strong environmental policies, they can have significant impact. Through this workshop, participants will learn about (1) many, varied faith-based groups that support environmental protections, especially those in the Protestant, Catholic, Evangelical, and Jewish worlds; (2) scientific society efforts for conservation; and (3) models for finding and working with individuals from faith and scientific communities. We also will discuss the most effective ways for individuals from faith, scientific, and environmental groups to join together and communicate with policy makers. Suellen Lowry, JD works with the National Religious partnership for the Environment and is Director of the California Interfaith Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment. She has worked as a legislative assistant for a member of Congress, lobbyist and PAC director for women's and environmental public interest groups, private attorney, and teacher in both K-12 and college settings. For the last decade, Ms. Lowry has focused on facilitating communications between policy makers and members of faith-based and scientific groups. Her publications include, Building Partnerships with the Faith Community: A Resource Guide for Environmental Groups. Ms. Lowry received her BA from Washington State University, a JD from Stanford Law School, and a special education credential from HSU. Burning Man: Youth, Meaning, Culture, Identity The Burning Man Arts Festival is held each year on a prehistoric lake bed in northern Nevada. It attracts a wide variety of subcultures from across the US and the world. This workshop explores the meaning of Burning Man for its participants and uses the unusual nature of the event as a springboard for discussion about the relations between youth, meaning, culture, and identity in a multicultural world. Workshop leader Matt Wray has published and lectured widely about Burning Man, based on ten years of active participation in the event. There will be a short multimedia presentation. Matt Wray has been described as "author, scholar, teacher, activist, consummate belcher, madman. Wray is many things to many people." Wray holds an M.A. in Social and Cultural Studies in Education and a Ph. D. in Ethnic Studies, both from UC Berkeley. In 2000-2001, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Museum of American History, where he conducted research for his forthcoming book, Inventing White Trash. He is co-editor of three anthologies: White Trash: Race and Class in America; Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life; and The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness. He is currently an assistant professor of sociology at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and has taught in education and ethnic studies at Berkeley and Humboldt State University. Education and Empathy: I Know Just How You Feel This session is based on the premise that the best educators are empathetic. Our venture into "empathy training" can be adapted for a broad audience: those who train teachers, K-12 teachers, and parents. After a brief whole-group warm-up, called Reading is Fun!, attendees will participate in three small- and large-group activities, entitled: 1) Follow Directions! 2) Agree to Disagree 3) Jigsaw Mystery. Our goal is to gain insight into the affective domain-how students feel as they struggle to understand us, learn, communicate, and think for themselves. In each segment, together we explore ways we might use these insights to better serve our students. Diana Ashley, Ph.D. is a former elementary school teacher for twelve years, a K-6; instructor and student-teaching supervisor in Elementary Education at CSU Northridge and Channel Islands; an educational technologist who has designed multimedia labs in Brazil and a mobile marine science exhibit for Los Angeles Museum of Natural History. Evolving Beyond Democracy: Working with Consensus The ways in which democracy and voting are conceptualized today, up to 49% of the people lose every time. Consensus is a way of discussing issues and arriving at decisions where every voice is heard and every concern is taken into account. Come and learn the basics of consensus, why it may ultimately be more efficient than voting and why consensus may just be the next evolutionary leap beyond democracy. Fhyre Phoenix is a long-time community activist and proponent of consensus. He was trained by Caroline Estes, a life-long Quaker and consensus facilitator for groups as large as 500. Fhyre has taught consensus to individuals, activist affinity groups, and the boards of directors of non-profit organizations. Incorporating Environmental Education into the Classroom This session will introduce teachers to the concepts, values, and issues surrounding appropriate technology, renewable energy, and ecological sustainability. We will explore practical means of incorporating environmental education for sustainability into the classroom. Teachers will take part in a hands-on activity and will be provided with resources for further exploration of these topics. Nadia Raza is a graduate student in sociology at Humboldt State University and employee of CCAT, the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology. Morgan King is a graduate student in the Environment and Community Program at Humboldt State University and a CCAT employee . Planning and Facilitating Purposeful Meetings Whether one is a community organizer, schoolteacher, businessperson, or professor working in higher education, almost all of us attend countless meetings on a regular basis. Why do so many of these meetings leave us feeling frustrated and drained? What can we do-as meeting leaders and participants-to create meetings that feel purposeful, energizing, and humane? This workshop will provide helpful information to participants about ways to organize effective meetings and will leave plenty of time for questions and ideas from participants. Eric Rofes is a long-time community organizer, founding member of the North Coast Community Organizing Center, and an Assistant Professor of Education at Humboldt State University. He is eager to participate in purposeful meetings that are run effectively and more-than-eager to avoid all the others. River School Parents and Students: What They Have Learned and Experienced at the River School Peter Senge said that schools should be learning communities where everyone learns-staff, parents, and students. The River School takes this position that teachers and parents modeling what we want our students to learn is the most powerful way to teach lifelong learning about knowledge of the world and knowledge about the self. Parents are a critical part of the teaching team because their attitudes and beliefs impact their child's worldview and self-view considerably. River School parents and students will share their experiences of learning and growing at the River School. Melva Wright and her daughter, Tessa Jarschke will be a part of this panel. Melva is the recording secretary for the Charter Council with another daughter in the sixth grade. Tessa is now a sophomore in high school and attended the River School. Alan Little and his daughter, DiYette will also participate in this session. Alan is a lead teacher at the River School, coordinating and teaching math and technology. His daughter DiYette is an eighth grader. Just what does it take to succeed in service? This workshop will provide answers and useful discussion to help participants get creative and encourage productive juices to flow. The workshop will focus on recognizing key traits of leaders, decision-makers, and people who can better the world. It will also focus on ways to apply those important skills to service learning and create fun, helpful, and successful projects! Shanti Sattler is a senior at Eureka High School and the service-learning ambassador for the school. She is also one of the 25 nationwide members of the National Youth Advisory Council of Service Learning, representing Youth Service America. Shanti has taken leadership roles in many service projects that have focused on many different issues such as violence prevention, park restoration, diversity and racial discrimination, cancer funding, international poverty, and more. Teaching to Revive democracy & Resist Corporate Rule In an era when corporations act as governing bodies, more powerfully than even governments, how can we teach to resist corporate rule and create authentic democracy? The global justice movement has captured the attention of a new generation of active young people in the US and people's struggles worldwide. But this workshop is definitely not a typical presentation about "anti-globalization!" We will begin by uncovering the history of the modern corporation and its rise to power as the dominant institution of the US and the world. Recently there has been an effort to uncover misrepresented and underrepresented histories (those of people of color, women, working people) through education. The struggle against corporate power and for democracy also tells a rich and revealing story of U.S. history that is little known but has equally enormous ramifications for democratic struggle today. Emphasis will be on preparing participants to teach this history and we will offer access to tools and materials that can be used in your classroom. Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap is Co-Director of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County and a member of the National Leadership Team for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's Campaign to Challenge Corporate Power and Assert the People's Rights. She studied education and community at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts from '98-'01 and is currently a student at the New College of California where she is pursuing a degree in the democratic arts. Ryan Emenaker is Co-Chair of the City of Arcata Committee on Democracy and Corporations. He is a graduate student in the Environment and Community Program at Humboldt State University. His thesis is a corporate history of Humboldt County. Toward More Life-Like Learning Tired of the didactic, decontextualized, knowledge-transmission model of instruction? No matter your subject area or grade level, consider this workshop. You bring the tired content, yearning to breathe free. The facilitator will help you resuscitate it. You may emerge with your own life-like learning plan ready to use. Mark Keegan has been a medical researcher, disease-control fieldworker, high school teacher (for 15 years), book author, filmmaker, and instructor at Columbia University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Education at California State University, Chico. Vamos a Nicaragua: A Journey into Cross-Cultural Service Learning This interactive session will present cross-cultural service learning experiences in Arcata's Sister City, Camoapa Nicaragua. Participants will engage in a cross-cultural communication activity, view slides from the July 2002 trip, and hear students reflect on their learning. Nora Wynne is a local high school Spanish teacher who loves to travel, is determined to take students out of the classroom, and never tire of queso fresco? Lara Weiss participates a great deal in cross-cultural education. Coming to Humboldt from the Peace Corps in Guatemala. She now volunteers for Arcata's Sister City Project and works in HIV prevention education for Humboldt County Public Health. Working with Children and Youth from Poor White Families: A think Tank on Successful Strategies New workshop. See program book at registration. Write to Read in K-1: A Systematic, Balanced, Developmentally Appropriate Way to "Correct" Writing from the Start We don't have to give up creativity, joy, or developmental appropriateness in K-1 to teach all of our young learners to learn to read joyfully. Children learn to use systematic phonics, correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and clear and legible printing right from their first efforts. Because the learning is differentiated through six stages of writing, children of all levels of "readiness" and all kinds of language backgrounds love it. Students write their own 10-page books, which they add to their home libraries, so their writing experiences help them learn to read as well. Laura Rose taught 25 years in K-8, three years as a teacher-trainer at Humboldt County Office of Education, and ten years teaching student teachers at HSU. She has published seven teaching manuals in the language arts and presented at many state conferences. |
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