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Session 8: Saturday, February 8, 2003 4:15-5:30 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. A
Roundtable Discussion: What is the First Year of Teaching Really
Like for Elementary and Middle School Teachers
A Roundtable Discussion: What is the First Year of Teaching Really Like for Elementary and Middle School Teachers What's it really like to be hired for your first teaching job and enter your own classroom for the very first time? This group of recent HSU Elementary Education Credential Program graduates will share their insights, emotions, and experiences from their first teaching positions. They'll participate in a fishbowl discussion for about 45 minutes, then we'll open up for questions and discussion from the audience. Ali Lescht is a 3rd-5th grade teacher at Trillium Elementary Charter School in Arcata. Yas-Meen F. Rodriguez is a recent graduate from Humboldt State University. She now teaches seventh grade (self-contained) at Shandin Hills Middle School in San Bernardino CA. Joelle Jordan is currently teaching in Eureka with the Humboldt County Community School program, specifically at the 4th and D site in the Art Magnet program. The program's enrollment hovers around 22 to 30, 7th through 12th graders, many of whom have hopes of returning to regular junior or senior high school. Scott Phelps teaches fourth grade at North Coast Learning Academy. Melissa Mangos teaches kindergarten at Lucerne Elementary School in Lake County. Melanie Burton teaches third grade at Jacoby Creek School in Bayside. Karla Hansen teaches sixth grade science and three lower-level 7th and 8th grade math courses. She is also the ASB advisor as well as teaches Math Learning Lab two days a week after school. She teaches at Buena Vista Middle School and lives on the Monterey Peninsula. Devora Kaufman received her Elementary Multiple Subjects CLAD credential in May 2002 at HSU. Her search for work led her to take a 5/6 combo class in a distant rural county. After a brief stint as a classroom teacher, she has come back to Humboldt and is happily working for a charter school teaching home school and independent studies students, K-adult. Eric Rofes, Program Leader for HSU's Elementary Education Credential Program is this session's organizer and facilitator. Do you feel more like a cop than a teacher? Do the constant put-downs, teasing, and fights make you want to abandon the dreams that brought you to the classroom in the first place? Are you worried that academic skills must be sacrificed when you build community? Then come join us for a workshop on teaching students how to "act for justice." Our classrooms provide opportunities for us to help students become warriors against cynicism and despair by acting for justice. Acting in solidarity with others is a learned habit. In this workshop, teachers will discover some strategies to help students intervene when they confront injustice at the same time they practice literacy skills. They must also learn to live in someone else's skin, understand the parallels of hurt, struggle, and joy across class and culture lines. For that to happen, students need more than an upbeat, supportive teacher; they need a curriculum that encourages them to share their lives. In this workshop, teachers will learn how to use students' lives at the same time they teach them to write narrative work samples. Handouts will include introductions, conclusions, criteria sheets as well as student samples. Linda Christensen, is author of Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching for Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word, and co-editor of Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice. She taught Language Arts for over twenty years at Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon, and currently is Language Arts Coordinator for Portland Public Schools. She is a member of the Rethinking Schools editorial board, director of the Portland Writing Project, and a founding member of the National Coalition of Education Activists. Countering Militarism in the Schools This session will look at ways parents, teachers and administrators can work together to create a learning environment for our kids that provides opportunities for them to critically examine their views about violence and war and equips them to make informed choices about draft registration or military service in the event of a draft by considering the option of conscientious objection. We will look at recent court decisions that guarantee access to the schools by peace recruiters who can counter claims of military recruiters by presenting more complete information about military life (including loss of civil rights, homophobia, sexism and racism), military benefits (including job training, travel and money for college), and the effect that war has on both soldiers and civilians--and how we can work to assure this access. We will present information about how recent legislation (No Child Left Behind) threatens the school's role as unbiased educator unless we develop policies that allow parents to make choices about when or whether military recruiters are free to contact their kids and how to help their kids if they change their minds about early enlistment (DEP). This session will provide information (and lots of resources), but it will focus on activities which will empower participants to begin the important work of countering militarism in our schools. Barbara Goldberg teaches in the English Department at Humboldt State University. Guy Kuttner is a local elementary school teacher. Finding Joy by Watering the Seeds of Mindfulness To help their students most effectively, teachers must be able to find joy in themselves. To help them in this endeavor, this workshop will introduce participants to various mindfulness practices-including mindful breathing, mindful walking, and mindful eating-and then will give participants the chance to try out some of these practices. Before and after we take part in these activities, we will talk about how such practices can help teachers water their own seeds of joy and why finding joy in themselves can help them better meet their students' needs. Towards the end of the workshop, we will discuss some ways in which teachers might incorporate mindfulness practices in their work with students." Richard J. Prystowsky is the author of Careful Reading, Thoughtful Writing (HarperCollins, 1996), a college-level writing text,. He is a former professor of English and humanities at Irvine Valley College and currently is the Dean of Academic and Transfer Programs at College of the Redwoods. He is also the editor of Paths of Learning: Options for Families and Communities, a magazine devoted to exploring ideas and practices from a wide range of educational perspectives, especially those associated with alternative educational approaches to teaching and learning. Getting in Touch with Your Inner Reader: The Power of Metacognition In this session participants will explore the concept of metacognition and its critical role in active reading/learning. Participants will also analyze their own metacognitive approaches and receive information on a Reading Apprenticeship model, which can help transform passive students into active participants. Cathleen D. Rafferty, Professor and Director of the Center for Educational Renewal at Humboldt State University, is a former middle grades teacher who specializes in content reading/literacy and school-university collaboration. Lights, Camera, Community Video The Orton Family Foundation developed the Community Video Program to engage citizens to create, star in and view a "homegrown" documentary production about their community. This session will review the Foundation's experience in working with high school students as the producers of community videos and discuss how you can do the same in your high schools and communities. The manual developed by the Foundation, Lights, Camera, Community Video, will be reviewed, as will a high school curriculum supplement that will be available by the end of the school year. This is a wonderful tool to engage youth in their communities in a meaningful and direct way. It brings them in touch with their community's history and the role that planning plays in determining the shape and quality of a community. In addition, they develop video, facilitation, interviewing, planning and research skills. Paul Sachs, is the Manager of the Orton Family Foundation Community Program in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Shake it! Play it! Sing and dance your way to an understanding of how you can use the K-12 music standards in your classroom. Participants learn the historical background and explore the performance techniques necessary to perform basic, authentic, Samba rhythms, which will culminate in our very own North Coast Education Summit Samba Parade! David Demant is a K-8 music specialist for Eureka City Schools and is a popular performer here on the North Coast. Schoolhouse Odyssey: An Educator & Photographer Explores "Ghost" Schools and Memoirs, 1842-2003 Explore 19th and early 20th century education through photographer Diana Schoenfeld's Ghost Schools and Memoirs project. She began photographing small, isolated rural schools, wondering if one-room frontier schoolhouse experience still existed and how it compared to the past. Before long, she discovered original one-room schoolhouses still standing, but often forgotten. Photographs of these relic "ghost" schools are combined with field notes and audiotapes of real voices remembering regional landscapes with school days as far back as 1916. If possible, Schoolhouse Odyssey, the electronic multimedia program which narrates the story of this project, will be shown. Diana Schoenfeld is active in university teaching and is affiliated with the California Arts Project, creating standards-based visual arts instruction for teachers and students. She is the author/curator of Symbol and Surrogate: The Picture Within. Her exhibition Refuge/Fallen Birds was recently exhibited at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka. Schoolhouse Odyssey was presented at the Society for Photographic Education Western Regional Conference in November 2002.
Success for Students with AD(H)D Laura Rose will help you understand, through presentation of research and examples from her own experience raising a child with ADHD, the specific struggles that children with ADHD face every day. She will help you understand the physiological reasons behind these limitations. But, beyond that, she will give you many specific suggestions that will work to support AD(H)D children to achieve success in school and in life. Laura Rose has taught grades K-8 and, for the last ten years, taught in the credential program at HSU. Her own son, now grown, has AD(H)D and she has worked hard to find what research says and how that translates into effective practice. Laura has made this presentation for many groups, including for special education conferences. The Color of Fear: Your Racism and Its Impact on the Children You Teach Walking Each Other Home, a continuation of The Color of Fear, is a film about the pain and anguish that racism has caused in the lives of eight North American men of Asian, European, Latino and African descent. Out of their confrontations and struggles to understand and trust each other emerges an emotional and insightful portrayal into the type of dialogue most of us fear, but hope will happen sometime in our lifetime. The new sequel explores in greater depth the intimate relationship that the eight men had with each other - how they felt when they were angry, why they were afraid, and what they discovered about themselves and each other. Be prepared to face one of the toughest challenges of your life for this film and the following process will stir your thoughts, raise your emotions, trigger your inner hopes and fears and ultimately put you face to face with your own core feelings on race before it spills over into the lives of the children you teach. Gordon Clay is one of the two white cast members from this historic video project. Gordon began grassroots men's work in 1976 and in 1982 created the National Men's Resource Center, developer of the largest web site in the world on men's issues (menstuff.org). He was on the road full-time for almost five years in the Browsers' Bookmobile loaded with over a thousand books on men's issues traveling over 30,000 miles through 26 states visiting rural communities too small to support their own bookstore or library. He has been a co-chair for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism as well as the male panelist for Harper's Bazaar "GenderSpeak" and a presenter at Chico State University's "Men in the 90's" weeks, at Senator Maddy's annual women's conference, the International Men's Conference, as well as many television and radio appearances including Oprah and Hour Magazine. Transforming Indian Education through a Return to Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Doing Native schools and communities working with the Rural School and Community Trust are involved in a collective effort to transform the education of Indian children through a return to the education approaches utilized effectively by Indian people prior to the introduction of western education. These approaches are place-based, community driven, and culturally embedded, resulting in education that challenges Native youth to perform to high standards while simultaneously strengthening their cultural identify. The workshop will share the ground-breaking work of the Rural Trust Native Sites, and provide participants with opportunities to explore how these approaches might be incorporated within their own schools and communities. Elaine Salinas is an Indian Educator with over 30 years of experience in tribal and public school settings in reservation and urban environments. She is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and received her graduate degree in Education Administration from the University of Minnesota. She has served as the "steward" for the Rural School and Community Trust Native Sites since the organization's inception in 1995. Louise Naranjo is the Director of the Circles of Wisdom Program at Santa Fe Indian School, where she previously worked as a principal and teacher. Louise is Cochiti Pueblo and lives with her family in the Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico. Louise holds a Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, and is currently pursuing her administrative licensure at New Mexico Highlands University. Join the thoughtful and provocative journalist Alexander Cockburn for a conversation about the current state of our democracy, with an emphasis on war, dissenting viewpoints, the current administration in Washington, and the condition of the anti-war movement and the Left. Sure to be a controversial, edifying, and powerful workshop. Radical journalist Alexander Cockburn is a columnist for The Nation and co-edits the newsletter CounterPunch with Ken Silverstein. He is the co-author of the recent book Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press. He is a resident of Humboldt County and was a speaker at our first North Coast Education Summit in 2002. |
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