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From: Milton Reynolds [mailto:Milton_Reynolds@facing.org]
Dear All,
On November 14th, Literacy for Environmental Justice will hold its first annual benefit dinner and celebration -- and we're hoping you can join in on the fun!
Among other things we'll be celebrating the recent ground breaking and strides towards completion of the EcoCenter at Heron's Head Park. The EcoCenter will be the only building of its kind in San Francisco and will feature, among other cutting edge technologies, a green living roof as well as the Eco Machine, a UV and green house based water filtration system. The building will be totally off grid and highlight a number of sustainable building practices. Perhaps most importantly, though, it'll house a number of programs we provide for LEJ Youth and the communities we serve: Bayview Hunters Point in particular, but other neighborhoods across the city as well. The building has already drawn attention from across the nation and we'd love to share it with you too.
The event will take place on November 14th at 7:00 p.m. and will be held at Mission Rock Cafe ( 817 Terry Francois Drive, San Francisco). Please contact our Deputy Director, Pamela Calvert, at (415) 282-6840.
A flier is attached; please feel free to share it with someone else you think might be moved by LEJ's work.
Thanks in advance for your support and I look forward to seeing you there!
Take care,
Milton Reynolds
Chair of the Board, LEJ
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) Event - San Francisco
From: Carroll Ferrary [mailto:retap1@stanford.edu]
Join us for our November 1st San Francisco event
La Despedida
70th anniversary celebration commemorating the U.S. volunteers’ departure from Spain.
Seventy years ago the free people of Spain gave their hearts in farewell to the International Brigades—volunteers from many nations who came to defend the Republic. La Despedida or farewell—a spontaneous eruption of love and grief on the streets of Barcelona on October 28, 1938—was the last hope of the Spanish Republic to gain support from the western democracies. Within months the Republic fell to Franco, assisted by Mussolini and Hitler in what is nowwidely seen as the opening salvo of World War II.
This anniversary will be celebrated across Spain as part of a national effort to reassess a long suppressed history.
Our San Francisco event will include:
Newly discovered film footage of this historic event
Dramatic readings of eyewitness accounts by members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Songs and greetings from Spain
Time: 2pm
Location: Delancey Street Screening Room, 600 Embarcadero
Tickets: $25
Online tickets are available: click here.
This event is hosted by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), a non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting public awareness, research, and discussion about the Spanish Civil War and the American volunteers who risked their lives to fight fascism in Spain.
ALBA thanks Casal del Nord de California, a non-profit organization that promotes Catalan culture and maintains links between California and Catalonia, for their support.
Join us for our November 1st San Francisco event
La Despedida
70th anniversary celebration commemorating the U.S. volunteers’ departure from Spain.
Seventy years ago the free people of Spain gave their hearts in farewell to the International Brigades—volunteers from many nations who came to defend the Republic. La Despedida or farewell—a spontaneous eruption of love and grief on the streets of Barcelona on October 28, 1938—was the last hope of the Spanish Republic to gain support from the western democracies. Within months the Republic fell to Franco, assisted by Mussolini and Hitler in what is nowwidely seen as the opening salvo of World War II.
This anniversary will be celebrated across Spain as part of a national effort to reassess a long suppressed history.
Our San Francisco event will include:
Newly discovered film footage of this historic event
Dramatic readings of eyewitness accounts by members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Songs and greetings from Spain
Time: 2pm
Location: Delancey Street Screening Room, 600 Embarcadero
Tickets: $25
Online tickets are available: click here.
This event is hosted by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), a non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting public awareness, research, and discussion about the Spanish Civil War and the American volunteers who risked their lives to fight fascism in Spain.
ALBA thanks Casal del Nord de California, a non-profit organization that promotes Catalan culture and maintains links between California and Catalonia, for their support.
Announcing: 2009 Gilder-Lehrman Summer Seminars
From: Gilder Lehrman Institute [mailto:gli@gilderlehrman.org]
News from the Institute
2009 SUMMER SEMINARS: APPLY NOW
The Institute is pleased to announce the 2009 Summer Seminar schedule. There are forty seminars available this year. For more information and to apply online, click here:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/seminars1.html
2009 CALENDARS AVAILABLE: SPECIAL OFFER
Purchase one of our four new American history calendars before Election Day on November 4th and receive a free paperback edition of Treasures of American History: Documents Presented in Honor of New Citizens of the United States.
Visit the History Shop at:
http://www.gilderlehrmanstore.org
News from the Institute
2009 SUMMER SEMINARS: APPLY NOW
The Institute is pleased to announce the 2009 Summer Seminar schedule. There are forty seminars available this year. For more information and to apply online, click here:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/seminars1.html
- David Armitage, The International Impact of the Declaration of Independence
- Edward L. Ayers, The South in American History
- Anthony Badger, The Civil Rights Movement
- Thomas Bender, The Progressive Era in Global Context
- Carol Berkin and Maureen Festi, From Colonies to Nation: America in the Eighteenth Century
- Carol Berkin and Fritz Fischer, From the Founding of a Nation to the Crisis of the Union
- Ira Berlin, North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective
- David Blight, Slave Narratives
- Gabor Boritt and Matthew Pinsker, Lincoln
- Alan Brinkley and Michael Flamm, Depression and Recovery: The Roosevelt Era
- Christopher L. Brown, Slavery and the Age of Revolutions
- Richard Carwardine, The Age of Lincoln
- Nancy Cott, Twentieth Century Women's Rights Movements
- Andrew Delbanco, America's Moral Crisis: Politics and Culture in the 1850s
- John Demos, Everyday Life in Early America
- Eric Foner, Reconstruction
- Gary Gallagher, The American Civil War: Origins and Consequences, Battlefields and Homefront
- Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln and his World
- Jonathan Holloway, Jim Crow and the Fight for American Citizenship
- James O. Horton and Lois E. Horton, Passages to Freedom: Abolition and the Underground Railroad
- Kenneth Jackson and Karen Markoe, New York in the Gilded Age
- Chen Jian, U.S.- China Relations
- Michael Kazin and Michael Flamm, The Sixties in Historical Perspective
- David Kennedy, The Great Depression and World War II
- Larry Kramer, The Role of the Supreme Court in U.S. History
- Melvyn P. Leffler, The U.S. and the Cold War
- Patricia Limerick, Visions of the American Environment
- Stephanie McCurry, Remaking America: Nation and Citizen in the Civil War Era
- Steven Mintz, Teaching Digital History
- Philip Morgan, Freedom and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800
- Gary Nash, The American Revolution
- Peter Onuf and Frank Cogliano, The Age of Jefferson
- Clement Price, The Urban Experience
- Jack Rakove, Madison and the Constitution
- Andrew Robertson, The American Revolution
- James Walvin and Stephanie Smallwood, The Middle Passage: A Shared History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Elliott West, The Great Plains: America's Crossroads
- Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War
- Gordon Wood, The Era of George Washington
- The Oxford Global Lincoln Conference
2009 CALENDARS AVAILABLE: SPECIAL OFFER
Purchase one of our four new American history calendars before Election Day on November 4th and receive a free paperback edition of Treasures of American History: Documents Presented in Honor of New Citizens of the United States.
Visit the History Shop at:
http://www.gilderlehrmanstore.org
CCSS Award Recognition Program
From: Herczog_Michelle <Herczog_Michelle@lacoe.edu>
The Los Angeles County Office of Education
is proud to announce..
California Council for the Social Studies
2009 Award Recognition Program
Each year the California Council for the Social Studies awards outstanding educators for their contributions to History-Social Science education in California at their Annual Spring Conference. This year's conference is March 6-8, 2009 at the Ontario Convention Center.
Please consider nominating an educator/educational leader in one or more of the categories below:
Taba Award
Diane L. Brooks Award
Ruth Delzell Award for Outstanding Service
Carol Marquis Global Understanding Award
Roy Erickson Civic Education Leadership Award
Elementary Outstanding Teacher Award
Middle School Outstanding Teacher Award
Senior High Outstanding Teacher Award
Student Teacher Excellence Award
Applications and Criteria for each award can be found in the attached file.
DEADLINE: All nominations must be submitted by December 1, 2008
to
CCSS Professional Awards Recognition Program
P.O. Box 9319
Chico, CA 95927-9319
Additional information can be found on the CCSS website at:
www.ccss.org
The Los Angeles County Office of Education
is proud to announce..
California Council for the Social Studies
2009 Award Recognition Program
Each year the California Council for the Social Studies awards outstanding educators for their contributions to History-Social Science education in California at their Annual Spring Conference. This year's conference is March 6-8, 2009 at the Ontario Convention Center.
Please consider nominating an educator/educational leader in one or more of the categories below:
Taba Award
Diane L. Brooks Award
Ruth Delzell Award for Outstanding Service
Carol Marquis Global Understanding Award
Roy Erickson Civic Education Leadership Award
Elementary Outstanding Teacher Award
Middle School Outstanding Teacher Award
Senior High Outstanding Teacher Award
Student Teacher Excellence Award
Applications and Criteria for each award can be found in the attached file.
DEADLINE: All nominations must be submitted by December 1, 2008
to
CCSS Professional Awards Recognition Program
P.O. Box 9319
Chico, CA 95927-9319
Additional information can be found on the CCSS website at:
www.ccss.org
California Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference
From: Herczog_Michelle <Herczog_Michelle@lacoe.edu>
The Los Angeles County Office of Education
is proud to announce..
California Council for the Social Studies
48th Annual Conference
Historical Literacy in a Global Society
March 6 – 8, 2009
Ontario Convention Center
Over 120 sessions and workshops for teacher, exhibitors, scholar series, featured speakers, special Friday night Economic Reception, local historical field trips, social events and more!
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Peter Irons
Author, The Courage of Their Convictions and God on Trial
Dr. Stephen Cunha
Prof. Humboldt State University
Director, California Geographic Alliance
Sam Chaltain
National Director
The Forum for Education and Democracy
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS DECEMBER 1, 2008
REGISTER ONLINE NOW!
More information can be found in the attached file or at
www.ccss.org
The Los Angeles County Office of Education
is proud to announce..
California Council for the Social Studies
48th Annual Conference
Historical Literacy in a Global Society
March 6 – 8, 2009
Ontario Convention Center
Over 120 sessions and workshops for teacher, exhibitors, scholar series, featured speakers, special Friday night Economic Reception, local historical field trips, social events and more!
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Peter Irons
Author, The Courage of Their Convictions and God on Trial
Dr. Stephen Cunha
Prof. Humboldt State University
Director, California Geographic Alliance
Sam Chaltain
National Director
The Forum for Education and Democracy
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS DECEMBER 1, 2008
REGISTER ONLINE NOW!
More information can be found in the attached file or at
www.ccss.org
CCSS Pre-Conference: Closing the Achievement Gap
From: Herczog_Michelle <Herczog_Michelle@lacoe.edu>
The Los Angeles County Office of Education
is proud to announce..
California Council for the Social Studies
Pre-Conference for K-12 History-Social Science Educators
Closing the Achievement Gap:
Content, Culture & Student Achievement
Thursday, March 5, 2009
8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
West End Educational Service Center
8265 Aspen Avenue
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
K-12 educators are invited to attend this CCSS pre-conference event to explore the achievement gap in California schools. Examine research on the nature and extent of the gap, what is at stake, and why it is important for educators to address the issue through a broadly based History-Social Science curriculum. Explore gaps in performance of student groups as a consequence of narrowed curriculum and culturally inappropriate content and instruction. Examine how these disempower students and hamper the development of academic vocabulary and acquisition of content knowledge vital to text comprehension and academic success. Explore proven strategies to address the learning needs of diverse learners beginning in the early grades through high school. Presenters will share work by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. on the relationship between background knowledge and reading comprehension and introduce a Cultural Proficiency Continuum for H-SS to analyze content, instruction, and assessment and to change practices from what may be culturally destructive for some to those that are culturally proficient for all.
Registration Fee: $75 includes training, training materials, continental breakfast, lunch, and a copy of The Knowledge Deficit, Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and Culturally Proficient Inquiry, A Lens for Identifying and Examining Educational Gaps by R. Lindsey, S.M. Graham, R.C. Westphal, Jr., & C.L. Jew.
More information can be found in the attached file:
The Los Angeles County Office of Education
is proud to announce..
California Council for the Social Studies
Pre-Conference for K-12 History-Social Science Educators
Closing the Achievement Gap:
Content, Culture & Student Achievement
Thursday, March 5, 2009
8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
West End Educational Service Center
8265 Aspen Avenue
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
K-12 educators are invited to attend this CCSS pre-conference event to explore the achievement gap in California schools. Examine research on the nature and extent of the gap, what is at stake, and why it is important for educators to address the issue through a broadly based History-Social Science curriculum. Explore gaps in performance of student groups as a consequence of narrowed curriculum and culturally inappropriate content and instruction. Examine how these disempower students and hamper the development of academic vocabulary and acquisition of content knowledge vital to text comprehension and academic success. Explore proven strategies to address the learning needs of diverse learners beginning in the early grades through high school. Presenters will share work by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. on the relationship between background knowledge and reading comprehension and introduce a Cultural Proficiency Continuum for H-SS to analyze content, instruction, and assessment and to change practices from what may be culturally destructive for some to those that are culturally proficient for all.
Registration Fee: $75 includes training, training materials, continental breakfast, lunch, and a copy of The Knowledge Deficit, Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and Culturally Proficient Inquiry, A Lens for Identifying and Examining Educational Gaps by R. Lindsey, S.M. Graham, R.C. Westphal, Jr., & C.L. Jew.
More information can be found in the attached file:
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
American Anthropological Association Conference in SF!
From: Gary Dei Rossi [mailto:gdeirossi@sjcoe.net]
On behalf of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) I write to you with an invitation to our annual meeting this fall. Working through the Anthropology Education Committee (AEC), we have initiated a program to bring educators from the host city school districts to this rich and varied gathering of scholars and students from around the world. In this way and through your attendance at some of the sessions that interest you and related events we wish to bring the wealth of anthropology to young people of local schools. Let me spell out the details, then ask for your reply.
Setting: Hilton San Francisco, 333 O’Farrell at Mason (ZIP 94102), November 19-23, 2008
Cost: Your time, transportation, food. The normally required registration and membership will be waived for the first 20 who reply.
Thanks to an agreement with the National Council for the Social Studies, any NCSS member can always attend any AAA annual meeting at the member rate, no matter what city is hosting. In other words, there is reciprocal membership specifically to encourage attending each other's annual meetings. But in 2008 the first 20 San Francisco Bay Area educators from grades k-12 who reply to this offer will pay no registration fee and no membership fee to attend.
Outcomes:
-- Gather materials from the vast exhibitors' hall (open Thursday, Friday, Saturday)
-- Make personal contacts with experts worldwide of the nations, languages and issues that interest you so that your questions may be answered on site or in the future (for personal growth, or specific classroom uses)
-- Cultivate deeper interest in the perspectives of anthropology, and
-- Start the process of dialogue between local educators and the AAA professional association
Procedure:
1. Indicate your interest in attending all or parts of this meeting by writing to Mr. Guven Witteveen,
the AEC contact for this program. He may be reached by email at anthroview@gmail.com or phone 989-224-2768 (Michigan time zone).
2. Guven sends you selected sessions from the preliminary program (see below) with accompanying advice about those events and sessions that local educators may find of special relevance.
3. By 11/7 please reply with a firm commitment to attend so that a welcome packet and name badge may be prepared for you. Indicate the day and time at which you would first arrive on site so that we may try to arrange to welcome and orient you in order to help you to make the most of your participation.
4. By 11/14 we finalize any arrangements to meet you on site to get you started; we'll send any last minute program changes and suggest specially recommended opportunities that you may not have considered yet.
5. By 11/18 we send a reminder for the upcoming annual meeting!
6. By 12/15 you respond with a listing of sessions and events you attended, as well as observations on this mammoth annual meeting, and reflections on what specific things you may have gained that you plan to share with students, friends or colleagues. Based on this feedback, we will refine this initiative for host-city invitations to local educators next year.
Begin this process now by responding to Guven with your name & email address (list your school district and grade level this fall), a brief description of your prior experience of anthropology, or a list of the kinds of things that you'd like to find out about anthropology.
Guven Witteveen, anthroview@gmail.com
http://anthrolinks.blogspot.com & http://anthroview.googlepages.com/precollege
On behalf of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) I write to you with an invitation to our annual meeting this fall. Working through the Anthropology Education Committee (AEC), we have initiated a program to bring educators from the host city school districts to this rich and varied gathering of scholars and students from around the world. In this way and through your attendance at some of the sessions that interest you and related events we wish to bring the wealth of anthropology to young people of local schools. Let me spell out the details, then ask for your reply.
Setting: Hilton San Francisco, 333 O’Farrell at Mason (ZIP 94102), November 19-23, 2008
Cost: Your time, transportation, food. The normally required registration and membership will be waived for the first 20 who reply.
Thanks to an agreement with the National Council for the Social Studies, any NCSS member can always attend any AAA annual meeting at the member rate, no matter what city is hosting. In other words, there is reciprocal membership specifically to encourage attending each other's annual meetings. But in 2008 the first 20 San Francisco Bay Area educators from grades k-12 who reply to this offer will pay no registration fee and no membership fee to attend.
Outcomes:
-- Gather materials from the vast exhibitors' hall (open Thursday, Friday, Saturday)
-- Make personal contacts with experts worldwide of the nations, languages and issues that interest you so that your questions may be answered on site or in the future (for personal growth, or specific classroom uses)
-- Cultivate deeper interest in the perspectives of anthropology, and
-- Start the process of dialogue between local educators and the AAA professional association
Procedure:
1. Indicate your interest in attending all or parts of this meeting by writing to Mr. Guven Witteveen,
the AEC contact for this program. He may be reached by email at anthroview@gmail.com or phone 989-224-2768 (Michigan time zone).
2. Guven sends you selected sessions from the preliminary program (see below) with accompanying advice about those events and sessions that local educators may find of special relevance.
3. By 11/7 please reply with a firm commitment to attend so that a welcome packet and name badge may be prepared for you. Indicate the day and time at which you would first arrive on site so that we may try to arrange to welcome and orient you in order to help you to make the most of your participation.
4. By 11/14 we finalize any arrangements to meet you on site to get you started; we'll send any last minute program changes and suggest specially recommended opportunities that you may not have considered yet.
5. By 11/18 we send a reminder for the upcoming annual meeting!
6. By 12/15 you respond with a listing of sessions and events you attended, as well as observations on this mammoth annual meeting, and reflections on what specific things you may have gained that you plan to share with students, friends or colleagues. Based on this feedback, we will refine this initiative for host-city invitations to local educators next year.
Begin this process now by responding to Guven with your name & email address (list your school district and grade level this fall), a brief description of your prior experience of anthropology, or a list of the kinds of things that you'd like to find out about anthropology.
Guven Witteveen, anthroview@gmail.com
http://anthrolinks.blogspot.com & http://anthroview.googlepages.com/precollege
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