{"data":{"ID":595,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446434250,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Building Curriculum for Racial Justice","Handle":"building_curriculum_for_racial_justice","ShortDescription":"What's the real \"Ferguson Effect\" on schools? Are we any better at creating learning opportunities for racial justice now than we were before Black Lives Matter? What have we added to the curriculum? Join us to consider how a focus on racial justice is changing what and how we teach.","Description":"Civil Rights leader, Rep. John Lewis inspires our thinking for this conversation.\r\n\r\nIn a Washington Post interview (25 Dec. 2014), he compares the 1965 Selma-Montgomery March with the recent Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter protests: \r\n\r\n\u201cWhat is happening is not like a firecracker where you just come and pop off and make a lot of noise, and you\u2019re gone,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cIt\u2019s more like a pilot light that continues to burn.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn this conversation we will ask: What's the pilot light in our curriculum that helps students to connect around important issues of race and justice in our time? \r\n\r\nAnother way to ask this question: How do we build curriculum, rituals, tools, and skills in modular, open, inspiring ways that will give students the permission to follow their passions, yet also invites them to go deep into important issues as committed and informed citizens?\r\n\r\nWe hope to learn from each others stories of building curriculum for racial justice in our classrooms.","Link":["http:\/\/digitalis.nwp.org\/collection\/ferguson"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will invite open conversation, similar those we have had on Teachers Teaching Teachers in reference to Black Lives Matter: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLY9e9zEmLwtPnN74JE8Z4RH_XtkbO67mG In addition, we will invite participants break out into stations and rotate. These stations will  \r\n-Participants share a word and create a word bank from station to station then share this at the end\r\n-Come back together and share the word bank. Word whip around? Synthesize through a poem.      \r\n-Close with writing, sharing, commitments and sharing tools.","Presenter":["Paul Allison","Christopher Rogers","Sam Reed"],"PresenterAffiliation":["New Directions Secondary School","Bronx (Paul)","Greene Street Friends School","Philadelphia (Chris)","Beeber Middle School","Philadelphia (Sam)"],"PresenterEmail":["allisonpr@gmail.com","christopher.r.rogers@gmail.com","sriii2000@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":71,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5}}