The Rouge Forum is a group of educators, students, and parents seeking a democratic society. We are concerned about questions like these: How can we teach against racism, national chauvinism and sexism in an increasingly authoritarian and undemocratic society? How can we gain enough real power to keep our ideals and still teach--or learn? Whose interests shall school serve in a society that is ever more unequal? We are both research and action oriented. We want to learn about equality, democracy and social justice as we simultaneously struggle to bring into practice our present understanding of what that is. We seek to build a caring inclusive community which understands that an injury to one is an injury to all. At the same time, our caring community is going to need to deal decisively with an opposition that is sometimes ruthless. We hope to demonstrate that the power necessary to win greater democracy will likely rise out of an organization that unites people in new ways--across union boundaries, across community lines, across the fences of race and sex/gender. We believe that good humor and friendships are a vital part of building this kind of organization, as important as theoretical clarity. Friendships allow us to understand that action always reveals errors--the key way we learn. We had modest success in defeating the standardized test, the MEAP, in Michigan. We work in faculty organizations and unions to deal with the racism and sexism in academia. We try to press forward questions of class size, curricular freedom, anti-racist pedagogy, real inclusion, and a just tax system. As part of the Whole Schooling Consortium, we have sponsored forums in the U.S., uniting hundreds of people for democracy and equality.
FRIDAY 6.6
8:00-8:30am Outside West Classroom (WC) 164 Registration/Coffee 8:30-9:00am WC 155 Opening Session Chair: C. Gregg Jorgensen (Western Illinois University) 9:00-10:00am WC 155 Plenary Session Chair: E. Wayne Ross (University of British Columbia) Hacking Away at Pearson and the EducationFoundation-Industrial Complex Featured Speaker: Alan J. Singer (Hofstra University) 10:00 – 10:15am WC 164 Coffee & Tea Break
All sessions at MSUD, Auraria Campus, Downtown Denver, West Classroom Building.
FRIDAY 6.6
10:15 – 11:30am Breakout Sessions 1 Breakout 1A - Children and the Social Justice Conversation WC 259 Presenters: Secret City Secret Scourge Nancye McCrary (St. Catherine College) Breakout 1B – Panel: Engaging Foucault: Rethinking Our Questions WC 261 Panelists: David Gabbard, Angela Crawford, Marilena "Lenny" Martello, Kelli Kinkela, Sarah Ritter, Mike Boyer, Jennie Moyett, Gregory Martinez, YuWen Chen (Boise State University) Breakout 1C - Panel: Mapping Knowledge Wealth and Resources in Diverse School Communities WC 257 Panelists: Kelli Woodrow, Todd Bell, Melanie Bruce, Cathi Brents, Shana Mondaragon (Regis University) 11:30am-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00 – 2:15 pm Plenary Session WC 155 Chair: Doug Morris (Eastern New Mexico University) Keynote / Adam Renner Memorial Lecture Saving The Future David Barsamian (Alternative Radio) 2:15 – 3:00pm Coffee & Tea Break Room: WC 164
FRIDAY 6.6
3:00 – 4:15pm Breakout Session 2 Breakout 2A – Creating Counter-narratives to Mainstream WC 259 Presenters: The Neoliberal Agenda for Public Education: An Obituary John Elmore (West Chester University) Push It Real Good: Challenging Dominant Discourses on Race in Teacher Education Madhavi Tandon & Kara M. Viesca (University of Colorado, Denver) Breakout 2B - Dialogue Session WC 261 Presenters: Changing minds: Teachers' Perspectives Towards Issues of Diversity and Power Kelli Woodrow (Regis University) & Victoria Caruana (Regis University) Breakout 2C - Panel: Angels for AP Excellence: Increasing Students of Color Enrollment and Success in AP Classes WC 257 Panelists: Kate Greeley, Amanda West, Nathan Merenstein, Niesha Smith, Joey Halik, Ray Pryor, Janae Brown, Rheadawn Chiles, Christine Miller (Denver Public Schools) 4:15 – 4:30pm Coffee & Tea Break WC 164 4:30 – 5:45pm Plenary Session: Performance & Discussion WC155 Celebrating Pete Seeger Doug Morris (Eastern New Mexico University)
SATURDAY 6.7
8:00-8:30am Outside WC 164 Registration/Coffee 8:30-10:00am Openning Plenary Session WC 155 Chair: Greg Queen (Detroit, MI) Featured Speaker: Why it is Possible and Imperative to Teach Revolution—and How! Rich Gibson (San Diego State University) 10:00 – 10:15am Coffee & Tea Break WC 164
10:15 – 11:30am Breakout Session 3 Breakout 3A - Models of Resistance and Activism WC 164 Presenters: Art, Alienation, and Resistance in the Classroom Chris Steele (Regis University) Faculty Unites with Student Activists to Redesign Education Policy C. Gregg Jorgensen (Western Illinois University) Breakout 3B - Responding to Educational Exclusion WC 259 Presenters: Praxis: The Exclusion of Native American Teachers Richard M. Jones & Terry Albers (Oglala Lakota College) Increasing Options for the Equality of Returning Veterans in the Classroom Ashley O’Connor (University of Denver)
SATURDAY 6.7
Breakout 3C - Virtual and For-Profit Higher Education: Implications of Critical Education WC 257 Presenters: Destabilizing Post-secondary Education for Profit Yvette Powe, California Institute of Integral Studies Keeping the Techne in the Classroom: What Marcuse Can Tell Us About MOOCs and the Status of Higher Education Tyler Suggs (University of Vermont) Breakout 3D - Voices (Panel) WC 143 Chair: Lauren Johnston (St. Catharine College) Panelists: Nancye McCrary, Casey Baryla, Rebecca Just, Rebekah Sams, Amanda Conrad (St. Catharine College) 11:30am-1:00pm LUNCH
1:00 – 2:15 pm Breakout Session 4 Breakout 4A - Critical and Revolutionary Pedagogy WC 259 Presenters: Coming to Critical Pedagogy: A Marxist Autobiography in the History of Higher Education Curry Stephenson Malott (West Chester University) What Then Must We Do? Doug Morris (Eastern New Mexico University) Breakout 4B Counter-narratives and Critical Consciousness WC 261 Presenters: Teaching Counter-Narratives: Indigenous Peoples, History, & Critical Consciousness Glenabah Martinez (University of New Mexico)
SATURDAY 6.7
Breakout 4C Transformative Social Studies Teaching and Learning WC 257 Chair: E. Wayne Ross Panelists: Abraham DeLeon (University of Texas, San Antonio), Four Arrows (Fielding Graduate University), C. Gregg Jorgensen (Western Illinois University), Curry Stephenson Malott (West Chester University), Greg Queen (Teacher, Detroit, MI), E. Wayne Ross (University of British Columbia), Doug Selwyn (SUNY Plattsburgh) 2:15 – 3:00pm Coffee/tea Break WC 164
3:00 – 4:15pm Breakout Session 5 Breakout 5A - Planning Lessons to Combat Capitalism WC 259 Presenters: Class as the Organizing Principle of History Education Greg Queen (Teacher, Detroit, MI) What Does Lesson Planning Have to do with Capitalism? Kathryn Young (Metropolitan State University of Denver) Breakout 5B Social Justice vs. The Psychosis of Success WC 261 Presenters: The Psychosis of Success Mike Sliwa Narrow Focus Classroom Affection, Heightened Social Injustice, Perception of Nigerian Educators Aladegbola Adebusayo
Breakout 5C Public Memory and Revolutionary Pedagogy WC 257 Presenters: Revealing Social Justice Issues Through Music of the Civil Rights Era C. Gregg Jorgensen (Western Illinois University) Distance Makes the Heart Grow Stronger: The Legacy of 9/11 Martin Haber 4:15 – 4:30pm Coffee/tea Break WC 164 4:30 – 5:45pm Plenary Session: Performance & Discussion WC 155 Chair: Gina Stiens Sex, Death and Other Deviations from the Common Core William R. Boyer
Sunday JUNE 8 9:30am – 11:30am WC 155 Conference Debriefing & Reflections [Anyone interested in participating in the RF Steering Committee is invited to attend this meeting] Steering Committee brunch (The Corner Office, 1401 Curtis Street)
“We can dance if we want to we can leave your friends behind, cause if friends don't dance and if they don't dance well they're no friends of mine� - Men Without Hats, Safety Dance
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