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We Can Do Better: Collaborating to Reform School Discipline and Accountability, July 11-13, in Washington, DC.
FairTest is working with the Advancement Project to plan the day focused on testing and accountability. The primary goal is to strengthen our grassroots activism against high-stakes testing. Thus, we will spend Sat afternoon in groups exchanging ideas and experiences and developing strategies we can use in our communities and states as well as nationally. There will be presenters on testing, resistance and authentic assessment in the morning. Friday will focus on discipline; the opening plenary is Thursday eve.
Please join us!
The conference registration link is http://safequalityschools.org/pages/WeCanDoBetter.
You can link to the conference agenda at http://safequalityschools.org/pages/national-convening-agenda.
From the Advancement Project:
Dear Friends,
Advancement Project is excited to announce our next round of speakers who will join us in Washington, DC on July 11-13 for "We Can Do Better: Collaborating to Reform School Discipline and Accountability". Confirmed presenters include:
- Jesse Hagopian teaches history and is the Black Student Union Adviser at Garfield High School, the site of the historic successful boycott of the MAP standardized test outside Seattle. He is also an associate editor of the acclaimed Rethinking Schools magazine and a founding member of Social Equality Educators.
- Monty Neill is the Executive Director of FairTest, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing. He has initiated national and state coalitions of education, civil rights, religious, disability, and parent organizations to work toward fundamental change in the assessment of students and in accountability. Monty chairs the national Forum on Educational Accountability.
- Dr. Isabel Nuñez teaches Language and Linguistics, Assessment of Bilingual Students, Teaching English as a Second Language, and Seminar in Reflective Practice at Concordia University in Chicago. She has been a leading researcher around testing and curriculum as well as multiculturalism and education, and is an active participant in CREaTE, Chicago researchers battling against high-stakes testing, punitive discipline and destructive "accountability."
- Urban Academy and the Performance Standards Consortium in New York City will present on the Consortium's authentic assessments for high school.
They will join with students, educators, parents, law enforcement, and other justice system players from across the country to work together and share common sense, collaborative solutions for keeping students in school and creating supportive learning environments.
Space is limited and the conference is expected to fill up early, so please register today! If you have already registered, please book your discounted $159 sleeping room. Or call 1-877-212-5752 and tell them you are with the Advancement Project conference at the time of booking. Deadline is June 25 as after that day rates will increase.
Due to the generous support of Advancement Project's funders, we are able to offer 200 scholarships to conference participants who register by June 7. Please use invitee code ADV2013 when registering to receive a scholarship. This scholarship will cover the registration fee only, not travel or hotel.
We hope you can join us!
[PS: We know this is the same weekend as the Free Minds conference in Chicago. We hope activists from communities across the nation can divvy up and thereby attend both gatherings. - FairTest]
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Monty Neill, Ed.D.; Executive Director, FairTest; P.O. Box 300204, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; 617-477-9792; http://www.fairtest.org; Donate to FairTest: https://secure.entango.com/donate/MnrXjT8MQqk__._,_.___
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