Program notes from the 23rd Annual International NAME Conference 

November 6–10, 2013
Oakland City Center Marriott, Oakland CA

Conference Theme:
Erasing the Shadows, Embracing the Light: Re/Visioning Multicultural Education

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In the light – no closets, no basements, no margins, no shadows – a vocal and activist-oriented majority, is demanding attention and justice.  Our communities challenge those in power, calling on all to reconsider who belongs, whose voices count, how to engage in teaching and learning, and how to embrace a multicultural democratic society: Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going? What constitutes “the public?”  Today individuals and communities critique those systems of power that dismiss their rights and offer a vision and a powerful hope for the future. A better world, better schools, and better classrooms are possible.

Multicultural social justice-oriented educators and community activists foster diversity in education — incurriculum, pedagogy, assessment, and stewardship of schools and communities. We especially encourage the submission of proposals that explore creative and culturally responsive practices for multicultural education. Teachers and students are reframing the purposes of education to better serve the needs of students, families, caregivers, community activists, and advocates.

When the call for proposals opens, we will invite proposals that share cultural, pedagogical, and political strategies for assuring that these broad purposes of our work as multicultural educators are heard and take hold.

We invite NAME students, families, and community advocates to come out and come in–envision a world in which they want to live and create that world together.

NAME’s 2013 Conference art was produced by a student artist at MOCHA Arts Program in Oakland. Learn more at www.mocha.org

We are pleased to announce the following Oakland Conference
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (to date):

ANGELA DAVIS  

                             JAMES A. BANKS

 

 

 

 

 

CARL A. GRANT

 RACHELLE ROGERS-ARD

 

 

2013 INTENSIVE INSTITUTES:

Once again, there are exciting opportunities to interact with many of NAME’s leaders in extended workshops.
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Institute Presenters for 2013 include:

Sonia Nieto

Gary Howard

Eddie Moore

Lee Mun Wah

Peggy McIntosh

Shatki Butler

Carl Grant

Bill and Rick Ayers

Dorothy Steele

Bill Howe

Paul Gorski

Penny Lisi 

 

Add your vision to this conference that includes over 300 sessions with….

• Leading Activists, Researchers & Scholars  

• Intensive Professional Development

• Multicultural Film Festival

• Conversations w/ Authors & FilmMakers

• Multicultural Arts & Music Events

• School Visits & Cultural Tours

• Multicultural Vendors & Exhibitors

• Networking Opportunities & Events

• Social Justice Discourse & Dialog

NAME Multicultural Film Festival Opening Event:
at the
23rd Annual NAME Conference, Oakland CA

Wednesday evening, Nov. 6, 2013
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

A Special Screening of:

Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity

and Community Dialog with FilmMaker Shakti Butler

THE FILM: From Shakti Butler, the director of “The Way Home: Women Talk About Race in America”and “Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible” , comes a new film that asks America to talk about the causes and consequences of systemic inequity. Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity features moving stories from racial justice leaders including Amer Ahmed, Michael Benitez, Barbie-Danielle DeCarlo, Joy DeGruy, Ericka Huggins, Humaira Jackson, Yuko Kodama, Peggy McIntosh, Rinku Sen, Tilman Smith and Tim Wise.

Visit the website for more information, including THE RACIAL EQUITY LEARNING MODULES: This online racial justice curriculum accompanies the film. It bridges the gap between inspiration and democratic action that supports racial equity.  www.crackingthecodes.org

General Session Panel
Thursday evening, Nov. 7, 2013
7:00-8:20pm

 Asian Pacific Americans: Myths, Challenges, Successes, Strategies
The Model Minority Myth has been a great disservice to the Asian Pacific American Community by hiding, marginalizing and distorting the challenges. This panel of leaders in the Asian Pacific American community will discuss the often untold and unknown issues that must be a key part of the education of all educators and activists.

Panelists:

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• Darby Li Po Price,Adjunct Faculty Asian American Studies, Native American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Environmental Management and Technology, and Communication

 

 

Doris Tulifau, President-Pacific Islanders
at CSU Sacramento, GraduateStudent
in Multicultural Education

Lee Mun Wah,
Chinese American documentary filmmaker,
author, poet, Asian folkteller, educator,
community therapist and
diversity trainer

 

Nwe Oo,
Community Health for
Asian Americans (CHAA)

 

Eleni Soakai,
Community Liaison Partner,
Saturday Tongan Education Program,
Claremont Colleges: Asian American Resource Center  &
Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies

 

 

General Session Panel:
Friday morning, Nov. 8, 2013
8:30am – 9:50am

Latin@ Teachers Dialogue
The Centrality of Race and Political Struggle: Lessons From Social Justice Teaching and Community Organizing

Drawing from their teaching and community organizing experience, the panelists, all seasoned community organizers and active members of grassroots teacher-led organizations, will speak on the centrality of race and political struggle in reclaiming a liberatory and humanizing education by and for students of Color.  The panel presentation will include generative dialogues involving participants.

Panelists: 

Karen Zapata, Teachers for
Social Justice (T4SJ)

Karen Salazar, The People’s
Education Movement (PEM) 

 

Kiki Ochoa,
Raza Educators (ARE)  

Moderator:
Miguel Zavala,
Cal State University–Fullerton

 

General Session Panel:
Saturday morning, Nov. 9, 2013
8:30am – 9:50am

Global Education Panel 

Featuring:

 Ann Lopez
University of Toronto

 Yun-Kyung Cha
Hanyang University
Seoul, South Korea

Ziad Abbas
Middle East Children’s Alliance

Conversations with Authors and Leading Scholars

(list to date)

The Oakland NAME Conference will include sessions for interacting with some of NAME’s leading authors, during the concurrent presentation blocks. This year we are pleased to present the following authors:

Two of NAME’s leading scholars, Bill Howe and Penny Lisi, have collaborated on a new core text for pre- and in-service P12 teacher education. They address the growing need for better teacher training in how to work with more diverse student populations, and, effectively prepare them for a global workplace while increasing academic achievement. Becoming a Multicultural Educator: Developing Awareness, Gaining Skills & Taking Action, published in 2013 by Sage Publishing, Inc. (wwww.sagepub.com) and is Sage’s best selling first edition publication for the year.

William A. Howe, Past-President of NAME, is the Education Consultant for Multicultural Education at the Connecticut State Department of Education. In 2006 he was named the G. Pritchy Smith Multicultural Educator of the Year at the Annual  NAME Conference in Phoenix, AZ.  He is also an adjunct professor of education at the University of Connecticut, Albertus Magnus College and Quinnipiac University. He is the Connecticut State Title IX Coordinator and Chair of the Connecticut Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission.  In addition to numerous articles, he was a coauthor of the Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity through Education, 2nd Edition. He has been an educator for over 35 years in the U.S. and Canada and has made seven trips to China and one to South Africa to study multicultural education.  In 2007 he made his first trip to Israel to study the Holocaust.

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Penelope L. Lisi, Editor of Multicultural Perspectives, the official scholarly publication of NAME. is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Central Connecticut State University. Her scholarship work focuses on leadership for social justice, leadership for teaching and learning, and leadership in international school settings. She has made more than 20 trips to Iceland to investigate educational leadership in an environment of school change.  Penny has delivered more than 45 peer-reviewed papers at conferences in the United States, England, Finland, Portugal, Hungary, Switzerland, Jamaica, and Iceland. She is an adjunct faculty in the Global Education Program through the College of New Jersey and has taught summer courses since 2005 in Palma de Mallorca. 

Alyssa Hadley Dunn is an assistant professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. A former urban high school English teacher, her scholarship and teaching focuses on the intersections of urban schools, multicultural education, and educational policy. An member of the leadership team of GA NAME and co-chair of the Critical Educators for Social Justice AERA SIG, she is also the co-author of  Urban Teaching in America: Theory, Research, and Practice in K-12 Schools, with Andrea Stairs and Kelly Donnell (Sage Publications, 2011). Her website is www.alyssadunn.com

Dunn’s new book, Teachers Without Borders?: The Hidden Consequences of International Teacher in US Schools (Teachers College Press, 2013). The book  is the story of four Indian teachers who came to the United States in the face of tremendous personal and professional odds to teach in urban schools. Their experiences are brought to life in this groundbreaking empirical study, through interviews with their principals, district representatives in charge of recruitment and orientation, recruitment agency personnel, and union representatives, as well as in-depth classroom observations and student commentary. This well-researched work raises an essential question: If international teachers face daily exploitation, a lack of personal and professional support, and a lack of pedagogical and cultural preparation, are they able to give urban students the high-quality multicultural education they need and deserve?

The book is a volume of the James Banks Series on Multicultural Education, published in 2013, Teachers College Press (www.teacherscollegepress.org.)