RSVP by Friday, by May 18th
Please join NYCoRE in celebrating the release of:
Practice What You Teach: Social Justice Education in the Classroom and the Streets
by Bree Picower
Date/Time:
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Location:
Brooklyn Lyceum
227 4th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Please RSVP by Friday, May 18th (scroll down on this page)
Copies of Practice What You Teach will be available at the party with a donation of $25 or higher.
[Credit, cash or checks (Made to: Center for Immigrant Families) will be accepted]
All proceeds will be donated to NYCoRE
After-party:
The Rock Shop starting @ 8:45 pm
249 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
This NYCoRE Book Party is being made possible by support from the Union Square Awards, a project of the Tides Center.
For Questions: edwin@nycore.org
You can also purchase the book at Teaching for Change’s Busboys and Poets Book Store
What people are saying about Practice What You Teach:
“Both practical and provocative, this book will be an essential tool for those working to develop teachers who are both more critical in their teaching and more invested in activism beyond the classroom. ” — Charles M. Payne, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
“Bree Picower shows how teacher activism develops and can be nurtured in this engaging, personal, and highly insightful volume. This book is a must-read for anyone who believes that education is key to social justice.” — Christine Sleeter, President of the National Association for Multicultural Education
“Based on sound research with teachers at various stages of consciousness about inequity and injustice, this book will be an invaluable source of support and inspiration for all teachers.” — Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
