Action and Exchange Through the Arts (a NYCoRE – New Museum Joint)

A FREE TWO-PART WORKSHOP!!!

How can we use art in the classroom to help us enrich our curriculum?

How can we use art as a tool to connect our students to important issues and engage them in opportunities for dialogue and exchange?

Join New Museum and NYCORE in a FREE special 2-part interactive workshop that introduces teachers to using contemporary art in the classroom. Participants will also work intensively with international New Museum artist Nicolás Paris to explore how art can be used as a platform for discussion and exploration of ideas and have the opportunity to reflect on how to take workshop activities and strategies back into the classroom.

WHEN:

Thursday, February 2 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the New Museum

Thursday, February 9 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the New Museum

All participating teachers will be invited for a free tour of the New Museum Triennial “The Ungovernables” after the workshop ends. For more information on this and other exhibitions, see http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/448/the_ungovernables. Founded in 1977, the New Museum is located on Bowery at Prince Street and is a leading destination for new art and new ideas. It is Manhattan’s only dedicated contemporary art museum.

How do I register?

To register please email Jen at jsong@newmuseum.org

We encourage participants to sign up for the entire two part series.

Middle School and High School educators are encouraged to apply.

Registration is limited.

FREE!!!!!!!!!

DOWNLOAD FLIER: NYCORE-NEW MUSEUM Flier

Who is Nicolás Paris?

Nicolás Paris is from Bogotá, Colombia. Academically trained in architecture, Paris was a primary school teacher in Meta, Colombia, before pursuing a career as an artist. Paris’s work often draws on pedagogical strategy to incorporate elements of collaboration, dialogue, and exchange in his work, which is oriented around interests in architecture as a model, education as a system, and drawing as a tool. Paris has exhibited around the world and individually in Mexico, Colombia, and Spain. Recent group exhibitions include “Illuminations,” 54th Venice Biennial, Italy (2011) and the upcoming New Museum Triennial “The Ungovernables,” on view February 15, 2012

January 24, 2012January 24, 2012

1.25.12 – Beyond Tolerance Guide Workshop THIS WEDNESDAY

Come out this Wednesday, January 25th to learn more about NYQueer’s Beyond Tolerance Guide and share ideas with other educators!

Teachers and educators often face challenges when considering how to help students think critically about issues of gender and sexuality. It is often hard to know where to begin, which is one of the reasons Beyond Tolerance: A Resource Guide for Addressing LGTBQI Issues in Schools was created. The Beyond Tolerance Guide is a compilation of resources that can be used to plan whole units, class lessons, club activities, used to provide individual support, or used as a general reference. Check out the first version of the guide in advance here!: http://www.nycore.org/2010/11/beyond-tolerance-resource-guide/

Join NYQueer on Wed Jan 25, 4:30-6:30 at the Bronx Academy of Letters for a workshop where we’ll explore a newly revised version of the guide and discuss which tools and resources are most relevant for us and the young people we work with. New to the guide? Old pro? All are welcome!

AGENDA:

4:30- 5:00 Snacks and ice breakers
5:00- 6:00 Guide exploration, question and answer
6:00- 6:30 Share out

DETAILS:

Date: Wednesday January 25

Time: 4:30pm-6:30pm

Location: Room 226 @ the Bronx Academy of Letters — 339 Morris Ave Bronx NY (4/5 train at 138th-Grand Concourse or 6 train 138th- 3rd Ave)

Event Contact: Elana Eisen-Markowitz — elana.em@gmail.com / 917 737 1839 (cell)

January 23, 2012

01.27.12 – First Fight Back Friday of 2012

School Closings,

Increased Charter Co-locations,

Larger Classes,

Merit Pay,

Firing Half the Staff at 33 Schools

AND

A Flawed Teacher Evaluation System…

The Education Mayor?

It’s time for the first Fight Back Friday of 2012

(soon to be occupy Friday??)

THIS FRIDAY – JAN 27th:

PROTEST OUT IN FRONT OF YOUR SCHOOL!

LEAFLET AROUND YOUR SCHOOL!

OR JUST……

WEAR BLACK!

Fliers and stickers and such to follow.

Please respond to this email or email:

FBFCommittee@gmail.com

if you think your school might participate.

Or to ask for more info or help in planning an action.

We want to get coverage for all the actions and let the public know that parents and teachers are fighting back!

Last spring over 50 schools participated on several Fridays. It’s a great way to build solidarity among your staff, reach out to parents and students and to begin to create the coordinated city-wide effort we all know is needed.

It is time for rank and file teachers, parents and our students to move towards becoming ungovernable.

Mayoral control, the attacks on our livelihoods, and on our students’ education will not end simply because we want them to.

It will take mass mobilization at the school and city-wide level.

We need to end the privatization of Public Education through charters and merit pay!

End the destructing of education through the abuse of high stakes testing!

Say NO to school turn-arounds that will destroy school communities, our student’s education and the lives and careers of our colleagues.

WE MUST DEMAND AN END TO MAYORAL CONTROL!

PARENTS AND EDUCATORS MUST HAVE A CONTROLLING VOICE IN EDUCATION!

Here are some times articles covering FBF in the past. We have had lots of other coverage as well.

And the FBF Blog from John Dewey HS.

http://fightbackfridays.blogspot.com/

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/fighting-closure-of-a-high-school-on-the-brink/http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/makeshift-groups-rising-to-oppose-cuts/

in solidarity.

sam

for the rank and file Fight Back Friday committee