New York Collective of Radical Educators

UPDATE:

This Saturday, NYCoRE is calling for a educators to join a Day of Service/Action/Solidarity/Relief for those still suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

In addition to providing direct relief, we are also collecting stories and questions about the impact of Hurricane Sandy on public education.

Greetings NYCoRE Community,

At our last member meeting on November 16th we spent the first hour examining the impact and implications of Hurricane Sandy (we read Naomi Klein’s editorial Superstorm Sandy- A People’s Shock?) and discussed what might be our response of radical educators.

Talking and Teaching about Hurricane Sandy

For ideas and resources about examining the storm with students and resources for getting/giving support, visit and add to the NYCoRE wiki space: Talking and Teaching About Hurricane Sandy.

Educators Day of Solidarity- Supporting Impacted Communities

Come together with other members of the educational justice community for a collective day of support on December 8th.

RSVP BELOW or at  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHpFbDNpcTUyY0RyZXFzb29vNHdwRVE6MQ

In addition we are reaching out to Occupy Sandy Child Care to find ways that our skills/experience as educators can be of particular value longer term as the recovery efforts continue. If you are interested in more long term work with the childcare collective, please email nycoresandy@gmail.com

Gathering Stories and Questions

Stories: At our meeting on Friday we discussed that the stories of students, teachers and parents are largely untold by the media now that schools are “up and running”. NYCORE would like to collect these stories. If you have stories about how your school was affected, is currently still affected, please send stories to nycoresandy@gmail.com. Also during our Day of Action/Day of Relief on December 8th, we would like all educators to collect stories about public schools.

Book Talk with Leigh Patel

Youth Held at the Border: Immigration, Education and the Politics of Inclusion
12/16/12
3:00pm-4:30pm
La Casa Azul Bookstore
143 East 103rd Street New York, NY 10029

Illegal. Undocumented. Remedial. DREAMers. All of these labels have been applied to immigrant youth. Using a combination of engaging narrative and rigorous analysis, this book explores how immigrant youth are included in, and excluded from, various sectors of American society, including education. Instead of the land of opportunity, immigrant youth often encounter myriad new borders long after their physical journey to the United States is over. With an intimate storytelling style, the author invites readers to rethink assumptions about immigrant youth and what their often liminal positions reveal about the politics of inclusion in America.

By sharing the narratives of young immigrants living at the intersections of cultures, languages, and traditions, author and professor Leigh Patel will engage the audience in understanding the complexity of the multiple borders. Young immigrants face borders not only across nations but in school, in families, in the workplace, and in the law. The talk and book, of the same title, will lift up the stories of individual immigrant youth to help readers see the patterns that make society a series of open doors for some and closed gates for others.

Lisa (Leigh) Patel is an associate professor of education at Boston College. She has been a journalist, a teacher, and astate-level policymaker. Visit her website at Lisapatel.org

Sponsored by The New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE), this event will also feature a performance by the Peace Poets.

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