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No History is Illegal! A Month of Solidarity with Tucson’s MAS Program

A call for solidarity from the national network of Teacher Activist Groups (TAG)

NYCoRE is a proud organizational participant in TAG

They say shut it down. We say spread it around!

 

As a network of Teacher Activist Groups (TAG), we believe that education is essential to the preservation of civil and human rights and is a tool for human liberation. In alignment with these beliefs, TAG is proud to coordinate No History is Illegal, a month of solidarity work in support of Tucson’s Mexican American Studies (MAS) Program. In January, 2011, state attorney general Tom Horne declared the Tucson Unified School District MAS program illegal. Over the past year, teachers, students and administrators have come together to challenge Horne’s ruling, but on January 10, 2012, the TUSD school board voted 4-1 to cease all MAS classes immediately for fear of losing state aid.

In the month of February we invite you to strike back against this attack on our history by teaching lessons from and about the banned MAS program. On the website (http://www.teacheractivistgroups.org/tucson/) you will find a guide that includes sample lesson plans from the MAS curriculum as well as creative ideas and resources for exploring this issue with students. Whatever happens in Arizona, we can keep the ideas and values of MAS alive by teaching about them in our classrooms, our community centers, our houses of worship, our homes.

February 1 is the first day on which TUSD must comply with this law. It is also the first day of African American History Month. And as Dr. King warned us, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” What is happening in Arizona is not only a threat to Mexican American Studies, it is a threat to our right to teach the experiences of all people of color, LGBT people, poor and working people, the undocumented, people with disabilities and all those who are least powerful in this country.

Our history is not illegal. Please join us by pledging to teach MAS.

Resources:

Flier: NoHistoryIsIllegal_Flier

For curricular resources go to:
http://www.teacheractivistgroups.org/tucson/

 

 

 

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Next SATURDAY, Feb. 4th: The State of the Union Conference

NYCoRE members, allies, and supporters (educators, informal educators, parents, concerned individuals), please join NYC rank and file educators at the State of the UNION Conference:

 

Public education is under attack!

Stand up, fight back!

As educators we are strongest when our voices are united.

That is what a UNION is for.

The UNION makes us strong.

 

For far too long the leadership of our union, the United Federation of Teachers, along with the national American Federation of Teachers, have been silent, thrown up minimal defenses too little too late, and have even collaborated in the assault on our profession, our students and their families.

It is time to re-imagine our teachers’ union

Imagine. . .

A union with true democracy.

A union where members’ concerns, ideas and opinions form the union identity.

A union that works to educate, organize and mobilize its members in support of public education,

our careers as professionals, and our students, their families and communities.

A union that works to end mayoral control and other racist policies

that have removed the voice of educators and parents from decision making.

A union that works with individual schools to recruit and train chapter leaders and delegates who share this vision.

A union that supports Chapter Leaders in struggles with administrations and in their work to educate and organize members.

Join rank and file union members, and parent and community allies at:

The State of the UNION Conference

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

 

Come meet other UFT members who want a new kind of union

Learn about the history and functioning of the UFT in workshops facilitated by

rank and file members, union delegates, and fellow teachers

 

 

Workshops include:

UFT 101: Introduction to the UFT

Organizing 101: parents and teachers working together–a vision for a community oriented teacher union

The UFT past and present

What is social justice unionism?

What happened to Brown vs. Board of Education: resegregation of our schools

The disappearing Black and Latino Teacher and the deprofessionalization of Teaching

What’s the 1% want with our schools? (Privatization 101)

Mayoral Control vs. A People’s Board of Education

Building your chapter: how do you organize at the school level?

Federal, State and local policy and our schools

What does democracy in our union look like?

Strategy and tactics: after Occupy Wall Street, what’s next for our movement?

Teacher evaluations and transformation school

Conference Info:

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

10:00 am to 4:00 pm

at the Center for Worker Education

25 Broadway, 7th Floor, NYC

 

Find us on Facebook: State of the Union

Please register online for the State of the Union Conference: http://stateoftheunionconference.eventbrite.com

$10 pre-registration

$15 at the door

Scholarships available, please email stateoftheunionfeb4@gmail.com

For childcare services at the conference please email Peter Lamphere at peter.lamphere@gmail.com

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We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For!

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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

 

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