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:

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

This Month’s Political Education Piece: 

A reflection on “radical”: Who put the R in NYCoRE? Y’all did!