[regional_school] Re: Teaching in the First Ring

Here is the flyer in .doc mode. 

Meg Callahan, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor and Director 
Undergraduate Adolescence Education 

Nazareth College 
4245 East Avenue 
Rochester, NY 14618-3790 
mcallah5@xxxxxxx 
(585) 389-2998 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yvonne M. Villareale" <yvonne.villareale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: "regional school" <regional_school@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 4:17:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [regional_school] Re: Teaching in the First Ring 

Meg, 

Can you re-send the file as a .doc file. My word 
processor cannot open or convert a .docx file. Any one else have that problem? 

Thanks, 

Yvonne 

At 12:35 PM 3/23/2010, you wrote: 
>Dear Regional Academy Supporters, 
>I want to draw your attention to a presentation 
>coming up at Nazareth that might be of interest 
>to some of you. I am pasting the information 
>below, as well as attaching a poster. I hope 
>some of you will be able to attend--it is a very 
>practical presentation by some English teachers 
>who are sharing their work as they strive to 
>bring issues of race, class, and gender into the 
>discussions in their classrooms. They are doing 
>this very consciously in the context of a 
>'first-ring suburban' school where tensions 
>about these issues clash with the white 
>working-class history of the town. Given 
>Rochester's similar "donut" demographics, and 
>The Regional Academy's foundations in an 
>urban-suburban model, I think their journeys 
>will be quite helpful in considering how we too 
>can harness literacy as a way to see diversity 
>as an asset and as a catalyst for social action. 
>The teachers will be sharing some of their 
>students' work using digital technologies as a 
>tool for discussion and expression around these issues. 
> 
>Here's the info--hope to see some of you there! 
>Give yourself extra time for parking--4pm is a 
>busy time for graduate classes here! 
>Meg 
> 
>***************************** 
> 
>Teaching in the First Ring: 
>Reading Between the Lines of Race, 
>Class, and Gender 
> 
>James Cercone, University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education 
>Alex Baker, Cheektowaga Central High School 
>Joel Malley, Cheektowaga Central High School 
>Jonathan Federick, Cheektowaga Central High School 
>Kristen Pastore Capuana, Cheektowaga Central High School 
> 
>Monday, April 5, 2010 
>4:00-5:30pm 
>Smyth 383 
> 
>Diverse “first-ring� suburban classrooms 
>present teachers with unique opportunities to 
>engage students in reading and writing 
>activities around issues of race, class, and 
>gender. Four high school English teachers will 
>present findings from action-research projects 
>they conducted in association with The 
>University at Buffalo's First-Ring Suburban 
>Initiative. Presentations focus on the literacy 
>practices students from diverse backgrounds 
>developed as they explored meaningful cultural 
>and social issues through the use of digital and 
>print literacies. Projects focus on student 
>learning and meaning making as they engaged in 
>deep readings of a variety of texts and the world around them. 
> 
>Meg Callahan, Ph.D. 
>Assistant Professor and Director 
>Undergraduate Adolescence Education 
> 
>Nazareth College 
>4245 East Avenue 
>Rochester, NY 14618-3790 
>mcallah5@xxxxxxx 
>(585) 389-2998 
>

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