[regional_school] Re: Teaching in the First Ring
- From: Meg Callahan <mcallah5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: regional school <regional_school@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:17:39 -0400 (EDT)
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
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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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