ICES at Academic Events (Conferences, Symposia, Workshops)
Rouge Forum 2013
Detroit, MI, 16-19 May 2013
International Conference on Critical Education
Ankara, Turkey, 15-17 May 2013
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GREAT SCHOOLS TEACH-IN:
HOW SHOULD WE ASSESS OUR SCHOOLS?
Saturday, December 1
10 am to 12:30 pm–coffee from 9:30
Simon Fraser University Surrey Campus (Surrey Central Sky Train)
250 – 13450 – 102nd Avenue
The Great Schools Project is a collaboration among individuals who want to strengthen and protect public education in British Columbia. For almost four years, educators, parents, researchers, and leaders, both inside and outside the education system, have met to discuss how to improve the way we evaluate and assess our schools.
We feel the current system is both too narrow (focused on only a portion of the important work schools do) and too punitive (with substantial negative impact on individual students and educators).
After extensive discussions of the current system of Foundation Skills Assessment (FSAs) and their use to rank schools, the GSP working group has developed ideas about alternatives that would better serve both students and public schools.
The Great Schools Teach-In provides an opportunity for us to present some of these ideas and for you to debate them and provide your input.
Program:
- Alfie Kohn, outstanding critic of standardized testing and proponent of richer ways of understanding how well our children and their schools are doing (by videocast).
- Speakers from the Great Schools Project
- Discussion and debate.
Please RSVP to: dlaitsch@sfu.ca
For more information see the website: Great Schools Project
Rouge Forum 2012
Miami University, Ohio
22-24 June 2012
To Know is Not Enough:
Rouge Forum @ AERA
Friday April 13, 2012
Vancouver, BC
Videos on the ICESchannel at YouTube (or click on links below)
The Rouge Forum @ AERA brought together world-renowned scholars, teachers, community organizers, and other activists to discuss these questions and others related to activist scholarship, social change, academic freedom, and work in the corporate university as part of this one-day interactive conference at the Robson Square Campus of University of British Columbia in downtown Vancouver.
Introduction to the Rouge Fourm @ AERA 2012
E. Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia
Session I: What might happen when teachers and other academics connect reason to power and power to resistance?
Patrick Shannon, Penn State University
Ken Saltman, DePaul University
E. Wayne Ross on Canada Border Services Agency’s prohibition of Abraham DeLeon from Canada / the Rouge Forum
Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University (unable to attend)
Abraham DeLeon, University of Texas, San Antonio (turned away at border)
Natalia Jaramillo, University of Auckland (unable to attend)
Discussion I
Discussion II
Sandra Mathison comments on recent labour dispute in British Columbia between the BCTF and government
Introduction to the Rouge Forum @ AERA 2012 Afternoon Session
E. Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia
Session II: How can academic work (in universities and other learning environments) support local and global resistance to global capitalism?
Peter McLaren, UCLA
Gustavo Fischman, Arizona State University
Jill Pickney Pastrana, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Ken Saltman, DePaul University
Rebecca Martusewicz, Eastern Michigan University (unable to attend)
Discussion I
Discussion II
Special Session – Great Schools Project
David Chudnovsky
Discussion I
Discussion II
Session III: How do we respond to the obstacles and threats faced as activist scholars?
Stephen Petrina, University of British Columbia
Nancye E. McCrary, University of Kentucky
Brad Porfilio, Lewis University
Elizabeth Heilman, Michigan State University (unable to attend)
ICES at Community Events
- ICES at Idle No More (Jan-Feb 2013)
- ICES at Occupy Wall Street (16 April 2012)
- ICES at BCFed & BCTF rally Vancouver (7 March 2012)
- ICES at BCFed & BCTF rally Victoria (6 March 2012)
- ICES at BC Secondary Students’ Walk-Out (2 March 2012)
- ICES at Occupy Vancouver (October-November 2011)
- ICES co-sponsored BCTF Teachers Strike Forum (9 November 2005)
- ICES organized and sponsored Support BCTF Teachers Strike (19 October 2005)
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