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UNITE INSPIRE

LEADHarnessing the Power

of Our Diversity

June 30-July 1 | Washington Hilton | Washington, DC

National Education Association | Human and Civil Rights

Joint Conference on Concerns of Minorities and Women

2016

Learn more about the important work of educator activists in the fight for racial, social, and economic justice in public education. Help shine the light on

the social justice issues that impact our students, educators, and communities.Get connected and engaged on the issues you care about at

www.neaedjustice.org

EACH OF US HAS A PLACE IN THE NEW SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT

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You and I must be activists in the new movement for education justice. Whether we’re fighting to give all students access to public schools they deserve; marching for racial, gender, and economic justice; or getting out the vote for the most perilous presidential election in decades, our advocacy changes lives and keeps hope alive. I’ve met some awesome educators who are reaching beyond their classrooms and doing something big to save a little piece of their world. These miracles are repeated in school after school and community after community because seemingly ordinary educators are making the world a more just place for their students. Join neaedjustice.org and spread the word about the righteous work you and your colleagues are doing!

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JOINT CONFERENCE SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCEEvent locations are listed throughout the program.For hotel floor plans see pages 18–21.

THURSDAY, JUNE 307:00 a.m. – 5:45 p.m. Registration (International Terrace)

7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Coffee (Columbia West)

8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Opening Plenary Session

Keynote Address—María Elena Durazo

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Workshops

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Workshops

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Luncheon Plenary Session

Keynote Address—Dahkota Franklin Kicking Bear Brown

2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Workshops

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. NEA Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee Hearing

5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. NEA Women’s Issues Committee Hearing

6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Award-Winning Film: The Year We Thought About Love

Meet troupe member, Traeshayona Weekes, and associate producer, Pam Chamberlain

8:00 p.m. – Midnight Diversity Social

FRIDAY, JULY 18:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Registration

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Coffee

9:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Special Plenary Session: Racial Justice in Education

12 Noon – 2:00 p.m. Closing Luncheon Plenary Session

Keynote Address— Dr. Ivory A. Toldson

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After acquiring her activist chops in the Chicano Movement in college, Durazo entered the labor movement as an organizer, while simultaneously earning her law degree. In 1983, she joined the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) Local 11, and soon after launched a campaign to transform the local into a democratic organization that was truly accountable to its membership, 70 percent of whom were Mexican and Latin American immigrants. Just six years later, she was elected president.

Over the next two decades, Durazo became a formidable force in the labor and political world. She was the first Latina to be elected to the Executive Board of HERE International Union, the first woman elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (where she pushed through one of the highest minimum wage laws for hotel workers in the nation), and the first leader of a local labor movement on the highest body of the AFL-CIO when she was elected Vice President of its Executive Council. Many of these organizations reached the climax of their influence under Durazo’s leadership.

In 2015, Durazo began her next chapter in life as International Union Vice President for Civil Rights, Diversity and Immigration with UNITE HERE.

MARÍA ELENA DURAZOLauded as “a voice for many who cannot raise their own voices,” María Elena Durazo is widely regarded as one of the most powerful and savvy union organizers in the nation.The daughter of Mexican immigrant farm workers, Durazo learned the importance of hard work and determination at a very young age, traveling from Oregon to California with her parents and nine siblings to work in the fields. This early experience forged her into a fierce advocate for the working class.

PRESIDINGRebecca S. Pringle NEA Vice President

INTRODUCING SPEAKERCecile Bendavid, Chair NEA Women’s Caucus

KEYNOTE SPEAKERMaría Elena Durazo

ANNOUNCEMENTSRocío Inclán, Director NEA Human and Civil Rights

THURSDAY, JUNE 30Opening Plenary Session8:00 – 8:45 a.m.International Ballroom

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Workshop Leadership

Competencies

Advocacy Advances the cause of public education through social justice and how it benefits our students and members’ professional needs and rights.

Business Builds the brand and accomplishes the goals of the association through effective financial management and understanding of fiduciary responsibilities.

Communication Builds an integrated communications strategy that drives the goals of our professions.

Governance and Leadership Sets the mission and establishes strategies necessary for a relevant and

thriving organization; empowers, motivates, and fosters a pipeline of talent for the future.

Leading Our Professions Advocates for quality inside our professions and promotes our union’s role in advancing education transformation and student learning.

Organizing Mobilizes to influence successful organizing outcomes, strengthen internal and external relationships, and membership capacity; as well as recruit and identify new members and potential leaders into the association.

NEA’s Leadership Competencies Guide is available online at nea.org/leadershipsummit


WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIESLeadership is no longer defined by an elected position, but by key characteristics and actions. For the first time ever, NEA defines what it means to be an “NEA leader” using six competency areas that prepare members to become world-class education leaders:


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WORKSHOP MATRIX—THURSDAY, JUNE 30

Workshop Room Offerings

All In! How Educators Can Advocate for English Language Learners Columbia 1 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

A Place in the Middle: A Strength-Based Approach to Gender Diversity and Inclusion Columbia 2 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Beginning the Conversation on Institutional Racism Columbia 3 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Change the Mascot! Columbia 4 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Diversity: Developing Cultural Identity Columbia 9 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Diversity: Reacting to Differences Columbia 9 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Diversity: Valuing Diversity Columbia 9 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

ESSA Implementation: Opportunity, Student Success, and Action Columbia 5 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Examining the Role of Police in Schools Columbia 11 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Finding Solutions to Major Issues that Impact Today’s Women Columbia 12 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Grassroots Strategies for Engaging Key Voters at the Local Level Columbia 7 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Institutional Racism, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia: International Education Unions Taking Action

Columbia 6 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Keeping Our Students Bully Free Columbia 10 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Our Association in Action: Creating Change Through Social Justice

Georgetown West 9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Partnerships to Support Undocumented Students Columbia 8 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Social Justice Teaching: How to Weave Social Justice Themes into Subject Area Curricula and Empower Students to Take Social Action

Georgetown West 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Trans Code: Transcending Gender Georgetown East 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Understanding Workplace Bullying Jefferson West 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.


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WORKSHOPSMost of the workshops shown here will be repeated three times at: 9:00 -10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. - 12: 15 p.m., and 2:15 - 3:45 p.m.

All In! How Educators Can Advocate for English Language Learners9:00 – 10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Columbia 1NEA is engaged in groundbreaking work to help educators more effectively meet the needs of English Language Learners (ELLs). Participants in this workshop will learn how to approach the instruction of ELLs from an advocacy perspective, understand the areas in which ELLs require advocacy, and explore effective tools and strategies that support advocacy efforts.

Presenters:Lori DodsonNEA ELL CadreKrista FulbrightNEA ELL CadreRodrigo Rodriguez-TovarNEA ELL Cadre

A Place in the Middle: A Strength-Based Approach to Gender Diversity and Inclusion9:00 – 10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Columbia 2Students and educators who transcend the gender binary are frequent targets of bullying, harassment, and discrimination. This interactive workshop introduces “A Place in the Middle,” a strength-based approach to gender diversity and inclusion based on a film about a young Hawaiian girl who dreams of leading her school's all-male hula troupe and her transgender teacher, Kumu Hina, recipient of the 2016 NEA Ellison S. Onizuka Memorial Award. Participants will learn how to use this culturally based educational toolkit to create and maintain a school climate that embraces diversity, inclusion, and respect for all.

Presenters:Dean HamerDirector, A Place in the Middle documentaryHinaleimoana Wong-KaluWinner, NEA 2016 Ellison S. Onizuka Memorial Award

The exceptions are:

• Diversity: Developing Cultural Identity will be presented once at 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

• Diversity: Reacting to Differences will be presented once at 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

• Diversity: Valuing Diversity will be presented once at 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

• Social Justice Teaching: How to Weave Social Justice Themes into Subject Area Curricula and Empower Students to Take Social Action will be presented once at 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

• Our Association in Action: Creating Change Through Social Justice will be presented in one three-hour session from 9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. We highly recommend you plan to attend for the entire three hours if you choose this workshop.


Beginning the Conversation on Institutional Racism9:00 – 10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Columbia 3Institutional racism occurs throughout society and our schools. Its effects are seen in academic achievement, patterns of discipline, and professional development—or lack of it. It can happen at the classroom level, the administrative level or the district level. It can even happen in the decisions about the water we drink. Participants will explore the historical and current impact of institutional racism on the education of students and engage in conversations that are designed to further their understanding and help them take action.

Presenter:Lawrence HammSocial Justice Activist

Change the Mascot!9 – 10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Columbia 4The controversy around the use of offensive American Indian mascots and symbols has ignited a national movement to ban their use. Utilizing culturally responsive teaching practices, participants will explore American Indian racial and cultural stereotypes and discuss the process of changing public school mascots that are racially and culturally inappropriate. Participants will actively engage with American Indian author, educator, and California's 2014 Indian Teacher of the Year Kristy Orona-Ramirez, of the Tiwa and Raramuri tribes.

Presenter:Kristy Orona-RamirezCalifornia Teachers Association

Diversity: Developing Cultural Identity9:00 – 10:30 a.m.Columbia 9Our values, beliefs, and self-concept, most of which are developed at a very early age, affect the way we think, behave, and make assumptions about people who are different from us. Take part in interactive exercises that reveal the nature of the socialization process, and examine models that show how we learn about our own culture and the cultures of others. Learn how the absence of information—the silent teacher—can contribute to assumptions, even bigotry, about the status and basic rights of people who are different.

Presenters:Inga Park OkunaNEA Diversity CadreFelecia OwensNEA Diversity Cadre

Diversity: Reacting to Differences10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Columbia 9The treatment we extend to members of “other” groups is rooted in perceptions, values, and beliefs about them. Participants will view and discuss a video designed to trigger critical thinking about prejudice, power, and entitlement—all of which lead to the emergence of privileged and oppressed groups. Participants will engage in deeper exploration of their own experiences as members of “insider” groups who enjoy privileges and as members of “outsider” groups who systematically experience disadvantages. At the end of the session, participants will plan actions they can take to help ensure a just society for all groups.

Presenters:Lisa JenningsNEA Diversity CadreRyans CalmontNEA Diversity Cadre


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Diversity: Valuing Diversity2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Columbia 9How do you respond to diversity issues? Are you better at discussing or reacting to some dimensions of diversity than others, for instance, race vs. sexual orientation? Although you may quickly react when offended by things others say or do, do you recognize when and how you offend others? Participants will identify strategies to communicate more courageously about diversity; explore how to fully embrace and demonstrate the value we place on the diversity among our students, their families, and our coworkers; and examine how to maximize the impact of our diversity work in schools.

Presenters:Jackie WootenNEA Diversity CadreHilario Benzon NEA Diversity Cadre

ESSA Implementation: Opportunity, Student Success, and Action9:00 – 10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Columbia 5After nearly 14 years, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has been reauthorized and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is the new version of the federal education law. The implementation of ESSA will provide opportunities for educators’ and parents’ voices to be part of decision-making at both the state and local levels to ensure students have access to an excellent education, regardless of their zip code. Where are those opportunities and what’s needed in order to ensure our students are served well? This session will provide an overview of the law and engage participants in identifying possibilities for success and pitfalls to avoid.

Presenters:Donna Harris-AikensNEA Education Policy and PracticeShelly Moore KrajacicNEA Executive Committee

Examining the Role of Police in Schools9:00 – 10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Columbia 11Police, including school resource officers, are increasingly relied upon to address routine disciplinary matters in our nation’s schools. In 2011-2012, referrals of students to law enforcement took place at a rate of six for every 1,000 students nationwide, with students of color accounting for a disproportionate number. This workshop will examine the role of police in schools and advocate for alternatives that do not criminalize children and youths and contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline.

Presenter:Dwanna NicoleAdvancement Project

Finding Solutions to Major Issues that Impact Today’s Women9:00 – 10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Columbia 12Women today are facing a wide range of pressing issues that impact their survival and success rates, among them: women's health, bullying and sexual harassment, domestic abuse, sex trafficking, and educational advancement. Participants will explore these topics, discuss possible solutions, and leave the session with goals to improve opportunities for women and a framework to recreate this workshop locally.


Presenters: Cecile Bendavid California Teachers AssociationCarolyn InmonCalifornia Teachers Association

Grassroots Strategies for Engaging Key Voters at the Local Level 9:00 – 10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Columbia 7Local Associations can play a pivotal role in any election, particularly when they mobilize Association members and ethnic-minority voters, two key voting groups who can affect election outcomes. Participants will engage in large and small group discussions, explore outreach and engagement strategies for getting out the vote in presidential and mid-term contests, and create an organizing plan personalized to their local Association.

Presenters:Cathy FredericksonIllinois Education AssociationMelissa Rogers California Teachers AssociationCarrie Pugh NEA Campaigns and Elections

Institutional Racism, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia: International Education Unions Taking Action9:00 – 10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Columbia 6Around the globe, education unions are tackling institutional racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia, issues that have a profound impact on students and their communities. Participants will interact with education union leaders from three continents who will share actions

they are taking to curb bias and enhance student learning. Facilitators and participants will generate strategies for promoting cultural respect and safe school environments. Resource materials will include video links, classroom lessons, and social justice actions.

Presenter: Jill ChristiansonNEA International RelationsRepresentativesEducation International

Keeping Our Students Bully Free9:00 – 10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Columbia 10In schools across America, one in three students reports being bullied weekly. The good news: educators can do something about it. Participants will receive NEA’s Bully Free: It Starts With Me! Campaign tool kit and an introduction to its content through activities and information-sharing. Participants will also learn strategies for addressing and preventing various forms of bullying behavior, including cyberbullying, sexual harassment, and sexting.

Presenters:Nita JonesNEA Bullying and Sexual Harassment Intervention and Prevention CadreAudrey NicholsNEA Bullying and Sexual Harassment Intervention and Prevention Cadre

Our Association in Action: Creating Change Through Social Justice9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. (one three-hour session)Georgetown WestThe principles of social justice are deeply rooted in the vision, mission, and core values of NEA. Participants will explore these principles; identify how they are relevant to educators; and focus on specific forms of social injustice


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that affect public education, our students, and our workplaces. Participants will also identify strategies and develop plans to create more “just” learning and working environments. This training offers examples of how NEA member-leaders have made a difference, and it empowers individuals to take action when confronted with injustice.

Presenters: Frank BurgerNEA Social Justice CohortToni SmithNEA Social Justice Cohort

Partnerships to Support Undocumented Students9:00 – 10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Columbia 8Undocumented students face astounding challenges, usually in secret and often in shame, without the support necessary to achieve their educational and professional dreams. This workshop examines NEA grant programs that have connected K-16 educators with community-based organizations to better support undocumented students. Activities include training educators on levels of support for undocumented students, giving classroom presentations, developing after-school clubs, and starting Dream resource centers on school campuses.

Presenters:Arlene InouyeCalifornia Teachers AssociationTheresa MontañoCalifornia Teachers Association

Social Justice Teaching: How to Weave Social Justice Themes into Subject Area Curricula and Empower Students to Take Social Action2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Georgetown WestParticipants will learn how one world language teacher weaves issues of social justice, human and civil rights, race relations, inequality, and social consciousness into traditional units of language study. The presenter will discuss how to integrate language acquisition skills into social justice lessons and units while still addressing the demands of the obligatory curriculum. Participants will explore opportunities to weave social justice themes and lessons into their own content areas. They will also examine how to develop students' social justice consciousness and empower them to take social action.

Presenter:Erika Strauss ChavarriaMaryland State Education Association

Trans Code: Transcending Gender9:00 – 10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Georgetown EastTransgender and gender non-conforming issues are complex and frequently misunderstood or feared. Regardless of their sexual orientation, transgender and gender non-conforming students are more likely to face transphobic or homophobic violence in school and in the community in general. Workshop facilitators will provide a basic framework for understanding transgender and gender non-conforming issues, the role of educators, and strategies for supporting students.

Presenter: Sue CirilloCalifornia Teachers AssociationC. Scott MillerCalifornia Teachers Association


Understanding Workplace Bullying9:00 – 10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:15 – 3:45 p.m.Jefferson WestDo you work with a bully? On the rise, workplace bullying is even more prevalent in school settings, with the number of school employees who report being targets of bullies nearly three times the national average. Millions of adults are bullied on a daily basis because they see no alternatives, but you can take action. Workshop facilitators will explore types of bullies and the strategies you can use to regain control and retain your sanity.

Presenters: Charlyn ShepherdMissouri NEARosemarie TappCalifornia Teachers Association


PRESIDINGPrincess Moss NEA Secretary-Treasurer

REMARKS John C. Stocks NEA Executive Director

RECOGNITION Union City Educators NEA Social Justice Award Winners

In the 8th grade, Dahkota saw his cousins struggling in school, so he founded an organization to provide peer-to-peer mentoring and tutoring for Native youth. He called it Native Education Raising Dedicated Students, or NERDS. Four years later, NERDS has 10 chapters serving hundreds of students and a 100 percent success rate of on-time graduation for program participants.

Dahkota next tackled the volatile issue of racist team names and logos, joining forces with a California state assemblyman, the California Teachers Association, and the National Congress of American Indians to successfully pass legislation that banned the use of the term “Redskins” as a sports team name, logo, or mascot in California public schools.

If that’s not enough, the brilliant student manages to maintain a 4.4 GPA while serving on the White House steering committee for Generation Indigenous, on the Center for Native American Youth’s Executive Advisory Board, and on the National Congress of American Indians Youth Cabinet.

Currently president of his high school class, Dahkota plans to major in political science when he goes to college next fall. He aspires to serve as Tribal Chairman of Wilton Rancheria before pursuing a State-elected position or higher. Anyone who knows Dahkota would not be surprised if he becomes the first Native American to be elected president of the United States.

DAHKOTA FRANKLIN KICKING BEAR BROWN When 17-year-old Dahkota Kicking Bear Brown sees a wrong, he takes action. A proud California Miwok, Concow, and Yuki enrolled with the Wilton Rancheria, Dahkota attributes his activism to the cultural traditions and values he learned at home.

THURSDAY, JUNE 30Luncheon Plenary Session12:30 – 2:00 p.m.International Ballroom

INTRODUCING SPEAKERMary Levi, Chair NEA American Indian/Alaska Native Caucus

KEYNOTE SPEAKERDahkota Franklin Kicking Bear Brown

ANNOUNCEMENTSRocío Inclán, Director NEA Human and Civil Rights


NEA Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee (EMAC) Hearing International Ballroom East4.00 – 5:00 p.m.

Conference participants are

provided the opportunity to express

concerns, give suggestions, and

provide information pertaining to

ethnic minority participation in the

Association. The Committee will

consider participants’ input later in

the year as it discusses its charges and

crafts recommendations for the NEA

President.

NEA Women’s Issues Committee (WIC) HearingInternational Ballroom West5:15 – 6:15 p.m.

Conference participants are provided

with an opportunity to express

concerns, give suggestions, and provide

information pertaining to women’s

participation in the Association. The

Committee will consider participants’

input later in the year as it discusses its

charges and crafts recommendations

for the NEA President.

Diversity Social!

International Ballroom East8:00 p.m. – Midnight

The NEA ethnic caucuses invite you to

an evening of conviviality as you greet

friends and make new ones. You will

be able to groove to great music, hit

the dance floor, and revel in the spirit

of diversity and multiculturalism that

makes the Joint Conference so special.

Come as you are, but come. Light

refreshments and cooling beverages

will be served.

THURSDAY, JUNE 30Late Afternoon and Evening

AWARD-WINNING MOVIE THE YEAR WE THOUGHT ABOUT LOVEMonroe • 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. The Year We Thought about Love celebrates a Boston-based group of LGBTQ youth of color who dare to be “out” on stage about their lives and loves. With humor, candor, and attitude, the cast transforms their personal struggles into theater for social change. The power of “being out” may be the queer community’s greatest contribution to all of us. Learning how to be true to oneself is often the first step to personal liberation and political change. See selections from the movie and meet troupe member, Traeshayona Weekes, and associate producer, Pam Chamberlain, in person.

Enjoy the popcorn!


FRIDAY, JULY 18:00 – 9:00 a.m.RegistrationInternational Terrace

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.Morning CoffeeColumbia West

9:00 – 11:45 a.m.Special Plenary SessionRacial Justice in Education Columbia Hall

12 noon – 2:00 p.m.Closing Luncheon Plenary SessionKeynote Address—Dr. Ivory A. ToldsonInternational Ballroom

DAY AT A GLANCE

Thursday, June 30 – Friday, July 1 Columbia Hall Foyer

Fifty years ago, America’s Black and White educators took an unprecedented and heroic step. The National Education Association (NEA) and the American Teachers Association (ATA) merged to fully integrate their profession and promote the human and civil rights of educators and students of all races.

The decision to merge was courageous—particularly against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s. As the decade unfolded, an unbelieving nation witnessed the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Marchers were attacked with tear gas and fire hoses as they rallied for civil rights, and college students clashed with police on campuses across the country. Many of NEA’s Southern affiliates threatened to leave the Association over talk of the merger, Southern convention cities refused to house Black RA delegates, and massive White resistance to court-ordered desegregation caused violent upheaval.

This period of tremendous social change set the stage for the groundbreaking merger that forever changed the face of NEA and the course of American public education. The merger gave birth to NEA’s first Black president, a multicultural staff and diverse governing body, and social justice programs that advocate for America’s minority students.

Today, NEA owes its reputation as an organization with a soul and one of the most integrated organizations in the nation to the legacy of that daring merger—a merger that lives on in a new generation of educators committed to fighting for the rights of all children.

NEA-ATA MERGER EXHIBIT CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF UNITY


FRIDAY, JULY 1Special Plenary Session9:00 – 11:45 a.m.Columbia Hall

RACIAL JUSTICE IN EDUCATIONCHALLENGING INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES

Becky PringleNEA Vice President

Lorenzo Herrera y LozanoPublisher & Executive Director of Justice Matters Press

Institutional racism is systemic, but it’s up close and personal when it touches every aspect of a student’s life: where they go to school and how they’re treated when they get there, how well their school is funded, their access to advanced courses and a rich curriculum, how harshly they’re disciplined, and the expectations educators have of them.

With NEA Vice President Becky Pringle, moderator, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, and a panel of youth activists as your guides, you’ll have an opportunity to:

• Explore how institutional racism shows up in your school and community and what actions are being taken to address it.

• Discuss the intersectionality of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia and how our students embody more than one identity at a time.

• Reflect and share your insights with your colleagues.

• Examine upcoming opportunities for action—on campus, in your Association, and in your community—and commit to collective action on your home turf.

Youth Activists (top to bottom): Blossom Brown, Dahkota Franklin Kicking Bear Brown, Yves Gomes, Ana Barrara, Alfred R. Dudley, Jr.

“One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.” —Alvin Ailey


PRESIDINGLily Eskelsen García NEA President

INTRODUCING SPEAKERJacqui Watts Greadington, Chair NEA Black Caucus

KEYNOTE SPEAKERDr. Ivory A. Toldson

COMMENTSRocío Inclán, Director NEA Human and Civil Rights

ANNOUNCEMENTSAlexandria Richardson, Manager of Business Affairs NEA Center for Advocacy and Outreach

Prior to his current appointment as Executive Director for the White House

Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Toldson

served as associate professor at Howard University, editor-in-chief of The

Journal of Negro Education, senior research analyst for the Congressional Black

Caucus Foundation, and contributing education editor for The Root. He has

appeared on numerous national and local television and radio programs, and

his research has been featured in diverse publications, from the Washington

Post and New York Times to the National Journal and Ebony and Essence

magazines.

Toldson has received numerous awards for his commitment to educational

equity, including the Equity Champion Award from the New York City

Department of Education. Named one of “30 leaders in the fight for Black

men,” by Newsweek Magazine, the “Problem Solver” by Diverse: Issues in Higher

Education, and a “prolific young scholar and myth buster” by former U.S.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Dr. Toldson is proud to promote HBCU

scholarship and to be an example of talent cultivated at HBCUs.

DR. IVORY A. TOLDSONHailed by the Washington Post as a young educator "who could conceivably navigate the path to the White House,” Dr. Ivory A. Toldson has traveled the nation debunking some of the most pervasive myths about African-American students. An educational researcher, lecturer, and author, Toldson stresses the importance of “looking beyond the numbers and tests and seeing the test taker.”

FRIDAY, JULY 1Closing Plenary Session12:00 Noon – 2:00 p.m.International Ballroom

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NOTES:


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