Friday 2:00-3:30

GREEN GREASE GUZZLERS: HOW GREEN GUERRILLAS CREATED A MULTI-MEDIA, RENEWABLE ENERGY DEMONSTRATION VEHICLE
S.T.A.M.P.’s Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective recognizes and exposes the role mainstream media plays in promoting sweat shops over sustainable style, genetically modified crops over locally-grown organic foods, and pollution and prisons over sustainability and social change. Our Green Grease Guzzlers 2010-2011 Biodiesel/Veggie Oil Solar-Powered Bus Tour challenges the status quo and empowers a broad-based constituency of youth, everyday people, and activists to think critically about petroleum dependence and false solutions to climate justice.    
Presenters: Leslie Jones, Jason Corwin, Jeremy Alfaro, Imani Austin, Ian Dezelan, Marchant Jolles, and Sequoya Lee, Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective

YES WE CAN!:  PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCES IN YOUTH-ADULT PARTNERSHIP    
Educators! Have you ever felt frustrated in engaging your students? Students! Have you ever felt that you don’t have much leadership in your program? Join the Gandhi Brigade as participants share their views on the roles of students and teachers, and explore models of youth-adult partnership that increase learner empowerment and community impact. Ask questions of our youth panel and apply concepts by setting personal goals for increasing youth-adult partnership in your program.    
Presenters: Heather Bradley, Gandhi Brigade

SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE: ART AS EDUCATION
School of the Future (SotF), is a design/build playshop that will explore how collaborative social art practice can re-imagine what a 'school' can be. The interactive session will discuss the idea of 'art as education' and ask participants to design their 'dream school' by harnessing untapped resources in Providence like artists, vacant lots and site-specific histories. We will walk outside, build cardboard schools and consider art-school experiments past and present. All are welcome.
Presenters: Christopher Kennedy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

NEXT GENERATION ENGAGEMENT RESEARCH AND PATHWAYS IN HIGHER EDUCATION 
Full participation of diverse students and diverse faculty in higher education and the wider democracy questions the connection between active, engaged, and collaborative teaching and learning, collaborative knowledge generation and discovery, and the academic success of underserved students. This workshop, both for those in and those looking towards higher education, will focus on talking through an urgently needed paradigm shift in higher education built around collaboration and networked-knowledge generation. 
Panelists: Adam Bush, The Next Generation Engagement Collective of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education

DOES IT MATTER IF I’M WHITE? THE ROLE OF WHITE PEOPLE IN RACIAL JUSTICE ACTIVISM    
In this session of brief presentations followed by round-robin audience discussions, white racial justice educators and activists discuss the role they play in youth activism and liberatory education projects that typically focus in communities of color, focusing on:  What challenges arise for white people in trying to build relationships with youth and adults of color and how can they be addressed? How do issues of white privilege affect this work? How can we engage other white people around issues of racism and draw them into racial justice work?     
Panelists: Mark R. Warren, Associate Professor of Education, Harvard University and author of Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice; Alex Poeter, Director of Organizing, Chicago Freedom School; Shannah Kurland, Board member of the Olneyville Neighborhood Association, member of the National Lawyers Guild, and community activist in Providence, RI

BECOMING VISIBLE: GENDER-BASED BULLYING    
Becoming Visible: Gender-Based Bullying addresses the covert and pervasive practices of bullying based on gender norms. In this workshop participants will explore the impact of society’s gender roles on classroom environments. This workshop will guide participants through the complex concepts of gender, sexual orientation and bullying. Through interactive discussion participants will brainstorm best practices for creating a safe and nurturing learning environment for all.    
Presenters: Paige Clausius-Parks and Michelle Duso, inFOCUS, LLC

GAMES FOR MATHEMATICAL UNDERSTANDING
*(Also part of Young Activists Track)*
YPP will demonstrate activities from our Flagway Curriculum, designed to help students develop number sense. These activities will be active, highly engaging, and FUN. They can be used with students from Kindergarten to grade 8 to lay a foundation for important mathematical concepts by engaging them in physical activities, and with structures that model these same concepts. Participants will play interactive games facilitated by YPP high school math literacy workers and will work to solve the problem of how a particular mathematical function categorizes the natural numbers greater than 1 into three mutually exclusive groups. Participants will use their intuition, their own understanding of numbers and information that is given to them to develop and share hypotheses about the categorization of the numbers.
Presenters: Selledia Ball, The Young People's Project

CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY FROM THE GROUND UP: TOOLS FOR TEACHERS, LESSONS FOR US ALL     
This interactive workshop will use political cartoons published during the Obama campaign, oral history excerpts, field reports, photographs, video, freedom songs, and case studies as the basis for analysis and discussion of key themes from bottom-up Civil Rights Movement history. We will conclude with a discussion about how to use this history to teach K-12 students and how to apply it to today’s struggles for justice. This is aimed at non-specialists, but relevant to all. 
Emilye Crosby, Professor of History, SUNY Geneseo; Wesley Hogan, Associate Professor of History, Virginia State University; Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor of History and the Kirwan Institute, The Ohio State University

CHAINOFCHANGE.COM: A MULTIMEDIA YOUTH RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE
*(Three-hour workshop, 2:00-5:15)*
ChainofChange is a youth led anti-violence project that organizes youth to collectively strategize how to end violence by exposing its roots through the creation of media. Through hands on activities participants will learn how to use social media and mobile media as tools for community organizing.  Participants will then produce their own media concerning their experiences and opinions on violence and learn how to use their media as tools for anti-violence activism.
Presenters: Lauren La Rose, Beyondmedia Education

TEACHER ACTIVIST GROUPS: ORGANIZING TEACHERS TO BE PART OF THE EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT 
*(Three-hour workshop, 2:00-5:15)*
Nationally, teacher activist collectives have been forming in response to top-down, neoliberal reforms being implemented on the backs of teachers, students and parents.  While the structures and projects of these groups vary, the goals are the same: to mobilize teachers to join the movement for educational justice.  Five years ago, several of these local groups formed a national alliance (TAG). In this session, TAG representatives will share how they got started and what their work looks like today with the goal of providing support to individuals trying to start similar groups.
Presenters: Bree Picower, New York Collective of Radical Educators, NYC; Stephanie Schneider and Kathy Xiong, Educators Network for Social Justice, Milwauke; Rico Gutstein, Teachers for Social Justice, Chicago; Anissa Weinraub, Hye-Won Gehring and David Kirui, Teacher Action Group, Philadelphia

EDUCATION: CREATING AN OWNER'S MANUAL
*(Three-hour workshop, 2:00-5:15)*
Join a critical exploration and revisit your assumptions about how we learn and what’s worth knowing! Through facilitated reflection and discussion, groups will then brainstorm what an owner’s guide to education should include; for example: What matters most? How should groups make decisions that affect everyone differently? How can I organize my peers and allies? Come away with a storyboard for your personal owner’s guide to education inspired by our collective wisdom.    
Presenters: Bonnie Tai, College of the Atlantic

SITE VISIT: PROVIDENCE SUMMERBRIDGE--WHERE STUDENTS TEACH STUDENTS 
*(Three-hour site visit, 2:00-5:15)*
Bug Out Y’all – it’s time for All Summerbridge Meeting! Join middle school students and their high school and college-aged teachers at Providence Summerbridge as they celebrate the intersection of learning, teaching and community building at Providence’s leading peer education program.

SITE VISIT: COMMUNITY MUSIC WORKS AND NEW URBAN ARTS--WHERE PROVIDENCE YOUTH EXPRESS AND EMPOWER!
*(Three-hour site visit, 2:00-5:15)*
Engage in interactive music and art programming that align to provide Providence youth with a community-centered space for artistic expression. Community Music Works (CMW) creates a
cohesive urban community through music education and performance that transforms the lives of children, families, and musicians. New Urban Arts (NUA) is a nationally recognized interdisciplinary arts studio for high school students and emerging artists.

SITE VISIT: YOUTH 4 CHANGE ALLIANCE--WHERE PROVIDENCE STUDENTS UNITE TO STRENGTHEN YOUTH VOICE
*(Three-hour site visit, 2:00-5:15)*
Visit the Youth in Action House and PrYSM community space to learn more about work the Youth 4 Change alliance does across organizations to promote Providence’s very own Youth Bill of Rights and other city-wide campaigns! The Youth 4 Change Aliance (Y4C) is an alliance between four different youth organizations in Providence - Direction Action for Rights and Equalty (DARE), the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM), Young Voices and Youth in Action (YIA).