Lesson Planning Lounge

Submitted by mercurygates on Tue, 2011-06-21 06:54

The Lesson Planning Lounge is an open space for educators to talk about and develop curricula for the classroom or for a community-based setting. Bring your ideas for lesson plans or pop ed workshops to the Lounge and develop them in collaboration with other educators with the support of an experienced educator-mentor and access to materials, lessons and educational resources. Each session will be facilitated by different educator-mentors.

Lesson Planning Lounge #1 - Heather Homonoff Woodley and Project South

Session Facilitators:

Heather Homonoff Woodley

TESOL/Bilingual Education
City College of New York

Project South

Areas of Specialty:
Popular education workshops, racial justice

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Lesson Planning Lounge

Lesson Planning Lounge #2 - Curtis Acosta and Joi Spencer

Session Facilitators:

Curtis Acosta

Tucson High School & University of Arizona

Area of Specialty:
Culturally responsive and socially relevant high school literature and language arts

Joi Spencer

Education, University of San Diego

Area of Specialty:
Middle school mathematics

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Lesson Planning Lounge

Lesson Planning Lounge #3 - Paige Clausius-Park and Leigh Patel Stevens

Session Facilitators:

Paige Clausius-Park

Youth 4 Change Alliance and inFOCUS Constulting, LLC

Area of Specialty:
Social studies and humanities, community-based education and LGBTQ inclusion

Leigh Patel Stevens

Language, Race and Schooling, Boston College

Area of Specialty:
Critical consciousness building with youth of color, secondary level

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Lesson Planning Lounge

Lesson Planning Lounge #4 - Bree Picower and Susan Wilcox

Session Facilitators:

Bree Picower

Early childhood, Elementary & Literacy, Montclair State University & New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE)

Area of Specialty:
creating social justice curriculum, elementary level

Susan Wilcox

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol

Area of Specialty:
"Framework for Analysis" curriculum development, useful for Humanities classes and community-based education, Pan-African culture, middle and secondary level

Part of:

Lesson Planning Lounge

Conference Dates


	July 7-10, 2011 Providence, RI

Conference Updates

Online registration is now closed. If you still have not registered, not to worry. You can do so onsite.

Jul 5

The conference will provide a complimentary shuttle for conference participants staying at the Johnson & Wales Inn, where rooms are only $45 per night. Space is limited so please register here to reserve a seat.

Jun 30

Travel within the U.S. and conference registration scholarship available for to attend Free Minds, Free People. Priority given to practicing teachers; must arrange own accomodation. Contact Leigh Patel at lisa.patelstevens@gmail.com for information and inquiries. Deadline: 7/1/2011.

Jun 27