RSVP for October’s Working Group Meeting!

RSVP for NYCoRE’s Working Group Meeting

Friday, October 17, 2014

6-8 pm 

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Join NYCoRE for our first working group only meeting. This meeting will consist of mainly working group time and report backs so you can learn about the radical work of other groups. You will have the option to choose from the following working groups below.

 **If you want more information please attend the NYCoRE 101 where representatives from each working group will be there to discuss their work.**

There will be two groups, the Political Education Working Group and High Stakes Testing Campaign, that will continue the discussion from September’s Meeting around Race, Neo-liberalism and Testing through reading and discussing the chapter “High-Stakes Testing: A Tool for White Supremacy for Over 100 Years” by Wayne Au from the forthcoming Picower B. & Mayorga E. (2015) What’s Race Got To Do With It: How Current School Reform Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality. Peter Lang Publishers.

Please e-mail Rosie@nycore.org to request a copy of the article to read before the meeting.

Conference Working Group:
The Conference Working Group is responsible for all of the organizing (from t-shirt design to food service) of NYCoRE’s Annual Conference. The conference committee currently has two openings: Tables/ads coordinator and Presenter Liaison. Please email bree@nycore.org for more information if you are interested in either role.

Political Education Working Group:
This group will discuss and analyze critical texts that relate to neo-liberalism, racism, and high-stakes testing as well as design political education for the larger NYCoRE membership body.

High Stakes Testing Campaign Working Group:
This is a new group that will focus on building a campaign against high-stakes testing. In our initial state, we will focus on studying and constructing our analysis around race, neo-liberalism and testing.

Teach Dream:
We work to create safer schools for undocumented students, advocate for equal rights and opportunities for all students, increase access to resources, and lift up student activism and leadership around issues of immigration.

Curriculum Working Group:
We share lessons and strategize around how to challenge racism and oppression in a variety of education environments.

NYQueer Working Group:
NYQueer focuses on issues of gender and sexuality as they relate to school communities. We aim to support and make connections between teachers, students and community organizations engaged in the work of creating spaces where all identities are acknowledged and respected.

New Teacher Underground:
New Teacher Underground is a safe space for new or new-feeling teachers to collaborate, trouble-shoot our pedagogical practices, and bond!

Adult Educators for Social Justice:
We are educators working with adult learners; join us to share strategies for social justice pedagogy and practice within the field and to advocate, agitate, and grow together.

In addition to the working groups meeting at our monthly gatherings, there are two affinity groups of NYCoRE that meet outside of meetings.

Educators of Color Group:
We are a group of people who identify as educators of color…who advocate for a nurturing, transformative and action-driven space for educators of color to connect, learn, struggle, and heal together.

Anti-Racist White Educators Group (AWE-G):
The Antiracist White Educators Group (AWE-G) aims to cultivate a supportive yet critical space for white-identifying educators to work towards understanding, confronting and undoing racism and white supremacy in ourselves, our schools, and the larger world

NYU Pless Hall 3rd Floor Lounge
82 Washington Square East
New York, NY

Date:
Friday, October 17th

Time:
6:00 to 8:00 PM

There will also be a NYCoRE 101 Session at 5:30 for folks who are new to NYCoRE and who would like to hear more about the organization and ways to plug into it. If you are interested, please RSVP here.

Vegetarian dinner will be provided. Please bring your own drinks. Also, NYCoRE is making an effort to go more green this year. We’ll have plates and cutlery, but we encourage you to bring your own so we can reduce our use of disposables. Let’s be radical in all aspects of living.

Please Bring ID and RSVP here to give us a head count for food, and to notify security.

NYCoRE
http://www.nycore.org

 

 

RSVP for NYCoRE’s Back to School Meeting Sept. 19th

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RSVP for NYCoRE’s

Back to School Meeting

Friday, September 19th

6-8 pm

Join NYCoRE for our first meeting of the 2014-2015 School Year. This year there will be some new changes in the membership and meeting structure, which we’ll be rolling out at this meeting. We will also be introducing our new campaign working group on high stakes testing as a tool to perpetuate racism and neoliberalism.

This meeting will focus on the foundations of NYCoRE’s political lenses and the new structures this year. We’ll be exploring these questions:

What does race have to do with education reform?

What does neoliberalism have to do with education reform?

How is high stakes testing a tool of racism and neoliberalism in education reform?

NYU Pless Hall 3rd Floor Lounge

82 Washington Square East

New York, NY

Friday, September 19th

6:00 to 8:00 PM

There will also be a NYCoRE 101 Session at 5:30 for folks who are new to NYCoRE and who would like to hear more about the organization and ways to plug into it. If you are interested, please RSVP here.

Vegetarian dinner will be provided. Please bring your own drinks. Also, NYCoRE is making an effort to go more green this year. We’ll have plates and cutlery, but we encourage you to bring your own so we can reduce our use of disposables. Let’s be radical in all aspects of living.

Please Bring ID and RSVP here to give us a head count for food, and to notify security.

Thanks,

NYCoRE 

http://www.nycore.org

 

 

Few days left to register: 3rd Annual NYCoRE Educators of Color Retreat

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Hi everyone!
Congratulations on finishing the year and hope you have had a great weekend!

We are finalizing registration for the 3rd annual NYCoRE Educators of Color Retreat and want to make sure you are registered if you would like to come to one or both days.

Please register by THIS WEDNESDAY, July 2 so we can have an accurate count.

Thanks and have a great summer!!
–NYCoRE Educators of Color Group

The end of the academic year is nearing and that means it’s time to mark your calendars for the NYCoRE EOC retreat!

We will be reflecting, healing, building, planning and having some fun together over two days:

Saturday, July 12 we will be at
DreamYard Project
1085 Washington Avenue (at 166th St.)
Bronx, NY 10456

Sunday, July 13 we will be at the
Queens Museum
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368

Please RSVP by filling in the following form: NYCoRE Educators of Color Annual Retreat. To fill it out, visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vriDalNsY9fFRlhgDwK6h-Cgur-TLP29wKLzX7Uvi_o/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

 

 

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