Camouflaged:
Investigating How the U.S. Military Affects You and Your Community
NYCoRE has created
a curricular resource guide, "Camouflaged: Investigating How the U.S. Military Affects You and Your Community as part of a widespread response to the increased
efforts of military recruiters in New York City high schools. Camouflaged is an outgrowth of NYCoRE's original five-day curriculum Military Myths.
We believe that drastic cuts in state and city education budgets are
indicative of the war being waged against low-income youth, especially
youth of color. Military recruiters see the lack of sound educational
institutions in low-income communities as an opportunity to encourage
young people to join the military after high school. We as teachers
must proactively help students address the camouflaged ways they are affected by the military and challenge
them to seek alternatives to enlisting in the military.
To purchase Camouflaged
To inquire about the MILITARY MYTHS film visit:
Paper Tiger Television at http://www.papertiger.org
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Revealing Racist Roots: The 3 R’s for Teaching About the Jena 6
Teacher Activist Groups (TAG), a growing network of teacher organizations with a focus on social justice education, collected resources and suggested activities to help teachers and students understand the case of the Jena 6. TAG currently includes New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE), Chicago based Teachers for Social Justice (TSJ), and the San Francisco based Teachers 4 Social Justice (T4SJ). TAG joins the outpouring of organizations and individuals outraged by the events surrounding the arrest and detainment of 6 African American high school students from Jena, Louisiana. Through the publication of a resource guide entitled, Revealing Racist Roots: The 3 R’s for Addressing the Jena 6 in the Classroom, TAG calls upon educators to raise the issue in their schools.
If all students are expected to learn about our country’s justice system, our history, our laws and our rights, what kinds of lessons can we learn from the Jena 6? TAG created this guide as resource for understanding contemporary racial conflict by placing the case of the Jena 6 within a historical framework. The guide makes connections between the following sections:
* The Historical Context of American Racism
* Linking to Literature
* Media Literacy
* Artivism: Responding Through the Arts
* Social Action
* Detailed Mathematics Unit
* Links to organizations & more information
Click the link to download Revealing Racist Roots: Jena-3Rs
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No
Human is Illegal! - ¡Ningún
Ser Humano es Ilegal!
This
guide is for educators to take on the important issues that teachers
and students have been tackling in their activism INSIDE the classroom.
We must not let our sense of civic duty to engage these critical
issues begin once the school day is over—we must weave them
into our teaching and learning. This resource can be best utilized
online as a web resource. The links and topics will be relevant
long past the next few marches and protests. It is organized into
the following three sections and we encourage teachers to join
us in fulfilling each goal:
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Participate
with NYCoRE in the May 1st Great American Boycott
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Encourage
and Protect Students' Activism
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Connect
your Activism to your Academics
Learn
more about No
Human is Illegal
Download
the resource guide below:
PDF
Version or Word Doc Version
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Through Culture We Resist
Lesson plans, narratives, and curriculum ideas developed by particpants in the African Diaspora Cultural Arts and Social Justice - Inquiry to Action oup (ItAG)
"This book was created from the gatherings, conversations, and workshops of teachers, teaching artists, elders, social workers, organizers, and artists. The group was our Teacher’s Circle and was called: “African Diaspora Cultural Arts Education and Social Justice in the Classroom Inquiry to Action Group”. In this group, teachers and teaching artists worked together to learn about various cultural arts of the African Diaspora (Latin American, North American, Caribbean, and African) including music, dance, visual arts, theater, literacy and storytelling. Each week we introduced a new cultural art/artist, and teacher designed lesson plans tailored to their student's needs that address a social justice issue while teaching about the cultural art. The learning process was rooted in popular education, dialogue, peer exchanges, group coaching of individual teachers, artist and teacher partnerships, and personal exploration of the social justice issue as a point of departure to teaching youth. This group was facilitated by Manuela Arciniegas, Director of The Legacy Circle, cultural Diana Quinones, public school teacher of sixth graders at New Day Academy in the South Bronx, and 8 visiting teaching artists: Atiba Wilson, Julia Gutierrez-Rivera accompanied by Juan Gutierrez and Alexander LaSalle, Jose Figueroa, Luis Da Silva AKA Eli Efi, and Ayanna Saulsberry." - quoted from introduction section
Download
the resource guide below:
PDF Version
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An Unnatural
Disaster: A Critical Guide for Addressing
the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the Classroom
" When
the American public is told that the residents of New Orleans and
the gulf region are finally accounted for and the media re-focuses
on the next event, the disaster will continue for the hundreds of
thousands who have lost their homes, families and the lives they
once knew. Young people have seen the images, heard the rhetoric,
and felt the same sympathetic sense of helplessness that educators
have experienced in the days leading up to this school year. How
will teachers support their students to reflect on the enormity
of this crisis in their classrooms?"
Learn more about
An Unnatural Disaster.
Download
the resource guide below:
PDF
Version
Interested
in discussing and adding to the resources provided by An Unnatural
Disaster?
Join the NYCoRE
Hurricane Katrina Blog
http://nycore-katrina.blogspot.com/
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Resources
Over the years educator activists who have worked with NYCoRE to struggle for social change have developed resources for teachers, parents, and youth. Below are a few resources that have been developed.
NYCoRE Resources for English Language Learners
NYCoRE's Making Schools Responsive to Immigrant Youth Inquiry to Action Group (ItAG) created resources for parents and teachers of young people who are English Language Learners (ELLs). You can download PDF versions below.
A Guide for Parents
A Guide for Teachers
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Workshops
Members of NYCoRE have organized workshops on teacher activism, high stakes testing, counter-military recruitment, and school safety for conferences and teacher groups. Being an all-volunteer organization NYCoRE is always interested in providing workshops when possible. Advanced notice is advised.
If you are interested in reaching out to NYCoRE to faciliate a workshop please contact us at info@nycore.org.
