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Featured Presentations and Workshops
A number of nationally and internationally recognized education leaders will offer lectures and workshops during the 2000 Convention. The presenters are listed below and special activities are described below.
Special Events
- Bringing the Information and Technology Literacy Standards to LIFE!!
- Wisconsin High School Forensic Association Speech Adjudication Workshop
- Basketball Coaches Clinic
Martin Brokenleg
Professor of Native American Studies Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South
Dakota
The Circle of Courage
Thursday, October 26, 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Friday, October 27, 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.The Circle of Courage: Early Childhood
Thursday, October 26, 2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Friday, October 27, 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.Dr. Martin Brokenleg, a Professor of Native American Studies at Augustana College, is also an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe. Dr. Brokenleg is Dean of the Black Hills Seminars, a national training institute for professionals serving troubled youth. He also works with Reclaiming Youth International, a non-profit organization networking those serving children in conflict in family, school and community. Dr. Brokenleg has spoken worldwide and draws on more than 25 years of experience working with youth professionals.
Carl A. Grant
Professor Department of Curriculum and Instruction & Department of
Afro-American Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison
Globalization, Curriculum & Instruction, and Multicultural Education
Thursday, October 26, 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Friday, October 27, 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.Dr. Carl A. Grant is Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and a professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1997, he received the School of Education Distinguished Achievement Award. He has written or edited 18 books or monographs in multicultural education and/or teacher education. These include Multicultural Research: A Reflective Engagement with Race, Class, Gender and Sexual Orientation, 1998; Making Choices for Multicultural Education (2nd ed.) (with Christine E. Sleeter), 1998; Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender, and Disability (2nd ed.) (with Christine E. Sleeter), 1997. He is a former classroom teacher and administrator. Professor Grant was a Fulbright Scholar in England, researching and studying multicultural education; and in 1990, the Association of Teacher Educators selected him as one of the 70 leaders in Teacher Education. In 1996 Professor Grant became editor of Review of Educational Research; and in 1993 President of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME).
Andy Hargreaves
Director and Professor, International Centre for Educational Change Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto
The Three Dimensions of Educational Change
Thursday, October 26, 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.Professionals and Parents: Adversaries or Allies
Thursday, October 26, 2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.Dr. Andy Hargreaves is Director of and Professor in the International Centre for Educational Change in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His work in the area of educational change is internationally known and respected and he has discussed this topic with teacher and administrator groups in many countries. Dr. Hargreaves is the author of numerous articles and books including Changing Teachers, Changing Times (OISE Press, 1994) and What's Worth Fighting For In Your School (2nd ed. with Michael Fullan, Teachers' College Press, 1996), and most recently Learning to Change: Teaching Beyond Subjects and Standards (Jossey Bass, 2000).
Jonathan Kozol
Educator, Activist, Author
WEAC Town Hall Meeting with Jonathan Kozol
Friday, October 27, 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Sheraton South BallroomMembers are encouraged to attend this WEAC Town Hall Meeting featuring Jonathan Kozol. Mr. Kozol will answer questions and discuss the important issues facing America's public schools and communities. Jonathan Kozol is among the most respected and passionate advocates of quality public schooling in America. He received the National Book Award in Science, Philosophy, and Religion for Death at an Early Age; the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Rachel and Her Children; and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Amazing Grace. Mr. Kozol's latest book, Ordinary Resurrections, is also his most hopeful book to date. A work of guarded optimism, Ordinary Resurrections is about the little miracles of stubbornly persistent innocence in children who are still unspoiled by the world and still view their place within it without cynicism or despair. Sometimes playful, sometimes jubilantly funny, and sometimes profoundly sad, these sensitive children are revealed to be complex and morally insightful. Their ethical vitality denounces and subverts the racially charged labels that the grownup world too frequently assigns to them. Like Amazing Grace, this book is also set in New York's South Bronx. It is a profoundly different book in mood and vantage point as we see life through the eyes of children, not, as the author puts it, from the perspective of a man encumbered by a Harvard education. Through these children we see devoted teachers in a good but underfunded public elementary school that manages, against all odds, to provide a warm, inviting, and protective learning atmosphere.
Sharon Nelson
Teacher in Residence United States Department of Education Washington,
D.C.
Teacher Leadership: You CAN Make a Difference!
Thursday, October 26, 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Friday, October 27, 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.Sharon Nelson is Teacher in Residence at the U.S. Department of Education. Secretary of Education Richard Riley appointed her to this position in July 2000. Secretary Riley brought Nelson to the department to enhance communication between the nation's practicing teachers and the department's top policymakers. Along with Terry Dozier, Senior Advisor on Teaching, Sharon Nelson works to gather information from teachers and classrooms across the nation and to bring their critical perceptions and insights directly to the Secretary and senior staff in Washington. Ms. Nelson's responsibilities also include ensuring that classroom teachers have knowledge of the department's resources, technologies, and most effective teaching practices and programs. She directs the National Teacher Forum, which brings together 120 of the nation's top teachers yearly to discuss teacher leadership. In an effort to develop teacher leadership and the teacher voice in decision making, Ms. Nelson speaks with and listens to teachers and other education leaders from across the United States. Ms. Nelson has been a high school science teacher for the past 23 years, spending the last 17 years in Waunakee, Wisconsin. Her teaching assignments included chemistry, biology, and biotechnology. A past president of the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers, Ms. Nelson has been actively involved in the standards movement in the state of Wisconsin. Nelson was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching in 1993 by President Clinton.