Organizing Principles, Practices, Tensions, and Breakthroughs When Teaching for Justice: What Educators Can Learn From New York City Human Rights Schools and the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice's Campaign for Culturally Responsive Education

Session Type: Off-Site Visit

Abstract

This Off-Site Session has been organized by AERA members who are also members of the URBAN Research Based Action Network an organization intent on integrating community-engaged research into education and academic disciplines. We will solicit contributions from a panel of administrators, teachers, and students from NYC Human Rights schools and the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice, seeking to strengthen public education. After the panel, there will be breakout discussions with the audience. Our goal for the session is to learn with our panelists about specific human rights principles that center the identities, cultures, and languages of teachers and students in equitable educational spaces. This session features a NYC-based educational coalition model which could be expanded and replicated throughout the country.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Reform

Visit Leader

• Maria Hantzopoulos, Vassar College

Papers

• These Political Times Call for Culturally Responsive Measures - Natasha Capers, Coalition for Educational Justice; Liza Pappas, The New York City Independent Budget Office

Discussants

• Sarah Reed Hobson, Community Allies, LLC.

• Joy Howard, University of Southern Indiana

• Ana Carolina Fernandes de Bessa Antunes, University of Utah