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K-16 Collaboration Committee

All events will take place in the Grand Hyatt / Texas Salon D

8:00 a.m. -9: 45 a.m.

K-16 Collaboration Committee Teachers Welcome Breakfast

All teachers are welcome to come as we open our annual “Focus on Teaching Day,” a full day of presentations and workshops that seek to strengthen and help generate partnerships between K-12 and university educators. Panelists on represented on the K-16 Committee panels throughout the day are artists, high school teachers, public scholars, university professors, community organization collaborators, and students.

10:00 a.m. -11:45 a.m.

“Of Teachable Moments and Specters of Race”: Forum on Kevin Gaines’s 2009 ASA Keynote Address

A conversational response to Kevin Gaines’ 2009 ASA keynote address, “Of Teachable Moments and Specters of Race,” which highlighted the role that American Studies pedagogy can play in counteracting the damage that post-racial rhetoric has done to American social structures and that grassroots reform and partnerships can play in addressing racial inequities in public education.

Panelists Angela Davis, Kevin Gaines, Michael Meranze, and Michael O. Molina will reflect, among other topics, on the effects of the current economic crisis and racial moment on public education systems, interconnections between high stakes testing and the school-to-prison pipeline, grassroots approaches to educational reform, and new models for K-16 partnerships.

Special Note: We request that all attendees read Kevin Gaines’s 2009 ASA Presidential Address, which is available in the June, 2010 edition of the American Quarterly.

12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Breakout discussion groups with local teachers and students

2:00 p.m. -3:45 p.m.

Race Matters: Teaching Race and Representation in the K-16 Classroom (Co-sponsored by the Visual Culture Caucus)

Representations of race pervade American culture, yet students need to be taught how to recognize them as well as their significant absence and how to interpret them within their historical context. This panel, featuring Leslie Fishbein, Deborah Willis, Barbara L Tischler, Renee Christine Romano, and Orlando Serrano, seeks to collaborate with K-16 teachers in the audience to share strategies for using such representations to examine and explore American racial history.

4:00 p.m. -5:45 p.m.

The Studio for Southern California History: A Case Study

Inspired by Dolores Hayden’s The Power of Place, The Studio for Southern California History seeks to critically chronicle Southern California history “from the bottom up” to recover overlooked histories of community and strife in the larger Los Angeles area and to foster a sense of place and political entitlement among Southern Californians.
Participants in this panel, Sharon Sekhon, Director and Founder, and board members Catherine Gudis, José Alamillo, and Monica Pelayo have all developed scholarship in collaboration with the Studio for Southern California History and will talk of the role of the Studio in fostering a sense of place and of responsibility among scholars and teachers in Los Angeles with the hope of connect the work of the Studio with local history projects and organizations throughout the country.

Any questions or for a copy of Gaines’ Presidential Address, please contact Adam Bush at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

By Catherine Michna, Thu, September 09, 2010 - 8:25 am
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