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K-16 Collaboration Committee

K-16 Collaboration Committee Report 2006

Submitted by Pearl A. McHaney, Chair

Committee Membership:

The K-16 Collaboration Committee for 2006-2007 includes five new members who will serve for three years (July 2006-June 2009). At the 2006 Annual Meeting, new co-chairs to serve from July 2007-2009 will be selected and nominations for replacing McHaney and Abshire will be discussed.

Pearl A. McHaney, Georgia State University (June 2007), Chair
Kreg Abshire, Dana Hall School, Massachusetts (June 2007)

Adam Golub, Guilford College (June 2008)
Kathleen Stoker, ex officio, Westborough High School, (June 2008), ASA Council

Sylvia Aquino, University of California, Davis (June 2009)
Karen Halttunen, University of Southern California (June 2009)
Jennifer Jefferson, University of Texas, Austin (June 2009)
Bernadette May-Beaver, The Lovett School (June 2009)
Barbara Tischler, Horace Mann School (June 2009)

John Stephens, ex officio, ASA Executive Director

Annual Meeting:

Registration: ASA non-members who are K-12 Educators may register for the reduced price of $40. The K-16 Collaboration Committee applauds this recognition and effort to include K-12 Educators.

The K-16 Collaboration Committee luncheon is session 244, Saturday, October 14, 2006, 12 - 1:45 p.m. in the Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will speak on “When Is It Time for Multicultural Learning?: U.S. Peace and Perils.” Lim will be introduced by Pearl A. McHaney. Reservations are required and must be made by 5:00 pm October 13, 2006. Cost of tickets is $15 for regular members, $8 for students and K-12 Educators, $5 for international scholars.

We wish to seek book donations from the exhibiting publishers in order to give all who attend the luncheon a free book. Pearl is verifying this possibility with John Stephens.

Sessions: The K-16 Collaboration Committee wants to be inclusive of K-12 Educators by allowing them to register for the entire conference rather than a one-day “Teachers Day.” Nonetheless, realistically, K-12 educators are best able to attend weekend sessions. Therefore, the K-16 sessions are scheduled for Saturday. Additionally, K-16 Collaboration Committee worked with the Site Resource Committee to co-sponsor numerous off-site tours and events as a means of encouraging K-12 Educators to participate.

Saturday 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM
198. American Studies and the Transnational Classroom: A K-16 Discussion
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207

Chair: Kathleen Marie Stoker, Westborough High School, Westborough, MA
Presenters: Lois Rudnick, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Adam Golub, Guilford College, Greensboro
Maryellen Janeiro, Lawerence High School, Lawerence, MA
Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California

Saturday 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM
222. The Antebellum South and the Problem of Slavery: A K16 Workshop
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207

Chair: Karen Halttunen, University of Southern California
Papers: Camille Leonhardt, Sierra College: “The Expansion of American Slavery”
Clarence E. Walker, University of California, Davis: “The Many Faces of African-American Slavery”
Letty Kraus, University of California, Davis: “The Power of the Word: Literacy and Rebellion in the Antebellum South”

Saturday 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM
257. The Civil Rights Movement: A K16 Curricular Workshop
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207

Chair: Pamela Tindall, University of California, Davis
Papers: Sylvia Aquino, University of California, Davis: “The Evolution of Civil Rights”
Lisa G. Materson, University of California, Davis: “Changing Meanings of Freedom in the Modern Civil Rights Movement”
Jeffrey L. Pollard, Natomas Charter School, Sacramento: “The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the Community Organizing Tradition”

SRC/K12 sponsored sessions:

Friday 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
105. San Francisco Bay Trail Tour Around Oakland Embarcadero. Walking tour (wheelchair accessible)
San Francisco Bay Trail Tour

Friday 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
106. Tour of the Port of Oakland and West Oakland
The Port of Oakland and West Oakland

Friday 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
107. Oakland’s Chinatown, a walking tour
Oakland‘s Chinatown

Saturday 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
283. African American Museum and Library
African American Museum and Library

Saturday 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM
297. Challenges to Umoja: Africans and African Americans in Oakland
First Unitarian Church of Oakland

Presenters: Nunu Kidane, Priority African Network
Kalemba K Kizito, California State University, East Bay
Walter Turner, College of Marin and Africa Today, KPFA-Pacifica Radio
Kelvin Sauls, Downs Memorial United Methodist Church, Oakland

Sunday 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
334. Peralta Hacienda Historical Park Grand Re-opening
Peralta Hacienda Historic Park

Recruitment

Adam Golub and Kathleen Stoker are currently collaborating on an article focusing on the need for interdisciplinary studies courses/methodology at the secondary level in order to prepare students for the college level.

The Committee is working with the Site Resource Committee for area educators to attend the Annual Meeting.

K-16 Website

Adam Golub and John Stephens met at the ASA office in D.C. on July
11, 2006 to discuss the K-16 Website. The ASA website itself is being revised this fall to
make it more interactive, cutting edge, and user friendly. It will allow blogs, online polls, database posting and maintenance, and online newsletters.

We hope to use the K-16 site to encourage a robust community for educators as well as a valuable resource. Adam is working on the website and will solicit feedback about its potential content from attendees at the Annual Meeting.

American Studies Secondary School Guide

Adam Golub and John Stephens also discussed the Guide. This, the committee agreed, should exist on our new website and no longer in print. Adam is working on this project also, making contacts, researching existing programs, and conducting a survey in which people can be directed to the K-16 site to complete a data entry form. In essence, their program info would be posted immediately upon the completion of the form, and our database would thus be “living” and subject to ongoing updates.

Karen Halttunen K12 American Studies Teacher Award

At the Luncheon, we will announce the call for nominations for the first recipient of the Karen Halttunen K12 American Studies Teacher of the Year award, to be given in 2007, at the Luncheon. The award winner’s name will subsequently listed with other “new” awards but will be awarded at the K16 Luncheon and not at the President’s speech event.

The committee will select the recipient from those nominated by any ASA member. Ideally, the award will consist of a glass or metal apple with an engraved plate, a book of significant interest to the recipient’s teaching, one-year membership in ASA, registration fee, travel to and housing funds for the annual meeting, ticket to the K16 Collaboration Luncheon, one term on the K16 Collaboration Committee. The Committee is seeking funds for the award.

Prior to the Annual Meeting, Pearl will circulate a description of the criteria for the award for feedback so that we can announce the award at the 2006 K16 Luncheon.