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north coast<br />
<strong>education</strong> <strong>summit</strong><br />
2006<br />
Photo by Martha Haynes<br />
Education, Democracy<br />
& Social Justice<br />
February 2–5, 2006<br />
Humboldt State University<br />
Arcata, California<br />
www.humboldt.edu/~ed<strong>summit</strong>
Schedule-at-a-Glance<br />
Thursday, February 2, 2006<br />
7:30 pm Post 9/11, Post 2004 Elections, Post Katrina:<br />
Post Katrina: Is This Our Moment For Change?<br />
Friday, February 3, 2006<br />
Suzanne Pharr, author of In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation<br />
Social Justice Keynote. See page 9<br />
Kate Buchanan Room, University Center<br />
Today’S overarching queSTion iS:<br />
How do we reclaim public spaces that foster and promote intercultural dialogue?<br />
8:00 am Registration Desk opens<br />
Goodwin Forum<br />
9:30 – 11:00 Workshop Session 1<br />
11:00 – 12:30 Lunch Break<br />
Special School Finance Workshop with Lee Lipps, california Teachers association<br />
Nelson Hall East 106. See page 14<br />
Looking Back on a Decade of Charter Schools in California<br />
charter School Track Keynote Panel with Nick Driver and others<br />
California Charter Schools Association<br />
The Depot, Banquet Room. See page 14<br />
12:30 – 1:45 Workshop Session 2<br />
2:00 – 3:30 Workshop Session 3<br />
4:00 Opening SeSSiOn: TWin KeynOTe ADDReSSeS<br />
Who Owns the Village Square and Why is it so Square?<br />
Jewelle gomez, poet, activist, and author of The Gilda Stories<br />
Celebrating 500 Years of Indian Education<br />
howard rainer (Taos-Pueblo creek), author, educator, youth advocate<br />
See page 23<br />
Kate Buchanan Room, University Center<br />
7:00 FiLM:<br />
All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party and Beyond<br />
Followed by A Conversation with Ashanti Alston, long-time Black liberation activist<br />
See page 24<br />
Kate Buchanan Room
Saturday, February 4, 2006<br />
Today’S overarching queSTion iS:<br />
Schedule-at-a-Glance<br />
How might <strong>education</strong> and its practitioners support a more equitable future?<br />
8:00 am Registration Desk Opens<br />
Goodwin Forum<br />
8:30 – 10:00 Workshop Session 4<br />
10:30 – 11:30 Workshop Session 5<br />
11:30 – 1:00 Lunch Break<br />
Town Hall MeeTing:<br />
What Can We Do to Rescue Public Education from the<br />
Disastrous Effects of High Stakes Testing?<br />
With Laura rosa and Jan West<br />
Founders Hall 118. See page 37<br />
Student poster Session<br />
Karshner Lounge, University Center<br />
1:00 – 2:15 naTional TeacHer of THe Year KeYnoTe address<br />
Equity of Opportunity for All Children<br />
Jason Kamras, mathematics teacher, John Philip Sousa Middle School, Washington, d.c.<br />
Kate Buchanan Room, University Center. See page 38<br />
2:30 – 4:00 Workshop Session 6<br />
4:30 – 6:00 Workshop Session 7<br />
7:30 norTH coasT filM PreMiere:<br />
Commune: Free Land for Free People<br />
Kate Buchanan Room, University Center. See page 48<br />
7:30 Salmon Is Everything: Theatre, Environmental<br />
Justice and The Klamath Watershed<br />
Studio Theatre, Theatre Arts Building. See page 49
Schedule-at-a-Glance<br />
Sunday, February 5, 2006<br />
Today’S overarching queSTion iS:<br />
What models of teaching and learning best promote an active and engaged<br />
citizenry?<br />
9:30 am Registration Desk Opens<br />
Goodwin Forum<br />
10:00 – 11:30 Workshop Session 8<br />
11:30 – 12:30 Lunch Break<br />
A PuBLIC COnVERSATIOn WITH HOLLY nEAR:<br />
Cultural Work, Education and Social Justice<br />
Founders Hall 118. See page 55<br />
12:30 – 1:30 Workshop Session 9<br />
2:00 – 3:30 Workshop Session 10<br />
3:45 – 5:00 closing KeYnoTe address:<br />
From Silent Spring to Silent night: What Do Hermaphroditic<br />
Frogs Tell us About Environmental and Human Health?<br />
Tyrone Hayes, Professor of Biology, UC Berkeley<br />
Kate Buchanan Room, University Center. See page 63<br />
North Coast Education Summit 2006 2
What is this<br />
<strong>summit</strong> really about?<br />
Our overarching theme is: Education, Democracy and Social Justice<br />
This week at our <strong>summit</strong>, over 1,000 educators, activists, policymakers, parents, students and<br />
community members will debate the issues of our time with a goal of reinvigorating our classrooms,<br />
strengthening our public life, and energizing our local communities in pioneering and sustainable ways.<br />
This year, the <strong>summit</strong> puts forward three major questions for all participants and faculty members to<br />
consider:<br />
1 How do we reclaim public spaces as common spaces fostering intercultural dialogue?<br />
How do we reshape public <strong>education</strong>al spaces into sites that will invite all of us to:<br />
• work across differences in race, culture, socioeconomic class, <strong>education</strong> levels<br />
• mediate conflicting priorities<br />
• discover shared visions and values<br />
• move out of those spaces equipped to change the larger world?<br />
2 How might <strong>education</strong> and its practitioners foster and sustain full and active participation<br />
in democracy’s institutions and support a more equitable, peaceful, and environmentally<br />
sustainable future?<br />
“Education” here might include, but is not limited to:<br />
• K–12 schools and higher <strong>education</strong><br />
• Media and technological literacy<br />
• Political and workplace organizing<br />
• The arts and cultural work<br />
• Entrepreneurship<br />
• Community self-help organizations and activist groups<br />
• Knowledge & folk wisdoms generated out of grassroots efforts<br />
3 What models of teaching and learning best promote an active and engaged citizenry?<br />
What pedagogies and what forms and models of schools, colleges and universities,<br />
workplaces, and informal learning communities most effectively promote the <strong>education</strong><br />
of all for civic engagement and, in the process, foster cultural regeneration, creativity,<br />
innovation, and sustainability?<br />
While all three questions will be tackled in various keynote addresses and workshops throughout the<br />
<strong>summit</strong>, we’re going to focus most intensively on a single question each day: Question #1 on Friday,<br />
#2 on Saturday, and #3 on Sunday.<br />
We’ll be asking <strong>summit</strong> participants to register your own viewpoints on these questions. Make<br />
YOUR voice heard by filling out the forms available at the Summit Registration Desk in Goodwin<br />
Forum and at all keynote sessions.<br />
North Coast Education Summit 2006
Office of the President<br />
February 2, 2006<br />
Dear Participant in the North Coast Education Summit 2006,<br />
Welcome to Arcata, Humboldt State University (HSU), and our fourth North Coast Education Summit. We are<br />
delighted that you have joined us for our three-day series of over 200 workshops, activities, keynote addresses,<br />
and hot-topic debates.<br />
In a short amount of time, this event has become special to many of us in Humboldt County. Not only does it<br />
provide us with the opportunity to present some of the exciting and innovative programs in both our local K-12<br />
schools and our two institutions of higher <strong>education</strong> (HSU and College of the Redwoods), but it draws together<br />
many of the cutting-edge thinkers who live and work on the North Coast.<br />
This year, we are delighted with some additional new tracks at our <strong>summit</strong>, including a track focused on<br />
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development, organized by Maggie Gainer; a track highlighting<br />
emerging programs focused on Native American Issues in Education, organized by Kevin Simmons; and a track<br />
focused on critical issues facing colleges and universities (Teaching in Higher Education), organized by Sally<br />
Botzler. These tracks, combined with our long-standing focus on best practices in K–12 classrooms, model<br />
public school programs, <strong>education</strong>al policy issues, environment and community, and community organizing<br />
and activism, create a very strong and exciting program.<br />
We at Humboldt State University—in partnership with many local sponsors—are happy again to host this<br />
event and encourage all people to come together as we tackle tough challenges facing schools and society.<br />
Enjoy the <strong>summit</strong> and, while you are here take advantage of our beautiful location and the many opportunities<br />
provided in our local communities.<br />
Best wishes,<br />
Rollin C. Richmond, President<br />
Humboldt State University
February 2, 2006<br />
Hello,<br />
After a year’s hiatus, the North Coast Education Summit has returned, bigger and better than ever!<br />
This year we again have expanded our program, this time to include a strong focus on teaching in higher <strong>education</strong>,<br />
entrepreneurship and small-business development, charter schools, and academic literacy.<br />
We’ve also added three key overarching questions that will guide our conversations and keynote addresses this<br />
weekend (see page 3). We are delighted to have a strong list of sponsoring organizations and to bring to our rural<br />
area some innovative and visionary thinkers who will work with us locally to grapple with many of the challenges<br />
we face in our schools and institutions of higher <strong>education</strong>, our region, our state, and our nation.<br />
We are already looking ahead to 2007 and seek your help and input as we intend to move the <strong>summit</strong> to a new<br />
level over the next year. Clearly our original vision, as a small gathering of teachers and other educators, has<br />
been widely expanded, both in terms of the scale of the event and the breadth of the programming.<br />
For 2007, we are considering several significant changes:<br />
• Creating a steering committee comprised of local teachers, academics from HSU and College of the Redwoods,<br />
local activists and organizers, parents, small-business owners, and journalists who will work this spring to<br />
re-vision the event and launch it anew for 2007;<br />
• Identifying a new name and logo for the event in order to capture the full breadth of programming and topics<br />
with which we grapple;<br />
• Seeking funding to advertise the <strong>summit</strong> throughout the West as a mid-winter opportunity for teachers,<br />
academics, activists, and organizers to come together and share innovative thinking and new approaches to<br />
contemporary challenges.<br />
If you have enjoyed the <strong>summit</strong> and have ideas or want to get involved in building next year’s event, please know<br />
that we need people to come forward right now. This event has no paid staff and is entirely dependent on the kindness<br />
of strangers. So please get involved soon. Drop by one of these two meetings:<br />
• Wednesday, February 15th at 7:30 pm at Harry Griffith Hall 209<br />
• Thursday, February 16th at 11:30 am at Harry Griffith Hall 209<br />
If you can’t make a meeting or live at a distance, you can still get involved. Please contact me at er7@humboldt.<br />
edu or (707) 826-3735 in the next week or two.<br />
Again, thanks for making the 2006 <strong>summit</strong> a great success and please help us begin<br />
building the 2007 <strong>summit</strong> today.<br />
My thanks,<br />
<strong>Eric</strong> <strong>Rofes</strong><br />
Coordinator, North Coast Education Summit 2006
General Information<br />
Important items to note before you begin your <strong>summit</strong> experience . . .<br />
This event is meant to be fun, energizing, relaxing, and renewing. Please take a moment to consider ways you can step out<br />
of your usual busy life and give yourself a gift of participation in the event. Consider attending some of the field trips and activities off campus; think<br />
about attending a workshop on a topic that is of interest to you but as yet unexamined; take time off from the <strong>summit</strong> if you feel tired or overwhelmed;<br />
and make use of the event as a time for renewing old friendships with colleagues and discovering some new ones!<br />
ADDENDUM: Be sure to review the addendum sheet, an insert in your program book. This includes last-minute additions, cancellations, and<br />
changes—including room changes. Please take out a pen and take the time to mark up your program book with these corrections so that you can avoid<br />
trouble and confusion over the next three days.<br />
ROOM LOCATIONS: We did our best with room locations, however, the size and the scale of the <strong>summit</strong> continues to grow significantly. We have<br />
managed on Saturday and Sunday to situate most of the workshops in the same general part of the campus. This was not possible on Friday, as HSU<br />
classes are in session and these classes are already assigned to most of the usable spaces on campus. We also had to fit our schedule within the HSU<br />
class schedule on Friday, and this explains the shorter time between some sessions. Please bear with us on Friday and plan your schedule carefully. We<br />
will provide all participants with campus maps at the registration desk. If you get tired of walking on our hilly campus, feel free to flag down the minibus<br />
provided by Disabled Student Services. They are here to support all <strong>summit</strong> participants in moving around the campus.<br />
NAMETAGS: Wear your nametag at all times. It is your entrance ticket into workshops, special events, field trips, and keynote sessions. Please<br />
keep close guard on your nametag this weekend. And please note that we only included your name on the nametag, not your affiliation with a school,<br />
organization, or university. This was a decision we made because we want to encourage all of us to step outside our usual work roles and job identities<br />
and bring to the <strong>summit</strong> all of who we are; we want to help all of us avoid feeling constrained by titles, stature, and the power structures of various<br />
systems of <strong>education</strong>.<br />
EVALUATIONS: Fill out your Summit Evaluation Form. This form should be stuffed into your program book. Keep notes on it throughout the<br />
<strong>summit</strong>. This is how those of us organizing the event learn what’s working and what’s not. Be sure to leave it in the box in the registration area in<br />
Goodwin Forum. If you take it with you, mail it to NCES 2006, Department of Education, HSU, Arcata, CA 95521. We need to hear your feedback to<br />
continue to develop and refine our <strong>summit</strong>! Thanks for your help!<br />
CHILD CARE: After exploring ways to provide childcare at this event, the Summit Organizing Committee found many formidable barriers (space,<br />
resources, and insurance) to providing on-site childcare. Instead we ask people with children to arrange their own childcare during the event and request<br />
reimbursements for your expenses on the registration form. You can fill out a child-care reimbursement form when you register on-line for the Summit<br />
or pick up a form at the registration desk.<br />
DINING: Beverages and pastries have been provided during much of the <strong>summit</strong>. Registrants are invited to stop by Redwood Peace and Justice<br />
Center food booth in the registration area (Goodwin Forum in Nelson Hall East) to enjoy these snacks. If you seek lunch on Friday, Saturday and<br />
Sunday, you might visit their booth or walk or drive into Arcata and enjoy our many fine restaurants, or you might visit the food table in Goodwin<br />
Forum or stop in at the Depot (on Friday) or the Jolly Giant Commons Dining Room (on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) on campus where they have<br />
terrific breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner foods, including vegetarian treats!<br />
PARKING: A parking permit is required from 7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on Friday. No permit should be required for Friday evening, Saturday, or Sunday,<br />
but do check with the parking monitor on Harpst Street. Daily parking permits may be purchased from the dispenser on Harpst Street. This permit is<br />
valid in most lots. Any special parking needs should be directed to Parking and Commuter Services at (707) 826-3773.<br />
REGISTRATION: All participants and presenters must either pre-register or register at the Registration Desk in Goodwin Forum. You will receive<br />
a nametag and <strong>summit</strong> program book. Registration for the North Coast Education Summit was coordinated and managed by the HSU Extended<br />
Education Office until January 9 th and, since that time, it has been overseen by a team of faculty, staff, and students from the Department of Education.<br />
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: It is important to the Summit Organizing Committee that the entire <strong>summit</strong> be accessible to students, retired<br />
people, and people with limited financial resources. Thanks to our generous sponsors, we were able to produce a professional, three-day <strong>summit</strong> with a<br />
very low registration fee of $40. Yet even this fee is too steep for some interested parties. Hence we’ve offered scholarships to people who could not afford<br />
the full cost of the event and offer low-cost admission to HSU, CR, and high school students. We want to thank our sponsors and our other registrants<br />
who donated to the scholarship fund for making it possible to welcome all participants to this event regardless of financial resources.<br />
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General Information<br />
TABLES FOR LITERATURE: We will include tables for the distribution of literature about activities involving <strong>education</strong>, schools, organizing,<br />
activism or anything else in Nelson Hall East. Feel free to leave your literature there for folks to peruse and pick up! If your organization wants to set up<br />
a table at the event, visit our website (www.humboldt.edu/~ed<strong>summit</strong>) and review our guidelines and fees.<br />
ZERO-WASTE EVENT: The North Coast Education Summit 2006 has become well-known for its celebration of <strong>education</strong> in all its forms<br />
and its commitment to democracy and social justice. Each, year, a strong thread of workshops and speeches at the <strong>summit</strong> has examined pressing<br />
environmental issues. In keeping with this commitment for social and environmental sustainability, we have decided to take a bold step forward and<br />
strive to make the 2006 <strong>summit</strong> a Zero-Waste Event. As a participant, there are at least three ways that you can help us work towards our goal of zero<br />
waste:<br />
1. Bring your own mug and food ware (i.e. utensils, plate, cloth napkins etc)<br />
2. Make a conscious effort to reduce the amount of materials you use.<br />
3. Embrace our collective efforts toward zero waste and encourage others to do the same.<br />
The guiding principle of zero waste is a whole-systems approach to both product design and consumption. The idea seeks to follow nature’s example:<br />
all materials are cycled back for productive use. We will provide you with lots of information about zero-waste efforts at the <strong>summit</strong> and we will offer<br />
workshops that will assist you in making your home, your school, and your community into zero-waste sites.<br />
Both the organizers and the participants at the <strong>summit</strong> will work energetically to create an event that not only makes an effort to recycle and eliminate<br />
our event’s contribution to landfill, but also to explore ways in which our over-consumption can affect other living things around the world. We hope that<br />
our successes will inspire and become a model for other <strong>education</strong>al events, for local schools and classrooms, and for community organizations that are<br />
committed to social and environmental justice. We expect to learn a lot from our attempt this year and aim to continue to strive for zero waste-events in<br />
the future. For more information about zero waste check out Grass Roots Recycling Network and Zero Waste Alliance.<br />
CONFLICTING SESSIONS: We’ve tried to carefully plan the schedule to avoid placing all the workshops on a similar topic, say, bullying<br />
in schools, for example, at the same time. Sometimes we could not avoid creating conflicts due to workshop leader preferences, room/equipment<br />
availability, or other factors. Also, be sure to consult your addendum, inserted into each program book, for last-minute room changes, additions, and<br />
cancellations.<br />
SO MANY CHOICES: We know that you may want to attend several workshops that are taking place at the same time. Last year we had several<br />
participants note on their evaluation forms that they believed we should schedule only a very few workshops at a time. We thought over this proposal<br />
and decided to do otherwise, because we want many of our workshops to be intimate learning activities, rather than large lectures filled with 200 people.<br />
We ask all participants to understand that making difficult choices is a part of attending a professional development gathering like this and to view this<br />
abundance as a positive sign of the rich talents we were fortunate to attract to our event this year.<br />
WORKSHOP TRACKS: Below some of the workshop descriptions that follow, we have listed the names of key tracks of which the workshop is a<br />
part. Keep in mind that these are not formal or rigid tracks, but simply intended to assist participants as they put together their schedule.<br />
SPECIAL SYMBOLS: Please note the following symbols that we will use in the text adjacent to specific types of activity sessions<br />
U Extended Workshop Session<br />
Time to Eat!<br />
Field Trips and Special Tours (on or off campus)<br />
STANDING-ROOM ONLY: Because we do not have the capacity to pre-enroll participants in specific workshops, please know that some<br />
sessions will be jam-packed and others are likely to have fewer participants. As educators, activists, and community organizers, we should all work to<br />
make the best of these situations. Please note that workshop leaders have been told that, should participation reach their desired capacity for a session or<br />
a room to become overly full, they have the right to place a note on the door indicating that the session is full. In such a case, we ask all who are turned<br />
away to select another workshop session.<br />
PRESENTER NO-SHOWS: If you show up for a workshop and the presenter does not, please notify <strong>Eric</strong> <strong>Rofes</strong> or someone at the registration<br />
desk in the green & gold room. This will help us screen presenters more carefully in future years.<br />
Please review closely the rich mix of workshops and activities on the following pages. There is a lot going on here and we’ve found that things work best<br />
when folks take the time to mull over the program and create their own unique menu of selections for the weekend.<br />
North Coast Education Summit 2006
Media SponSor<br />
north Coast <strong>education</strong> Summit 2006
Thursday, 5:00 pm – :00 pm<br />
GREENPEACE CAMPUS ACTIVIST TRAINING<br />
IN ACTION<br />
You will help coordinate a local action as part of the Greenpeace Kleercut<br />
campaign. You’ll gain hands-on experience that will involve pulling off a<br />
guided local action of strategic importance while building your own organizing<br />
skills. On Thursday we’ll begin with a briefing on the Greenpeace<br />
campaign to enable us to launch our local efforts utilizing skills such as action<br />
planning, community outreach, corporate pressure tactics, and media<br />
work. This will be an exciting challenge and requires a willingness to dive<br />
in and make a campaign action happen on a condensed timeline. Please<br />
familiarize yourself with the campaign at www.kleercut.net. No prior coordinating<br />
experience is necessary but a flexible and open mind is.<br />
*This is the first of four meetings during the <strong>summit</strong> weekend for the organizing<br />
team. Please attend all four meetings and experience the activist<br />
training first-hand!<br />
LINDSEY ALLEN is an organizer for Greenpeace, based out of San Francisco.<br />
For the past few months she has worked with students to pressure<br />
Kimberly-Clark, the makers of Kleenex, to increase their recycled content<br />
and end their role in the destruction of the boreal forest of North America.<br />
As the National Student Organizer for the Greenpeace forest campaign<br />
she specializes in local university campaigns and international corporate<br />
campaigns. She graduated from Humboldt State University in May 2004<br />
with a degree in Anthropology and minors in Women’s Studies and Ethnic<br />
Studies. She began her organizing career with the HSU Women’s Resource<br />
Center in 2002 before moving on to work with the State PIRGs, Environment<br />
California and, now, Greenpeace. Contact her at lindsey.allen@sfo.<br />
greenpeace.org.<br />
Nelson Hall East 116<br />
Thursday Workshops & Activities<br />
Thursday, : 0 pm — Social Justice Keynote Event<br />
POST /11, POST 2004 ELECTIONS, POST KATRINA:<br />
IS THIS OUR MOMENT FOR CHANGE?<br />
SUZANNE PHARR, author of In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation<br />
Suzanne Pharr is the former director of the Highlander Center in New Market,<br />
Tennessee. She is the founder of the Women’s Project in Arkansas, where she was on<br />
the staff for 19 years. Suzanne also worked as a lead strategist and media officer for the<br />
No on 9 Campaign for a Hate-Free Oregon. For the past three decades, her work has<br />
focused on building a multi-racial, multi-issue progressive movement. Suzanne is the<br />
author of Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism and In the Time of the Right: Reflections<br />
on Liberation. She is widely considered to be one of the nation’s most knowledgeable<br />
experts on the Right. Suzanne can be reached at pharr39@bellsouth.net.<br />
Introduction by Maria Corral-Ribordy, Ethnic Studies<br />
Poets: Courtney Terry and Gustavo Sanchez<br />
Performance by Spare Change<br />
Supported by the HSU Women’s Enrichment Fund<br />
Kate Buchanan Room<br />
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Photo by Martha Haynes
Friday, 9:30 am – 11:00 am SESSION 1<br />
Friday, 8: 0 am<br />
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OPENING MORNING RECEPTIONS<br />
If you are planning on participating in either of the following<br />
two tracks, please consider joining in a special kickoff<br />
reception and meet colleagues who will be attending sessions<br />
in these tracks.<br />
CHARTER SCHOOL TRACK RECEPTION<br />
Agate Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SMALL BUSINESS<br />
DEVELOPMENT TRACK RECEPTION<br />
Kate Buchanan Room - B, University Center<br />
Friday, : 0 am – 11:00 am Session 1<br />
KEEP LITERACY ALIVE THROUGH MUSIC<br />
Come experience new ways to integrate standards-based music in your<br />
classroom instruction using balanced literacy while maintaining your<br />
pacing with your reading program. Shared reading lessons, interactive<br />
writing and writing prompts, center activities, and other strategies will be<br />
shared. Songs include: There’s a Whole Lot of Learning Going On, Yes I’m<br />
a Reader, We Won’t Stress When We Assess and Paragraphin’ Rappin’.<br />
RON BOREN is Teacher and Literacy Coordinator for the Modesto City<br />
Schools and teaches third grade in a sheltered classroom. He has written<br />
and produced four standards-based CD’s for classroom instruction.<br />
He travels to reading conferences and school districts during his off-track<br />
time. He has two school-wide assemblies: We Won’t Stress When We Assess<br />
and Character of a Great Nation. He can be reached at Boren2tch@<br />
aol.com.<br />
Harry Griffith Hall 203<br />
OUTSIDE IN: INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL<br />
EDUCATION INTO THE K–12 CURRICULUM<br />
In this workshop, teachers working in the local community will discuss<br />
their experiences integrating environmental <strong>education</strong> into the general<br />
<strong>education</strong> curriculum for K-12 students. Appreciation for nature can be an<br />
integral part of a positive learning environment and can lead both to enhancing<br />
the natural environment and creating great personal growth. By<br />
taking lessons outside of the classroom for hands-on experiential coursework,<br />
teachers can ensure that learning becomes more enjoyable, meaningful,<br />
and fulfilling for both students and teachers.<br />
ELAINE GRAY is the retired superintendent for Freshwater School District.<br />
She can be reached at egray2347@yahoo.com.<br />
KRISTIN PITSENBARGER is a first-year graduate student in the Environment<br />
and Community MA Program at HSU. She can be reached at kmp30@<br />
humboldt.edu. She will be joined by ADRIANA GUZMAN (rae317@juno.<br />
com) and MARLENE GOMEZ (mg84@humboldt.edu).<br />
Forestry 105<br />
QueSTiOn OF The DAy<br />
how do we reclaim public spaces that<br />
foster and promote intercultural dialogue?<br />
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NURTURE AND EMPOWER: GIVING CHILDREN THE<br />
TOOLS TO DISMANTLE AND BUILD A DIFFERENT<br />
HOUSE<br />
Members of marginalized communities are highly skilled at survival,<br />
even under the most desperate situations. As caregivers to our children,<br />
we are responsible for providing basic necessities. However, the complex<br />
social systems in which our lives are embedded dictate that we socialize<br />
our children for survival beyond mere physical needs. Using a roundtable<br />
discussion format, this workshop will address the following questions:<br />
How do we manage the delicate contradiction of subverting the dominant<br />
world while trying to survive in it? How do we teach our children to thrive<br />
without robbing them of their humanity? What are some of the tactics we<br />
may employ to maintain a balance? This presentation<br />
welcomes those who are interested in addressing the<br />
needs of all the youth in our community.<br />
MARIA CORRAL-RIBORDY is a graduate student<br />
in the Department of Education and a lecturer in Ethnic<br />
Studies at Humboldt State University. She is also<br />
the mother of two teenage boys, ages 13 and 14, and<br />
can be contacted at maru@cox.net.<br />
CANDICE RICE is the mother of two boys, ages 9 and<br />
5, is on staff at the HSU Women’s Resource Center,<br />
and is an ethnic studies major at Humboldt State University.<br />
She can be reached at davincia@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Nelson Hall East 120<br />
THE POWER OF PROTECTION: LEARN TO<br />
INCORPORATE A CHILD-FRIENDLY SEXUAL<br />
ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM INTO YOUR<br />
CLASSROOM.<br />
This interactive workshop provides teachers with classroom tools that<br />
help children establish personal boundaries and identify ways to appropriately<br />
interact with others. Specific rules for “private parts” and<br />
methods of seeking help when feeling violated are outlined. The question<br />
“What is normal childhood sexual behavior?” will be a topic of<br />
discussion, as well as the teacher’s role in identifying and reporting<br />
child abuse.<br />
TERI VODDEN, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over<br />
20 years experience working with children and their families. She was<br />
a founding member of the Humboldt County Child Abuse Services<br />
Team and is an established expert court witness in the area of child<br />
abuse. She has facilitated workshops on the subject of sexual abuse for<br />
schools, police departments, mental health facilities and child welfare<br />
agencies. She can be reached at tvodden@pon.net.<br />
Nelson Hall East 116<br />
Presenters with audio-visual issues:<br />
call eric Van duzer, staffing the phones now:<br />
826-3726
Friday, 9:30 am – 11:00 am SESSION 1<br />
CREATIVE DRAMA AND CURRICULUM<br />
This workshop will demonstrate the skill of taking any lesson plan and<br />
turning it into an enjoyable, exciting and fulfilling experience for both the<br />
teacher and student. Using simple strategies and a little creativity allows<br />
students to be completely engaged while they absorb the information from<br />
a lesson. This technique is typically characterized as creative drama for<br />
the classroom and has been proven to be an effective teaching tool.<br />
TINAMARIE IVEY teaches creative drama for the classroom at HSU and<br />
offers an all-day creative drama workshop for professional development<br />
through HSU Extended Education. Tina has been teaching drama as a<br />
resident artist for the past eight years in both Humboldt County and in<br />
Southern California. She has been a grantee of the California Arts Council<br />
and Humboldt Area Foundation and returns each summer as a lecturer<br />
at College of the Redwoods for the Upward Bound program. She can be<br />
reached at parafraze@earthlink.net.<br />
Kate Buchanan Room - A, University Center<br />
GENDER IDENTITY AND SCHOOL<br />
ENVIRONMENTS: PROTECTING TRANSGENDER<br />
AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING STUDENTS<br />
On January 1, 2005, the Hate Crimes Omnibus Bill (SB 1234), signed<br />
by Governor Schwarzenegger, went into effect. Among other provisions,<br />
the law amends the California Student Safety and Violence<br />
Prevention Act of 2000 by modifying the definition of “gender” as it<br />
appears in Penal Code Section 422.56(c). The Student Safety Act prohibits<br />
discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation<br />
and gender in <strong>education</strong>al institutions statewide. For purposes of the<br />
act, the definition of “gender” includes a person’s “gender identity and<br />
gender related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically<br />
associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth.”<br />
In light of the Student Safety Act, school districts have begun to update<br />
their nondiscrimination and harassment policies and to adopt practical<br />
measures to protect gender non-conforming youth from possible<br />
harassment or violence. The Transgender Law Center offers this workshop<br />
conducted by an experienced attorney, for school administrators,<br />
educators, and attorneys representing school districts. The goal of the<br />
workshop is to provide information about the Student Safety Act, with<br />
particular emphasis on gender and gender identity, as well as practical<br />
solutions for California educators.. The session<br />
will discuss implications both for K-12<br />
schools and higher <strong>education</strong>.<br />
CHRISTOPHER DALEY is Director of the<br />
Transgender Law Center. Chris is a 2001<br />
graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at UC<br />
Berkeley. After coordinating the Transgender<br />
Law Project at the National Center for<br />
Lesbian Rights for a year, he became the<br />
Co-Director of the newly created Transgender<br />
Law Center in 2002. He has worked on<br />
transgender student safety issues over the<br />
past four years, including helping San Francisco<br />
Unified School District and Los Angeles<br />
Unified School District create guidelines<br />
for implementing the state gender identity non-discrimination law. He<br />
can be reached at chris@transgenderlawcenter.org.<br />
U Extended Session: 9:30-12:30<br />
Mad River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
VIDEO SCREENING:<br />
TO HAvE ANd TO BE (Etre et Avoir) (2002)<br />
<strong>Eric</strong> <strong>Rofes</strong> has called this remarkable French film “the single best<br />
movie I’ve seen which captures the magic of teaching.” The Internet<br />
Movie Database plot summary reads: “How do we learn to live with<br />
others and their wishes? Director Nicolas Philibert poses this question<br />
in a village one-room schoolhouse in Auvergne, where Georges<br />
Lopez teaches 13 children, ages ranging from about four to 12. Against<br />
a landscape of mountains and farmland, from driving snow to rain to<br />
sun, the children gather in Lopez’s warm and colorful classroom, to<br />
read, write dictation, cook, and sort things out. At home, the older ones<br />
do homework with parents after their chores. At year’s end, they look<br />
ahead to the next, visiting the middle school and meeting the little ones<br />
coming in the fall. As they learn sums and adjectives, with Lopez’s<br />
help, they also learn to live side by side.” 104 minutes.<br />
Nelson Hall East 115<br />
PUBLIC RELATIONS & CHARTERS: GETTING YOUR<br />
MESSAGE OUT THROUGH THE PRESS<br />
The success and well-being of the charter school movement depends upon<br />
how well the public understands charter schools. This session will discuss<br />
how charter schools and supporters can strategically tell their story<br />
through the media, both locally and statewide. The session will also spotlight<br />
activities and strategies that raise support among elected officials,<br />
community leaders and other key stakeholders. Panelists will discuss stories<br />
and lessons from the experience of schools and state associations, and<br />
share practical suggestions on how best to communicate charter school<br />
key messages and work with the media.<br />
In this session, participants will: (1) Learn about successful public messaging<br />
efforts and strategies used by individual charter schools and state<br />
charter leaders and, (2) Learn how to engage and effectively communicate<br />
with important stakeholders and the media.<br />
Interested attendees should include parents,<br />
developers, funders, the business community,<br />
local, state and national policymakers, chartergranting<br />
entities/authorizers and school staff.<br />
GARY LARSON is the Vice President of Communications<br />
for the California Charter Schools<br />
Association. Gary also served for two years as<br />
Director of Communications the California<br />
Network of Educational Charters (CANEC).<br />
Gary develops and implements the public messaging<br />
strategy for the state’s charter school<br />
movement and trains the state’s charter school community in effectively<br />
engaging the press. He can be reached at garyl@charterassociation.org.<br />
Charter Schools<br />
Agate Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
11 North Coast Education Summit 2006
Friday, 9:30 am – 11:00 am SESSION 1<br />
THE JOYS AND CHALLENGES OF COMMUNITY-<br />
BASED RESEARCH: THREE PROFESSORS SHARE<br />
THEIR RESEARCH<br />
Community-based research has long been trumpeted as one possible way<br />
to challenge traditional hierarchies and power dynamics in academic research<br />
and to produce new knowledges that cross disciplinary paradigms<br />
and cultural divides. Yet academics often mean very different things when<br />
they use the term “community-based research,” and often discover a range<br />
of barriers to overcome and challenges to be confronted as they attempt to<br />
create research methodologies that promote decolonization while simultaneously<br />
being accepted as credible within academic circles.<br />
In this workshop, three HSU professors share their own perspectives<br />
on the challenges and joys of conducting community-based research.<br />
Kim Berry is conducting activist research on a new social movement of<br />
women living outside the institution of marriage in northwestern India.<br />
Manolo Callahan is linking popular <strong>education</strong> techniques and comparative<br />
community research strategies as part of a broader effort to explore<br />
the political possibilities of autonomous movement building. <strong>Eric</strong> <strong>Rofes</strong><br />
has spent much of the past decade using a mix of methods (popular <strong>education</strong>,<br />
life-history interviews, walking-tour storytelling) to capture diverse<br />
perspectives on the ways in which gay men of various races, classes, and<br />
geographic locations forged identity and community in the 1970s, the decade<br />
preceding AIDS. The professors will share their research and discuss<br />
specific obstacles they have faced in attempting to interrupt traditional<br />
dynamics between researchers and study participants.<br />
KIM BERRY is Associate Professor and Program Leader of Women’s Studies<br />
at HSU. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University<br />
in 1997. She has worked with feminist organizations in India and has<br />
conducted research on rural Indian women’s movements, single women in<br />
rural India, and economic and cultural imperialism in US-sponsored development<br />
programs for Indian women. Kim’s email is kb14@humboldt.edu.<br />
MANOLO CALLAHAN is Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Program<br />
at HSU. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in<br />
US-Mexico Borderlands/Chicano Studies in 2003. He is also a member<br />
of Accion Zapatista, a network of activists in California and Texas who<br />
support the ESLN while exploring Zapatismo locally. He can be reached<br />
at mc92@humboldt.edu.<br />
ERIC ROFES is Associate Professor of Education and Program Leader of<br />
Leadership Studies at HSU. He received his Ph.D. in Social and Cultural<br />
Studies in Education from UC Berkeley in 1999. He conducts monthly<br />
walking tours of San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood focused on<br />
gay men’s cultures of the 1970s. He can be reached at er7@humboldt.edu.<br />
Nelson Hall East 106<br />
THE ALPHABET SOUP OF ACCOUNTABILITY:<br />
API, AYP, NCLB, SARC FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS<br />
AND OTHERS<br />
The federal No Child Left Behind law and the state Education Code place<br />
numerous requirements on schools to demonstrate that they are doing a<br />
good job. Accountability programs call for your school to show evidence of<br />
complying with these laws. Learn how to conquer your API scores, calculate<br />
instructional minutes, design and present your school calendar, report<br />
Advanced Placement, and compare your results with district data. Master<br />
the School Academic Report Card and use it to identify opportunities for<br />
future improvement.<br />
ALICE MILLER is a founder of three California charter schools, including<br />
California’s first charter, the San Carlos Charter Learning Center. Alice<br />
has held numerous positions in the charter world, including school director,<br />
financial officer, technical officer, and counselor. Alice worked for the Cali-<br />
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fornia Network of Educational Charters (CANEC) and provided technical<br />
support to the U.S. Charter Schools Network for many years. Alice is currently<br />
the Help Desk Technical Expert for the California Charter Schools<br />
Association. She can be reached at alicem@charterassociation.org.<br />
Charter Schools<br />
Founders Hall 118<br />
A ROLLING THINK TANK: IN WHAT WAYS HAS<br />
THE CURRENT INCARNATION OF THE RIGHT<br />
AFFECTED YOUR LIFE, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR<br />
COMMUNITY?<br />
This session, one of five such gatherings taking place during the <strong>summit</strong>,<br />
attempts to bring together students and community activists to share experiences<br />
and stories related to living through the current political moment.<br />
Suzanne Pharr, the organizer, will use popular <strong>education</strong> methods to spark<br />
a rolling conversation throughout the <strong>summit</strong> about the ways that today’s<br />
social, economic, and political context presents both obstacles and opportunities<br />
for social movements. After the facilitator presents a 20-minute<br />
overview of the current incarnation of the Right, participants will tackle<br />
three questions: (1) How have you, your family, your work been impacted?<br />
(2) What kind of new thinking do we need to do? (3) What are strategies<br />
for putting that new thinking into effect? Each session will be limited to the<br />
first eight people either signing up for it at the <strong>summit</strong> registration desk<br />
in Goodwin Forum, Nelson Hall East, or arriving at the room. We will attempt<br />
to mix HSU students and local community activists.<br />
SUZANNE PHARR is the former director of the Highlander Center in<br />
New Market, Tennessee. She is the founder of the Women’s Project in Arkansas,<br />
where she was on the staff for 19 years. Suzanne also worked as a<br />
lead strategist and media officer for the No on 9 Campaign for a Hate-Free<br />
Oregon. For the past three decades, her work has focused on building a<br />
multi-racial, multi-issue progressive movement. Suzanne is the author of<br />
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism and In the Time of the Right: Reflections<br />
on Liberation. She is widely considered to be one of the nation’s most<br />
knowledgeable experts on the Right. Suzanne can be reached at pharr39@<br />
bellsouth.net.<br />
Nelson Hall East 118<br />
SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR FIRST-GENERATION<br />
GRADUATE STUDENTS<br />
A panel of first-generation graduate students (those who are the first<br />
in their family to attend graduate school) offers tips and insights regarding<br />
how to survive graduate school. The panelists discuss the issues<br />
they have faced and the hurdles they have had to overcome. This<br />
is intended to be a candid, no-holds-barred discussion of the real-life<br />
academic experiences of people in graduate school today.<br />
NICK SKY is a second-year graduate student in the NRPI program.<br />
He is a first-generation graduate student and can be reached at nick.<br />
sky@sbcglobal.net.<br />
JOSEPHINE JOHNSON is a second-year graduate student studying<br />
composition in the English department. She is a first-generation graduate<br />
student.<br />
JAMES BRAGG is a graduate student in the Environment and Community<br />
MA Program. He is a first-generation graduate student.<br />
Founders Hall 179
Friday, 9:30 am – 11:00 am SESSION 1<br />
TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT FOR<br />
SUSTAINABILITY AND SUCCESS IN START-UP<br />
BUSINESSES<br />
Presenters will introduce principles and techniques of Total Quality Management<br />
(TQM) in a 15-20 minute primer. The primer will apply TQM to<br />
the context of planning and managing for ecological, economic, and social<br />
sustainability (triple-bottom-line) and success of start-up businesses. After<br />
the primer, participants will form small groups for approximately 30<br />
minutes. The groups will use one member’s business concept to identify<br />
specific activities to manage for sustainability and success in the value<br />
adding process. After discussion, the small groups will rejoin the larger<br />
group. For 30-40 minutes the larger group will discuss the results of the<br />
small group. The goals of the workshop are that: 1) participants will become<br />
familiar with TQM’s application to sustainability management; 2)<br />
participants will gain skills to think and to plan stratigically for triplebottom-line<br />
success; 3) participants will use a framework for guiding the<br />
process of identifying specific sustainability<br />
and value adding activities.<br />
DR. MIKE THOMAS is an accounting professor<br />
specializing in management accounting<br />
systems at HSU. As an award-winning<br />
educator, author, and researcher, Dr. Thomas<br />
brings a wealth of knowledge and real-world<br />
experience in strategic planning and profitability<br />
analysis to the workshop. He also is<br />
a former consultant with the Small Business<br />
Administration, and small business owner.<br />
He can be reached at mft5@humboldt.edu.<br />
BRANDON HEMENWAY is an undergraduate<br />
student in HSU’s Business Department.<br />
He is also currently President of the Sustainable<br />
Entrepreneurs Network (SEN), a student<br />
organization dedicated to empowering<br />
students interested in sustainability and entrepreneurship.<br />
Brandon has participated in<br />
the start-up of two businesses—an insurance<br />
agency and a bumper sticker & t-shirt business.<br />
Most recently, Brandon has received<br />
great acclaim in the HSU community for<br />
organizing the SEN sustainable organic vegestand<br />
during the month of October on the HSU quad. He can be reached<br />
at brandon21@cox.net.<br />
Entrepreneurship & Small Business Development<br />
Kate Buchanan Room-B, University Center<br />
GOING BEYOND THE ONLINE SYLLABUS:<br />
INTEGRATING EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES<br />
INTO YOUR CURRICULUM<br />
This workshop focuses on the effective use of technologies in the classroom.<br />
This focus includes the hardware side, such as using laptops and<br />
data projectors in place of overheads, as well as the software side, such<br />
as the use of learning management systems like Moodle. Additional subtopics<br />
might include using concept-mapping tools like Inspiration, online<br />
image galleries, developing and monitoring online discussion forums, creating<br />
online assessment tools, and virtual communities.<br />
RILEY QUARLES is Manager of HSU Instructional Media Services. He<br />
holds an MA in Education from George Washington University. He can be<br />
reached at rq1@humboldt.edu.<br />
TODD STONE is the Coordinator of HSU’s Learning Management Systems<br />
and holds an MA in Distance Learning from University of Phoenix.<br />
He can be reached at ms7@humboldt.edu.<br />
MICHAEL PENNEY is the Learning Management Systems Project Manager<br />
at HSU. He can be reached at mmp5@humboldt.edu.<br />
JOAN VAN DUZER works as an Instructional Technologist at Humboldt<br />
State University where she assists faculty with instructional design and<br />
technical support in the development of high-quality online courses using<br />
both commercial and open source software. She holds a BS in Computer<br />
Information Systems and an MS in Education with a specialization in Online<br />
Teaching and Learning. Contact Joan at joan@humboldt.edu.<br />
U Extended Session: 9:30–12:30<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Moonstone Beach Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING IN THE COLLEGE<br />
CLASSROOM<br />
What is learner-centered teaching? How is it possible to cover required<br />
content while being learner-centered in our teaching? In this workshop,<br />
you will explore the the various dimensions of a research-based, learnercentered<br />
teaching framework and discover how you may be able to apply<br />
learner-centered strategies in your teaching and still achieve your content<br />
goals.<br />
DR. DEBORAH L. NOLAN has a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Adult<br />
Studies (with a specialization in college teaching) from the University of<br />
Denver. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Education at the College<br />
of the Redwoods (CR) in Eureka, California, and works with preservice<br />
teachers and paraprofessionals. Prior to joining CR, she was Assistant<br />
Professor of Education at a community college in Colorado, a teacher<br />
<strong>education</strong> program administrator, a consultant within the <strong>education</strong>al<br />
software industry, and a university <strong>education</strong> grants administrator. She<br />
also taught elementary school in California for six years. Dr. Nolan can be<br />
reached at deborah-nolan@redwoods.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Klamath River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
Tasty treats and healthy lunch food<br />
is available at the<br />
Redwood Peace & Justice Center<br />
booth in Goodwin Forum!<br />
SHARING DISCOURSES: REPURPOSING ‘FORMS<br />
OF JUDGMENT’ AND RECOVERING RUBRICS<br />
In this interactive workshop, participants will spend time with student<br />
writing and then explore the ways in which teacher- and student-created<br />
evaluation rubrics can enhance the writing curriculum. Professor Duckart<br />
will model student-centered pedagogy that applies across curricula and<br />
grade levels<br />
TRACY DUCKART serves on the Redwood Writing Project Leadership<br />
Team. She is an experienced teacher of writing, and is currently teaching<br />
in HSU’s English Department. She can be reached at tdd2@humboldt.<br />
edu.<br />
Academic Literacy<br />
Nelson Hall East 113<br />
1 North Coast Education Summit 2006
Friday, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm SESSION 1<br />
AN ESSENTIAL SEMINAR<br />
FOR K–12 EDUCATORS<br />
UNDERSTANDING THE FINANCING OF PUBLIC<br />
SCHOOLS IN CALIFORNIA<br />
If you are involved in public schools as a teacher, administrator, parent,<br />
student, or policymaker, you want to attend this unique session.<br />
This workshop was requested by <strong>summit</strong> organizers to provide local<br />
educators and people becoming teachers with a brief demystification<br />
of <strong>education</strong> funding in our state.<br />
How did California drop from 6th in per pupil school funding to 35th?<br />
How does Proposition 98 work and has it really protected school funding<br />
since its enactment in 1988? Why do some school districts receive<br />
much more per pupil funding than others? In an era of chronic state<br />
budget deficits, are there any solutions to school funding inequities?<br />
These mysteries and more will be discussed in lay terms for all affected<br />
by the California public <strong>education</strong> system.<br />
LEE LIPPS is a school finance specialist for the California Teachers<br />
Association. His responsibilities include individual school district budget<br />
analyses, sitting on fact-finding panels, and analyzing the financial<br />
impact of proposed state <strong>education</strong> legislation. He recently served on<br />
the state committees that revised the K-12 Criteria and Standards and<br />
the State K–12 Audit Guide. Contact him at llipps@cta.org.<br />
Nelson Hall East 106<br />
LUNCH BREAK<br />
Consider enjoying a hearty lunch at the Depot, on the first floor of University Center, or at the J in the Jolly Giant<br />
Commons nearby. Perhaps you might visit the food booth in Goodwin Forum, Nelson Hall East and pick up a<br />
snack. Met any interesting people today? Why not invite them to lunch?<br />
TWO SPECIAL LUNCHEON OPPORTUNITIES<br />
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CHARTER SCHOOL TRACK<br />
KEYNOTE PANEL<br />
THE PAST AND FUTURE<br />
FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS<br />
IN CALIFORNIA<br />
Join two HSU professors and representatives<br />
of the California Association of Charter<br />
Schools for a lunch-time public conversation<br />
on the first decade of charters schools in<br />
California. How has the charter movement<br />
fared when placed alongside its original vision?<br />
What surprises and unexpected consequences<br />
have occurred as a result of the<br />
initiation of charters? Where do we think the<br />
state’s charter movement will head over the<br />
next decade?<br />
NICK DRIVER<br />
ERIC ROFES and PATTY YANCEY,<br />
HSU Department of Education<br />
NICK DRIVER, GARY LARSON, and BRANCHé JONES, California<br />
Charter Schools Association<br />
FREE AL KALIMA, FREE THE WORD, slam poets from Six Rivers<br />
Charter High School in Arcata will lead off this session: MacKenzie<br />
Greene-Powell, Deema Al Shamaa, Erin Davis, Rachel Matteri, Megan<br />
Davis, Jeff Kieser<br />
The Depot, Banquet Room<br />
Dine at “The J”<br />
on the top floor of the Jolly Giant Commons at HSU!<br />
Located on the top floor of the Jolly Giant Commons is “The J”, offering great views of the redwoods and ocean<br />
and great food for a reasonable price. With its pleasant atmosphere,The “J” provides a place for diners to come<br />
relax with friends and enjoy a meal. The menu offers a wide selection, with full meals, vegetarian entrees, salad bars,<br />
fresh fruit, baked goods, and pre-packaged snacks, as well as a sandwich line during lunch and ‘cook-your-own’ bar<br />
at breakfast and brunch.<br />
At lunch and brunch “The J” offers a salad bar which has a variety of salad toppings as well as assorted salads.<br />
There will be two different soups offered, including a vegetarian selection. At lunch the restaurant offers a hot food<br />
line with a choice of different entrees and also a custom sandwich bar with assorted breads, cheeses and meats.<br />
• Friday: Breakfast available from 7:15–9:45 a.m.<br />
• Continental Breakfast from 9:45–10:30 a.m.<br />
• Lunch from 10:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.<br />
• Dinner from 4:30–6:30 p.m.<br />
Saturday and Sunday: Brunch from 10:30 a.m.– 1:00 p.m.; Dinner from 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Friday, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm SESSION 2<br />
Friday, 12: 0 – 1:45 pm Session 2<br />
TEACHING IS A POLITICAL ACT<br />
Everything a public school teacher is allowed or<br />
not allowed to do in his or her classroom is decided<br />
by someone who is elected. In some countries,<br />
teaching has been a cause for execution.<br />
This session is an overview of how and why the<br />
California Teachers Association is involved in<br />
politics, from historic to contemporary views,<br />
and why you should also be involved.<br />
LARRY ALLEN teaches at a continuation high<br />
school in Lake County. He also serves on the<br />
Board of Directors of the California Teachers<br />
Association, representing nine counties on the<br />
North Coast. Reach him at LAllen@cta.org.<br />
MIKKI CICHOCKI is a member of the California<br />
Teachers Association (CTA) Board of Directors.<br />
Mikki works in the Student Services Department<br />
in the San Bernardino Unified School<br />
District. Her CTA directorial district includes<br />
San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Mikki<br />
can be reached at mikkicta@aol.com.<br />
Nelson Hall East 106<br />
BOOSTING VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT USING<br />
TEXT TALK WITH PICTURE BOOKS<br />
A child’s vocabulary is a key indicator of later success in reading, yet children<br />
start school with vast differences in vocabulary knowledge. Learn<br />
how to even the playing field by working with young children, ages 3 to<br />
8, as you read picture books which are rich in vocabulary. Practice the<br />
Text Talk technique researched by Dr. Isabel Beck, and develop a lesson to<br />
take home with you using a picture book which you bring to the seminar.<br />
Appropriate for teachers and parents of young children. Please bring a<br />
picture book to this seminar, if possible.<br />
LINDA HILL, MA, works as a Curriculum Specialist in Early Literacy for<br />
the Humboldt County Office of Education and with Region I of the Preschool<br />
Instructional Network; she also serves as the Vice President for the<br />
Humboldt Reading Council. She brings her expertise as a reading specialist<br />
and participant in the California Vocabulary Forum to this session.<br />
Contact her at lhill@humboldt.k12.ca.us.<br />
Mad River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
HOW MIGHT GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM AND<br />
POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT STRENGTHEN YOUR<br />
ORGANIZATION?<br />
How can your organization, charter school, or tribe increase your political<br />
influence and get better <strong>education</strong>al opportunities for your kids? How can<br />
you apply pressure at the local and state level to secure policy changes<br />
that will result in higher funding levels from the state, and greater clout<br />
at the local level? In this workshop, you’ll learn core strategies for building<br />
community support to strengthen <strong>education</strong> in your community. The presenter<br />
will address important issues, including how to apply grassroots<br />
pressure at the local and state level to secure policy changes important to<br />
your organization.<br />
BRANCHé JONES is a former California Assembly Leadership staffer,<br />
a former Chief of Staff to a member of the Sacramento City Council and<br />
a veteran of over 30 local and legislative campaigns. He is the director of<br />
governmental affairs for the California Charter Schools Association, and<br />
brings a strong background in legislative advocacy and campaign consulting<br />
to his position. He can be reached at branchej@charterassociation.org.<br />
Charter Schools<br />
Agate Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
THE END OF THE SINK-OR-SWIM ERA FOR NEW<br />
TEACHERS<br />
Learn more about the support systems now in place for California’s<br />
new teachers. Find out how to obtain your Professional Clear Credential<br />
through a state-approved Induction Program. Hear what other new<br />
teachers have to say about the first few years of teaching. In this session,<br />
representatives from the North Coast Beginning Teacher Program will<br />
provide you with a comprehensive overview of California’s Learning To<br />
Teach System and will give you some practical ideas to prepare for your<br />
career in teaching.<br />
BRUCE FISHER is the Humboldt County Coordinator for the North<br />
Coast Beginning Teacher Program. Bruce has years of experience working<br />
with new teachers. He worked as a third- and fifth-grade teacher in<br />
the Fortuna School District for years and he currently serves as Lecturer<br />
and Student Teacher Supervisor at Humboldt State University where he<br />
served initially as HSU’s Distinguished Educator in Residence. Bruce can<br />
be reached at shuttlesite@cox.net.<br />
JOAN KIENZLE is the Humboldt County Co-Coordinator and the Del<br />
Norte County Coordinator for the North Coast Beginning Teacher Program.<br />
Joan has years of experience working with new teachers. Joan<br />
works as a secondary science teacher and teacher-in-charge at Sunset<br />
High School in Del Norte County. A teacher leader in both Del Norte and<br />
Humboldt counties, Joan has provided multiple workshops and trainings<br />
for administrators and teachers including Project FIT (Forestry Institute<br />
for Teachers). Contact her at jkienzle@delnorte.k12.ca.us.<br />
Harry Griffith Hall 225<br />
INTERNATIONAL INTRODUCTIONS:<br />
THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE<br />
Entrepreneurs starting businesses today are entering a global marketplace.<br />
This session is designed as a roundtable discussion among<br />
speakers experienced in international business and the different types<br />
of marketing strategies and business approaches required for different<br />
countries and cultures. Moderated by Dr. Saeed Mortazavi, the<br />
following discussants will engage the session participants in this discussion:<br />
Nick Frank, Fred Chien, Barbara Bryant, Dave Spreen, Steve<br />
O’Meara, Ray Wang, Ron Samuels. Students, start-ups and entrepreneurs<br />
who are inexperienced in marketing their goods and services internationally<br />
will benefit from this session.<br />
MAGGIE GAINER (Session Organizer) is Director of the Office for<br />
Economic & Community Development at HSU and can be reached at<br />
gainer@humboldt.edu.<br />
Roundtable participants include: DR. SAEED MORTAZAVI, Chair of<br />
the School of Business at Humboldt State University; NICK FRANK,<br />
local business consultant with particular experience in international<br />
markets; BARBARA BRYANT, Humboldt County Film Commissioner,<br />
former Hong Kong film commissioner; DAVE SPREEN, local<br />
business owner who organizes trips to China for local business people;<br />
STEVE O’MEARA, President, Kokatat; RAY WANG from the World<br />
Languages & Cultures Department at HSU; RON SAMUELS, President,<br />
Marimba One; FRED CHIEN, Industrial Electric.<br />
Entrepreneurship & Small Business Development<br />
Kate Buchanan Room - B, University Center<br />
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Friday, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm SESSION 2<br />
SURFERS FOR A SAFE ENVIRONMENT<br />
In this unique session, participants will explore the connection between<br />
the enjoyment of surfing and an accompanying concern for the environment,<br />
particularly offshore water quality. We will share a successful case<br />
study of a California Coastal Commitee meeting concerning the dredging<br />
of Humboldt Bay and how concerned surfers have effectively stopped the<br />
dredging indefinitely, pending further studies of dioxin levels in the sediments.<br />
BRENNAN LAGASSE is a graduate student in the HSU Environment<br />
and Community MA Program. His love for surfing has led him to work<br />
towards educating others about the necessity of controlling the amounts<br />
of pollutants entering our local waters. Brennan can be reached at brennanlagasse@hotmail.com.<br />
KATHLEEN FAIRCHILD is also a student in the Environment and Community<br />
MA Program. As an old-school surfer and mother of three, the<br />
condition of the environment has long been a concern for her. She is a believer<br />
in grassroots activism at the local level. Kathleen can be reached at<br />
kaf19@humboldt.edu.<br />
ADRIANNA R. GUZMAN is another member of the Environment and<br />
Community MA Program. Adriana recently earned her BA in Wildlife<br />
Management at HSU. She is concerned about the ways pollutants in the<br />
water affect wildlife, including surfers. She can be reached at rae317@<br />
juno.com.<br />
Nelson Hall East 116<br />
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVISM: USING SERVICE<br />
LEARNING IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM TO<br />
TEACH ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP<br />
This activity-based session will lead participants through a series of exercises<br />
designed to give students experience with basic forms of grassroots<br />
activism such as composing advocacy letters, letters to the editor, soundbites,<br />
and public speeches. Participants will learn how to incorporate service-learning<br />
strategies into the English classroom in order to encougage<br />
student involvement with the larger community and engagement with<br />
course-based writing assignments. This session will provide participants<br />
with a variety of activist strategies for their own use, as well as with a<br />
series of effectively designed, but flexible, lessons that can be incorporated<br />
into almost any English studies curriculum.<br />
DR. COREY LEWIS teaches creative writing and environmental literature<br />
at Humboldt State University and has published and presented widely<br />
on service-learning and environmental activism. His book Reading the<br />
Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural History of the California Crest<br />
explores the connections between environmental literature and <strong>education</strong>,<br />
political activism and environmental policy. He can be reached at cll35@<br />
humboldt.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Founders Hall, Green & Gold Room<br />
Be sure to stop by the 100 Fires<br />
book table in<br />
goodwin Forum! O<br />
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AMERICA’S OBSESSION WITH BEING THIN:<br />
A POLITICAL & FINANCIAL AGENDA THAT<br />
WEAKENS OUR FEMALE POWER<br />
In this workshop, you will learn a new perspective about why the weight of<br />
America’s women has become such a focus of the advertising world. You<br />
will discover that physiological effects of weight-loss diets are actually an<br />
eventual weight gain, rather the promised loss. Together we will examine<br />
the diminishing effects that focusing on weight loss and unrealistic body<br />
image will have on a woman’s life and on the positive power that she can<br />
wield in her lifetime. We will help you explore your own life and health<br />
goals and examine more fully the profit motive that is behind messages<br />
that you may not be womanly enough just the way you are. We will ask<br />
you to consider the possibllity that your ability to redesign your life could<br />
make a much greater difference to the world you live in than mere weightshifting<br />
could ever accomplish. We will ask you to consider what your life<br />
might be like if you fully enjoyed your body, your mind and your spirit.<br />
You will receive a free book written by Laura Rose: Life Isn’t Weighed on<br />
the Bathroom Scale.<br />
LAURA ROSE is author of the book Life Isn’t Weighed on the Bathroom<br />
Scale. She has spoken at conventions and workshops aimed at empowering<br />
women of all sizes to love and improve their lives, their bodies and<br />
their spirits. She believes in nurturing women’s power to make meaningful<br />
change, including improvement in their own overall health at all levels.<br />
She resides in Eureka and currently is teaching at Humboldt State University.<br />
Laura can be reached at lrose1@cox.net.<br />
Theatre Arts 114<br />
SEX, LOVE AND THE MEDIA:<br />
WHO’S TEACHING WHAT?<br />
Youth today are exposed to ever increasing amounts of sex and the portrayal<br />
of relationships in the media. The <strong>education</strong>al content students<br />
receive in schools often does not match societal and peer exposure and<br />
influence. This workshop will address European approaches to sexuality<br />
<strong>education</strong>, sexual health <strong>education</strong> efforts in California and current<br />
research about what works. Through video, advertising campaigns<br />
and dialogue, participants will be engaged in a conversation about<br />
ways to teach towards sexual responsibility, healthy relationships and<br />
media literacy.<br />
BETH CHATON is the coordinator of the<br />
TAPESTRY collaborative at Humboldt<br />
County Office of Education, a California<br />
Office of Family Planning grant-funded<br />
project since 1997 with the goal of promoting<br />
healthy youth development and healthy<br />
families. The past-president of the California<br />
Alliance Concerned with School-Age<br />
Parents and Pregnancy Prevention, Ms.<br />
Chaton has participated in state and national<br />
efforts to promote science-based<br />
comprehensive sexual health <strong>education</strong><br />
programs. Participating in the 2002 Advocates<br />
for Youth’s European Study Tour,<br />
Chaton was exposed to cultural practices and attitudes that resulted in<br />
more positive sexual outcomes for young people. She is also a doctoral<br />
student working on a dissertation titled Sex, Love and the Media: Who<br />
is Teaching What to Children in the Middle? Beth can be reached at<br />
bchaton@humboldt.k12.ca.us.<br />
Art A – Room 027
Friday, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm SESSION 2<br />
HOW TO BECOME AN ADVOCACY JOURNALIST<br />
AND HELP SUPPORT RIVERS, FISH, AND LOCAL<br />
VOICES<br />
This workshop will be a hands-on introduction to creating short stories<br />
(1-3 minutes) for broadcast on regional community radio stations. You will<br />
learn the basics of how to frame a story and prepare for an interview, and<br />
then will conduct and record brief interviews, and learn how to get your<br />
stories on the air. Recording equipment will be provided, but bring your<br />
own if you have it. Presenters Joseph Orozco and Rhoby Cook are co-producers<br />
of the Native radio documentary, Dying for Water: Indians, Politics<br />
and Dead Fish in the Klamath River Basin.<br />
JOSEPH R. OROZCO is Station Manager of KIDE-FM, Hoopa Tribal<br />
Radio and on the Advisory Board of the Center for Native American Public<br />
Radio. He is co-producer of Dying for Water: Indians, Politics & Dead<br />
Fish in the Klamath River Basin. He can be reached at managerkide@<br />
hoopa-nsn.gov.<br />
RHOBY COOK is Director of Northern California Cultural Communications<br />
and co-producer of Dying for Water: Indians, Politics & Dead Fish in<br />
the Klamath River Basin. She can be reached at rhoby@pcweb.net.<br />
KRISTI SHELLONER is the producer of Speaking Out, a weekly public<br />
affairs program on KIDE-FM, Hoopa Tribal Radio and legal spokesperson<br />
for individual defendants in the Hoopa Tribal Court. She can be reached at<br />
tribalspokesperson@pcweb.net.<br />
Kate Buchanan Room – A, University Center<br />
DIALOGUE VS. DEBATE: RESPECTFUL<br />
DISAGREEMENTS IN THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM<br />
Controversial topics will certainly spark disagreements but how can these<br />
differences be handled respectfully. How can we help students learn from<br />
another perspective? Mike Goldsby uses the definitions of dialogue and<br />
debate as a starting point in his College of the Redwoods’ classrooms for<br />
guiding controversial topics like needle exchange, methadone and medicinal<br />
marijuana. Learn some concrete ways to make classroom disagreements<br />
positive.<br />
MIKE GOLDSBY is a graduate of Ferndale High School, College of the<br />
Redwoods, and Humboldt State University. He worked in the mental<br />
health and alcohol/drug field from 1976 to 2002. He is an associate faculty<br />
member in addiction studies at College of the Redwoods. He serves as<br />
Director of Values Integration at St Joseph Health System in Humboldt<br />
County. He is a volunteer board member of the Humboldt Child Care<br />
Council and is a regular contributor to Community Comment, an exercise<br />
in free speech on KINS 980AM. Contact him at mgoldsby@stjoe.org.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Klamath River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
BEFORE AND AFTER THE TEXT: CREATIVE<br />
CONFUSIONS ABOUT BI-DIRECTIONALITY IN<br />
THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW GENRES IN THE<br />
COMPOSITION CLASSROOM<br />
Using new ideas about “improvisation” in jazz studies, Sondra Perl’s conception<br />
of “felt sense,” and Kenneth Burke’s long-term fascination with<br />
inherent chronological and logical contradictions of discursive structure,<br />
along with Rob Pope’s interventionist conception of “creativity,” the presenter<br />
will consider ways in which writing students and teachers have to<br />
discover and create new forms of writing in technologized academic settings<br />
by working collaboratively with rubrics to define significant textual<br />
features even as they invent them.<br />
DAVID STACEY, a Redwood Writing Project teacher-consultant, directs<br />
the composition program in HSU’s English Department. His scholarly<br />
interests include collaborative writing, genre study, and the font of creativity.<br />
David can be reached at des11@humboldt.edu.<br />
Academic Literacy<br />
Nelson Hall East 113<br />
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Please be sure cell phones are turned off<br />
during all <strong>summit</strong> sessions. Thank you.<br />
HEAL OUR HABITATS, HEAL OURSELVES:<br />
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION BASED SERVICE—<br />
LEARNING PROJECTS FOR AT-RISK YOUTH IN<br />
CHARTER SCHOOLS<br />
If you are interested in developing service-learning activities that help to<br />
empower at-risk charter school students in grades 3-12, then come to our<br />
workshop! Students and staff of Pacific View Charter School will present<br />
our State Farm Foundation funded service-learning projects that focus on<br />
improving habitats on our school site, in our students’ families through<br />
Reading Buddies, and through restoration activities on the dunes and<br />
wetlands of our coastal community. Our partners include Humboldt Bay<br />
National Wildlife Refuge, Friends of the Dunes and local children’s author,<br />
Mary Nethery. As a workshop participant, you will hear students’<br />
first-hand experiences with service learning and will spend time creating<br />
your own, “Heal our Habitats, Heal Ourselves” plan for your students. We<br />
hope you will join us!<br />
BETSY BURCH, ED.D. is Pupil Personnel Services Coordinator for Pacific<br />
View Charter School and Coordinator of Public Outreach and Environmental<br />
Education at Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. She is<br />
a board member of Friends of the Dunes and chair of its Education Committee,<br />
a successful State Farm Foundation grant writer, an avid amateur<br />
photographer, and a beginning birder. She is a retired middle-school principal,<br />
adjunct professor of <strong>education</strong> at University of the Pacific, middle<br />
school teacher and counselor. Contact her at canoe@inreach.com.<br />
RON FLENNER is Director of Pacific View and Westwood Charter<br />
Schools. He has special interest and expertise in the development of new<br />
charter schools. Ron is the past superintendent of Trinidad Union School,<br />
past principal of South Bay Union School, a successful grant writer, and a<br />
runner with Six Rivers Running Club. Contact him at sierra@radc.com.<br />
Pacific View Charter School students and teaching staff will join in this<br />
session.<br />
Moonstone Beach Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
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Friday, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm & 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm SESSIONS 2–3<br />
WAR TAX RESISTANCE<br />
What is war tax resistance? What is the history of war tax resistance in<br />
the United States? What are the different ways to resist war taxes? What<br />
are some current war tax resistance national campaigns? How might war<br />
tax resistance be a useful lens for upper-level high school students exploring<br />
the complexities of US democracy, social change, and contemporary<br />
issues? These are the questions we will address in this one-hour workshop<br />
sponsored by participants in the local war tax resistance movement.<br />
DAVE KENNISTON has worked actively in the war tax resistance movement<br />
in Humboldt County for ten years. Dave also organizes the HOPE<br />
Coalition newsletter locally and is on the Board of Directors of the Redwood<br />
Peace and Justice Center.<br />
JEROME BEARBOWER recently joined the War Tax Resistance group<br />
and is still learning a lot about the complex interconnections between taxes,<br />
wars, and citizens’ movements to build truly democratic and just institutions<br />
in the United States, historically and today. Jerome can be reached<br />
at saranagati@riseup.net.<br />
Nelson Hall East 120<br />
GREENPEACE CAMPUS ACTIVIST TRAINING<br />
IN ACTION<br />
You will help coordinate a local action as part of the Greenpeace Kleercut<br />
campaign. You’ll gain hands-on experience that will involve pulling off a<br />
guided local action of strategic importance while building your own organizing<br />
skills. On Thursday we began with a briefing on the Greenpeace<br />
campaign to enable us to launch our local efforts utilizing skills such as action<br />
planning, community outreach, corporate pressure tactics, and media<br />
work. This will be an exciting challenge and requires a willingness to dive<br />
in and make a campaign action happen on a condensed timeline. Please<br />
familiarize yourself with the campaign at www.kleercut.net. No prior coordinating<br />
experience is necessary but a flexible and open mind is.<br />
*This is the second of four meetings during the <strong>summit</strong> weekend for the<br />
organizing team.<br />
LINDSEY ALLEN is an organizer for Greenpeace, based out of San Francisco.<br />
For the past few months she has worked with students to pressure<br />
Kimberly-Clark, the makers of Kleenex, to increase their recycled content<br />
and end their role in the destruction of the boreal forest of North America.<br />
As the National Student Organizer for the Greenpeace forest campaign<br />
she specializes in local university campaigns and international corporate<br />
campaigns. She graduated from Humboldt State University in May 2004<br />
with a degree in Anthropology and minors in Women’s Studies and Ethnic<br />
Studies. She began her organizing career with the HSU Women’s Resource<br />
Center in 2002 before moving on to work with the State PIRGs, Environment<br />
California and, now, Greenpeace. Contact her at lindsey.allen@sfo.<br />
greenpeace.org.<br />
Wildlife and Fisheries Building 250<br />
VIDEO SCREENING:<br />
THE CORPORATION (200 )<br />
Based on the book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and<br />
Power, by Joel Bakan, this documentary examines the nature, evolution,<br />
impact, and possible future of the modern business corporation. Kenneth<br />
Chisholm has described the film: “Since the late 18th century American<br />
legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally<br />
a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force<br />
around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination<br />
of the organization model through various case studies. What the study<br />
illustrates is that in its behavior, this type of “person” typically acts like a<br />
dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we<br />
see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future,<br />
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but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can<br />
stop it.” 145 minutes.<br />
U<br />
Extended Session: 12:30-3:30<br />
Nelson Hall East 115<br />
Friday, 2:00 pm – : 0 pm Session<br />
In Praise of Ordinary Things: BRINGING AN<br />
INTEGRATED LANGUAGE AND VISUAL ARTS<br />
APPROACH TO THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY<br />
THROUGH POETRY WRITING AND BOOK MAKING<br />
This session will offer participants a hands-on introduction to a well-proven<br />
integrated approach for engaging the whole school community—students,<br />
teachers, and families—in teaching and learning through the arts.<br />
In the tradition of the great Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, participants will<br />
gain a first-hand understanding of how to integrate the arts through the<br />
study of ordinary vegetables and fruits, by reading and writing odes, and<br />
making simple folded book structures. This session will demonstrate how<br />
the language and visual arts together are a powerful tool for teaching core<br />
subject areas. Participants will receive sample lessons, poems and bookmaking<br />
instructions and will take home a completed book. The session<br />
is appropriate for participants of all levels and experiences, including K-<br />
12 administrations and teachers and higher-<strong>education</strong> teacher instructors<br />
and students.<br />
Drawing on a rich background of experiences as educators and artists—<br />
including participation in the University of California, Berkeley’s Arts<br />
Education Initiative and an innovative two-year pilot teacher credentialing<br />
program that partnered the University of San Francisco Arts and Education<br />
Collaborative with local arts organizations and small public schools<br />
committed to the arts—CATHLEEN MICHEAELS and BARBARA SEL-<br />
VIDGE of The Teachers’ Workshop offer resources and strategies to support<br />
teaching and learning across the whole school community. Recent<br />
classroom programs and professional development sessions have been<br />
presented at culturally, linguistically and geographically diverse schools,<br />
communities and conferences including the Leggett Valley Unified School<br />
District in Mendocino County; Hillcrest Elementary School in San Francisco;<br />
Corning Union High School in rural Northern California; Tamarack<br />
Elementary School in the Central Valley community of Avenal; the<br />
California Council on Teacher Education’s Artful Teaching in Testy Times<br />
2005 conference in San Jose; and the USF Reading the World Multicultural<br />
Literature for Children and Young Adults 2005 conference in San<br />
Francisco. Cathleen can be reached at cm@mcn.org and Barbara can be<br />
reached at bselvidge@aol.com.<br />
Student and Business Services 405<br />
EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION: FROM THE<br />
GROUND TO THE TREES<br />
This 90-minute training is for anyone involved in working with groups<br />
of all ages who is looking for tools and activities for facilitating deeper<br />
learning. This is for teachers, trainers, students, managers, project<br />
planners and others working with large or small groups who want to<br />
get more comfortable with experiential learning—rope courses and<br />
beyond. This helps everyone better understand stages of group development<br />
and promote best practices in learning. Take a risk, push yourself,<br />
and try out this activity!<br />
JON O’CONNOR is the director of Humboldt Adventure. Reach him<br />
at adventuretraining@yahoo.com.<br />
Meet at 2:00 p.m. at the Summit Registration Desk in<br />
Goodwin Forum.
Friday, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm SESSION 3<br />
QUALITY EARLY LEARNING: WHAT’S IN IT FOR<br />
PARENTS, PROFESSIONALS, ANd CHILdREN?<br />
Quality early learning is a hot topic in California today. New initiatives<br />
(Preschool for All) and new standards (Early Learning Credential) are<br />
rolling into action. In order to insure the highest quality early learning<br />
experiences for our young children, we all need to be informed advocates.<br />
We have organized a panel including a parent, superintendent of<br />
county schools, professionals working with children and families, and<br />
professors to lead a brainstorming discussion on quality early <strong>education</strong><br />
and advocacy for young children. The first part will focus on “Indicators<br />
of quality early learning pedagogy” and the second will focus on<br />
“What is currently happening in California in terms of Early Learning<br />
(e.g., legislative actions).” Selected panel members will briefly discuss<br />
key issues related to each topic in order to stimulate small group participant<br />
discussions. These small group discussions will be followed by<br />
large group discussions of each topic. We will end the workshop with<br />
the panel leading a large group brainstorming on “What would you<br />
want to advocate for?” This brainstorming activity will focus on advocacy<br />
issues of interest to the participants as well as tools for advocacy.<br />
NANCY L. HURLBUT, PH.D. is chair and professor in the Child<br />
Development Department at Humboldt State University. Nancy has<br />
worked with early childhood programs in two countries and four different<br />
states and has actively worked with legislatures in developing<br />
standards for teacher preparation programs. She has worked with<br />
Head Start programs, directed a campus child development laboratory,<br />
and worked with numerous preschool programs. She can be reached at<br />
nlh7@humboldt.edu.<br />
DR. GARRY EAGLES serves as county superintendent of schools.<br />
His background includes that of teacher, counselor, school psychologist,<br />
and college-level instructor. On the state level, Garry serves as<br />
a member of the Legislative Policy Committee for the Association of<br />
California School Administrators and on the Executive Committee as<br />
Treasurer of the California County Superintendents Educational Service<br />
Association. He can be reached through gbirindelli@humboldt.<br />
k12.ca.us.<br />
ERICA THOMPSON is the mother of a 4-year-old and is currently the<br />
Afternoon Assistant Head Teacher at the HSU Child Development<br />
Laboratory. She can be contacted at ect2@humboldt.edu.<br />
WENDY ROWAN is the Executive Director of FIRST 5 HUMBOLDT,<br />
which supports prevention and early intervention programs for young<br />
children and their families. Wendy is a former kindergarten teacher,<br />
school board member, and Healthy Start Coordinator. She can to be<br />
reached at wrowan@co.humboldt.ca.us.<br />
The panel also includes CLAIRE KNOX, PH.D. (cgk1@humboldt.edu)<br />
and MARY ANN HANSEN (mah@northcoast.com).<br />
Art B – Room 102<br />
REACHING BEYOND THE STAR: TEACHING FROM<br />
THE SOUL<br />
In this workshop we will explore the “Trust Circle” as a technique through<br />
which teacher and child can be nurtured and invited to bring their hearts<br />
and minds to their interactions. During a Trust Circle, children are inspired<br />
toward deeper compassion. The Trust Circle, a non-punitive, problem-solving<br />
process, expands on the tone set by a morning opening circle<br />
and the end-of-the-day closing circle. We will use various interactive tools,<br />
story telling, and video to share this concept with workshop participants.<br />
Resources and a bibliography will be provided.<br />
NINA RAVITZ incorporates her experience with nature day camp, international<br />
human rights, and reevaluation co-counseling into her current posi-<br />
tion teaching second through fifth grade in a California charter school.<br />
She received a BA from Chico State University and an MS specializing<br />
in curriculum and instruction from Dominican University. She can be<br />
reached at ninabo@mcn.org.<br />
JOANNA WIGGINTON has discovered that whatever vocation she explores<br />
(from geologist to midwife), she always ends up as a teacher. A BS<br />
from Tufts University and an MA from University of New Mexico led her<br />
from the Navajo Reading Study and work in a children’s center to the creation<br />
of a school. Her current position is head teacher for the sixth year in<br />
a California charter school. Contact Joanna at jgreen@mcn.org.<br />
Art A – Room 025<br />
ENGAGING THE BODY’S INTELLIGENCE:<br />
CULTIVATING AUTHENTIC EXPRESSION AND<br />
POWER<br />
Particularly in these days of obesity and staring at computer screens, engaging<br />
life present-time and knowing oneself below the cortex is a radical,<br />
empowering act, with implications for self-responsibility, cooperation,<br />
and democracy. While typical <strong>education</strong> emphasizes thinking and manipulating<br />
information, it neglects and often discourages the body’s innate<br />
intelligence. Engaging the body’s consciousness, however, creates<br />
access to one’s authentic expression, power, and the juiciness of life itself.<br />
This workshop will bring you into your conscious body. Through sensing,<br />
touch, movement and drawing, you’ll meet a wealth of sensations and discover<br />
openings, limitations, memories, strengths and the unknown. You’ll<br />
experience the organizing interconnectedness and interplay of your physical<br />
nature, sense of self, emotions, capacity for learning and ability to act<br />
in the world. The session includes discussion time about bringing the body<br />
into the classrooms—benefits, concerns, how-to’s, and implications.<br />
SARA SUNSTEIN, MA, has enjoyed helping people unfold through subtle<br />
bodywork for 24 years now. Her practice is shaped by extensive training<br />
in bodywork, psychology, and trauma, as well as her love for nature, art,<br />
Buddhist dharma, and social justice. Sara maintains a bodywork practice<br />
in Arcata, specializing in the interface of body, emotions, and spirit. She<br />
can be reached at sarasun@humboldt1.com.<br />
Moonstone Beach Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
EDUCATIONAL CHANGE<br />
Turn on the TV, open a newspaper and you will see a call for change in<br />
the California <strong>education</strong> system. Reform may be necessary but what do<br />
educators say about what is needed to improve our<br />
public schools and what reforms are destined to<br />
collapse the system? Hear from two teachers who<br />
are also leaders from the California Teachers Association<br />
and provide your input in this dialogue on<br />
current issues and ideas for change.<br />
LARRY ALLEN teaches at a continuation high<br />
school in Lake County. He also serves on the Board<br />
of Directors of the California Teachers Association<br />
representing nine counties on the North Coast.<br />
Reach him at LAllen@cta.org.<br />
MIKKI CICHOCKI is a member of the California<br />
Teachers Association (CTA) Board of Directors.<br />
Mikki works in the Student Services Department<br />
in the San Bernardino Unified School District. Her<br />
CTA directorial district includes San Bernardino<br />
and Riverside counties. Mikki can be reached at<br />
mikkicta@aol.com.<br />
Nelson Hall East 113<br />
1 North Coast Education Summit 2006
Friday, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm SESSION 3<br />
CHARTER SCHOOLS ON THE NORTH COAST: THE<br />
JOYS AND CHALLENGES OF THE EARLY YEARS<br />
This special session will feature representatives of charter schools from<br />
our area. School leaders and founders will discuss the joys and challenges<br />
of the early years of charter schools and will share basic information about<br />
their schools’ curriculum, students, and thematic programs.<br />
Teachers and directors from local charter schools will share their <strong>education</strong>al<br />
visions and the ways in which these visions are made manifest in the<br />
day-to-day operation of their schools. Please join school leaders as they<br />
discuss the joys and challenges of the early years of charter schools and<br />
share information about their schools’ curriculum, students, and thematic<br />
programs.<br />
JENNI ALLEN-SAN GIOVANNI (organizer) will be joined by BREN-<br />
DA SUTTER of Laurel Tree, BETH WYLIE of Fuente Nueva, LANCE<br />
BLODGETT of Campus House and a representative of North Coast Preparatory<br />
and Performing Arts Academy.<br />
CHRIS HARTLEY is Principal at Six Rivers Charter High School<br />
(SRCHS). He worked as an administrator for Northern Humboldt Union<br />
High School District for last ten years, including serving as principal at<br />
McKinleyville High School for four years. Six Rivers Charter High School<br />
is in its second year. He can be reached at chartley@nohum.k12.ca.us.<br />
THERESE FITZMAURICE is a language arts teacher at SRCHS and was<br />
lead teacher during the design process for the school. She specializes in<br />
project-based learning, integration of core curriculum and scheduling.<br />
Charter Schools<br />
Corbett Conference Room, Siemens Hall 224<br />
A CONVERSATION WITH SUZANNE PHARR:<br />
ORGANIZING FOR SOCIAL AND RACIAL JUSTICE<br />
OVER THE LIFE COURSE<br />
This special session will provide <strong>summit</strong> participants with the opportunity<br />
to meet informally with Suzanne Pharr and engage in a collective conversation<br />
focused on her work and her perspectives on organizing for social<br />
and racial justice. While participants may bring questions about any of<br />
the work that has been part of Suzanne’s long career as an activist and<br />
organizer (including her books on homophobia, sexism, and liberation),<br />
one focus of the discussion will be on ways to nurture and support one’s<br />
activism throughout the life course.<br />
SUZANNE PHARR is the former director of the Highlander Center in<br />
New Market, Tennessee. She is the founder of the Women’s Project in Arkansas,<br />
where she was on the staff for 19 years. Suzanne also worked as<br />
a lead strategist and media officer for the No on 9 Campaign for a Hate<br />
Free Oregon. For the past three decades, her work has focused on building<br />
a multi-racial, multi-issue progressive movement. Suzanne is the author of<br />
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism and In the Time of the Right: Reflections<br />
on Liberation. She is widely considered to be one of the nation’s most<br />
knowledgeable experts on the Right. Suzanne can be reached at pharr39@<br />
bellsouth.net.<br />
Theatre Arts 114<br />
TRANSFORM STUDENTS INTO ACTIVE CITIZENS:<br />
INSPIRE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SERVICE<br />
LEARNING AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT<br />
Want to design a course that effectively merges student learning outcomes<br />
with civic knowledge and skills? In a series of collaborative and interactive<br />
activities, participants will explore essential elements of service learning,<br />
identify critical civic skills for a range of disciplines, and share strategies<br />
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for syllabus development. Enhance your ability to teach students about<br />
themselves and the world while networking in a creative and supportive<br />
atmosphere with other civically concerned educators.<br />
ANNIE BOLICK-FLOSS is the Service Learning Coordinator for Humboldt<br />
State University. Annie has worked directly with faculty, community<br />
partners and students in the field of service learning for the past 11 years.<br />
Currently, she serves as one of the “Top of the State Service Learning<br />
Regional Network Coaches,” providing support and resources for K-12<br />
educators. In addition, Annie has extensive non-profit management experience<br />
having served in various executive director capacities over the last<br />
25 years. Contact her at amb2@humboldt.edu.<br />
ANYA MCDAVITT is Program Manager for Youth Educational Services<br />
(Y.E.S.) at Humboldt State University, where she supports students in the<br />
creation, implementation and management of volunteer service programs.<br />
She has over eight years of nonprofit management experience and has<br />
trained on topics such as, leadership, experiential <strong>education</strong> and learning,<br />
intercultural relations, effective communication, conflict resolution and<br />
mediation. Anya can be reached at am7007@humboldt.edu.<br />
MIKE CIPRA has worked as the Community Partner Liaison for Humboldt<br />
State University’s Service Learning Center since December 2004.<br />
He has collaboratively facilitated a series of regional forums throughout<br />
Humboldt County. Contact Mike at mcc21@humboldt.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Siemens Hall 110<br />
REALITY—VIRTUAL POSSIBILITIES<br />
Virtual Reality (VR) technologies have been around for the last decade<br />
with most of the development occurring in medicine and military contexts.<br />
What are the current configurations and applications for VR in the<br />
fields of <strong>education</strong>, humanities, creative arts, mathematics, science, and<br />
engineering? What are the possibilities? What are the costs? What are the<br />
benefits? Join the presenters for a visual and verbal journey through their<br />
VR web portal.<br />
DR. DEBORAH NOLAN has a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Adult<br />
Studies (with a specialization in college teaching) from the University of<br />
Denver. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Education at the College<br />
of the Redwoods (CR) in Eureka, California, and works with preservice<br />
teachers and paraprofessionals. Prior to joining CR, she was Assistant<br />
Professor of Education at a community college in Colorado, a teacher<br />
<strong>education</strong> program administrator, a consultant within the <strong>education</strong>al<br />
software industry, and a university <strong>education</strong> grants administrator. She<br />
also taught elementary school in California for six years. Deborah can be<br />
reached at deborah-nolan@redwoods.edu.<br />
HEATHER AULT has been using digital media tools and computer technology<br />
for over thirteen years. She is an associate faculty member at College<br />
of the Redwoods (CR) where she teaches courses in computer literacy<br />
in the Computer Information Science Department. She also teaches workshops<br />
in website design and desktop publishing through CR’s Community<br />
Education Department and the Eureka Adult School. In addition to<br />
teaching, Heather assists faculty with using instructional technologies in<br />
her position at the Center for Teaching Excellence at CR, and previously,<br />
at the Courseware Development Department at Humboldt State University.<br />
Heather has also worked as a web developer, graphic designer and<br />
activist for numerous non-profit organizations and political campaigns in<br />
Humboldt County and the Bay Area. Before moving to California, Heather<br />
worked in the field of medical multimedia and was the lead designer for<br />
an <strong>education</strong>al CD-ROM produced by the American College of Obstetricians<br />
and Gynecology. Contact Heather at heather-ault@redwoods.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Siemens Hall 117
Friday, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm SESSION 3<br />
STRATEGIC PROFIT PLANNING: HOW MUCH<br />
PROFIT CAN WE MAKE?<br />
Learn how to create a spreadsheet program that can be used by a new organization<br />
to plan its profitability. The program also can be used to play<br />
profit-planning games such as “What If?” and “Goal Seeking” analyses.<br />
Bring some of your organization’s financial information (sales price, sales<br />
volume, variable and fixed costs), or we’ll try to estimate it in this session,<br />
so that we can plug it into the program and see how specific strategic plans<br />
will affect your profits. This simple-to-use program will be freely provided<br />
to any interested participants.<br />
DR. MIKE THOMAS is an accounting professor specializing in management<br />
accounting systems at HSU. As an award-winning educator, author,<br />
and researcher, Dr. Thomas brings a wealth of knowledge and real-world<br />
experience in strategic planning and profitability analysis to the workshop.<br />
Mike also is a former consultant with the Small Business Administration,<br />
and small business owner. He can be reached at mft5@humboldt.edu.<br />
Entrepreneurship & Small Business Development<br />
Mad River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
“THAT’S SO GAY!” A WORKSHOP ADDRESSING<br />
HETEROSEXISM AND HOMOPHOBIA IN HIGH<br />
SCHOOL<br />
This workshop by Spare Change Peer Education Program addresses<br />
the issue of heterosexism and homophobia in schools. This is an oppurtunity<br />
to identify new and innovative ways to address heterosexism<br />
in the classroom that can be both effective and powerful. Spare Change<br />
reaches over 5,000 people throughout Northern California with theatre<br />
performance and classroom <strong>education</strong>.<br />
KARRIN PALMER, Six Rivers Planned Parenthood Spare Change<br />
Coordinator, received a BA in Psychology from Humboldt State in<br />
2004. She is passionate about empowering youth and giving them a<br />
voice. She can be reached at (707) 445-2018 and karrin@ppeureka.org.<br />
VIRGINIA FIGERUOA, Six Rivers Planned Parenthood Spare Change<br />
Assistant Coordinator, recieved a BA in Theatre Arts in 2005. She has<br />
extensive background in theatre and drama productions. She can be<br />
reached at (707) 445-2018 and gina@ppeureka.org.<br />
Founders Hall, Green & Gold Room<br />
HOW TO CREATE A “DONE BUSINESS”<br />
This workshop focuses on nine steps to the holy grail of business managment.<br />
In a DONE BUSINESS things run like they’re supposed to, customers’<br />
needs are satisfied with great products and services, and healthy<br />
profits are consistently produced for management.<br />
Any business can be a DONE BUSINESS. Anyone can apply the nine<br />
steps and, over time, be DONE. This is not rocket science. This workshop<br />
will outline the nine steps with examples, and give participants ample opportunity<br />
for discussion about how to apply the steps to their situation.<br />
DR. RICHARD PARIS BOROUGH is an achievement psychologist. For<br />
more than 20 years Richard has been coaching small business owners<br />
and managers, helping them re-invent how they work. The objective is to<br />
work as smart as possible ASAP. Richard is the founder and director of<br />
the Master-Mind Alliance program and he lives in Eureka, CA. He can be<br />
contacted at richard@northcoast.com.<br />
Nelson Hall East 106<br />
GENDER AND THE ENGINEERING PIPELINE:<br />
PLUGGING THE LEAKS<br />
In this session participants will consider the current state of science and<br />
math enrollment in high school, the pending workforce crisis in engineering,<br />
and the related attitudes of girls and young women regarding entrance<br />
into science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. This<br />
workshop will offer opportunities for participants to reflect on and share<br />
their own experiences with math & science and share strategies for helping<br />
girls (and young men of color) see themselves in STEM careers. Presenters<br />
will offer insights from an ongoing longitudinal study of Northern<br />
California high school girls and their decision making processes around<br />
math and science courses and careers.<br />
MARY VIRNOCHE is Associate Professor of Sociology, teaching undergraduate<br />
and graduate courses on gender, science and technology at<br />
Humboldt State University. Dr. Virnoche is directing a longitudinal study<br />
evaluating outcomes related to the Expanding Horizon Conference for<br />
girls. The conference encourages girls to take more math and science in<br />
high school so they have more options later on. This study is funded by<br />
a national grant from the American Association of University Women’s<br />
Educational Foundation. Mary’s email is mv23@humbold.edu.<br />
ELIZABETH A. ESCHENBACH is Associate Professor and Department<br />
Chair of the Environmental Resources Engineering Department at Humboldt<br />
State University. Dr. Eschenbach has assisted in the organization<br />
of EYH conferences since graduate school in 1989 and has served as the<br />
Chair of the EYH Organizing Committee at Humboldt State University<br />
since 1999. Her research interests lie in the areas of equity in engineering<br />
<strong>education</strong>, engineering <strong>education</strong> and water resources systems engineering.<br />
She can be reached at eae1@humboldt.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Siemens Hall 108<br />
SEX, VIOLENCE AND VIDEO GAMES: A CENTURY<br />
OF MEDIA EFECTS AND PUBLIC POLICY<br />
This workshop is particularly timely and provocative given the recent<br />
public-policy legislation signed by the California governor targeting video<br />
games. We begin a century and more ago with complaints about mass media<br />
content and the effects (mostly negative) on individuals and society.<br />
We can make an easy list of such content: sex, violence, drugs and alcohol<br />
use, provocative or sexist or racist or violent music lyrics — and then<br />
move to societal response at the family, religious, social level that escalates<br />
into political response and ultimately public policy at the local, state and<br />
federal level. The recent video game legislation is a perfect example of this<br />
public policy process, as is the V-chip on our televisions. We next move to<br />
the media industry’s response to calls for public policy censorship and/or<br />
control, where they usually cite the First Amendment against any public<br />
policy censorship. We then look at the usual industry response of voluntary<br />
content “codes” to guide user audiences in their consumer behavior<br />
of that content. This session is lively, thought-provoking and filled with<br />
audio-visual examples of a century of controversial mass-media content.<br />
MARK A. LARSON is a professor in the Journalism and Mass Communication<br />
Department who has specialized in research into media effects<br />
of exposure to sex, violence and video games. He also is the parent of a<br />
teenager and can be reached at mal2@humboldt.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Founders Hall 118<br />
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Friday, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm SESSION 3<br />
The Imagination Playshop For Faculty:<br />
PROMOTING CREATIVITY IN AN ERA OF<br />
STANDARDIZATION<br />
Jump start your imagination and come prepared to laugh and play! The<br />
Imagination Playshop for Faculty takes you through a series of fun activities<br />
that reveal personal qualities we don’t usually think of as appropriate<br />
to exhibit in the classroom. Yet it is these very qualities that we need to do<br />
imaginative teaching and creative thinking. At the end of the activities we<br />
will reflect on what we have discovered about the “normal” structure and<br />
tacit rules of the higher <strong>education</strong> classroom through violating most of<br />
them. K-12 educators will also find this playshop of interest because the<br />
norms of the college classroom are simply a continuation of the procedures<br />
governing elementary and high school classrooms. The playshop will conclude<br />
with ideas for fostering more creative thinking/action in and out of<br />
the classroom despite structural constraints.<br />
LINDA J. PULLIAM, ED.D., PH.D. spent 12 years as a university professor<br />
creating her own unique activities to assist student learning. However,<br />
her evaluations revealed that some students expect classes to be boring<br />
drudgery with narrow parameters and are upset when a class does not<br />
meet that expectation. In the three years since she left academia, Linda has<br />
thought deeply about the tension between creativity and conformity and<br />
how we can collectively foster imaginative thinking and creative action<br />
at the college level. Known as an adventurous risk taker, Linda holds an<br />
Ed.D. in Social Foundations of Education from University of Cincinnati<br />
and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. She spices up<br />
her life by creating one-woman performance pieces, working on a memoir<br />
about her transition from professor to creativity entreprenuer, and wingwalking<br />
in strong gusts. You can reach her at joyfulpen@hotmail.com.<br />
Teaching in K-12 Schools; Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Klamath River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
PresenTers wiTH audio-Visual issues:<br />
call eric Van duzer<br />
staffing the phones now: 826-3726<br />
TRANSFORMATIVE KNOWLEDGE IN<br />
U.S. HISTORY<br />
At any given historical moment competing knowledges are produced. In<br />
this session participants will have an opportunity to consider the development<br />
of knowledge and ideologies throughout U.S. history in the 20th century.<br />
We will explore the relationships between history, marginalized and<br />
dominant perspectives, and the insitutionalization of theories that inform<br />
the prevailing understanding of power and privilege. We will engage these<br />
questions through facilitated small-group activities using current events,<br />
individual experiences, and contemporary social research. An audiovisual<br />
presentation will illustrate the historical trends of knowledge production.<br />
MARíA CORRAL-RIBORDY is a graduate student in the Department of<br />
Education and lectures in the Ethnic Studies Program at Humboldt State<br />
University. Reach her at maru@cox.net.<br />
JULIO ORELLANA is an Ethnic Studies senior at HSU. He is interested<br />
in alternative <strong>education</strong> that challenges the dominant discourses of the<br />
academy in an effort to produce social change. He also organizes and is<br />
involved in various constituencies of color here on the university campus.<br />
In the future he plans to attend graduate school. His email is kruxone@<br />
yahoo.com.<br />
Nelson Hall East 116<br />
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INCREASE YOUR CHARTER SCHOOL’S FUNDING<br />
LEVELS<br />
This workshop is a primer on charter school finance, providing a basic<br />
explanation of funding sources and revenue flow to charter schools. Your<br />
school’s amount of funding determines how many teachers and programs<br />
you get. This workshop will describe the various ways the state and federal<br />
governments fund charters (Prop 98, categorical block grant, EIA funding,<br />
the Con App). The facilitator and participants will focus on how schools<br />
can fundraise and apply for grants more effectively.<br />
ALICE MILLER is a founder of three California Charter Schools, including<br />
California’s first charter, the San Carlos Charter Learning Center.<br />
Alice has held numerous positions in the charter world, including school<br />
director, financial officer, technical officer, and counselor. Alice worked for<br />
the California Network of Educational Charters (CANEC) and provided<br />
technical support to the U.S. Charter Schools Network for many years.<br />
Alice is currently the Help Desk Technical Expert for the California Charter<br />
Schools Association. She can be reached at alicem@charterassociation.<br />
org.<br />
Charter Schools<br />
Agate Room, Jolly Giant Compound.<br />
Photo by Martha Haynes
Friday, 4:00 pm<br />
OPENING KEYNOTE SESSION<br />
WELCOME TO THE SUMMIT!<br />
Twin Keynote Addresses<br />
Kate Buchanan Room, University Center<br />
WHO OWNS THE VILLAGE SQUARE AND WHY IS IT SO SQUARE?<br />
Jewelle Gomez, poet, activist, and author of The Gilda Stories<br />
JEWELLE GOMEZ is a writer and activist and the author of the double Lambda Award-winning novel, The<br />
Gilda Stories (Firebrand Books). Her adaptation of the book for the stage—Bones & Ash: a Gilda Story—was<br />
performed by the Urban Bush Women in 13 U.S. cities. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts<br />
literature fellowship and two California Arts Council fellowships. Her fiction, essays,<br />
criticism and poetry have appeared in numerous periodicals, including The San Francisco<br />
Chronicle, The New York Times, The Village Voice; The Advocate, Ms Magazine,<br />
Essence Magazine and the Black Scholar. She has served on literary panels for<br />
the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, the California Arts<br />
Council and the San Francisco Arts Commission. She is currently on the national<br />
advisory boards of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Poets and Writers, Inc.,<br />
and the Human Sexuality Archives of Cornell University. An early member of the<br />
board of the Astraea Foundation she is currently on the funding board of the Open<br />
Meadows Foundation. Her books include a volume of personal and political essays<br />
entitled Forty Three Septembers (Firebrand, 1993), and a collection of short fiction,<br />
Don’t Explain (Firebrand, 1997).<br />
CELEBRATING 500 YEARS OF INDIAN EDUCATION<br />
Howard Rainer (Taos-Pueblo Creek), author, educator, youth advocate<br />
HOWARD RAINER is one of the United States premier Native American youth<br />
leadership and <strong>education</strong>al advocates. For over 25 years, this member of the Taos-<br />
Pueblo Creek Tribe has worked with thousands of Native American youth and parents<br />
throughout the U.S. and Canada promoting <strong>education</strong>al opportunities for Native<br />
Americans. Mr. Rainer is considered by many to be one of the leading Native<br />
American trainers in providing workshops in building self-esteem and enhancing<br />
motivation among Native American adults and youth. For ten years, he was the director<br />
of a national Indian youth leadership program that fostered the development of<br />
exceptional young Indians. Rainer is currently the Program Administrator for Native<br />
American Education Outreach Programs at Brigham Young University. Rainer has<br />
authored volumes of <strong>education</strong>al materials promoting Native American Pride and an<br />
appreciation of Indian cultures.<br />
______<br />
Greetings by HSU President Rollin Richmond and College of the Redwoods President Casey Crabill<br />
Welcome from <strong>Eric</strong> <strong>Rofes</strong>, Summit 2006 Coordinator<br />
Introducing the HSU Diversity Action Plan Council, Jyoti V. Rawal and <strong>Eric</strong> <strong>Rofes</strong>, Co-chairs<br />
Opening Performance by Hip Hop Artists: The Movement: Tarikh Brown & Oscar Stingily<br />
Introduction by Sue Burcell, Indian Teacher and Educational Personnel Program (ITEPP)<br />
Sponsored by Associated Students, HSU Faculty Diversity Fund, and HSU Faculty Development Grant Program<br />
Reception, sponsored by the HSU Diversity Plan Action Council, follows in Karshner Lounge,<br />
outside Kate Buchanan Room, University Center<br />
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Film Screening<br />
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE: THE BLACK<br />
PANTHER PARTY AND BEYOND<br />
A Film by Lee Lew Lee (1 6)<br />
Followed by a conversation with ASHANTI ALSTON, Black Panther<br />
and long-time Black liberation activist<br />
ABOUT THE FILM: Opening with<br />
a montage of four hundred years of<br />
race injustice in America, this powerful<br />
documentary provides the historical<br />
context for the establishment of<br />
the 60’s civil rights and Black Power<br />
movements. Rare clips of Martin Luther<br />
King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton<br />
and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. The<br />
Black Panther Party not only drew upon the insight generated by a<br />
whole generation of people of color’s struggles that preceded it, but<br />
inspired the internationalist connections amongst and between the<br />
diverse struggles that make up Black, Chicano, indigenous, Asian-<br />
American and women’s liberation movement. The party challenged<br />
the white supremacist capitalist establishment which criminalized the<br />
Panthers as a terrorist group. Yet, the documentary is not a paean to<br />
the Panthers for, while it praises their early courage and struggle for<br />
dignity, it exposes some of their contradictions.<br />
ABOUT ASHANTI ALSTON: Ashanti Alston, Black Panther and<br />
long-time activist in Black liberation movements, will report on recent<br />
developments in the struggle for self-determination and community<br />
autonomy currently underway in both the African American and Latino<br />
communities. Drawing from his own history in the black liberation<br />
movement in the United States, Alston will examine the intersections<br />
and solidarity between these communities as well as investigate the<br />
critical role of popular <strong>education</strong> strategies for the Black Panthers and<br />
more recently the Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. More<br />
recently, as a member of Estacion Libre, an autonomous organization<br />
of people of color in solidarity with the Zapatistas, Alston has been a<br />
prominent activist in the decentralized, networked global resistance to<br />
neoliberal structural adjustment as it manifests in the prison industrial<br />
and military industrial complex. After studying the autonomous struggle<br />
of Zapatista communities in Chiapas, he has linked his knowledge<br />
of Black nationalism and indigenous autonomy to his anti-racist work<br />
with such organizations as Critical Resistance, a national organization<br />
committed to ending the prison industrial complex.<br />
Introduced by JAMES BRAGGS of Accion Zapatista and SIERRA<br />
BARNES, Environment and Community MA Program<br />
Sponsored by HSU Black Student Union, Environment & Community<br />
MA Program, Accion Zapatista Humboldt, the Office of Diversity and<br />
Compliance Services, and Faculty Diversity Grants Program<br />
Kate Buchanan Room, University Center<br />
Friday, 7:00 pm<br />
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Photo by Martha Haynes
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QueSTiOn OF The DAy<br />
how might <strong>education</strong> and its practitioners foster and sustain full and active<br />
participation in democracy’s institutions and support a more equitable,<br />
peaceful, and environmentally sustainable future?<br />
Rock Climbing and an Exciting<br />
Challenge Course at the Summit!<br />
Experiential Education At Its Best!<br />
Humboldt Adventure, a leader in professional trainings and workshops,<br />
and Humboldt State University’s Youth Education Services are<br />
partnering to offer you an extraordinary opportunity to experience<br />
rock climbing and the team experiences of a low challenge course right<br />
here at the <strong>summit</strong>.<br />
These activities are for anyone involved in working with groups of<br />
people of all ages who is looking for active learning opportunities and<br />
other tools to facilitate deep learning. Humboldt Adventure puts the<br />
emphasis on experiential learning, immersing participants in each of<br />
the stages of group development, and experiencing peak performance<br />
as a team.<br />
This special opportunity is intended for <strong>summit</strong> participants of all<br />
ages and for those who have never participated in this type of experiential<br />
<strong>education</strong> as well as those who have and understand its power<br />
to instruct and inform. Look forward to The Rock Wall, The Swamp<br />
Crossing, The Whale Watch, The Hawk Walk, The Cube, Faster Than<br />
Light, The Relationship Traverse, and much much more!<br />
Jon O’Connor is Director of Humboldt Adventure Director. He holds<br />
an MS in Organizational Leadership. Jon has extensive experience in<br />
management, leadership, training, and development. He has facilitated<br />
training programs in New York, Michigan, Nepal, Nevada, North<br />
Carolina, Northern California, and Southern California. He has an<br />
MS in Organizational Leadership from National University and a BA<br />
in Religious Studies, specializing in Peace and Conflict Studies, from<br />
Humboldt State University. He has also completed an International<br />
Studies Program in Nepal and attended the University of North Carolina<br />
in Wilmington and the University of Hawaii in Hilo. Jon can be<br />
reached at adventuretraining@yahoo.com.<br />
Stop by Humboldt Adventure’s experiential <strong>education</strong><br />
sites in the HSU Quad outside University Center!<br />
Saturday, February 4, 2006<br />
Throughout Saturday morning and afternoon,<br />
take advantage of these two unique experiential learning activities<br />
Reclaiming Spaces & Places:<br />
Mural Art by Francisco McCurry<br />
Throughout the main three days of the <strong>summit</strong>, you will see Francisco<br />
McCurry working away on a special <strong>summit</strong> mural intended to capture<br />
the <strong>summit</strong> theme of Education, Democracy, and Social Justice.<br />
The mural aims to capture and represent the tension between resistance<br />
and compromise of people/communities in “first world nations” dealing<br />
with the physical and cultural violence of neoliberal market economies<br />
and politics. The process of creating the mural will be interactive<br />
and will foster dialogue with North Coast Education participants and<br />
the artist. Participants will be asked to write or doodle thoughts about<br />
<strong>education</strong> and politics on a drawn wall that is part of the mural. Therefore<br />
a common built-around aesthetic will be created, while breaking<br />
down the idea of the western artist as isolated creator, and position art<br />
as part of a greater communal and social cultural matrix.<br />
Francisco McCurry is a recent graduate of HSU with a degree in<br />
ethnic studies and is currently an independent artist/writer/musician<br />
who lives in the greater Los Angeles area and is part of the hip<br />
hop group campLIFE. He commits random acts of aesthetic kindness<br />
with stencils, post-its and tags on walls to his liking. His work aims to<br />
bridge and conflate ideas on politics, desire, memory and the history<br />
of western aesthetics. When not painting Francisco is a social advocate<br />
and activist. This is his first commissioned work. He can be reached at<br />
sopeheadchurch@yahoo.com or myspace.com/camplife.<br />
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Photo by Martha Haynes
Saturday, 8:30 am – 10:00 am SESSION 4<br />
Saturday, 8: 0 am – 10:00 am Session 4<br />
THRIVING UNDER PRESSURE:<br />
A WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS<br />
We are living in difficult times in which significant stress in teachers’<br />
work lives is common. Research conducted since 9/11 indicates<br />
that people can develop their own resilience that helps them make it<br />
through difficult times. Two of the key tools for building resilience are<br />
finding meaning that sustains you and developing a community in<br />
which people help each other through the tough times. Rachel Naolmi<br />
Remen, MD and the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness<br />
at Commonweal in Bolinas have pioneered such work for healthcare<br />
workers. Borrowing elements of Rachel’s outstanding work, we will<br />
create a temporary community in the exploration of what experiences<br />
you have had that bring deep meaning to your work. Participants are<br />
encouraged (but not required) to read Dr. Remen’s “Kitchen Table Wisdom”<br />
before this workshop.<br />
NANCY ANGELO, PH.D. is an organization development consultant<br />
who has over twenty years’ experience in helping people work toether<br />
to meet daunting challenges at work. Her doctorate is in organizational<br />
psychology. She has worked extensively with people working in<br />
healthcare, community-based organizations, <strong>education</strong>, and the arts &<br />
culture. Contact Nancy at na@angeloconsulting.com.<br />
U<br />
Extended Session: 8:30-11:30<br />
Workshop is limited to the first 10 people.<br />
Founders Hall 204<br />
UNDERSTANDING THE FINANCING OF PUBLIC<br />
SCHOOLS IN CALIFORNIA<br />
If you are involved in public schools as a teacher, administrator, parent,<br />
student, or policymaker, you want to attend this unique session. This<br />
workshop was requested by <strong>summit</strong> organizers to provide local educators<br />
and people becoming teachers with a brief demystification of <strong>education</strong><br />
funding in our state. How did California drop from 6th in per-pupil school<br />
funding to 35th? How does Proposition 98 work and has it really protected<br />
school funding since its enactment in 1988? Why do some school districts<br />
receive much more per-pupil funding than others? In an era of chronic state<br />
budget deficits, are there any solutions to school funding inequities? These<br />
mysteries and more will be discussed in lay terms for all affected by the<br />
California public <strong>education</strong> system.<br />
This identical workshop was offered during lunch on Friday.<br />
LEE LIPPS is a school finance specialist for the California Teachers Association.<br />
His responsibilities include individual school district budget analyses,<br />
sitting on fact-finding panels, and analyzing the financial impact of<br />
proposed state <strong>education</strong> legislation. He recently served on the state committees<br />
that revised the K–12 Criteria and Standards and the State K–12<br />
Audit Guide. Contact him at llipps@cta.org.<br />
Nelson Hall East 106<br />
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CROSS-CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE: EDUCADO<br />
AND SANKOFA<br />
Or how a poor black girl got a white,<br />
middle-class <strong>education</strong> and still<br />
learned to translate her black cultural<br />
intelligence and identity, despite the<br />
white supremicist academic agenda<br />
In this workshop we will discuss how to redefine academic<br />
achievement using the cultural values of the<br />
students to create and support a true atmosphere of<br />
learning. Dispel myths perpetrated by “unkle toms” and<br />
overseers. It will help any teacher to understand the value of each child’s<br />
distinct culture in the classroom by discussing the experience and damaging<br />
effects of a white supremacist based <strong>education</strong> on people of color<br />
who have used <strong>education</strong> to cross cultural, class, gender lines and how the<br />
current structure conflicts with the complex and honorable set of values<br />
within our own cultures—including European ethnicities.<br />
If our cultural values are consciously integrated into today’s classroom it<br />
will improve the quality of teaching, the curriculum, and the classroom<br />
environment in the <strong>education</strong> system. This workshop will not tell you how<br />
to do it; instead it focuses on WHO you need to become though conscientious<br />
healing before you can find success teaching within the African and<br />
Latino “urban” community. Replacing the “white” middle-class <strong>education</strong><br />
system with Latin(a)- and African-based wisdom <strong>education</strong> is not about<br />
compliance, but about social justice and freedom as students and families<br />
in the community you serve define it.<br />
SEKANI MOYENDA, teacher, activist and author is a third generation<br />
Black educator working in an elementary school for over ten years. She is<br />
co-author with Ann Berlak of Taking It Personally: Racism in the Classroom<br />
from Kindergarten to College. She writes, “Despite all this <strong>education</strong>,<br />
I am only a stereotype to many white colleagues and a threat to the<br />
unkle toms and overseers who pass for Black. I must not be doing something<br />
“white” but I’m very successful in the classroom because I focus on<br />
social justice.” She can be reached at smoyenda@hotmail.com.<br />
Klamath River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
VIDEO SCREENING:<br />
HOMELANd: FOUR PORTRAITS OF NATIvE<br />
ACTION (2005)<br />
Filmed against some of America’s most spectacular backdrops from Alaska<br />
to Maine and Montana to New Mexico, this award-winning film profiles<br />
Native American activists who are fighting to protect Indian lands,<br />
preserve their sovereignty and ensure the cultural survival of their peoples.<br />
Nearly all 317 Native American reservations in the U.S. face grave<br />
environmental threats—toxic waste, strip mining, oil drilling and nuclear<br />
contamination. This film is a moving tribute to the power of grassroots organizing.<br />
It is also a call-to-action against the current dismantling of thirty<br />
years of environmental laws. (88 minutes)<br />
Native American Issues In Schools<br />
Founders Hall 118<br />
QueSTiOn OF The DAy<br />
how might <strong>education</strong> and its practitioners foster and sustain full and active<br />
participation in democracy’s institutions and support a more equitable,<br />
peaceful, and environmentally sustainable future?
Saturday, 8:30 am – 10:00 am SESSION 4<br />
LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE FOUNDING YEARS<br />
OF CHARTER SCHOOLS<br />
We welcome to this session people involved in the founding of charter<br />
schools throughout California—and people who want to learn from the<br />
rich and diverse experiences of charter founders. What is the period like<br />
when a founding group prepares a charter? What is the time like from winning<br />
charter approval to opening the school? And what lessons only seem<br />
to be learned once the doors are open and the children arrive?<br />
JENNI ALLEN-SAN GIOVANNI (facilitator) will welcome people to the<br />
session and facilitate. JOANNA LENNON from the East Bay Conservation<br />
Corps Charter School will participate. We encourage any other charter<br />
founders at the <strong>summit</strong> to join in this session.<br />
Charter Schools • Founders Hall 203<br />
TEACHERS’ PARTNERS: FINDING THEM,<br />
CONNECTING WITH THEM, WORKING WITH THEM<br />
This session will help answer the question, “How do we create and maintain<br />
a supported and supporting classroom?” Research documents that<br />
successful classrooms do not exist in isolation. Increasingly, teachers<br />
find that they need to orchestrate an exciting, enriching, yet predictable<br />
classroom environment. This workshop will address ways to think about,<br />
recruit and manage helpers—volunteers. Americorps members, service<br />
learning helpers, and, of course, aides our in—classroom supporting cast.<br />
We will explore ways to work with this complex environment, both the<br />
opportunities and barriers.<br />
Yet the largest measure of support, potentially, comes from the families of<br />
our students, those outside our daily view. In the second half of the workshop,<br />
we will explore the role of homework as the daily point of contact<br />
with our families: strategies to facilitate homework will be discussed as<br />
well as the emerging community supports, such as after school homework<br />
help and community efforts such as KEET’S beginning homework programming.<br />
Workshop participants will interact to maximize our shared<br />
experiences. Parents are encouraged to join in. Remember, teachers may<br />
be parents too!<br />
MARIANNE PENNEKAMP, MSW, PPSC, PH.D. is adjunct faculty at<br />
HSU in the Department of Psychology and a retired lecturer in <strong>education</strong>,<br />
social work, and child development. She will be assisted by colleagues<br />
who have current experience in parent engagement and homework service<br />
delivery in the local area. She will be joined by CHRISTY KEENER from<br />
Fortuna Healthy Start and MEG WALKLEY, MSW, lecturer in HSU’s<br />
Social Work Department. Marianne Pennekamp can be reached at mariannp@humboldt1.com.<br />
Founders Hall 179<br />
HOW DO WE WORK EFFECTIVELY WITH PEOPLE<br />
EXPERIENCING DEEP TRAUMA?<br />
This is a very special workshop for people in the fields of social work,<br />
mental health, disaster relief, and other human services and caring professions.<br />
The session is led by a pioneering social worker based in San Francisco’s<br />
South of Market neighborhood, a center of the Bay Area’s homeless<br />
population. How do we work effectively and respectfully with people who<br />
have experienced deep and profound trauma? When the people we serve<br />
struggle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), how can we find<br />
ways to hold them, listen to them, and support their healing? How do we<br />
be present for people in an authentic way, while putting aside our own<br />
personal needs? This extended session will include a presentation, discussions,<br />
role plays and other activities.<br />
ANDREA CANAAN is Support Services Manager for the Canon Barcus<br />
Community House, a facility that provides permanent housing in a 48unit<br />
building in San Francisco. An African-American social worker raised<br />
in New Orleans, Canaan returned to the area this fall for a month to re-<br />
located two dozen family members and friends in Louisiana and Mississippi<br />
after Katrina. Among her many publications is the oft-quoted poem<br />
“Brownness,” first published in Cherie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua’s<br />
pioneering collection This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical<br />
Women of Color. Kate Buchanan Room – B, University Center<br />
ASPERGER SYDNROME AND HIGH FUNCTIONING<br />
AUTISM: HOW CAN WE HELP?<br />
With the dramatic increase in children diagnosed as being on the Autism<br />
spectrum, teachers and schools are challenged to provide a good <strong>education</strong><br />
in a safe environment. While often quite bright, the difficulty lies in accessing<br />
the brightness of students with Asperger syndrome (or high-functioning<br />
autism) through their multiple layers of sensitivity and social awkwardness.<br />
And in fact, we are sometimes unsuccessful. How can teachers<br />
and schools do better?<br />
Superintendent/Principal of the Fieldbrook School District, CATHERINE<br />
STONE has had a lifelong interest in people with autism (thanks to her<br />
brother!). A doctoral student, her area of research is high-functioning autism<br />
and elementary school success. Her email address is cstone@nohum.<br />
k12.ca.us.<br />
CHERYL VALLEY is a teacher and reading specialist at Fieldbrook School.<br />
She has worked to provide successful experiences for children with Asperger<br />
syndrome/high-functioning autism.<br />
MARCIA CARLSEN is the parent of a student diagnosed with Asperger<br />
disorder, secondary to epilepsy. She has spent countless hours trying to<br />
figure out her son and how to meet his needs. Founders Hall 111<br />
RIVER SCHOOL AND THE HO`ALA EDUCATIONAL<br />
PHILOSOPHY: INCREASING THE CAPACITY TO<br />
LEARN BY ADDRESSING THE WHOLE PERSON<br />
The award-winning River School’s program is based on the Ho`ala<br />
Educational Philosophy developed in 1972. Linda Inlay, director of<br />
the River School, began her teaching career with this philosophy and<br />
brought it to The River School in 1996. Ho`ala in Hawaiian—which<br />
means “awakening the self”—addresses the two psychological halves<br />
of human beings: the sense of self and the sense of belonging. When<br />
a school is designed to fulfill these two important needs, students are<br />
happier, more responsible and respectful, and demonstrate improved<br />
academic performance. Thirty-three years of development and refinement<br />
have helped teachers become better at teaching and students become<br />
active, engaged learners.<br />
LINDA INLAY, the director of The River School for ten years, spent her<br />
formative years as an educator in Hawaii in a school program developed<br />
by Sr. Joan Madden and an Adlerian psychologist, Dr. Raymond<br />
Corsini. This program called the Ho`ala Educational Philosophy has<br />
thirty-three years of refinement in both Ho`ala School in Hawaii and<br />
at The River School. Ho`ala in Hawaiian means, “awakening of the<br />
self” which is the heart of this philsophy, addressing the psychological<br />
needs of all human beings for a sense of self and a sense of belonging.<br />
Linda has published two articles on this philosophy for the journal Educational<br />
Leadership, and spoken at numerous conferences on this way<br />
of raising responsible and caring human beings. Linda can be reached<br />
at linlay@nvusd.k12.ca.us.<br />
Master teacher at River School for six years, MARY LYNN BRYAN<br />
is now taking a leave of absence to teach at HSU. She shares the understanding<br />
and experience of the Ho`ala Educational Philosophy<br />
that she learned at The River School with teachers in preparation. Her<br />
email address is rsfossil@comcast.net.<br />
Kate Buchanan Room – A, University Center<br />
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Saturday, 8:30 am – 10:00 am SESSION 4<br />
LEAN THINKING FOR CREATING RESPONSIBLE<br />
PROSPERITY<br />
The session provides a basic introduction to the concept and principles of<br />
lean thinking as developed by Taiichi Ohno and James Womack. Participants<br />
will learn how lean thinking integrates various tools and techniques<br />
to create value and reduce waste. Participants will be introduced to the<br />
basic philosophy, learn how to determine value, and use lean methods to<br />
improve organizational responsiveness while taking part in a guided simulation<br />
of a product/service system.<br />
DR. A. MARK DOGGETT is the chair of the Department of Industrial<br />
Technology at Humboldt State University. He is currently working to revitalize<br />
the study of technology and improve technological literacy in the<br />
local community. His interests are in the area of quality management practices,<br />
lean manufacturing, theory of constraints, and systems thinking. He<br />
has also done research in various decision-making and problem-solving<br />
strategies used by students, managers, and policy makers. His areas of<br />
expertise include leadership, process management, and manufacturing<br />
technology with over 20 years of experience in business and industry. Dr.<br />
Doggett received his doctorate at Colorado State University in Interdisciplinary<br />
Studies and holds BS and MS degrees in industrial technology. He<br />
can be reached at amd49@humboldt.edu.<br />
U Extended Session: 8:30–11:30<br />
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development • Siemens Hall 115<br />
IT’S ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS (AND OTHER<br />
NEED-TO-KNOW ESSENTIALS OF MARKETING)<br />
Marketing can be as simple or as complex as you make it. In this session,<br />
we will explore together some simple yet essential (and effective) aspects<br />
of marketing a small business on a shoestring budget.<br />
NANCY VIZENOR, PHD is a part-time faculty member and teaches marketing<br />
in HSU’s School of Business. Nancy came to Humboldt by way of<br />
Seattle where she co-owned a marketing research firm. Her email address<br />
is ncv2@humboldt.edu.<br />
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development • Siemens Hall 128<br />
CREATING CAMPAIGN STRATEGY<br />
To win a campaign you need to ensure that the right people are feeling<br />
the right pressure at the right times. Campaign research and strategy is<br />
the first step in making sure that your campaign will mobilize folks, pressure<br />
your decision-maker and ultimately win your campaign. We’ll focus<br />
on using tools including research methods that Greenpeace uses on campaigns,<br />
power maps that can outline those who should be influenced in<br />
order to win, and strategy maps so that your group can realistically plan<br />
and meet needed goals. This is highly interactive, focused on universitybased<br />
campaigns, limited to 20 people, and requires that you have an idea<br />
that you’d like to turn into a campaign. Please bring any relevant materials<br />
or research that has already been done.<br />
LINDSEY ALLEN is an organizer for Greenpeace, based out of San Francisco.<br />
For the past few months she has worked with students to pressure<br />
Kimberly-Clark, the makers of Kleenex, to increase their recycled content<br />
and end their role in the destruction of the boreal forest of North America.<br />
As the National Student Organizer for the Greenpeace forest campaign<br />
she specializes in local university campaigns and international corporate<br />
campaigns. She graduated from Humboldt State University in May 2004<br />
with a degree in Anthropology and minors in Women’s Studies and Ethnic<br />
Studies. She began her organizing career with the HSU Women’s Resource<br />
Center in 2002 before moving on to work with the State PIRGs, Environment<br />
California and, now, Greenpeace. Contact her at lindsey.allen@sfo.<br />
greenpeace.org.<br />
Founders Hall 025<br />
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ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS:<br />
A FORGOTTEN THEME?<br />
Environmental ethics is an important emerging field that often is not<br />
fully addressed in contemporary classroom curricula. Fulfilling human-based<br />
concerns for the availability and use of natural resources,<br />
concern for the treatment of wildlife and other animals used for food<br />
and recreation, considering the health and well-being of species and<br />
biological communities, as well as desiring to develop more satisfying<br />
personal experiences with nature, all contribute to the highly varied attitudes<br />
our students and citizens hold toward the natural world. A brief<br />
overview of the key distinguishing features between major attitudes<br />
toward nature will be presented, and some current resources available<br />
to students, teachers, and parents will be summarized. Participants<br />
already working with environmental ethics curricula in the classroom<br />
are encouraged to summarize the resources they have used in successfully<br />
addressing this topic, for sharing with the others. Participants<br />
collectively will work in groups to develop some environmental ethics<br />
activities that can be incorporated into the classroom.<br />
RICK BOTZLER is Professor of Wildlife at Humboldt State University<br />
and has co-edited two texts with Susan Armstrong: Environmental<br />
Ethics: Divergence and Convergence (3rd ed.) and The Animal Ethics<br />
Reader. Rick was selected as the 1992 outstanding professor for the<br />
California State University system. He has served as a Fulbright Fellow<br />
to Germany and as the editor for the Journal of Wildlife Diseases.<br />
Rick also has been active on the Human Rights Commission and Independent<br />
Observer Program in Humboldt County. He can be reached<br />
at rgb2@humboldt.edu.<br />
SUSAN ARMSTRONG is Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt State<br />
University and has co-edited two texts with Rick Botzler: Environmental<br />
Ethics: Divergence and Convergence (3rd ed.) and The Animal Ethics<br />
Reader. She was selected as the 2003-2004 outstanding professor<br />
for HSU. Susan served for 10 years on the Editorial Advisory with the<br />
journal, Environmental Ethics. Her many publications and presentations<br />
cover environmental ethics, “naturalness,” theology, animal ethics,<br />
the history of ideas, ethical conflicts, parapsychology, and social<br />
responsibility. Her email address is sja3@humboldt.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Founders Hall 118<br />
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THE JOB RACE<br />
Participants will have the opportunity to participate in a dialogue about<br />
white privilege and how it affects people in the job market. This is an interactive<br />
session that uses examples such as attaining a job to visualize<br />
systemic oppression in society. Dialogue and debriefing will focus on the<br />
role of oppression in <strong>education</strong>.<br />
PIYA BOSE received her BA from Vassar College in science, technology,<br />
& society. She is currently Residence Life Coordinator at HSU and is pursuing<br />
further <strong>education</strong> to continue a career in Higher Education. Contact<br />
Piya at piya@humboldt.edu.<br />
LETICIA ROMO has a BS from Iowa State University in business management/human<br />
resources and an M.Ed. from University of South Florida<br />
in college student affairs. She is currently Residence Life Coordinator at<br />
HSU and can be reached at leticia@humboldt.edu.<br />
Nelson Hall East 116
Saturday, 8:30 am – 10:00 am SESSION 4<br />
EXPAND, CONTRACT, TURN, SKIP, WALK—DANCE!<br />
Would you like to incorporate creative movement activities into your elementary<br />
classroom? Then join us in this workshop where we will explore<br />
how to use common, everyday movements and gestures to create original<br />
dances with our students. NOTE: You do NOT have to be a skilled dancer<br />
to be an effective facilitator of creative movement! All experience levels<br />
are welcome—including the rhythmically challenged. Wear comfortable,<br />
loose clothing and be prepared for a good workout.<br />
PATTY YANCEY is Associate Professor in the<br />
HSU Department of Education. She is the Program<br />
Leader for HSU’s Elementary Education<br />
Credential Program and teaches visual and performing<br />
arts methods and multicultural foundations<br />
for the student teachers. Patty has taught<br />
as an arts specialist and an artist-in-schools in<br />
K-12 public, private, and parochial schools; as<br />
a dance instructor and choreographer in afterschool<br />
and recreation programs; and as a professional development facilitator<br />
and instructor in the integration of the arts across the K-12 curriculum.<br />
Patty’s email address is py4@humboldt.edu.<br />
Founders Hall, Green and Gold Room<br />
SEXUAL HEALTH AND LITERACY: A NEED TO<br />
KNOW AND THE ROLE OF FORMAL EDUCATION<br />
This is an interactive workshop exploring sources of sexual attitudes,<br />
knowledge and skills. Topics will include legislative guidelines for sex<br />
<strong>education</strong> in California Public Schools, sources of formal/informal sexual<br />
information, self-assessment instruments, and the role of schools in <strong>education</strong>.<br />
NEZZIE WADE is on the sociology faculty at College of the Redwoods<br />
and Humboldt State University, and currently Coordinator of the Sexual<br />
Health Literacy Project at CR. Her email is nezzie-wade@redwoods.edu.<br />
STEVEN DURHAM is a member of the faculty at College of the Redwoods<br />
and Director of the Sexual health Literacy Project at College of the<br />
Redwoods. He can be reached at steve-durham@redwoods.edu.<br />
Nelson Hall East 113<br />
CHILDREN IN A VIOLENT WORLD: RECOGNIZING<br />
SIGNS OF ABUSE AND PREDICTING CHILDREN’S<br />
OWN VIOLENCE<br />
This session will explore the signs/symptoms children may exhibit when<br />
they have been abused or neglected. We will discuss participants’ experiences<br />
with recognizing abuse and offer suggestions for actions that can be<br />
taken. We will also examine research findings illustrating child characteristics<br />
that place them at risk for perpetrating violence themselves in the<br />
future. The workshop will consist of discussion, small group activity, and<br />
a multi-media presentation.<br />
TASHA R. HOWE, PH.D. is a developmental psychologist in the psychology<br />
department at HSU. She specializes in family violence and developmental<br />
psychopathology. Tasha has conducted violence prevention<br />
trainings for the ACT (Adults and Children Together) progam (www.actagainstviolence.org)<br />
in Humboldt County. She is married with two sons<br />
and her email address is th28@humboldt.edu.<br />
Founders Hall 108<br />
LAND-DYKE VISIONARIES: LESBIAN FEMINISTS<br />
AND RURAL COMMUNITY BUILDING<br />
The U.S. lesbian land movement was forged at the intersections of 1960s<br />
countercultural back-to-the-land movements and 1970s second-wave<br />
feminist movements. Oregon, being a major hub of this land dyke phenomenon,<br />
has been home to some 20-odd women’s lands, collectives, and<br />
intentional communities, formed from the early 1970s to the present. Join<br />
us for a roundtable discussion and deep exploration of the past, present<br />
and future of some of these land-based lesbian-feminist communities.<br />
Among the topics planned for discussion are: the impact of race, ethnicity,<br />
socio-economic class, sexuality, gender expression, age, physical ability<br />
and mental health status on rural women and their communities; reasons<br />
for creating and preserving lesbian-only or women-only spaces; sexuality-based<br />
and/or sex-based separatism vs. broader inclusivity; the roles of<br />
spirituality, religion, ritual and environmentalism in rural women’s communities;<br />
the intricate intimacies of land-based communal or collective<br />
living; reframing hierarchical power structures and conventional modes of<br />
communication within communities; death and dying on land, reclaiming<br />
the practice of community grieving and home burials; third-wave feminism<br />
and the future of women’s and lesbian lands.<br />
HOLLY GRACE (organizer) is a graduate of HSU’s Women’s Studies and<br />
Multicultural Queer Studies programs. She is involved with queer, intentional<br />
communities up and down the West Coast. She can be contacted at<br />
feminist_fury13@yahoo.com.<br />
The roundtable participants will include BILLIE MIRACLE, RAY<br />
WILDER, ANNIE OCEAN and RUTH MOUNTAINGROVE.<br />
U Extended Session: 8:30-11:30<br />
Mad River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
RITES OF PASSAGE: THE INCARCERATION<br />
SYSTEM, INMATE FAMILIES AND CHILDREN OF<br />
INCARCERATION<br />
“Rites of Passage” is an opportunity to explore the special challenges of<br />
educating youth who have been impacted by the incarceration of family<br />
members. The session will give participants a perspective on how many<br />
families are affected by incarceration and the emotional, social and economic<br />
impacts of incarceration on youth and families. The workshop will<br />
include time for educators and community members to discuss how to<br />
break cycles of incarceration in families within the framework of demanding<br />
an end to the injustices of the United States’ incarceration system.<br />
JESSICA WHATCOTT has worked with Bar None, a prisoner support<br />
and community <strong>education</strong> group, for the past two years. She works with<br />
children and teenagers who have experienced the incarceration of family<br />
members, and who now struggle with violence, substance abuse and deliquency.<br />
She can be reached at bar.none@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Founders Hall 163<br />
A CLASH OF DISCOURSES IN ACADEMIC<br />
LITERACY: WHEN “I” BECOMES “ONE”<br />
Nikola Hobbel will structure an opportunity for participants to explore the<br />
definitions, applications, dangers, and benefits of “academic literacy.” To<br />
do so, she will group participants into triads and provide each group with<br />
a different sample student essay. Each group will be asked the same three<br />
questions: Does the essay provide an example of academic literacy? What<br />
are your criteria for making that determination? What consequences do<br />
your criteria have on students’ reading and writing? After each triad has<br />
described its essay and shared its determination with the whole group,<br />
participants will explore the ways in which their criteria reflect views<br />
about academic performance and learning.<br />
NIKOLA HOBBEL is Associate Director of the Redwood Writing Project<br />
and an assistant professor in HSU’s English Department. Her research<br />
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focuses on the cultural construction of race in <strong>education</strong>al policy and practice.<br />
Reach Nikola at hobbel@humboldt.edu.<br />
Academic Literacy<br />
Agate Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
‘WHAT’S MY BAG, BABY?” TEACHING dECISION-<br />
MAKING IN K-12 CLASSROOMS<br />
The California academic content standards for mathematics require data<br />
analysis in grades K-12. The ultimate goal of this material is to “Make a<br />
Decision Based Upon Data.” So, the question that begs to be answered is,<br />
“Why Not Teach Decision-Making in K-12?” Come to a hands-on lesson<br />
where we discuss ways to introduce the basics of the statistical decisionmaking<br />
process in the K-12 classroom. We’ll also discuss the “Principles<br />
and Standards for School Mathematics” put forth by the National Council<br />
of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and how they are a better fit with<br />
this notion of decision-making. We will also have resources for you that<br />
you will be able to use and modify for lesson plans in your own classes.<br />
MICHAEL BUTLER has been a full-time mathematics instructor at College<br />
of the Redwoods in Eureka, California for the last 15 years. He holds<br />
an MA from Humboldt State University in mathematical modeling, a BA<br />
in mathematics (also from HSU), an AA from Santa Rosa Junior College<br />
and a trade school degree in diesel mechanics. He has worked for the last<br />
three years in conjunction with Tami Matsumoto and others to encourage<br />
professional development in grades 7-12 mathematics instruction. Besides<br />
mathematics, he enjoys bicycling and camping with his family. His email<br />
address is Michael-Butler@Redwoods.edu.<br />
TERESA (“TAMI”) MATSUMOTO teaches arithmetic through calculus<br />
at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California, along with professional<br />
development for local teachers, and mathematics for prospective teachers<br />
at Humboldt State University. Tami works with local teachers through<br />
groups such as California Math Council Far North Chapter (CMCN8)<br />
and Eel River Valley Math Vertical Team, and with local students at <strong>education</strong>al<br />
math and science events throughout the year, and does research<br />
with bird biologists for the USDA Forest Service. Tami may be contacted<br />
at Tami-Matsumoto@Redwoods.edu.<br />
MIKE HALEY is a former middle school math teacher who was fortunate<br />
enough to go back to graduate school. Currently he is enjoying his first<br />
year as the new mathematics professor at the Del Norte campus of College<br />
of the Redwoods. His email address is Mike-Haley@Redwoods.edu.<br />
Founders Hall 232<br />
100fires.com<br />
extraordinary Books, cd’s, Videos<br />
(and more!) for a Healthy Planet<br />
drop-in’s welcome at Paul cienfuegos’<br />
new in-home store in Manila:<br />
Phone 443-4483<br />
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Saturday, 8:30 am – 11:30 am SESSIONS 4–5<br />
TeacHing aMerican HisTorY:<br />
Three Special Sessions on<br />
Saturday Morning<br />
Founders Hall 125<br />
U Extended Session 8:30 am – 11:30 am<br />
TWO WORLD WARS: REEVALUATING AMERICAN HISTORY<br />
THROUGH AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE<br />
This session focuses on the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. Drawing from the latest scholarship<br />
available, HSU professor Dee McBroome and McKinleyville High School teacher Jack Bareilles will introduce teachers<br />
to a new way of viewing the French and Indian War (1754-1763) and the American Revolution (1775-1783). These<br />
two wars are not merely American history but are wholly tied to global events of that era. Additionally, Dee and Jack<br />
will share a new way of viewing all of America’s conflicts from the French and Indian War up to the current conflict in<br />
Iraq—as expressions of either our imperialist or democratic tendencies.<br />
DEE MCBROOME is Professor of History at HSU. She is active in history teacher instruction and her areas of interest<br />
include African-American history and Western history. She can be reached at dnm1@humboldt.edu.<br />
JACK BAREILLES teaches history at McKinleyville High School and is the director of Humboldt County’s three Teaching<br />
American History grant programs. He also is the coordinator for McKinleyville High School’s Intenational Baccalaureate<br />
Program. Jack’s email address is jbareilles@nohum.k12.ca.us.<br />
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AMERICAN IMPERIALISM AND THE PANAMA CANAL<br />
Using historical photos and documents, HSU history and <strong>education</strong> professor Gayle Olson Raymer will both show how<br />
Panama Canal was constructed and how its construction was an expression of American imperialism. Professor Olson<br />
Raymer will also share print and digital materials with all participants and show how the process which led to the building<br />
of the Panama Canal fits into California’s content standards in many grades.<br />
GAYLE OLSON RAYMER is a professor of history and <strong>education</strong> at Humboldt State. Among her many duties, Gayle<br />
teaches and supervises HSU’s social studies students teachers. Gayle is one of the lead professors in Humboldt County’s<br />
three Teaching American History programs. Her email address is go1@humboldt.edu.<br />
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BUILDING BRIDGES: CREATING CULTURAL AMBASSADORS IN THE CLASSROOM<br />
Using Japan as a case study, this session will explore the history of the relationship between the U.S. and Japan, compare<br />
and contrast cultural characteristics (especially diversity, roles, and interpersonal space) using slides and artifacts, then<br />
share ideas for educators who strive to develop person-to-person interactions as a way of understanding other cultures.<br />
ANNE HARTLINE from McKinleyville Union School District (ahartlin@humboldt1.com) and LYNN JONES, from<br />
Arcata School District will present this session.<br />
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HONORING<br />
HUMBOLT STATE<br />
UNIVERSITY’S 2005–2006<br />
Katy Allen, Pacific Union School<br />
Debbie Andrews, Eagle Prairie School<br />
Louis Armin-Hoiland, Arcata High School<br />
Jani Ayers, Alice Birney School<br />
Carolyn Ayres, Fortuna High School<br />
Marilyn Backman, Bloomfield School<br />
Teresa Baginski, Cutten School<br />
Pam Barkdull, Academy of the Redwoods<br />
Kathy Banducci, Ridgewood School<br />
Sarah Barry-Holmes, Jacoby Creek<br />
Terri Bayles, Bloomfield School<br />
Terry Bean, Blue Lake School<br />
Mike Benbow, Fortuna High School<br />
Lisa Berrett-LaBolle, Sunny Brae School<br />
Scott Betts, Toddy Thomas School<br />
Warren Blinn, Alice Birney School<br />
Cori Borges, Cuddeback School<br />
Anne Bown-Crawford, Arcata High<br />
Paul Bressoud, Eureka High School<br />
Debbie Brock, Trinity Valley School<br />
Damon Brooks, Eureka High School<br />
Blake Brown, McKinleyville High<br />
Lynne Bryan, Dow’s Priarie School<br />
Lisa Bryant, Coastal Grove Charter<br />
Linda Burghart, Pine Hill School<br />
Jamie Bush, Zane Middle School<br />
Debbie Busick, Ferndale Elem School<br />
Carol Byers, Joe Hamilton School<br />
Tahnia Campbell, Arcata High School<br />
Amy Carlstad, Freshwater School<br />
Debbie Carpenter, Winship Middle School<br />
Dawn Carroll, Jefferson School<br />
Jeanne Chapin, Jefferson School<br />
MENTOR<br />
TEACHERS<br />
Our credential programs are proud of the excellent local educators who have joined in<br />
this year to become mentor teachers and support our candidates during their student<br />
teaching experiences in North Coast schools. We thank them for the skills, experience,<br />
and vision they bring to their students, colleagues, and to our candidates.<br />
Robert Chapman, Eureka High School<br />
Elizabeth Chew, Cutten School<br />
Robert Childs, Eureka High School<br />
Kristine Christiansen, Eureka High School<br />
Bernadette Church, Cuddeback School<br />
Laurie Clendenen, Toddy Thomas School<br />
Sandra Close, Scotia School<br />
Christi Cocks, Jacoby Creek School<br />
Susana Coleman, So. Fortuna Elem<br />
Brian Collart, Dow’s Prairie School<br />
Jeanne Collinsworth, Redway School<br />
Cindy Condit, Arcata High School<br />
Jackie Cory, Ferndale Elem School<br />
Christopher Cox, Eureka High School<br />
Brigette Crittenden, Fieldbrook School<br />
Stephanie Crnich, Washington School<br />
Charline Crump, Sunset School<br />
Lora Cunningham, Dow’s Prairie School<br />
Elliott Dabill, McKinleyville High<br />
Frances Damian, Ambrosini School<br />
Don Dean, Morris School<br />
David Dean-Mervinsky, Eureka High<br />
David Demant, Winship Middle School<br />
Terry Desch, Sunset School<br />
Mary DeWald, Ridgewood School<br />
Sara Dixon, Fortuna High<br />
Sarah Drisko, Zane Middle School<br />
Debra Dukes, So. Bay School<br />
Jill Duncan, Sunny Brae Middle School<br />
Janet Dungan-Byrne, Jacoby Creek School<br />
Chuck Dwelley, So. Fortuna Elem School<br />
Greg Ennes, Sunny Brae Middle School<br />
Sharon Falk-Carlsen, Blue Lake School
HONORING MENTOR TEACHERS<br />
Mindy Fattig, McKinleyville Middle School<br />
Karen Fauss, Ridgewood School<br />
Marjorie Fay, Alice Birney School<br />
Jennifer Femenella, Fortuna High<br />
Kelly Fernandes, Arcata High<br />
Sharon Ferreira, Ambrosini School<br />
Rick Finley, Mary Peacock School<br />
Mary Flowers, Washington School<br />
Sheila Forbes, Jefferson School<br />
Greg Gaiera, North Coast Charter School<br />
Emily Gibson, Blue Heron Middle School<br />
Gary Glassman, McKinleyville High<br />
Ronite Gluck, Freshwater School<br />
Christine Goodin, Bloomfield School<br />
Carol Goodwyn, Grant School<br />
Sarah Gradek, Grant School<br />
Laura Grant, McKinleyville Middle School<br />
Susan Haase, Lafayette School<br />
Pam Halstead, Fortuna High<br />
James Hannon, McKinleyville High<br />
Sherry Hanson, Fortuna Middle School<br />
Shane Harmon, Big Lagoon School<br />
Bruce Hart, Fieldbrook School<br />
Joanie Hartman, Hydesville School<br />
Ronald Hartman, Eureka High<br />
Leslie Hawkins, Alice Birney School<br />
Stella Hawkins, Morris School<br />
Sandi Henry, Dow’s Prairie School<br />
Ben Henshaw, Eureka High<br />
Nicole Holland, Alice Birney School<br />
Mollie Holmgren, Monument Middle School<br />
Carrie Holverson, Freshwater School<br />
Sandra Hooper, Crescent Elk School<br />
Tom Hunnicutt, John Muir Charter School<br />
Mark Huschle, Pacific Union School<br />
Lynn Intersimone, Lafayette School<br />
Steve Irwin, Academy of The Redwoods<br />
Lisa Jager, Ambrosini School<br />
Cindy Jeffress, Morris School<br />
Ann John, Freshwater School<br />
Doug Johnson, McKinleyville High School<br />
Judy Johnston, Dow’s Prairie School<br />
David Jordan, Eureka High School<br />
Karina Junge, Zane Middle School<br />
Rod Kausen, Fortuna High<br />
Maureen Kiritsy, Arcata High<br />
Reid Kitchen, Arcata High<br />
Carla Kraus, Grant School<br />
Cindy Kuttner, North Coast Charter School<br />
David LaBolle, Sunny Brae Middle School<br />
Patti Launi, Grant School<br />
Adina Lawson, Humboldt Bay High<br />
Bernie Levy, Zane Middle School<br />
Donna Lockwood, Ferndale Elem School<br />
Janet Lopez, Zane Middle School<br />
Joe MacTurk, Grant School<br />
Laura Madjedi, Pathways (Court/Community)<br />
Pam Malloy, Cutten School<br />
Liz Manatowa-Mastell, Trinity Valley Elem<br />
Page Matilton, Hoopa Valley Elem<br />
Jenny Matzka, Big Lagoon School<br />
Bruce McCarthy, Academy of The Redwoods<br />
Bruce McCay, Zane Middle School<br />
Stephanie McKinney, Blue Lake School<br />
Suerie McNeil, Freshwater School<br />
Danielle Michel, Arcata High<br />
Phillip Middlemiss, Eureka High<br />
Laurel Milan, So. Fortuna Elem School<br />
Shirley Miller, Dow’s Prairie School<br />
Bonnie Mitchell, Fortuna High<br />
Jill Mohorovich, Eureka High<br />
Teresa Mondragon, Dow’s Prairie School<br />
Garrett Montana, Zane Middle School<br />
Barbara Moore, Pine Hill School<br />
Fred Moore, Pine Hill School<br />
Bill Morris, Eureka High School<br />
Greg Morse, Cutten School<br />
Shannon Morago, Arcata High<br />
Mary Neal, Ridgewood School<br />
Helen Nelson, Sunny Brae Middle School<br />
Scott Nelson, Cutten School<br />
Thomas Nelson, McKinleyville Middle School<br />
Errin Odell, Fortuna High<br />
Barbara Ogan, Grant School<br />
Tim Olson, Eureka High<br />
Rachel Owen, Bridgeville School<br />
Gail Owren, Jefferson School<br />
Todd Pahl, Dow’s Prairie School<br />
Craig Parker, Eureka High<br />
Cherie Paul, Pacific Union<br />
Kelly Patton, Tsurai High School<br />
Wendy Pearcy, Blue Lake School<br />
Corrie Pedrotti, Ambrosini School<br />
Millie Perrone, Trinity Valley Elem<br />
Ron Perry, Eureka High<br />
Earl Peters, Arcata High<br />
Karen Peters, Sunset School<br />
Elena Pettit, Sunset School<br />
Sally Pfister, Trinity Valley Elem<br />
Jennifer Pierce, Pacific Union School<br />
Robin Pickering, Fortuna High<br />
Ken Pinkerton, Zane Middle School<br />
Margie Plant, Ambrosini School<br />
Travis Prince, Crescent Elk School<br />
Margaret Ramsey, Grant School<br />
Ligia Ray, Alice Birney School<br />
Debbie Reis, Morris School<br />
Hilda Reyna-Torres, Zane Middle School<br />
Deborah Reynolds, Redwood School<br />
Paul Rickard, So. Bay School<br />
Judy Rieger, McKinleyville High<br />
Rafael Rivera, Eureka High<br />
Judy Rodriques, Toddy Thomas School<br />
Jill Rohn, Arcata High<br />
James Roscoe, Eureka High<br />
Gwen Rust, Eureka High<br />
Lindy Rust, Del Norte High<br />
Deb Salizzoni, North Coast Charter School<br />
Jennifer Sanders, Washington School<br />
Judith Scharnberg, Toddy Thomas School<br />
Mary Seely, Winship Middle School<br />
Mary Ann Sheridan, McKinleyville Middle School<br />
Gregg Sisk, McKinleyville High<br />
Diana Skiles, Jacoby Creek School<br />
Justine Smith, McKinleyville High<br />
Kathy Smith, Morris School<br />
Lorraine Smith, Alice Birney School<br />
Shelly Smith, Lincoln School<br />
Kristin Sobilo, Winship Middle School<br />
Mauro Staiano, Eureka High<br />
Kim Stephens, Hoopa Valley Elem<br />
Shelley Stewart, Arcata High<br />
Danta Stoker, Freshwater School<br />
Mary Stone, Washington School<br />
Brenda Sutter, Laurel Tree Charter School<br />
Sharon Tecker, Alice Birney School<br />
Fred Tempas, Arcata School District<br />
Melinda Thomas, Blue Lake School<br />
Joel Thornburgh, Eureka High<br />
Johnna Townsend, Bloomfield School<br />
Wendy Turk, Bloomfield School<br />
Rebecca Twiss, Winship Middle School<br />
Cheryl Valley, Fieldbrook School<br />
Holly VanHerpe, Jefferson School<br />
Sarah Wallach, North Coast Charter School<br />
Sue Wartburg, Bloomfield School<br />
Deb Watson, Sunset School<br />
Kerry Watty, Hoopa Valley Elem<br />
Mary Lou Weaver, Morris School<br />
Jack West, Fortuna Middle School<br />
Jan West, Trinidad School<br />
Elizabeth Who, North Coast Charter School<br />
Kent Willis, Fortuna Middle School<br />
Terry Wilson, Dow’s Prairie School<br />
Gini Wozny, Fortuna High<br />
Brenda Yarnall, Cutten School<br />
Ann Youmans, Sunny Brae Middle School<br />
Pam Zana, Scotia School<br />
Tammi Ziesak, Washington School
Saturday, 10:30 am – 11:30 am SESSION 5<br />
Saturday, 10: 0 am – 11: 0 am Session 5<br />
SELF-ESTEEM, M&M’S AND GREEN PEAS<br />
This is a workshop teaching children to value themselves and others based<br />
on the realization that we all possess both gifts and challenges. The lesson<br />
presented can be utilized both at school and at home. This will be a lively<br />
interactive workshop in which the participants are taught how to present<br />
the gifts and challenges lesson and take an inventory on themselves.<br />
MICHELLE RUTZ teaches at California Montessori Project, a public<br />
charter Montessori school based in Sacramento. She has also directed a<br />
GATE program, homeschooled two of her four children for four years, been<br />
a foster parent and hosted four exchange students. Michelle’s goal is to<br />
make school an enjoyable experience for children as much as it is within<br />
her power to do so. Michelle has also worked as a performer for Coloma<br />
Melodrama Gold Rush plays and Kaiser Permanente for the communication<br />
skills program. She also is gifted in eating M&M’s. Contact Michelle<br />
at michellerutz@aol.com.<br />
Founders Hall 203<br />
YOUTH ACTIVISM: PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL<br />
AWARENESS AND ACTION THROUGH<br />
EXTRACURRICULAR CLUBS<br />
This session will include a presentation of ideas for middle and high<br />
school environmental action clubs. In and out of school activities will be<br />
discussed, as well as the potential for local political action initiated by<br />
students. We will present examples of successes accomplished within this<br />
format and guidelines for advising and organizing.<br />
MICHELLE FULLER is a graduate student in HSU’s Environment and<br />
Community MA Program and is Treasurer of the Environment and Community<br />
club at HSU. Michelle has acted as a mentor for Young Women in<br />
Science programs and student conservation clubs in central California for<br />
the past four years. She can be contacted at mmf418@yahoo.com.<br />
ANGELA C. PANACCIONE is a graduate student in HSU’s Environment<br />
and Community MA Program and President of the Environment and<br />
Community Club at HSU. Angela started a high school environmental<br />
activism club while she was a student and was successful in getting the<br />
school to revise construction plans that would have destroyed a rare vernal<br />
pool habitat. Reach her at ecocentricangel@yahoo.com.<br />
KATHLEEN FAIRCHILD is a graduate student in HSU’s Environment<br />
and Community MA Program with a BA in art <strong>education</strong> from HSU, and<br />
an active member of the Environment and Community club. Kathleen is<br />
the mother of three adult children and an active participant in the <strong>education</strong>al<br />
community. Her email address is kf19@humboldt.edu.<br />
Environment and Community<br />
Founders Hall 163<br />
THE WORLD IS A CLASSROOM: SOCIALLY<br />
CONSCIOUS TRAVEL<br />
This workshop will discuss socially conscious travel as a form of alternative<br />
<strong>education</strong> and international service learning. The presenter will describe<br />
socially conscious travel in its various forms, illustrate its purpose,<br />
investigate various travel resources, and look at existing venues for travel<br />
in an open discussion format. Participants will receive material on different<br />
travel avenues, and have an opportunity to develop travel goals appropriate<br />
for different levels of <strong>education</strong>.<br />
LORRIE LOVEMAN is Executive Director of Global Genie, a nonprofit,<br />
socially conscious travel organization, and has an MA in sociology from<br />
Humboldt State University. She can be reached at globalgenie@aol.com.<br />
Siemens Hall 119<br />
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MONOLINGUAL TEACHERS FOSTERING<br />
MULTILITERACY: A DREAM OR A NIGHTMARE?<br />
The purpose of this presentation is to imagine the possibility of creating<br />
multilingual schools. In the United States, most of the participants<br />
in the field of pre-service and in-service teacher educators are monolingual<br />
mainstream reading and language arts teachers and teacher educators.<br />
In order to do so, this presentation will focus on the following<br />
questions: 1. How are we preparing monolingual teachers to deal with<br />
public school classrooms in the US which are linguistically diverse<br />
and multilingual? 2. How do we view students’ native languages in our<br />
schools: as a “national resource” that is being wasted or as a “national<br />
liability” to be fixed? 3. What are some of our un-researched attitudes<br />
and misconceptions about the roles of monolingual teachers teaching<br />
our students’ native languages? 4. Do we want to maintain students’<br />
native languages and literacies or do we want to foster them? After addressing<br />
these questions, a list of ten practical ideas<br />
for monolingual teachers interested in fostering multiliteracy<br />
among their students will be provided.<br />
DR. DAVID SCHWARZER is Assistant Professor at<br />
the University of Texas, in the College of Education’s<br />
Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the<br />
Foreign Language Program. His dissertation at the<br />
University of Arizona, Tucson was titled Parallel Development<br />
of Writing in Hebrew, Spanish and English<br />
in a Multilingual Child and his book Noa’s Ark:<br />
One Child’s Voyage into Multiliteracy was published<br />
by Heinemann in 2001. David was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.<br />
He immigrated to Israel in 1982 and to the United States in 1999. David<br />
is fluent in Spanish, Hebrew and English. He can be reached at<br />
sdavid@mail.utexas.edu.<br />
Founders Hall 111<br />
A GROUP CONVERSATION WITH HOWARD RAINER<br />
ON INDIAN EDUCATION<br />
Stepping off from Howard’s keynote address on Friday afternoon, CEL-<br />
EBRATING 500 YEARS OF INDIAN EDUCATION, this workshop will<br />
give <strong>summit</strong> participants the chance to gather together and discuss the<br />
issues he raised about the history and current position of American Indian<br />
schooling. Bring your questions, your experiences, and your curiosities.<br />
HOWARD RAINER is one of the United States premier Native American<br />
youth leadership and <strong>education</strong>al advocates. For over 25 years, this<br />
member of the Taos-Pueblo Creek Tribe has worked with thousands of<br />
Native American youth and parents throughout the country and Canada<br />
promoting <strong>education</strong>al opportunities for Native Americans. Mr. Rainer is<br />
considered by many to be one of the leading Native American trainers in<br />
providing workshops in building self-esteem and enhancing motivation<br />
among Native American adults and youth.<br />
Native American Issues in Schools • Founders Hall 118
Saturday, 10:30 am – 11:30 am SESSION 5<br />
La Legende des djialy: The Legend of the djialy<br />
BRINGING WEST AFRICAN MUSIC, LANGUAGES<br />
AND CULTURE TO NORTH COAST SCHOOLS<br />
The Djialys are storytellers in West Africa. They guard the communities’<br />
memories and pass the music, languages and culture throughout<br />
generations. This workshop will provide educators with a number of<br />
tools to be used in the classroom to share this West African knowledge.<br />
These tools will be designed and packaged to meet the California <strong>education</strong><br />
standards. Teachers who will participate in the workshop will<br />
gain preference for the second phase of the project that consists of having<br />
a group of West African singers, dancers, drummers and storytellers<br />
visit Humboldt-area schools for performances and dialogue, as<br />
funds permit.<br />
DR. GUY-ALAIN AMOUSSOU, founder and chair of the Consortium<br />
for Education and Technology, is the current director of HSU’s international<br />
programs. He is originally from Coted’Ivoire. He will be presenting<br />
with a diverse and experienced team. Dr. Amoussou can be<br />
reached at amoussou@humboldt.edu.<br />
Founders Hall 232<br />
SERVICE LEARNING AND PRESERVICE TEACHER<br />
EDUCATION IN THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE<br />
College of the Redwoods has been training reading tutors for public<br />
school elementary classrooms for five years. Combined with a preservice<br />
teacher <strong>education</strong> program, students interested in becoming K-12 teachers<br />
or paraeducators have the opportunity to engage in service learning while<br />
completing course work leading to a college degree. In this workshop<br />
you’ll have a chance to examine tutoring techniques and materials tutors<br />
use in the classroom and hear tutors’ amazing stories of success helping<br />
children. People who should attend this workshop are those interested in<br />
creating a similar program and potential future teachers.<br />
LORENA BOSWELL is the Service Learning Coordinator for College of<br />
the Redwoods and leads the Access Careers in Teaching (ACT)-Ameri-<br />
Corps program. She earned her BA in sociology at Antioch College in<br />
Ohio, where she got first-hand experience in service learning as an undergraduate<br />
student. She completed her teacher preparation at San Francisco<br />
State College and taught elementary school in San Francisco for six<br />
years, incorporating service learning in her classroom. Her email address<br />
is lorena-boswell@redwoods.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Kate Buchanan Room – A, University Center<br />
announcing THe<br />
north Coast <strong>education</strong> Summit 2007<br />
february 2–4, 2007!<br />
COPWATCHING: ASPECTS AND EXPERIENCE<br />
Two members from the Portland, Oregon, chapter of Copwatch discuss<br />
the practical aspects of copwatching. The workshop includes what to do<br />
and what not to do, copwatching in urban areas, and the kind of equipment<br />
to use. Examples from their own experiences will be include to highlight<br />
their points.<br />
CLAYTON SZCZECH is a member of the Portland chapter of Copwatch.<br />
His email address is info@rosecitycopwatch.org.<br />
Nelson Hall East 113<br />
USING ONLINE TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPLEMENT<br />
CLASSROOM DISCUSSIONS<br />
In a time of increased class sizes and decreased budgets, online technology<br />
can help instructors engage students more often and equitably outside of<br />
contact time. Supplementing face-to-face instruction with electronic discussion<br />
can help to further student understanding of course content as<br />
well as promote independent reflection and discussion skills. Research<br />
conducted in a teacher <strong>education</strong> credential<br />
course is intended to examine the level of student<br />
interest in and effectiveness of a required,<br />
ongoing electronic bulletin board discussion as<br />
a supplement to class discussions. The purpose<br />
of this presentation is to share the findings of<br />
my research, but more importantly engage in a<br />
discussion with other instructors who use similar<br />
technologies to discuss effective practices<br />
and pitfalls.<br />
ANN SCHULTE is assistant professor in the<br />
Department of Education at California State<br />
University-Chico. Her email address is akschulte@csuchico.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Nelson Hall East 106<br />
WHAT IS AN EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL?<br />
The teachers, principal, and college faculty of Academy of the Redwoods<br />
will give an overview of the Early Collge Initiative in California and the<br />
country. They will then discuss the unique public high school high school<br />
they have developed on the College of the Redwoods Campus. Speakers<br />
will include Keri Gelenian, Pam Barkdull, Steve Irwin, Bruce McCarthy,<br />
Deborah Nolan.<br />
KERI GELENIAN is an HSU faculty member and principal at Academy of<br />
the Redwoods (AR). He can be reached at Keri-gelenian@redwoods.edu.<br />
PAM BARKDULL, Steve Irwin and Bruce McCarthy are the founding<br />
teachers of AR and former teachers of Century Hall, an alternative school<br />
in Fortuna.<br />
DEBORAH NOLAN is a faculty member of College of the Redwoods and<br />
faculty liaison to Academy of the Redwoods.<br />
Founders Hall 025<br />
YOUNG PEOPLE, MILITARISM AND<br />
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION<br />
The Iraq war continues with little prospect of ending, and militarism increasingly<br />
looms as a tool for both domestic and international policy. This<br />
workshop is designed to help young people, their families and their teachers<br />
to understand militarism through the development of a conscientious<br />
objector portfolio. Members of the Humboldt Conscientious Objection<br />
Committee and the GI Rights Hotline will talk about military regulations<br />
and practical tips for obtaining status as a conscientious objector.<br />
MELANIE WILLLIAMS is an instructor at Humboldt State University<br />
and a long time peace, social justice and anti-militarism activist. She is a<br />
counselor for the GI Rights Hotline, which provides advice and support to<br />
GIs and their families. She can be reached at mew2@Humboldt.edu.<br />
HELEN JONES first did draft counseling and work with returning GIs<br />
during the Vietnam war. She is a staff member at HSU and a counselor for<br />
the GI Rights Hotline. Her email address is hij7001@humboldt.edu.<br />
BARBARA GOLDBERG teaches in the HSU English Department, and is<br />
one of the founders of the GI Rights Hotline, with experience in peace and<br />
social justice issues. She can be reached at bag4@humboldt.edu.<br />
Agate Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
5 North Coast Education Summit 2006
Saturday, 10:30 am – 11:30 am SESSION 5<br />
COMMUNITY MATTERS, AS SEEN THROUGH THE<br />
EYES OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS<br />
This workshop will focus on a presentation of a community research essay<br />
created through photographs. The presenters are the photography<br />
students from Arcata High School who will talk about the ways they have<br />
learned about their community through this project. The session will also<br />
include an interactive activity where participants will volunteer to have<br />
their pictures taken and answer questions posed by the students. These<br />
will be Polaroids so that they can be mounted immediately to a “community<br />
wall” and shared with other observers.<br />
TERRI MCCLURE has a BA in arts <strong>education</strong> and art studio and is currently<br />
in the teacher credentialing program at HSU. Her student teaching<br />
position is at Arcata High School, where she pursues her goal of enriching<br />
the lives of young adults through artistic challenges. She can be reached at<br />
tam38@humboldt.edu.<br />
Arcata High School students currently in Danielle Michel’s photography<br />
class will also present at this session.<br />
Moonstone Beach Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
EDUCATOR-CENTERED TOUR OF CCAT—<br />
CAMPUS CENTER FOR APPROPRIATE<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
Come and check out HSU’s nationaly renowned Campus Center for<br />
Appropriate Technology (CCAT) where students have been educating<br />
themselves and local youth through hands-on learning and holistic<br />
<strong>education</strong>al experiences for 25 years. The tour will highlight CCAT’s<br />
in-house projects and creative ideas for <strong>education</strong> on appropriate technology<br />
topics and philosophy. There will be an opportunity for creative<br />
discussion concerning youth <strong>education</strong> and sustainable living topics.<br />
NOELLE MELCHIZEDEK (nmm14@humboldt.edu) and ZACHARY<br />
MERMEL (zam2@humboldt.edu) from CCAT will be leading this tour.<br />
Meet at CCAT: Small house between Union and B Street,<br />
in the 14th Street parking lot<br />
DESTROYING CAPITALISM IN THE 21 ST CENTURY:<br />
NO EASY ANSWERS<br />
The presenter will talk about the role of captal as a global force since 1974,<br />
the possibility of a sixth great exticntion of species, the role of capital in<br />
that extinction, and what forces coudl stop the ongoing process. There will<br />
be a short talk, interactive discussion, as well as questions and dialogue.<br />
The presenter will point out the necessity of destroying captialism and<br />
how people might participate in that process. This is a one-hour workshop<br />
led by members of Bring the Ruckus.<br />
M.TRELOAR is a member of Bring the Ruckus. He was an organizer and<br />
participant in the anti-globalization movement in North America from<br />
Seattle, 1999 to its demise. As well, he was a co-founder of Black Cross<br />
Health Collective. He currently lives and works in the Bay Area. He will<br />
be assisted by Liz Samuels. Email: notamedic@netscape.net.<br />
Founders Hall, Green and Gold Room<br />
EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION<br />
Education not Incarceration is a group of teachers, parents, students, and<br />
community members who are outraged by the current cuts in <strong>education</strong><br />
funding. They believe that the state budget needs to prioritize <strong>education</strong><br />
funding—as well as funding for other important social services—over increased<br />
spending on prisons. This workshop focuses on ways people can<br />
work towards that end in California.<br />
NAT SMITH is the chapter organizer for the Oakland Chapter of Critical<br />
Resistance and his email address is nat@criticalresistance.org.<br />
Klamath River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
North Coast Education Summit 2006 6<br />
COMPETING AND TEAMING: LESSONS FROM THE<br />
CONSULTANT’S’ TOOL BAGS<br />
This session is a panel presentation for consulting business start-ups.<br />
Knowing your stuff is not enough to succeed in business. Beyond expertise<br />
in your specialization, you must develop skills in marketing, responding<br />
to RFPs and RFQs, preparing bids, and managing billable time. This<br />
session’s panelists are experienced consultants who have grown their companies<br />
by honing their skills in marketing, competing for, “landing,” and<br />
negotiating contracts, managing interdisciplinary teams, and building the<br />
relationships necessary for long-term contracts. The consulting firms on<br />
the panel represent the fields of engineering, pubic relations and advertising,<br />
environmental and integrated waste management, natural resources<br />
and community development. Brief presentations will be followed by an<br />
active question and answer session with the participants.<br />
KEN DAVLIN, Oscar Larson Associates, specializes in planning and design<br />
of environmentally friendly water, wastewater and storm drainage<br />
systems, wetlands restoration and mitigation and environmental studies.<br />
ALISHA COX, CoxRasmussen&Cross, specializes in marketing plans,<br />
public relations, videos, graphic design, including logos, websites, and<br />
brochures.<br />
ED BOISSON, R.W. Beck & Associates is a 1989 HSU Environmental<br />
Resources Engineering MS graduate. He was a self-employed consultant<br />
for several years before recently joining the staff of R.W. Beck. Beck &<br />
Associates provides services to energy, water, and solid waste utilities in<br />
the U.S. and abroad.<br />
MARGARET GAINER, Gainer & Associates, specializes in design of<br />
waste reduction systems, zero waste events, municipal recycling programs,<br />
public <strong>education</strong> programs for local government, recycling-based<br />
manufacturing and economic development. She can be reached at gainer@<br />
humboldt.edu.<br />
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development<br />
Siemens Hall 128<br />
ACADEMIC FITNESS<br />
The presenter has created a formula to help students organize, edit and<br />
articulate academic material. She will also address such issues as dress<br />
codes, passing periods and breaks, nutrition, well defined roles, standardized<br />
testing, grammar, manners, and eliminating test anxiety.<br />
MELANIE H. VANSELL has an MA degree in Early Modern Europe and<br />
American Foreign Relations. She recently moved to Humboldt from Riverside,<br />
CA, where she had been teaching the survey history course at local<br />
community colleges. She continues to teach online for San Bernardino<br />
Valley College. She is now teaching at HSU and also working as a sign<br />
language interpreter at College of the Redwoods. She can be reached at<br />
Mvansell@aol.com. Founders Hall 236<br />
GREENPEACE CAMPUS ACTIVIST TRAINING IN<br />
ACTION<br />
You will help coordinate a local action as part of the Greenpeace Kleercut<br />
campaign. You’ll gain hands-on experience that will involve pulling off a<br />
guided local action of strategic importance while building your own organizing<br />
skills. See full description on page 9.<br />
*This is the third of four meetings during the <strong>summit</strong> weekend for the organizing<br />
team. Please attend all four meetings and experience the activist<br />
training first-hand!<br />
LINDSEY ALLEN is an organizer for Greenpeace, based out of San Francisco.<br />
For the past few months she has worked with students to pressure<br />
Kimberly-Clark, the makers of Kleenex, to increase their recycled content<br />
and end their role in the destruction of the boreal forest of North America.<br />
Contact her at lindsey.allen@sfo.greenpeace.org.<br />
Nelson Hall East 120
Saturday, 10:30 am – 11:30 am SESSION 5<br />
VIDEO SCREENING:<br />
JUST A LITTLE REd dOT… (1 6)<br />
When a new student comes to school wearing a dot on her forehead,<br />
an Indian cultural symbol, some students express racist attitudes<br />
and negative feelings. Another group<br />
of students decides to educate their<br />
schoolmates and find an ingenious way<br />
to spread the message of respect for<br />
people of all backgrounds. Based on a<br />
true story. 35 minutes.<br />
Nelson Hall East 115<br />
LETTING GEOGRAPHY TAKE ON CONTROVERSIAL<br />
ISSUES<br />
Geography is a holistic, interdisciplinary perspective that gives incredible<br />
latitude in the classroom. Its nature allows you to tackle controversial<br />
subjects such as environmental degradation, population impact, urban<br />
sprawl and promoting active citizenship. This session will feature geographic<br />
resources and techniques on how to tackle controversial subjects<br />
using geography and spatial analysis as tools.<br />
A Humboldt State faculty member since 1971, DR. JOSEPH S. LEEP-<br />
ER has been active in Geographic Education his whole career. He has<br />
represented Region One on the State Social Science Council, been active<br />
on history-social science at both local and state levels, and continues to<br />
be active in social science <strong>education</strong> at Humboldt State. He received his<br />
undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College where he also earned a provisional<br />
Social Science teaching credential. He earned his two advanced<br />
degrees at the University of Oregon. You can reach Dr. Leeper at jsl1@<br />
humboldt.edu.<br />
A relative newcomer to the Northcoast, DR. DENNIS FITZSIMONS has<br />
been active in teacher preparation and teacher in-service workshops during<br />
his university career. He was a very active presenter of teaching strategies<br />
and workshops in Texas as part of the Texas Geographic Alliance.<br />
Dennis continues his efforts locally and has given multiple presentations<br />
before the Teaching American History (TAH) groups. He can be reached<br />
at def4@humboldt.edu.<br />
Founders Hall 179<br />
SCHOOLS BASED ON LEARNER INITIATIVE AND<br />
PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY<br />
Relevant to the <strong>summit</strong>’s theme of democracy and social justice is the<br />
time-tested Sudbury Valley School model. Sudbury schools are governed<br />
by weekly meetings in which students and staff have one vote each in matters<br />
including rules and staff employment. Justice Committee is the only<br />
required activity in these egalitarian schools. This is learning about democracy<br />
by doing it. A 30-minute video of Sudbury students and alumni<br />
will be shown followed by a dialog with two organizers of a planned local<br />
nonprofit Sudbury school.<br />
DENNIS SHAUGHNESSY is an experienced and certified teacher and<br />
has volunteered at the Sacramento Sudbury school. He sees the Sudbury<br />
model as a way to take advantage of natural learning and motivation.<br />
ALLISUN O’CONNELL is a child development student at HSU and is<br />
passionate about the revolutionary principles of self- governance and selfdirected<br />
learning put into practice at Sudbury schools. Reach her at problemsecretary@yahoo.com.<br />
Nelson Hall East 116<br />
11: 0 am – 1:00 pm LUNCH BREAK<br />
Consider enjoying a hearty lunch at the J in the Jolly Giant Commons.<br />
Perhaps you might visit the food booth in Goodwin Forum,<br />
Nelson Hall East and pick up a snack. Met any interesting people<br />
this <strong>summit</strong>? Why not invite them to lunch?<br />
Special Lunchtime Opportunity<br />
Saturday, 11: 0 am – 12:45 pm<br />
A TOWN HALL MEETING<br />
WHAT CAN WE DO TO RESCUE PUBLIC<br />
EDUCATION FROM THE DISASTEROUS<br />
EFFECTS OF HIGH-STAKES TESTING?<br />
Laura Rose and Jan West, together with the Humboldt Educators and<br />
Advocates for Responsible Testing, have developed a DVD presentation<br />
to educate the public and our legislators about the un-winnable<br />
situation into which high stakes testing has plunged our treasured<br />
public school system. Less than 10% of our public schools are expected<br />
to escape eventual sanctions and possible closures from No Child Left<br />
Behind, and private, profit-based schools will grow at a stunning rate<br />
to fatten the pockets of a few. Our DVD is designed to help the public<br />
understand how and why we must change laws that are destined to<br />
prevent America’s public school system from fostering equity, social<br />
justice, and a well-balanced, rich curriculum for all children. With<br />
co-sponsorship from Garry Eagles, Superintendent of the Humboldt<br />
County Office of Education, and through gatherings of local teachers<br />
and administrators, Jan and Laura have shared this presentation with<br />
legislators Patti Berg and Wes Chesbro, and will soon share it with<br />
Mike Thompson. In this special town meeting, we will follow the DVD<br />
with a discussion of ideas for positive action, including the expectation<br />
that our DVD will be ready to distribute or post on an Internet site.<br />
LAURA ROSE was a classroom teacher for 25 years in local schools.<br />
She spent several years training our local teachers in effective teaching<br />
methods through the Humboldt County Office of Education, and she<br />
has authored six books in teaching reading and writing through personal<br />
connection and rich children’s literature. For the past ten years<br />
she has been teaching student teachers in the Elementary Education<br />
Credential Program at Humboldt State University. She can be reached<br />
at lrose1@cox.net.<br />
JAN WEST is a kindergarten/first grade teacher at Trinidad School,<br />
a former Humboldt County Teacher of the Year, and recipient of the<br />
Excellence in Teaching award. She served on the Humboldt County<br />
Readiness Task Force and currently serves on the HSU Elementary<br />
Education Partnership Council. Jan is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer<br />
from Afghanistan with a special interest in multicultural <strong>education</strong>.<br />
Together, Jan and Laura are dedicated to promoting developmentally<br />
appropriate curriculum that awakens in each child the joys<br />
of life-long learning across a rich curriculum, the timely acquisition of<br />
basic intellectual, physical and social skills, and the promotion of democracy<br />
through fostering social justice and equity. She can be reached<br />
at jandjwest@cox.net.<br />
Founders Hall 118<br />
North Coast Education Summit 2006
Saturday, 11: 0 am – 1:00 pm<br />
STUDENT SHOWCASE: POSTER SESSION!<br />
Students, faculty, and community members will present their work using an informal poster format. Information will include best practices<br />
in <strong>education</strong>, signature academic course work, graduate research, and community projects. This is an opportunity to interact with presenters<br />
in an informal setting, share ideas, and provide feedback. Many of these presenters are HSU students who want to share their work with<br />
others outside the classroom. Please take the time to browse through the session and give these individuals the attention they deserve.<br />
DAVID A. ELLERD, organizer of the Showcase, is Assistant Professor and Program Leader, Special Education Credential Program in the<br />
Department of Education, Humboldt State University. He will be joined by over 50 colleagues in this effort. He can be reached at dae11@<br />
humboldt.edu.<br />
Karshner Lounge, outside Kate Buchanan Room, University Center<br />
Saturday, 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm<br />
NATIONAL TEACHER OF THE YEAR KEYNOTE ADDRESS<br />
EQUITY OF OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL CHILDREN<br />
Jason Kamras, mathematics teacher, John Philip Sousa Middle School, Washington, D.C.<br />
The 2005 National Teacher of the Year, Jason Kamras, is committed to ensuring that all of<br />
America’s children, regardless of background, receive an excellent <strong>education</strong> that provides<br />
them with the unlimited opportunity to pursue their dreams. Towards that end, he has<br />
served since 1996 as a mathematics teacher at John Philip Sousa Middle School, a District of<br />
Columbia public school. Sousa is located in an area of Washington, DC where fewer economic<br />
and <strong>education</strong>al resources exist than in a number of other city neighborhoods. In his years at<br />
the school, Mr. Kamras has made a dramatic impact on his students’ academic achievement<br />
and personal growth by emphasizing high expectations, a nurturing environment and a focus<br />
that continually takes them beyond their immediate world. He believes eliminating inequity<br />
in the resources available to schools, which limits access to a quality <strong>education</strong>, will ensure<br />
true opportunity for all children. Jason holds a BA in public policy from Princeton University<br />
and an MA in <strong>education</strong> from Harvard. He has taught at Sousa Middle School since 1996.<br />
Welcome from Dean Susan Higgins, College of Professional Studies<br />
Introduction of National Teacher of the Year by Garry Eagles,<br />
Humboldt County Superintendent of Schools<br />
Opening Performance by Latin and Folk Singers Lorenza Simmons and Debbie Benavides<br />
Sponsored by Humboldt County Office of Education<br />
Kate Buchanan Room<br />
_________________________<br />
Followed by Reception for Jason Kamras and HSU Alumni in South Lounge<br />
North Coast Education Summit 2006 8
Saturday, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm SESSION 6<br />
Saturday, 2: 0 pm – 4:00 pm Session 6<br />
ALL RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS: BRINGING<br />
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW INTO<br />
OUR TEACHING, ORGANIZING AND MOBILIZING<br />
FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE<br />
We are at a point in our nation’s history when we need to reach beyond<br />
the borders of our own political and justice system to global<br />
human rights movements and laws in order to help us achieve social<br />
justice. This workshop will look at our domestic social justice work<br />
through the prism of international human rights, using the human<br />
rights framework and language to define social justice strategies and<br />
movements. It will present an overview of international human rights<br />
covenants and conventions, and an overview of how human rights have<br />
been part of social justice movements in the United States throughout<br />
history. We will look at ways to use international human rights laws in<br />
our organizing strategies, and present curricula ideas for teach human<br />
rights in schools.<br />
CATHY DREYFUSS is an attorney and social justice activist who has<br />
been involved in human rights work through her practice in criminal<br />
defense, death penalty appeals, political asylum, and deportation defense,<br />
as well as in social justice campaigns against US intervention,<br />
racial discrimination, and death penalty abolition. She has been active<br />
in the National Lawyers Guild for over 20 years. Contact Cathy at<br />
catrobin@frontiernet.net. Siemens Hall 128<br />
A WALKING CONVERSATION IN THE LANPHERE<br />
DUNES: DISCOVERY, DIVERSITY AND<br />
BIOCONNECTIVITY<br />
Come experience the complex beauty of the Lanphere Dunes and learn<br />
more about the organisms that make up this fascinating mosaic of landscapes.<br />
Discuss discoveries in a holistic method where all questions raised<br />
are considered in depth. Contemplate the value of biodiversity, local to<br />
global. Examine the strengths and weaknesses of human perceptions of<br />
the interconnections and interdependencies of life on earth. People of all<br />
backgrounds are encouraged to attend this walk so as to bring a diversity<br />
of thoughts and worldviews to the discussion.<br />
NICK SKY is a graduate student at Humboldt State University in the<br />
Natural Resources Planning and Interpretation Department. He has a<br />
background in natural history, ecology, biogeography and environmental<br />
ethics. He can be reached at nick.sky@sbcglobal.net.<br />
*Meet at 2:30 sharp at the <strong>summit</strong> registration desk in Goodwin<br />
Forum, Nelson Hall East and we’ll carpool over to the site. Limited<br />
to 15 participants. Reserve space at nick.sky@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Bring water, food and clothing for varying weather conditions.<br />
TRY A POEM FOR A CHANGE<br />
Based on a model for personal growth, this workshop will use poetry as<br />
a tool for social change. Participants will talk, write, and use art as we<br />
explore our own attitudes around issues of peace and justice. This has the<br />
potential to be a powerful, interactive experience.<br />
SUZANNE SAMBERG teaches high school English and various social<br />
studies classes. She has worked to find balance and connection between<br />
the personal and the societal. To that end, she has participated in the Seeking<br />
Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED) intensive and she is currently<br />
in training as a certified poetry therapist. Reach her at ssamberg@<br />
hotmail.com.<br />
Founders Hall 204<br />
AMERICA’S FOUNDING<br />
MYTHOLOGY: THE USES AND<br />
MISUSES OF HISTORY<br />
Our founding narrative, created in the nineteenth<br />
century to serve the interests of an expanding nationalism,<br />
sells democracy short. It also reveals<br />
how the mandated history taught in schools can<br />
be used for manipulative purposes. On the other<br />
hand, a curriculum that teaches students how<br />
to understand and interpret primary documents<br />
can give students skills that will help them peel<br />
through the multiple layers of manipulation they must face as citizens.<br />
To bring this current: as we move from Molly Pitcher to Private Jessica<br />
Lynch, the study of history can help students deconstruct Karl Rove.<br />
RAY RAPHAEL has authored a dozen books on topics that include local<br />
history, regional issues, <strong>education</strong>, and most recently, the American Revolution.<br />
His work is introduced on his website—rayraphael.com—which<br />
also includes a page-by-page breakdown of our founding myths as seen<br />
in current textbooks. Ray has taught at all grade levels from elementary<br />
through college; he spent most of his teaching career in a remote, self-contained<br />
7-12th grade public school classroom.<br />
Founders Hall 232<br />
WHY POETRY WHEN THERE’S WAR?<br />
We’ll work on a poem and talk about how poetry has been a part of every<br />
radical social movement in contemporary history. When torture, rape and<br />
corruption are the backdrop for our everyday lives, poetry is one of the<br />
tools for change that we often overlook. What is a good rally speech but a<br />
fiery poem? How do we arouse activism except by reaching people’s hearts<br />
and minds?<br />
JEWELLE GOMEZ is a writer and activist and the author of the double<br />
Lambda Award-winning novel, The Gilda Stories (Firebrand Books). Her<br />
adaptation of the book for the stage—Bones & Ash: a Gilda Story—was<br />
performed by the Urban Bush Women in 13 U.S. cities. She is the recipient<br />
of a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship and two<br />
California Arts Council fellowships. Her fiction, essays, criticism and<br />
poetry have appeared in numerous periodicals, including The San Francisco<br />
Chronicle, The New York Times, The Village Voice; The Advocate,<br />
Ms Magazine, Essence Magazine and the Black Scholar. She has served<br />
on literary panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois<br />
Arts Council, the California Arts Council and the San Francisco Arts<br />
Commission. She is currently on the national advisory boards of the National<br />
Center for Lesbian Rights, Poets and Writers, Inc., and the Human<br />
Sexuality Archives of Cornell University. An early member of the board<br />
of the Astraea Foundation she is currently on the funding board of the<br />
Open Meadows Foundation. Her books include a volume of personal and<br />
political essays entitled Forty Three Septembers (Firebrand, 1993), and a<br />
collection of short fiction, Don’t Explain (Firebrand, 1997).<br />
Nelson Hall East 106<br />
PresenTers wiTH audio-Visual issues:<br />
call eric Van duzer<br />
staffing the phones now: 826-3726<br />
North Coast Education Summit 2006
Saturday, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm SESSION 6<br />
MAKING GRANT MONEY WORK FOR YOU<br />
There are many misconceptions approaching the status of urban legends,<br />
regarding grant funds that are supposedly available to entrepreneurs and<br />
small business owners. Several national television advertisements have<br />
featured this “free money,” along with the announcement that “for only<br />
$19.95,” you too can gain access to top-secret government financing that<br />
is available to businesses.<br />
In this session, we will debunk myth from reality and provide participants<br />
with a list of authentic grant-funded resources (private and public) available<br />
to companies in Northern California. The session will include a brief<br />
presentation followed by a hearty question-and-answer session.<br />
BOB JUDEVINE is Program Manager for BizNet, a one-stop business<br />
resource located in Eureka, serving both Humboldt and Del Norte Counties.<br />
BizNet focuses on cutting through red tape for local businesses and in<br />
providing quick answers and solutions to day-to-day business questions.<br />
KRISTIN JOHNSON is Executive Director for the North Coast Small<br />
Business Development Center (SBDC), and Interim Co-Director for the<br />
Northern California SBDC Network. The SBDC program provides nocost<br />
business and management assistance to entrepreneurs and business<br />
owners throughout the United States. SBDC collaborates with many governmental<br />
agencies and grant programs aimed at the federal, state and<br />
local level.<br />
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development<br />
Founders Hall, Green and Gold Room<br />
VIDEO SCREENING:<br />
RECALLING DEMOCRACY—MEASURE F IN<br />
HUMBOLDT COUNTY (2004)<br />
This is a documentary co-produced by Tom Voorhees and Harry Blumenthal<br />
about the failed attempt to recall Humboldt County District Attorney<br />
Paul Gallegos in March 2004. It includes a focus on the role of Pacific Lumber<br />
Company in that recall. 24 minutes.<br />
Nelson Hall East 115<br />
DARING STUDENTS TO ACT: A FRESH VIEW—<br />
YOUR VIEW<br />
What’s the most inspiring class you’ve ever taken? More than likely, it’s<br />
one that connects ideas with meaningful action. Service learning opens<br />
your classroom to these opportunities for student civic engagement, but<br />
community-based <strong>education</strong> comes with its own set of challenges. Honoring<br />
the principle of community knowledge and the value of diversity,<br />
participants at all levels of service learning experience and from all partnership<br />
perspectives—instructor, community partner, and student—are<br />
invited to collaborate in this interactive workshop to identify opportunities<br />
and develop innovative and collective solutions.<br />
JAIME THOMPSON is a senior in Child Development and Leadership<br />
Studies, an intern at HSU’s Service Learning Center, and Co-Director<br />
of the Summer Leadership Educational Adventure Program. In his previous<br />
years at HSU he has served as the Co-Director of New Games and<br />
Program Consultant for Youth Educational Services, connecting HSU<br />
students with co-curricular volunteer opportunities, as well as a two-time<br />
Children’s Area Coordinator for the Sustainable Living Arts and Music<br />
Festival. He is currently working as Service Learning Liaison to the Educational<br />
Opportunity Program, a member of the Service Learning/Experiential<br />
Education Advisory Committee, and an active ropes-course facilitator.<br />
Reach him at Jjt14@humboldt.edu.<br />
CHRISTY BURKE is a current student at Humboldt State University<br />
where she is working on a BS degree in kinesiology and a certificate of<br />
study in women’s studies. In addition to her academics, Christy is an in-<br />
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tern at the Service Learning Center at HSU, a crisis worker with Humboldt<br />
Domestic Violence Services, and a volunteer board member for Six Rivers<br />
Planned Parenthood. Christy’s current career plan is to attend medical<br />
school and become an osteopathic primary care physician. Christy’s email<br />
address is Clb65@humboldt.edu.<br />
COLIN PHIFER has served as a Service Learning Center intern since August<br />
2004 and a docent at the HSU Natural History Museum from before<br />
time. Reach him at ccp6@humboldt.edu.<br />
NICHOLE HILLYER is a senior with a major in child development and Service<br />
Learning Intern at Humboldt State University. She likes trampolines<br />
and peanut butter and her email address is nikkinbonnie@yahoo.com.<br />
Founders Hall 179<br />
“VOTING SUCKS! (WHICH IS WHY WE’D BETTER<br />
FIX IT)<br />
Our current voting system suffers from many problems that prevent it<br />
from giving us results that are conclusive, accurate, or truly reflective<br />
of the will of the people. Because of this, all too many of our fellow<br />
Americans, understandably, see no reason to vote. This workshop will<br />
explore Instant Runoff Voting (Ranked-Choice Voting) as a pathway<br />
to creating a better voting experience for voters, while guaranteeing<br />
that the process accurately reflects their opinions. By ensuring that the<br />
vote allows us to make our voices heard clearly, the people would have<br />
good reason to make the effort to go to the polls and vote how they really<br />
wish to vote. There will be no fear of ‘wasting’ a vote or ‘splitting’<br />
the vote and this will likely increase the chances of people’s votes making<br />
the change they want to see. Anyone with a cause of any kind has a<br />
stake in making the vote work. That process starts here.<br />
Co-founder of the Voter Confidence Committee and graduate student<br />
in HSU’s Environment and Community MA Program, SCOTT MEN-<br />
ZIES’ ‘primary mission’ revolves around Realizing Community, an<br />
organization committed to creating healthy, interactive communities.<br />
Believing it integral to creating a political atmosphere within which<br />
he, and we, can make change, voting reform is one of his so-called ‘secondary<br />
missions.’ Reach Scott at info@voterconfidencecommittee.org<br />
or Scott.Menzies @realizingcommunity.org.<br />
Founders Hall 163<br />
EDUCATION FOR PLANNING THE FUTURE:<br />
INTRODUCTION TO FUTURE STUDIES<br />
Make a transformation from a backward-oriented <strong>education</strong> to a futureoriented<br />
<strong>education</strong>. Open the narrow form of (capitalist) economics taught<br />
in schools to other alternatives. This session will present steps we might<br />
take to move beyond current government by the corporations and for the<br />
corporations to government by and for the people.<br />
WILLIAM H. BOYER is Professor Emeritus, Philosophy of Education at<br />
University of Hawaii and the author of five books on planning the future.<br />
The latest is Myth America: Democracy vs. Capitalism (2005). This will<br />
be available at the <strong>summit</strong>. Contact him at wboyer@dsicomputers.com.<br />
Founders Hall 025<br />
YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILDREN WITH ADHD TO<br />
SUCCEED<br />
Attention Deficit (Hyperactive) Disorder is one of the most easily misunderstood<br />
of all learning disabilities. It looks a lot like just being “flakey,”<br />
or not caring, or having parents who don’t support reasonable work habits<br />
and discipline in the home. It is actually a deficit in the brain, where tasks
Saturday, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm SESSION 6<br />
like organization, remembering what to turn in when, and learning from<br />
experience cause havoc in classroom success. It is also often accompanied<br />
by emotional outbursts and even depression. This session will provide you<br />
with a better understanding of children with AD(H)D, and with specific,<br />
practical steps to take to help these children truly succeed at home and/or<br />
in the classroom. Prescription drugs may or may be helpful, but with or<br />
without them there are many things the parent and teacher can do to support<br />
these children and keep them from giving up on their <strong>education</strong>.<br />
LAURA ROSE taught in local schools for twenty years, grades K-8 and is<br />
the mother of a son who has AD(H)D. She spent a great deal of time and<br />
energy reading books and researching about ways to help children with<br />
AD(H)D, and has put together a great deal of useful information. She has<br />
presented this topic at conferences of special <strong>education</strong> teachers and at a<br />
number of earlier <strong>education</strong>al <strong>summit</strong>s. She is currently teaching student<br />
teachers at Humboldt State University. Contact Laura at lrose1@cox.net.<br />
Founders Hall 203<br />
BUILDING COALITIONS THROUGH THE<br />
PARTNERING PROCESS<br />
Partnering is a process to build coalitions, to bridge differences and<br />
to implement collaborative teamwork in all settings (teams, schools,<br />
classrooms, community organizations, and the workplace). This is a<br />
highly interactive session, customized for the participants and their<br />
specific work settings. The session leader guides participants through<br />
the process with specific application examples, so participants may<br />
leave with an action plan of their own. Included is an overview of the<br />
basic partnering principles and practices; the key stages for building<br />
coalitions; and strategies for successful implementation.<br />
This is a must-attend session for anyone who believes in coalition work<br />
and working across differences, but has found repeated frustration and<br />
disappointment working inside such coalitions. It will be an especially<br />
valuable experience for activists, teachers, school administrators, and<br />
community organization leaders who depend on collaboration and<br />
teamwork to fulfill organizational missions.<br />
JOY KELLER-WEIDMAN, founder of Holon Consulting, is a human<br />
and organizational development consultant who promotes effectiveness<br />
by engaging all parts of the system in sharing information, strategies<br />
and decision-making around relevant issues. Since 1981, Joy has<br />
helped public & private sector organizations and communities build<br />
strong leaders, teams and relationships. She helps clients create learning<br />
environments that promote change and transformation through<br />
collaborative approaches, such as dialogue, open space and appreciative<br />
inquiry. Based on self-organizing systems, these participatory approaches<br />
generate buy-in and input among diverse and complex populations,<br />
leading to successful resolutions and implementations. Holon<br />
Consulting services focus on (1) strategic partnering, through shared<br />
vision, values, goals & strategies, (2) collaborative change projects, (3)<br />
large group forums, (4) team building, (5) collaborative problem solving,<br />
(6) innovative meeting design/facilitation, and (7) life coaching.<br />
In one large state agency, she helped redesign an internationally recognized<br />
Partnering Program and coached its staff to win the Arizona’s<br />
Governor’s 1999 Outstanding Team Award. Joy Keller-Weidman<br />
earned her BS in Education, and has completed post- graduate courses<br />
and extensive training for enhanced organizational learning and personal<br />
and team effectiveness. Contact her at holon@consultant.com.<br />
U<br />
Extended Session: 2:30 pm–5:30 pm<br />
Agate Room: Jolly Giant Compound<br />
DIALOGUE JOURNALS AND PORTFOLIOS AS A<br />
RESOURCE TO FOSTER AND ASSESS LITERACY<br />
DEVELOPMENT<br />
The presenter will share her experiences implementing dialogue journals<br />
and portfolios while teaching English- and Spanish-language<br />
classes. The dialogue journal is an informal written conversation between<br />
the teacher and the students. The portfolio is a selection of students’<br />
work illustrating their literacy development and progress. After<br />
this session, the participant will have a clear idea of what guidelines<br />
to adopt/adapt/create if interested in implementing these pedagogical<br />
tools in the classroom. Dialogue journals and portfolios are two learning<br />
activities that can be used in any classroom setting regardless of<br />
grade level, age of the students, their language level, or the subject<br />
area.<br />
CLARENA LARROTTA is a new faculty member in the Education Department<br />
at Humboldt State University. She holds a doctoral degree<br />
from the University of Texas at Austin in Multilingual Studies – Bilingual<br />
Education. She also has an MA in English Education from the<br />
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. She has taught for 15 years in<br />
different settings in Colombia, Puerto Rico and the United States. Her<br />
research interest is literacy <strong>education</strong> for ESL students. Contact her at<br />
cl57@humboldt.edu.<br />
Academic Literacy; Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Siemens Hall 115<br />
HISTORY IN POETRY: SATIRE AND DISSENT<br />
This workshop is based on a lecture series about poetry of social change<br />
expressed at performance level energetics. Persons should come to the session<br />
with poems of their own or ones that they admired for a personal<br />
epiphany. The discussion will focus on the purpose, potential, and performance<br />
art possible in each sample’s expressive empowerment. The workshop<br />
leader sees this session as a time when people may drop in and visit<br />
for as little as an hour and have their poem and their performance brainstormed<br />
or critiqued in rapid succession, thus learning from the creativity<br />
and development in the room. Participants are welcome to tape their reading<br />
or rehearse, so bring your own recording devices<br />
BRETT MATUSEK is a poet-performer. Contact him at bvm2002@hotmail.com.<br />
U<br />
Extended Session: 2:30 pm –5:30 pm<br />
Founders Hall 125<br />
HOW WRONG I WAS WHEN WE FIRST MET:<br />
A QUICK REVIEW OF SOCIAL PERCEPTION<br />
Ever wonder how our first impressions of students, colleagues and community<br />
members prove false... or true? Here’s an opportunity to review<br />
briefly the psychological underpinnings of social<br />
cognition or how we form opinions of others. In this<br />
workshop participants will engage in a number of<br />
enjoyable and challenging activities that highlight<br />
the significant dynamics that influence our impressions<br />
of others and hence, how we treat them in<br />
classrooms, staff rooms and in the community. We’ll<br />
examine common judgments, attributions and distortions<br />
that occur in our perceptions of others.<br />
PATRICK A. MEYER, LCSW is founder and Program<br />
Chair of the Human Services Program at<br />
Cabrillo College in Aptos, CA. He teaches introductory social work and<br />
applied psychology courses there including “Relationships,” “Values and<br />
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Decision Making” and “Personal and Social Adjustment.” He is a former<br />
professor of human behavior in the Graduate School of Social Work at San<br />
Jose State University. He maintains a small private psychotherapy practice<br />
in Santa Cruz where he maintains a magical secret garden and keeps<br />
actively involved in community projects. Patrick’s email is pameyer@cabrillo.edu.<br />
Founders Hall 118<br />
EARTH FIRST! STORYTELLING AND Q & A<br />
Stories play a key role in Earth First! They share information, establish<br />
group history, and educate newcomers. Come to this workshop, ask questions,<br />
listen, and share stories with several members of North Coast Earth<br />
First!<br />
SHUNKA WAKAN has been working with NCEF! for over five years. He<br />
is joined by FOUR WINDS. Contact him at northcoastearthfirst1@yahoo.<br />
com. Founders Hall 236<br />
QUEER DIRT<br />
Did you know that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transexual individuals<br />
live in rural areas in roughly the same proportion as they do in<br />
urban areas? Have you ever wondered what it might be like to live on land<br />
in a communal or collective setting or, wanted to examine the realities of<br />
living on land (beyond romanticized stereotypes and utopian idealism).<br />
This interactive workshop will delve into the many issues surrounding<br />
rural queer folk and communal living, including visibility, mutual presence<br />
and isolation; Addressing race, class, religion, sexuality, gender, sex,<br />
age, physical ability and mental health differences within communities;<br />
How do individuals support themselves financially on land?; Around what<br />
issues or which identity groups are communities organizing themselves;<br />
alternative building materials, renewable energy sources and environmentally<br />
sound waste management.<br />
This is a facilitated discussion between a variety of queers living on the land<br />
in rural Oregon and California. Living in rural Oregon and California as<br />
radical queers: what is it like? Beyond the stereotypes and idealism, queers<br />
with experience living on the land share their experiences and knowledge.<br />
HOLLY GRACE (facilitator) is a graduate of HSU, and is currently involved<br />
with many intentional queer communities up and down the West<br />
Coast. Reach her at feminist_fury13@yahoo.com.<br />
Mad River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
SHAMING BAD COPS: HOW A COMMUNITY CAN<br />
RESPOND<br />
In 2004, Portland, Oregon, witnessed two killings by police under questionable<br />
circumstances. How can a community respond to these kinds of<br />
incidents? What did Copwatch do? This workshop shares both experience<br />
and anecdotes related to dealing with bad cops in legal ways, as well as<br />
generating ideas for potential problems in the future.<br />
CLAYTON SZCZECH is an active member of Copwatch in Portland, Oregon.<br />
Reach him at info@rosecitycopwatch.org.<br />
Klamath River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
IMPLEMENTING LEAN MANUFACTURING IN THE<br />
REAL WORLD: A CASE STUDY FROM UNITED<br />
AIRLINES<br />
What does Lean Manufacturing look like on the ground in a large corporate<br />
environment? What are the challenge and opportunities that arise when attempting<br />
to lead organizational and cultural change in a workplace that<br />
has a well-established non-Lean culture? What are the real obstacles that<br />
arise when attempting to put theory into practice? The workshop leader<br />
has spent much of the last year and a half integrating Lean manufacturing<br />
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in an airplane engine repair shop and will share his experience and thinking<br />
about the process.<br />
The lecture piece of this session will focus on three particular challenges:<br />
developing a working Lean operating system, reworking the management<br />
infrastructure to support a Lean operating system, and changing mindsets<br />
and behaviors to work with this new paradigm. A short DVD will be<br />
viewed which captures some of United Airlines’ Lean transformation in its<br />
maintenance operation.<br />
CRISPIN HOLLINGS is a manager of engine maintenance at United Airlines<br />
in San Francisco Airport. He has recently been part of an effort to<br />
bring Lean manufacturing techniques to United Airline’s engine maintenance<br />
operation. He has airframe and powerplant mechanic licenses from<br />
the FAA and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He is studying sign language<br />
and loves country-western dancing. He can be reached at crispinh@comcast.net.<br />
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Track<br />
Nelson Hall East 119<br />
DEVELOPING LISTENING SKILLS: TRADITIONAL<br />
ORAL HISTORY OF THE YUROK<br />
In this fun and interactive workshop, Cindy McKinnon shares the techniques<br />
she uses to bring the Yurok Grandmothers’ knowledge and oral<br />
storytelling skills to her classroom. Cindy will showcase a range of Native<br />
American children’s literature and engage the audience in an oral<br />
storytelling activity that can be used from kindergarten to college—one<br />
that strengthens students’ abilities to listen and summarize auditory information.<br />
CINDY MCKINNON is a Redwood Writing Project Teacher-Consultant.<br />
She teaches in the Yurok Magnet Program at Weitchpec Elementary<br />
School and can be reached at cmckinnon@humboldt.k12.ca.us.<br />
Academic Literacy, Native American Issues in Schools<br />
Moonstone Beach Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS,<br />
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING—VALUABLE<br />
LESSONS FOR ALL<br />
Last spring, College of the Redwoods sponsored its first “Celebration of<br />
Women in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering.” The week-long event<br />
included activities such as guest lectures, a drop-in meet-the-scientists afternoon,<br />
a poster contest, and a panel discussion, all aimed at bringing together<br />
diverse professional women in our community with young women<br />
(middle school through college) to encourage them to consider careers in<br />
science. The event had some clear successes as well as some areas in need<br />
of improvement. In our presentation, we will share with you our mission<br />
and our experience. We would like to stimulate discussion that helps us to<br />
improve our celebration this year, as well as encourage others to take on a<br />
similar venture.<br />
In a career spanning almost 40 years, DAVID ARNOLD has taught mathematics<br />
at all levels: elementary school, high school, and college. He has<br />
been awarded faculty of the year at both the high school and collegiate<br />
levels. He has a keen interest in using technology to teach mathematics<br />
and also enjoys encouraging students from all walks of life to pursue their<br />
studies in mathematics. David has been a professor of mathematics at<br />
College of the Redwoods since 1991 and can be reached at David-Arnold@<br />
Redwoods.edu.<br />
KAREN REISS graduated from U.C. Santa Cruz with a BA in biology/<br />
chemistry, received her MA and Ph.D. in zoology from Cornell University,<br />
and worked as a part-time faculty member for eight years in HSU’s Biology<br />
Department before taking a permanent position as a zoologist and As-
Saturday, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm & 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm SESSIONS 6 & 7<br />
sistant Professor of Biology at College of the Redwoods. Her research has<br />
always focused on mammalian anatomy and evolution, has always combined<br />
both field and laboratory approaches, and has always involved undergraduate<br />
student assistants, as well as the occasional assistance of her<br />
two children. Her long-term passion for tropical ant-eaters has recently<br />
been supplanted by an equal passion for Pacific Northwestern chipmunks,<br />
though as she ages she is learning that every animal is a great animal.<br />
Contact her at Karen-Reiss@Redwoods.edu.<br />
TERESA (“TAMI”) MATSUMOTO teaches arithmetic through calculus<br />
at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California, where she is Assitant<br />
Professor of Mathematics. She also teaches professional development<br />
workshops for local teachers, and mathematics for prospective teachers<br />
at Humboldt State University. Tami can be reached at Tami-Matsumoto@<br />
Redwoods.edu.<br />
SANDY VREM, Professor of Mathematics, received her BS in mathematics<br />
in 1969 from Hood College and in 1972 earned an MATM degree from<br />
the University of New Mexico. She has been teaching mathematics for 36<br />
years at the secondary level and college level. She can be reached at Sandy-<br />
Vrem@Redwoods.edu.<br />
Founders Hall 111<br />
A ROLLING THINK TANK: IN WHAT WAYS HAS<br />
THE CURRENT INCARNATION OF THE RIGHT<br />
AFFECTED YOUR LIFE, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR<br />
COMMUNITY?<br />
This session, one of five such gatherings taking place during the <strong>summit</strong>,<br />
attempts to bring together students and community activists to share experiences<br />
and stories related to living through the current political moment.<br />
Suzanne Pharr, the organizer, will use popular <strong>education</strong> methods to spark<br />
a rolling conversation throughout the <strong>summit</strong> about the ways the today’s<br />
social, economic, and political context presents both obstacles and opportunities<br />
for social movements. After the facilitator presents a 20-minute<br />
overview of the current incarnation of the Right, participants will tackle<br />
three questions: (1) How have you, your family, your work been impacted?<br />
(2) What kind of new thinking do we need to do? (3) What are strategies<br />
for putting that new thinking into effect? Each session will be limited to the<br />
first eight people either signing up for it at the <strong>summit</strong> registration desk<br />
in Goodwin Forum, Nelson Hall East, or arriving at the room. We will attempt<br />
to mix HSU students and local community activists.<br />
SUZANNE PHARR is the former director of the Highlander Center in<br />
New Market, Tennessee. She is the founder of the Women’s Project in Arkansas,<br />
where she was on the staff for 19 years. Suzanne also worked as<br />
a lead strategist and media officer for the No on 9 Campaign for a Hate<br />
Free Oregon. For the past three decades, her work has focused on building<br />
a multi-racial, multi-issue progressive movement. Suzanne is the author of<br />
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism and In the Time of the Right: Reflections<br />
on Liberation. She is widely considered to be one of the nation’s most<br />
knowledgeable experts on the Right. Suzanne can be reached at pharr39@<br />
bellsouth.net.<br />
Nelson Hall East 118<br />
Please be sure cell phones<br />
are turned off during all<br />
<strong>summit</strong> sessions.<br />
Thank you. H<br />
Saturday, 4: 0 pm – 6:00 pm Session<br />
HOW PARENTS CAN SUPPORT THEIR CHILD<br />
THROUGH THE ROLLER-COASTER YEARS OF<br />
MIDDLE SCHOOL<br />
Huge changes in the adolescent brain account for the roller-coaster years<br />
of “tween” years of middle school. Responding with autocratic or permissive<br />
parenting does not support tweens in becoming responsible and caring<br />
human beings. Democratic parenting which provides clear boundaries<br />
while allowing for the experimentation that is naturally a part of their<br />
psychological growth provides the safety for tweens to make mistakes and<br />
learn from them. Presented by Linda Inlay, director of The River School,<br />
an award winning charter middle school, this program was developed in<br />
1972 in Hawaii and has transformed many families in its thirty-three years<br />
of refinement.<br />
LINDA INLAY, the director of The River<br />
School for ten years, spent her formative years<br />
as an educator in Hawaii in a school program<br />
developed by Sr. Joan Madden and an Adlerian<br />
psychologist, Dr. Raymond Corsini.<br />
This program, called the Ho`ala Educational<br />
Philosophy, has thirty-three years of refinement<br />
in both Ho`ala School in Hawaii and at<br />
The River School. Ho`ala in Hawaiian means,<br />
“awakening of the self” which is the heart of<br />
this philsophy, addressing the psychological<br />
needs of all human beings for a sense of self<br />
and a sense of belonging. Linda has published two articles on this philosophy<br />
for the journal Educational Leadership, and spoken at numerous<br />
conferences on this way of raising responsible and caring human beings.<br />
Linda can be reached at linlay@nvusd.k12.ca.us.<br />
Siemens Hall 115<br />
MASTER CLASS WITH HOLLY NEAR: The Art of<br />
Social Change Activism<br />
Holly works with the power of creative expression, starting with active<br />
noticing and the gathering of experience. She investigates the language<br />
we use, the rhythm, the movement. Holly offers skills that can help activists<br />
and artists avoid rhetoric and overused imagery, to move towards<br />
vibrant critical thinking. Through constructive suggestion, Holly works<br />
with participants as they practice storytelling, presenting and creative<br />
social change activism. If you are not familiar with master classes, they<br />
involve artists, writers, activists and others getting on their feet and practicing<br />
presenting their work—whether part of a speech, a poem, a song or<br />
anything else. The artists then share whether they want a critique of their<br />
writing or of their presentation style (or both). In this way, people learn<br />
from one another by watching them perform and listening to the critique.<br />
HOLLY NEAR is a unique combination<br />
of entertainer, teacher and activist. An<br />
immense vocal talent, Holly’s career as a<br />
singer has been profoundly defined by an<br />
unwillingness to separate her passion for<br />
music from her passion for human dignity.<br />
She is a skilled performer and an outspoken<br />
ambassador for peace who brings<br />
to the stage an integration of world consciousness,<br />
spiritual discovery, and theatricality.<br />
Although she sang in public from<br />
the age of eight, Holly’s professional career<br />
began with numerous performances<br />
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in film and television, and a run in the Broadway production of Hair. Torn<br />
between a career as an actor or a singer, Holly chose to pursue her love of<br />
music, especially that music which articulated the social conditions of the<br />
world community,<br />
Both as a participant and a leader, she bears personal witness to the hugely<br />
important role that music plays in political action movements. Holly’s<br />
unique personal perspective, which makes the subject matter leap out<br />
of the books and into the classroom, draws praise from college faculties<br />
around the country. And her strength and versatility as a performer has led<br />
to creative collaborations with such artists as Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger,<br />
Arlo Guthrie, Mercedes Sosa, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Inti-Illimani, Bonnie<br />
Raitt, Cris Williamson, and Linda Tillery. Holly has released over 20<br />
recordings, including the seminal Imagine My Surprise, and performs as<br />
a guest on many others. Over the past few years, Holly has been busy<br />
re-releasing much of her early material as well as new works on her own<br />
label, Calico Tracks Music. Her recent recording, Edge, clearly demonstrates<br />
that Holly is not resting on her laurels, but continues to write and<br />
sing political songs with the grace, humor, and maturity that come from<br />
doing social change work for over 30 years. Holly’s integrity has earned<br />
her a reputation as one of the most powerful and articulate political artists<br />
of our time.<br />
U<br />
Extended Session: 4:30-6:30 p.m.<br />
Bring a poem, speech, song or anything you created to this<br />
session. Kate Buchanan Room – B, University Center<br />
WHAT DOES INTELLIGENCE HAVE TO DO WITH<br />
IT? APPLYING HOWARD GARDNER’S THEORY<br />
OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES IN THE COLLEGE<br />
CLASSROOM<br />
Does the theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI), popular in K-12 teaching,<br />
have practical and effective applications in college teaching? Individually<br />
and in groups, you will learn about the theory, examine your<br />
own combination of MI and how they influence your teaching in the<br />
college classroom, and explore ways to incorporate MI into your content<br />
delivery, assignments, and assessments.<br />
DR. DEBORAH L. NOLAN has a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Adult<br />
Studies (with a specialization in college teaching) from the University<br />
of Denver. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Education at the<br />
College of the Redwoods (CR) in Eureka, California, and works with<br />
preservice teachers and paraprofessionals. Prior to joining CR, she was<br />
Assistant Professor of Education at a community college in Colorado, a<br />
teacher <strong>education</strong> program administrator, a consultant within the <strong>education</strong>al<br />
software industry, and a university <strong>education</strong> grants administrator.<br />
She also taught elementary school in California for six years. Dr.<br />
Nolan can be reached at deborah-nolan@redwoods.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Founders Hall 163<br />
EXPLORING THE DEPTH AND BREADTH OF THE<br />
MULTICULTURAL<br />
Explore multiculturalism in its many facets. Review several different resources.<br />
Discuss becoming an ally against oppression and discrimination<br />
and helping your students to do the same.<br />
LORENA BOSWELL is the Service Learning Coordinator for College of<br />
the Redwoods and leads the Access Careers in Teaching (ACT)-Ameri-<br />
Corps program. She earned her BA in sociology at Antioch College in<br />
Ohio, where she completed a senior project on perceptions of racism. She<br />
completed her teacher preparation at San Francisco State College with a<br />
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focus on multicultural issues and inner-city schools and taught elementary<br />
school in San Francisco for six years, incorporating multicultural<br />
<strong>education</strong> and issues into the classroom. In addition to this, she facilitated<br />
both an action research group on issues of diversity through the Bay Area<br />
School Collaborative and monthly seminars on “Seeking Educational<br />
Equity and Diversity” through the national SEED program. She can be<br />
reached at lorena-boswell@redwoods.edu.<br />
RYAN HERST, MELISSA LAZON and ALEXANDER RICE will also<br />
present. They are ACT (Access Careers in Teaching) AmeriCorps members,<br />
College of the Redwoods’ students, and future teachers.<br />
Founders Hall 232<br />
ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY: AN INTEGRATED<br />
APPROACH TO WHOLISTIC, HANDS-ON LEARNING<br />
WITH DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE BENEFITS TO<br />
YOUTH, SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES<br />
Rising energy costs, climate change and pollution, global conflicts...the<br />
role of energy in our daily lives has become an issue that affects everyone.<br />
Our students are particularly hard hit—after salary-related expenses, energy<br />
is the biggest expense for schools nationwide, draining money away<br />
from needed programs and materials. By using school and community<br />
energy use as the focus for hands-on, project-based learning, students<br />
are empowered with the knowledge and skills to save energy and money<br />
for their institutions and homes while becoming outspoken leaders for a<br />
clean energy future. Furthermore, energy concepts can be integrated into<br />
any general subject, strengthening academic achievement by using a realworld<br />
issue as the context for learning. In this session, participants will<br />
learn how to implement hands-on energy saving programs within their<br />
schools and communities. As part of this session, you will learn professional<br />
energy auditing techniques. You will then perform an actual energy<br />
audit somewhere on campus, and learn how to make recommendations to<br />
save the campus energy and money. You will leave the session with the<br />
ability to transfer this knowledge to your students and bring energy saving<br />
programs to your school and community.<br />
MORGAN KING is the Humboldt County Project Coordinator for Strategic<br />
Energy Innovations (SEI), a non-profit organization empowering<br />
under-served markets in the design and implementation of programs that<br />
strengthen community, protect the environment, foster learning and advance<br />
social and economic development. SEI works with schools throughout<br />
California, engaging students, teachers, administrators and custodial<br />
staff in hands-on projects designed to save schools and communities energy<br />
and money while strengthening academic achievement and a sense of<br />
environmental stewardship. See www.seiinc.org for more information and<br />
contact Morgan at morgan@seiinc.org.<br />
A student at Fortuna High School, KYLEE KROHN performs energy audits<br />
for his school and for small businesses within his community. Kylee<br />
has successfully lobbied his school board with other students to make<br />
energy efficiency upgrades at his school, and has presented his work to<br />
the Fortuna City Council and at other community venues. Reach him at<br />
Kylee_krohn@yahoo.com.<br />
Founders Hall 111<br />
PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX ABOLITION<br />
This workshop is an introduction to the ideas and principles behind abolishing<br />
prisons. Is it even possible? What can we do to work towards a prison-free<br />
society? This is a workshop that expects and encourages attendee<br />
participation.<br />
NAT SMITH is the Oakland Chapter Organizer for Critical Resistance.<br />
Contact him at nat@criticalresistance.org.<br />
Founders Hall 179
Saturday, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm SESSION 7<br />
REBELS, RESISTANCE AND REVOLUTION:<br />
A RADICAL APPROACH TO TEACHING US<br />
HISTORY AND AMERICAN LITERATURE<br />
In this session, we will help you actually implement radical or alternative<br />
curriculum in a standard high school setting. A brief history of<br />
the class will be provided, as well as a student panel. Participants will<br />
begin creating a thematic unit outside the mainstream, with discussion<br />
to follow.<br />
TODD SIDERS and ATHENA KAUTSCH met at a Primus show at<br />
Barrington Hall in Berkeley and have been discussing radical curriculum<br />
ever since. Athena has been teaching English at Casa Grande<br />
High School for nine years; she is the English half of the RRR course<br />
(going on their fifth year), as well as the main instructor for a radical<br />
senior English class titled “Literature from the 60’s Movements.” In addition,<br />
Athena currently serves as co-chair of the English Department.<br />
She also plays bass in Voetsek, a thrash band, dude. Todd has been<br />
teaching social studies at Casa Grande High School for eleven years<br />
(he lost a year somewhere). In addition to being the U.S. History part<br />
of RRR, he currently teaches Eco-Eco (Ecological Economics) and has<br />
taught Women’s History, Comparative Religions, and Media Studies.<br />
Todd is the current co-chair of the Social Studies Department. Recently<br />
retired from Ren Faire, Todd spends his weekends playing some geeky<br />
game with dice. You can also call him DM. Reach them at tsiders@<br />
hotmail.com and akautsch@aol.com.<br />
Founders Hall 203<br />
CONFLICT RESOLUTION THROUGH PEER<br />
MEDIATION<br />
Learn how you can implement a peer mediation and peer listening program<br />
at your school site. Participants will hear from two teachers who have implemented<br />
this program at their school along with student mediators who<br />
will talk about successful peer mediation and listening programs.<br />
MARY LYNN BRYAN is currently teaching in the Secondary Education<br />
Program at HSU. In real life she teaches language arts and social studies<br />
at The River School in Napa and helped start the peer mediation program<br />
at her school. Contact her at mlb87@humboldt.edu.<br />
MELISSA VASHE teaches art and art integration at The River School.<br />
She is presently the coordinator for the Peer Mediation Program there.<br />
Siemens Hall 128<br />
DISMANTLING WHITE SUPREMACY FOR<br />
BEGINNERS<br />
This workshop will consist of a short talk followed by a discussion of ways<br />
this material can be incorporated in the organizing work in which participants<br />
are currently engaged. Liz will address the origins of U.S. capitalism<br />
in slavery and white supremacy; the myth of ‘what about me? I’m not a<br />
white racist,’ the impact of movements of people of color in attacking the<br />
U.S. state and capital; the role of ‘reluctant reformers’; and, most importantly,<br />
why white supremacy must be destroyed.<br />
LIZ SAMUELS is a member of Bring the Ruckus. Her past organizing and<br />
political work has been focused against the occupation of Palestine and<br />
in the anti-war movement based in Portland, OR. Currently, her work is<br />
focused on prison abolition and access to quality healthcare. She recently<br />
moved to Oakland, CA where she teaches horseback riding and knits mittens<br />
for her friends. Email: bund@riseup.net.<br />
M. TRELOAR is a member of Bring the Ruckus. He was an organizer<br />
and participant in the anti-globalization movement in North America from<br />
Seattle, 1999 to its demise. As well, he was a co-founder of Black Cross<br />
Health Collective. He currently lives and works in the Bay Area. Email:<br />
notamedic@netscape.net. • Klamath River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
CREATING MAGICKAL QUEER CULTURE<br />
Malahki and Gregory discuss different approaches they have taken towards<br />
creating queer magickal culture. Malahki speaks about his experiences<br />
with collective and group work with the Radical Faeries; Gregory<br />
discusses his experience in working with a mentor. Both Malahki and<br />
Gregory will discuss how they take their experiences, and the magickal<br />
cultures they belong to, and incorporate them in their queer lives. They<br />
will also discuss what they would like to see manifest as “magickal queer<br />
cultures.”<br />
GREGORY ZOBEL is a third-year graduate student in HSU’S English<br />
Department. He can be reached at gz7@humboldt.edu.<br />
MALAHKI THORN is a long-time member of the Radical Faeries, and is<br />
the man behind www.HeathenHarvest.com, a site dedicated to promoting<br />
alternative and underground queer and pagan music. Reach him at<br />
malahki@heathenharvest.com.<br />
Mad River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN SCIENCE<br />
INSTRUCTION AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT:<br />
WHY SO MANY LEAvE SCIENCE<br />
The national decrease in the interest of young people in pursuing careers in<br />
science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) has significant implications<br />
for an increasingly technology-based economy. Often students arrive<br />
at the university with an initial interest in these disciplines but become<br />
disillusioned, disengaged and pursue other interests. Do the pedagogies<br />
typically employed in these disciplines marginalize students who are otherwise<br />
capable of pursuing degrees and professions in science, math, and<br />
engineering? Courses in these areas are typically taught by white males,<br />
so do culture and gender backgrounds affect student learning, interest,<br />
and ultimately, student retention in these disciplines? Can faculty adopt<br />
pedagogies to compensate for inherent bias? This interactive panel discussion<br />
considers the impact that power and privilege has on student learning<br />
in the science classroom and facilitates dialogue to identify practices<br />
that might enhance student learning and increase retention in the sciences.<br />
References will be provided indicating research findings that identify why<br />
underrepresented peoples leave the STEM areas disproportionately, and<br />
identify pedagogies that may improve the retention of all students.<br />
JAQUELYN BOLMAN is Director, Indian Natural Resource, Science and<br />
Engineering Program (INRSEP) at HSU and her email is jrb96@humboldt.edu.<br />
ELIZABETH ESCHENBACH is Chair and Associate Professor, Environmental<br />
Resource Engineering at HSU. She can be reached at eae1@<br />
humboldt.edu.<br />
STEVEN LADWIG is Advisor, Equal Opportunity Program/Student Support<br />
Services at HSU. He can be reached at sml4@humboldt.edu.<br />
STEVEN SMITH is Interim Vice Provost for Academic Programs and<br />
Undergraduate Studies at HSU. His email address is steven.smith@humboldt.edu.<br />
JACOB VARKEY (jpv1@humboldt.edu) and SANDRA VREM (sandyvrem@redwoods.edu)<br />
will also participate.<br />
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Nelson Hall East 106<br />
TRIBALIZING THE CLASSROOM: INDIGENOUS<br />
EPISTEMOLOGIES AND NONCOMPETETIVE<br />
PEDAGOGIES<br />
This workshop will include classroom role-playing, with conference participants<br />
as students. Conference “students” experience noncompetitive<br />
ways of learning, including a nonhierarchical, circle-based classroom<br />
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structure in which the teacher is only a facilitator. Students are given<br />
responsibility for each other’s learning. In the tribal setting, the group<br />
— not the individual student — excels, all learning leadership skills and<br />
celebrating the strengths of each student.<br />
DALE ANN SHERMAN MA (Yurok/Tolowa/Karuk/Hupa) was born<br />
and raised in Del Norte County. She attended the University of California<br />
at Santa Cruz, where she earned a BA in museology, with a minor in<br />
Native American literature. She earned an MA in Native American history/cultures<br />
with a minor in Native American literature at the University<br />
of Denver. She currently teaches courses in Native American Studies at<br />
Humboldt State University, as well as curating the Native American collection<br />
at the Clark Museum in Eureka, CA. Reach her at daleannyurok@<br />
aol.com.<br />
MARLON SHERMAN JD (Oglala Lakota) earned a BA in American<br />
Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a law degree<br />
from the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder. Prior to his current<br />
employment as an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies<br />
at Humboldt State University, he worked as a consultant in peacemaking<br />
and mediation. Contact Marlon at marlon.sherman@humboldt.edu.<br />
Native American Issues in Education, Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Moonstone Beach Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
MEETING THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF ALL<br />
CHILDREN: IMPLEMENTING A RESPONSE-TO-<br />
INTERVENTION MODEL<br />
This session will present the requirements (IDEA, 2004) and critical considerations<br />
in the implementation of a Response-to-Intervention model<br />
(RTI). The RTI model may soon replace traditional models of asssessment,<br />
identification, and treatment of academic and behavioral problems<br />
in school. Questions about staff training, consistency of implementation,<br />
and measurenment of student outcomes will be explored.<br />
BRENT B. DUNCAN is Professor of Psychology at HSU and can be<br />
reached at bbd1@humboldt.edu.<br />
DAVID A. ELLERD is Assistant Professor of Education and Program<br />
Leader, Special Education at HSU. He can be reached at dae11@humboldt.edu.<br />
Founders Hall 025<br />
GET VERTICAL! SEE THE POTENTIAL POWER OF<br />
“VERTICAL TEAMING”<br />
Find out how creating a Vertical Team — teachers within a discipline at<br />
various grade levels — can really make a difference at your institution.<br />
At this workshop, become involved in the creation of impromptu Vertical<br />
Teams to experience this process. Originally composed of teachers<br />
of mathematics at Fortuna High School and its many feeder schools, the<br />
Eel River Valley Math Vertical Team has expanded to include teachers at<br />
the community college. Some of our Vertical Team’s accomplishments are<br />
aligning curriculum to smooth the transition from middle school to high<br />
school to college, setting goals for students at various grade levels, and<br />
development of lesson plans with fundamental concepts reinforced at different<br />
grade levels. We will share with you the development process we<br />
experienced and the many benefits of this collaboration. We have learned<br />
valuable lessons in pedagogy and content knowledge, as well as greater<br />
appreciation and respect for the part that we all play in the development<br />
of each student. One critical component has been terrific support from our<br />
administrators, and we would really love an opportunity to share our experiences<br />
with administrators as well as teachers.<br />
ROB MARSHALL teaches mathematics at Fortuna High School in Fortuna,<br />
CA. He is completing his MA in Education at Humboldt State University<br />
and can be contacted at robmarsh@humboldt.k12.ca.us.<br />
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CATHY CLARK teaches 7th/8th grade mathematics at Toddy Thomas<br />
School in Rohnerville, CA. She is completing her MA in Education at<br />
Humboldt State University. Contact her at cclark@humboldt.k12.ca.us.<br />
BLAINE SIGLER teaches grades 7 and 8 at Cuddeback School in Carlotta,<br />
CA and can be reached at bbsig@cox.net.<br />
MOLLIE HOLMGREN teaches 6th grade at Monument Middle School<br />
in Rio Dell, CA. She has been teaching 27 years and coaching 23 years,<br />
with most years spent teaching 6th and 7th grades. She can be reached at<br />
mholmgren@humboldt.k12.ca.us.<br />
TERRI TALLMAN (ttallm7@aol.com), TAMI MATSUMOTO (Tami-Matsumoto@Redwoods.edu)<br />
and MICHAEL BUTLER (Michael-Butler@<br />
Redwoods.edu) will also be participating in this sesson.<br />
Founders Hall 204<br />
MEDICAL USES OF MARIJUANA IN HUMBOLDT<br />
COUNTY: A DIALOGUE<br />
The controversial topic of medical uses of marijuana in the Humboldt<br />
County region elicits some strong opinions. Several panelists representing<br />
a variety of perspectives will begin this session by briefly summarizing<br />
some of their different viewpoints. Then, attendees will be invited to raise<br />
questions and share comments with the panelists and to join in a moderated<br />
dialogue about the issues.<br />
GREG ALLEN is a practicing attorney and has been a medical cannabis<br />
activist since the 1990s. He is the Chair of the Green Party of Humboldt<br />
County. Greg is a member of the local ACLU board and the board of the<br />
ACLU Northern California affiliate in San Francisco. He is a charter<br />
member of the Coalition For Police Review. Greg holds two bachelor’s<br />
and master’s degrees from Stanford, a JD from the University of Illinois,<br />
and he was admitted to practice law in California, Illinois and the federal<br />
courts therein.<br />
MIKE GOLDSBY started working in addiction treatment and prevention<br />
in 1984, the same year that Nancy Reagan first said “Just Say No,” and he<br />
worked in the treatment field through 2002. He is currently the Director of<br />
Values Integration for St Joseph Health System - Humboldt County and<br />
is an Associate Faculty member in the College of the Redwoods Addiction<br />
Studies Certificate Program.<br />
JESSE GOPLEN uses medicinal marijuana to control anxiety/panic disorder,<br />
and is currently enrolled as a graduate student at Humboldt State<br />
University. He feels the stigmas associated with “going public” as both<br />
a medical marijuana patient and as someone with a diagnosed mental<br />
health disorder are based on inaccurate stereotypes rather than scientific<br />
evidence. Jesse moderates an e-mail support group, the Mental Health<br />
Patients Union (mmj4mh@lists.riseup.net), for people who would like to<br />
share and learn about the issue in a welcoming environment.<br />
DAVE MESERVE is an Arcata City Council Member. He designs and<br />
builds custom homes for a living and has lived on the North Coast for the<br />
past 36 years. He believes that existing marijuana laws make criminals out<br />
of good citizens who choose to grow or smoke it, and protect neither the<br />
health nor the safety of local residents.<br />
DENVER NELSON, MD, has lived and practiced neurosurgery in Humboldt<br />
County for nearly 30 years and has had many marijuana users and<br />
growers as patients and friends. As a former part- time and now full-time<br />
river advocate, rancher, dairyman and logger, he is very aware of the role<br />
marijuana plays in Humboldt County.<br />
ROLLIN RICHMOND, President of Humboldt State University, is a geneticist<br />
and academic leader who has done research on the effects of psychoactive<br />
drugs in model systems. He believes that medical marijuana<br />
laws are being used to allow recreational use of the drug often to the detriment<br />
of young people. He is also concerned that ongoing research into the
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neurological effects of marijuana is not well known by young people who<br />
should have more respect for their bodies.<br />
REBECCA STAUFFER, MD, has been director of Student Health and<br />
Counseling at HSU since 2003. She is impressed with both the very high<br />
marijuana use rate of students and the high use rate of both health and<br />
counseling services and wonders if there could be a relationship between<br />
these two facts.<br />
SALLY BOTZLER, panel moderator, is a professor in the Department of<br />
Education at Humboldt State University and is campus Faculty Development<br />
Coordinator. Reach her at sjb3@humboldt.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Founders Hall 118<br />
LEARNING AND TEACHING LITERACY IN A<br />
MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOM<br />
The purposes of this presentation are threefold. First, to propose a list of<br />
eight philosophical principles needed in order to create a strong literacy<br />
curriculum in a multilingual class. Second, to propose a list of three practical<br />
curricular applications (the classroom setting; the resources used in<br />
the class and a weekly schedule of activities for the class) based on these<br />
theoretical principles. Third, to present four activities to foster literacy development<br />
in the multilingual classroom.<br />
DR. DAVID SCHWARZER is Assistant Professor at the University of Texas,<br />
in the College of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction<br />
in the Foreign Language Program. His dissertation at the University<br />
of Arizona, Tucson was titled Parallel Development of Writing in Hebrew,<br />
Spanish and English in a Multilingual Child. His book Noa’s Ark: One<br />
Child’s Voyage into Multiliteracy, was published by Heinemann in 2001.<br />
David was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He immigrated to Israel in<br />
1982 and to the United States in 1999. David is fluent in Spanish, Hebrew<br />
and English. He can be reached at sdavid@mail.utexas.edu.<br />
Academic Literacy<br />
Founders Hall 236<br />
KEYS TO ENSURING MATHEMATICS<br />
ACHIEVEMENT FOR ALL<br />
The 2005 National Teacher of the Year, Jason Kamras, will take participants<br />
through seven factors that his experience shows make the most critical<br />
impact on student achievement in mathematics: (1) high expectations;<br />
(2) expanded and flexible use of instructional time; (3) context-based<br />
instruction; (4) commitment to addressing ALL learning styles; (5) written<br />
and oral explanation of work by students; (6) technology; (7) math<br />
games.<br />
JASON KAMRAS is a mathematics teacher at John Philip Sousa Middle<br />
School in Washington, D.C. and on April 20, 2005, before a White House<br />
audience, President George W. Bush presented him to the American people<br />
as 2005 National Teacher of the Year.<br />
Jason successfully lobbied his principal to double the instructional time<br />
allotted for mathematics and redesigned the math curriculum to emphasize<br />
use of technology, meeting all learning styles,<br />
and putting instruction in a real-world context. The<br />
curricular changes piloted with Mr. Kamras’ own<br />
students in 2002 helped the percentage of students<br />
scoring “below basic” on the Stanford 9 test to fall<br />
from 80% to 40% in just one year.<br />
Jason holds a BA in public policy from Princeton<br />
University and an MA in <strong>education</strong> from Harvard.<br />
He has taught at Sousa Middle School since 1996.<br />
Kate Buchanan Room - A, University Center<br />
Closing Session for Entrepreneurship Track :<br />
MENTORING ENTREPRENEURS —<br />
ENTREPRENEURING MENTORS<br />
Using the World Café format, participants of local business leaders,<br />
presenters, nascent entrepreneurs, and students will all be guided in<br />
a conversation that focuses on the questions: “What does the future<br />
of entrepreneurship on the North Coast look like? What is the role of<br />
mentorship in creating this future? What type of mentoring do future<br />
entrepreneurs need? How can experienced entrepreneurs best mentor<br />
nascent and student entrepreneurs?” To gain insight from business<br />
leaders on the region’s economic development, HSU invited a broad<br />
spectrum of business leaders to form the Business Partners Steering<br />
Committee in 2003. This group of 25 local employers meets regularly<br />
with President Rollin C. Richmond, OECD Director, Maggie Gainer,<br />
and other campus constituents to facilitate information exchange between<br />
business and HSU to enhance academics, community outreach<br />
and foster responsible economic development. Many of the HSU Business<br />
Partners are experienced and active mentors to HSU students.<br />
gainer@humboldt.edu.<br />
This final session for people who participated in the Entrepreneurship<br />
and Small Business Development Track will include a no host bar and<br />
time for social mixing.<br />
MARGARET GAINER, Kristin Johnson, Patrick Cleary and members<br />
of the HSU Business Partners will be hosting this session.<br />
Founders Hall, Green and Gold Room<br />
A ROLLING THINK TANK: IN WHAT WAYS HAS<br />
THE CURRENT INCARNATION OF THE RIGHT<br />
AFFECTED YOUR LIFE, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR<br />
COMMUNITY?<br />
This session, one of five such gatherings taking place during the <strong>summit</strong>,<br />
attempts to bring together students and community activists to share experiences<br />
and stories related to living through the current political moment.<br />
Suzanne Pharr, the organizer, will use popular <strong>education</strong> methods to spark<br />
a rolling conversation throughout the <strong>summit</strong> about the ways the today’s<br />
social, economic, and political context presents both obstacles and opportunities<br />
for social movements. After the facilitator presents a 20-minute<br />
overview of the current incarnation of the Right, participants will tackle<br />
three questions: (1) How have you, your family, your work been impacted?<br />
(2) What kind of new thinking do we need to do? (3) What are strategies<br />
for putting that new thinking into effect? Each session will be limited to the<br />
first eight people either signing up for it at the <strong>summit</strong> registration desk<br />
in Goodwin Forum, Nelson Hall East, or arriving at the room. We will attempt<br />
to mix HSU students and local community activists.<br />
SUZANNE PHARR is the former director of the Highlander Center in<br />
New Market, Tennessee. She is the founder of the Women’s Project in Arkansas,<br />
where she was on the staff for 19 years. Suzanne also worked as<br />
a lead strategist and media officer for the No on 9 Campaign for a Hate<br />
Free Oregon. For the past three decades, her work has focused on building<br />
a multi-racial, multi-issue progressive movement. Suzanne is the author of<br />
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism and In the Time of the Right: Reflections<br />
on Liberation. She is widely considered to be one of the nation’s most<br />
knowledgeable experts on the Right. Suzanne can be reached at pharr39@<br />
bellsouth.net.<br />
Nelson Hall East 118<br />
4 North Coast Education Summit 2006
Saturday, 4: 0 – 6:00 pm<br />
VIDEO SCREENING:<br />
HEART OF THE SEA: KAPOLIOKA’EHUKAI (2002)<br />
Heart of the Sea is the inspiring portrait of surf legend Rell “Kapoliokaehukai”<br />
Sunn, founding member of the Women’s Professional Surfing<br />
Association and one of Hawaii’s most beloved community leaders.<br />
While known for her incredible physical power, grace and beauty, it<br />
was her generous spirit and relentless work as a youth, environmental<br />
and breast cancer activist that made her an icon on the Islands. As she<br />
carved a path for women in a sport dominated by men, Sunn tragically<br />
discovered that she had breast cancer at the early age of 32. Despite the diagnosis, she continued surfing and promoting breast cancer<br />
awareness among native Hawai’ian and Pacific Islander women until her final days. Not only a moving profile of an important figure in<br />
contemporary Hawai’ian history, but an important look at Hawai’i as an integral part of America’s rich cultural landscape and heritage.<br />
57 minutes.<br />
Nelson Hall East 115<br />
Saturday, : 0 pm – : 0 pm<br />
North Coast Premiere of COMMUNE: FREE LANd FOR FREE PEOPLE<br />
an exploration of three decades in the life of a remote commune in siskiyou county and members’ reckoning<br />
with changing the world. followed by discussion with Jonathan Berman, filmmaker and professor<br />
at csu san Marcos and members of the Black Bear commune!<br />
COMMUNE, the latest documentary by acclaimed filmmaker and CSU-San Marcos<br />
professor Jonathan Berman, gets to the nitty-gritty on free love, utopian dreams,<br />
and the surprising endurance of a radical lifestyle. The film, making its North Coast<br />
premiere at the <strong>summit</strong>, features a fascinating cast of characters, including herbalist<br />
Michael Tierra, who is credited with “rediscovering” echinacea; internationally<br />
renowned painter Elsa Marley; and thespian Peter Coyote.<br />
During the radical fervor of the early 1970s, utopian communities dotted the American<br />
landscape. They aimed to reshape the world with free love and common property,<br />
and they excited controversy and fear amongst local residents across the country.<br />
Though the idea of communes is now often relegated to a “naïve” past, Berman<br />
discovers a successful and lasting, if controversial, legacy at the influential Black<br />
Bear Ranch, in Siskiyou County, California, northeast and inland from Arcata.<br />
“engaging, even poignant . . . coMMune raises some fundamental questions about<br />
whether ‘free love’ is desirable or even possible.”<br />
With archival footage from the early days, and the present-day views of Black Bear members and their offspring, COMMUNE is a revealing<br />
look at how our most basic choices about family, work, and the nature of our relationships send powerful and lasting shock waves<br />
through the fabric of society.<br />
JONATHAN BERMAN’S previous films, The Shvitz (1994) and award-winner My Friend Paul (1999) have aired on Sundance Channel,<br />
PBS, Discovery, ARTE, Trio and other networks, and have screened theatrically and at numerous festivals around the world. Critics have<br />
praised Berman’s “searing celluloid portraits” as “crackling with energy” full of “swagger and style,” and “gritty and funny.” 78 minutes<br />
followed by discussion.<br />
Supported by the HSU Library, CSU-San Marcos, and the North Coast Education Summit 2006<br />
Kate Buchanan Room<br />
North Coast Education Summit 2006 48<br />
—Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel
Saturday, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm<br />
SALMON IS EvERYTHING:<br />
THEATRE, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE KLAMATH WATERSHED<br />
Beginning with a showing of the film Salmon on the Backs of Buffalo the workshop will introduce<br />
the environmental justice issues in the salmon crisis of the Klamath River. Then actors will give<br />
a reading of the playscript Salmon Is Everything, a docu-drama developed from interviews with<br />
those who live in the watershed. Following the reading there will be a facilitated discussion about<br />
the issues raised in the play and opportunity for participants to influence the drama through interactive<br />
exercises.<br />
THERESA MAY is on the faculty of Theatre, Film and Dance at HSU. She has been working on<br />
Salmon Is Everything with HSU students, faculty and community members. She is a director and<br />
playwright concerned with how theatre can promote social justice and can be reached at tjm33@<br />
humboldt.edu.<br />
MARLON SHERMAN is faculty in Native American Studies at HSU. He is a poet as well as an<br />
expert in environmental law and water-rights policy.<br />
KATHY MCCOVEY is a graduate student in the Evironment and Community MA Program at<br />
HSU, and works as cultural advisor for the Department of Forestry. As liaison between the Klamath<br />
tribes and the Forestry Department, she works on many watershed issues.<br />
Refreshments will be served.<br />
Studio Theatre, Theatre Arts Building (to left of Van Duzer Theatre entrance)<br />
4 North Coast Education Summit 2006
Sunday, 10:00 am – 11: 0 am Session 8<br />
Facilitator Training Level I:<br />
LEADING THE GROUP FROM THE GROUND TO<br />
THE TREES<br />
Here is a very special opportunity to enjoy time outdoors at the Freshwater<br />
Creek Challenge Course! Humboldt Adventure, a leader in professional<br />
trainings and workshops, is offering their facilitator training<br />
workshop – Level I. This is for anyone involved in working with groups<br />
of all ages who is looking for activities and tools for facilitating deeper<br />
learning through the use of experiential programs and challenge courses.<br />
This training focuses on experiential learning, understanding the<br />
stages of group development and challenge course best practices.<br />
JON O’CONNOR is Director of Humboldt Adventure Director. Jon<br />
has extensive experience in management, leadership, training, and development.<br />
He has facilitated training programs in New York, Michigan,<br />
Nepal, Nevada, North Carolina, Northern California, and Southern<br />
California. He has an MS in Organizational Leadership from National<br />
University and a BA in Religious Studies, specializing in Peace<br />
and Conflict Studies from Humboldt State University. He has also<br />
completed an International Studies Program in Nepal and attended the<br />
University of North Carolina in Wilmington and the University of Hawaii<br />
in Hilo. Jon can be reached at adventuretraining@yahoo.com.<br />
U Extended Session: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm<br />
All participants should meet at 9:45 am at the Registration<br />
Desk in Goodwin Forum<br />
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOR THE VERY<br />
YOUNG<br />
Preschool and kindergarten children love to explore outdoor areas and to<br />
discover the wild animals and plants that thrive there. A strong environmental<br />
<strong>education</strong> curriculum can stimulate their curiosity, and can supplement<br />
their explorations with experiments, games, stories and a range of<br />
other activities. This workshop will present a brief theoretical overview<br />
along with ideas for safe lessons that can occur in forests, parks or urban<br />
schoolyards. We will consider ways that environmental <strong>education</strong> can<br />
strengthen young naturalists’ cognitive, emotional, social and physical<br />
skills while it encourages them to care for the world around them.<br />
PAUL BELZ has extensive experience as a science and environmental<br />
educator for young children at museums, schools and other locations.<br />
The topics he has worked with include habitat exploration, the lives of<br />
invertebrates,water’s strange qualities, and nocturnal animals. His work<br />
includes workshops for early childhood educators. He has an MS in environmental<br />
studies, concentrating in <strong>education</strong>, and a California Children’s<br />
Center permit. Reach him at pgb@igc.org.<br />
Agate Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
Sunday, February 5, 2006<br />
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TODAy’S OveRARching QueSTiOn iS<br />
What models of teaching and learning best<br />
promote an active and engaged citizenry?<br />
North Coast Education Summit 2006 50<br />
HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION FOR KIDS<br />
Come learn about the Human Rights Education for Kids project and find<br />
out how you can get involved! The Human Rights Education for Kids project<br />
brings together early childhood educators, arts and crafts enthusiasts,<br />
parents, and children of all ages in order to create project- and standardsbased<br />
human rights learning environments designed to inspire and empower<br />
creativity, confidence, critical-thinking and community awareness.<br />
Recently, we’ve formed a partnership with the HSU Social Work and Sociology<br />
departments, as well as the Service Learning Center, to create a<br />
one-unit course introducing college students to the challenges and joys of<br />
designing, coordinating, and facilitating peace and justice based <strong>education</strong>al<br />
programs and curricula for kids.<br />
If you’re an administrator who might be interested in bringing our program<br />
to your site and want to find out more; a teacher who wants to check-out<br />
(and potentially offer feedback on) the ways other educators are trying to<br />
integrate experiential based teaching activities with non-violent communication,<br />
anti-bias, and confidence building themes; or a student searching<br />
for an opportunity to work collaboratively discovering and developing<br />
your teaching voice, then this workshop is for you! Please come to participate!<br />
Class will be designed to be dynamic and highly interactive, with<br />
small group work, icebreaker games, and role-plays complementing the<br />
traditional group discussion format.<br />
In the past, JEROME BEARBOWER co-founded and coordinated, in<br />
conjunction with the Humboldt County Office of Education, Project Sun<br />
and Moon, an alternative <strong>education</strong>al program at the Arcata Community<br />
School integrating academic content standards with project- and partnerbased<br />
thematic studies in environmental literacy and democratic advocacy.<br />
Jerome obtained an MA in sociology from Humboldt State University and<br />
is on the Board of Directors for the Redwood Peace and Justice Center.<br />
Jerome also works at the Ink People Center for the Arts, in Eureka, California,<br />
on the MARZ project, dedicated to empowering youth to speak their<br />
minds through storytelling and the use of digital media tools. Contact him<br />
at saranagati@riseup.net.<br />
Founders Hall 108<br />
ELEMENTARY MONTESSORI MEETS MAINSTREAM<br />
EDUCATION<br />
In this workshop, the presenter will share the results from the first semester<br />
of a new public Montessori-based elementary class which is part of a<br />
small traditional school campus. Terri will discuss standards alignment,<br />
assessment, fitting in among a well-established community of teachers<br />
and families, and the joys and challenges of putting all the pieces together<br />
while working to establish a cohesive community of self-directed young<br />
learners. A brief overview of the Montessori method of <strong>education</strong> at the<br />
elementary level will be provided and some hands-on Montessori materials<br />
will be available to explore at the end of the session.<br />
TERRI VROMAN LITTLE has taught in many settings including remote<br />
wilderness trail camps, maximum-security jail housing, traditional elementary<br />
classrooms, and adult high school diploma classes. She holds a<br />
traditional elementary teaching credential as well as credentials for Montessori<br />
3–6 year olds and 6–9 year olds and recently completed her MA in<br />
<strong>education</strong> at HSU. Her thesis research introduced Montessori mathemat-
Sunday, 10:00 am – 11:30 am SESSION 8<br />
ics materials into a classroom of traditional kindergarten students. Contact<br />
Terri at bryter@sbcglobal.net.<br />
Siemens Hall 128<br />
COMMUNICATING ISSUES IN SCIENCE:<br />
PERSPECTIVES FROM MODERN PLAGUES<br />
Molecular biology is alternately held as threat to our humanity and as<br />
the panacea of modern medicine. Our goal in this session is to provide<br />
participants with some perspectives and to suggest tools or mechanism<br />
for evaluating public policy as it is impacted by scientific inquiry. Our<br />
framework will be a discussion of biological discoveries that influence our<br />
understanding of smallpox, Bubonic Plague, and AIDS. Using a mixture<br />
of small group discussion and formal presentation, we will explore the<br />
repercussions new findings might have for dealing with these and future<br />
pandemic health threats. We will undertake a discussion risk analysis to<br />
better understand how we as individuals and groups of individuals perceive<br />
risk.We will explore some of the ethical considerations for scientific<br />
experimentation pertaining to these modern plagues, with a focus on clinical<br />
research in the Third World. Through group dialogue and contributing<br />
our perspective as bench scientists, the goal of this workshop is to discover<br />
what information non-scientists require in order to make informed public<br />
policy decisions in the face of conflicting scientific reports.<br />
DAVID ALEXANDER graduated from University of California at Davis<br />
with a degree in biochemistry and subsequently received his Ph.D. in<br />
environmental toxicology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.<br />
CAMILLA FORSBERG, a native of Sweden, received her Ph.D. from University<br />
of Wisconsin, Madison in molecular and cellular pharmacology.<br />
Currently they are post-doctoral research scientists at Stanford University,<br />
where Camilla investigates blood cell development from stem cells into<br />
mature cells of the immune system and David examines the mechanisms<br />
by which parasites such as those causing malaria and toxoplasmosis infect<br />
humans. While the techniques and systems in which they work are<br />
distinct, there is commonality in the essential cell biological questions they<br />
seek to understand. David Alexander can be reached at 2dwave@gmail.<br />
com. Camilla Forsberg can be reached at cforsber@stanford.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Nelson Hall East 106<br />
SAN FRANCISCO FREEDOM SCHOOL: WHAT TO<br />
dO IN BETWEEN SOCIAL MOvEMENTS?<br />
Inspired by the original Freedom Schools of Mississippi (1964), a small<br />
but determined group in San Francisco launched a Freedom School this<br />
past summer. Our goal was to use the history of the Civil Rights Movement,<br />
and Freedom Summer in particular, as a case study in how social<br />
movements happen. Using film, discussion and guest speakers (Civil<br />
Rights Movement veterans), the San Francisco Freedom School curriculum<br />
inspired participants to re-commit to their social justice goals<br />
while adding to their repertoire of social justice tactics and strategies.<br />
Workshop participants will learn about our curriculum and discuss<br />
ways in which such an approach can be used in their own work.<br />
KATHY EMERY was a high school history teacher for 16 years and has<br />
a PhD in Education from UC Davis. She has written the teaching materials<br />
for the teaching edition of Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the<br />
United States and is co-author of Why is Corporate American Bashing<br />
Our Public Schools? She is a co-founder of the San Francisco Freedom<br />
School and can be reached at mke4think@hotmail.com.<br />
Kate Buchanan Room – B, University Center<br />
REBEL JOURNALISM<br />
Journalism as a career… journalism as a responsibility… Is news what<br />
fills the space between the ads?... advocacy journalism… speaking out<br />
for change in words and deeds… writing from the ground up… “Objectivity”<br />
as a class concept… our words are our weapons… covering<br />
global resistance… knowing the enemy… local vs. global… on the barricades…<br />
embedded in the movement… witnessing history… breaking<br />
the blackout… how to be an anti-war correspondent... peace is not the<br />
absence of war… dodging the draft… reporting from prison… covering<br />
conflict… caught between sides… human shield in Iraq and Palestine…<br />
assessing the risks… keeping your head down… protecting<br />
sources… getting the story out… taking it on the road…<br />
Correspondent/activist/poet/human<br />
shield/globetrotting troublemaker<br />
JOHN ROSS will lead this workshop<br />
reflecting on four decades of experience<br />
doing rebel journalism from<br />
Latin America and other global hotspots.<br />
Ross, based in Mexico City, is<br />
an award-winning journalist who has<br />
published three volumes on the Zapatista<br />
rebellion in Chiapas (he is working<br />
on a fourth volume), in addition to several other volumes of fiction,<br />
faction, and poetry. He can be reached at johnross@igc.org.<br />
U<br />
Extended Session: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon<br />
Moonstone Beach Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
CREATING COLLABORATION: HOW TO INVOLVE<br />
YOUR COMMUNITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND<br />
MANAGEMENT OF YOUR SCHOOL<br />
Being inclusive means more than putting words into a mission statement.<br />
Inclusion means reaching out to the community so they will reach out to<br />
you. It means showing leadership and being open to leadership from every<br />
person in your community. This workshop will model meeting organization<br />
techniques that create inclusion and bring your community into the<br />
decision-making process where every participant can be a responsible, accountable,<br />
supported leader. We will also discuss two charter schools in<br />
the East Bay—one in existance and one in development—that make use<br />
of variations of this model.<br />
Math teacher and co-administrator at Manzanita Charter School in Richmond,<br />
California, GARY EINHORN has been teaching for 15 years and<br />
is currrently heading a project to create a new community-based charter<br />
school in Alameda County. He can be reached at gary@horne.cc.<br />
MELISSA EINHORN is an Inclusion Facillitator for Contra Costa Child<br />
Care Council, a non-profit that works to bring special <strong>education</strong> services<br />
to students in child care facillitites. Although her training is in audiology,<br />
Melissa has spent the last year working with her new husband to create a<br />
community charter school. Her email is bornm@mac.com.<br />
DEVON RATH is a teacher in San Francisco with extensive experience<br />
working with minority students. She is a community activist and an advocate<br />
for underprivilliaged communities and can be reached at dublish79@<br />
hotmail.com.<br />
JIM HOLLEY is a graduate student at JFK University developing counselling<br />
techniques to integrate spirituallity with traditional therapy. He<br />
is a counselor at Holden High School in Orinda, a non-traditional school<br />
that provides a safe, supportive and effective learning. Reach Jim at<br />
jmalimahn1@earthlink.net.<br />
RODRIGO TORRES can be reached at rodrigotorres@yahoo.com.<br />
Founders Hall 235<br />
51 North Coast Education Summit 2006
Sunday, 10:00 am – 11:30 am SESSION 8<br />
AFRO-LATINO FORGOTTEN ROOTS:<br />
RECLAIMING OUR TRANS-RACIAL HISTORIES<br />
The social construction of race and rigid notions of identity have created<br />
a disjuncture within communities of color. This workshop explores<br />
the convergence of the African Diaspora and Latino communities<br />
within the context of Latin America and the Caribbean. The seminar<br />
introduces concepts of cultural transformation and polyculturalism<br />
explored through analysis of films, music, poetry and variety of texts<br />
emerging from the Afro-Latino experience. In analyzing these shared<br />
histories of oppression and migration, we will strive to build connections<br />
between these communities to continue structuring the common<br />
goal of dismantling the system of white privilege and interrogate past<br />
and present strategies of resistance and rebellion through a variety of<br />
cultural productions.<br />
RYAN MANN-HAMILTON is Lecturer in Ethnic Studies and Educational<br />
Opportunity Program Advisor at Humboldt State University.<br />
He came to California from Puerto Rico and did his MA work in environmental<br />
systems with a focus on community organizing and upliftment.<br />
He can be reached at ram23@humboldt.edu.<br />
Art A – Room 027<br />
ACT RIGHT UP: THE ROLE OF THEATER GAMES IN<br />
THE CLASSROOM<br />
Using theater games in the classroom helps to build community and allow<br />
for creative expression. Theater games also provide a backdrop for<br />
role-play scenarios of appropriate behaviour. Kinetic and auditory learners<br />
may also get a chance to shine. Come learn some basic theater games<br />
you can use immediately in the classroom. This will be a very interactive<br />
workshop. Come prepared to play!<br />
MICHELLE RUTZ teaches at California Montessori Project, a public<br />
charter Montessori school based in Sacramento. She has also directed a<br />
GATE program, homeschooled two of her four children for four years, been<br />
a foster parent and hosted four exchange students. Michelle’s goal is to<br />
make school an enjoyable experience for children as much as within her<br />
power to do so. Michelle has also worked as a performer for Coloma Melodrama<br />
Gold Rush plays and Kaiser Permanente for the communication<br />
skills program. She also is gifted in eating M&M’s. Contact Michelle at<br />
michellerutz@aol.com<br />
Founders Hall, Green and Gold Room<br />
DEBATE ACROSS THE CURRICULUM:<br />
INTEGRATING DEBATE INTO YOUR CLASSROOM<br />
This workshop is intended to help teachers use debates effectively in their<br />
classrooms. In this session, debate is positioned as a method of instruction<br />
that encourages critical thinking and student ownership of ideas. This<br />
workshop will cover the pedagogical foundations of classroom debates,<br />
several different classroom debate formats, and the logistics necessary for<br />
successful in-class debates. The workshop will also discuss public debates<br />
and the outward turn of student dialogue.<br />
MAXWELL SCHNURER, PH.D. is the co-author of Many Sides: Debate<br />
Across the Curriculum, published by IDEA press in 2002. He also teaches<br />
in the Department of Communication at Humboldt State University and<br />
can be reached at mds65@humboldt.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Founders Hall 236<br />
North Coast Education Summit 2006 52<br />
LOCAL DEMOCRACY FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE<br />
Historically, the United States Supreme Court has set an agenda of socalled<br />
“free trade,” bestowing rights on property, as surely as have the<br />
WTO, IMF, and the World Bank. In fighting corporate rule within the<br />
United States we can work locally to augment the work of the international<br />
global justice movement to create a just and sustainable world. Join<br />
us to study the hidden history of how corporations became the governing<br />
institutions of our day, as well as the exciting stories of communities rising<br />
up against corporate rule, including Humboldt County!<br />
HANNAH CLAPSADLE is a staff member of the Democracy Unlimited<br />
Humboldt County (DUHC) Steering Committee. In 2005 she earned a<br />
degree in English literature from Humboldt State University. She has lived<br />
in the area since 2000, and grew up in Albion in Mendocino County, as<br />
well as Oakland, California. She has been involved in nurturing grassroots<br />
community groups, such as Arcata/Eureka Food Not Bombs and the<br />
Campus Coalition for Independent Media. Contact Hannah at hannah@<br />
duhc.org.<br />
JARED WILKEN is a staff member of the DUHC steering committee. He<br />
is a volunteer coordinator for DUHC, and has presented on corporate history<br />
in classrooms at both HSU and College of the Redwoods. He can be<br />
reached at jared@duhc.org.<br />
Nelson Hall East 113<br />
BREAKING THE PRISON MODEL OF EDUCATION<br />
In this workshop, participants will take part in a group discussion about<br />
the effects of schooling on society and our democracy. We will describe<br />
how the Alameda Community Learning Center (ACLC) has broken down<br />
walls that have stunted our children’s social, emotional and intellectually<br />
development. We will show how learners can learn to be self-motivated,<br />
self-regulating active participants in their <strong>education</strong>al process.<br />
Learners of the ACLC will participate in this session. They will show how<br />
we maintain a culture of responsibility and respect. They will also demonstrate<br />
how young people can learn to take control of their learning and<br />
their school experience.<br />
MICHAEL DE SOUSA has an MA in <strong>education</strong> and is Lead Facilitator<br />
at the Alameda Community Learning Center. Michael has studies democratic<br />
<strong>education</strong> practices as defined by the works of Paulo Freire, bell<br />
hooks and Myles Horton. He has been working at the Alameda Community<br />
Learning Center for 10 years, and the school has received three years<br />
of perfect API rankings. Reach him at mdaclc@yahoo.com.<br />
Founders Hall 204<br />
STICKS AND STONES: WORDS CAN BREAK BONES<br />
Presented by the Humboldt County Human Rights Commission, this<br />
interactive workshop will provide participants with increased sensitivity<br />
to words and phrases that some may find demeaning, as well as ideas,<br />
techniques, and activities for respectful language use in the classroom.<br />
Participants will address the ways words can color a classroom environment,<br />
as well as brainstorm for positive and constructive phrasing when<br />
discussing controversial topics and materials. Activities will include the<br />
participants sharing challenging questions and comments encountered in<br />
the classroom, as well as successful strategies for responding to those unexpected<br />
and difficult moments. Participants will develop working guidelines,<br />
including suggested activities and word/phrase lists, for developing<br />
respectful language in a classroom.<br />
ANGELA WARD is a social worker currently participating in the MSW<br />
program at Humboldt State. She jointly owns and operates Monkey In the<br />
Middle, an online sales assistance business in Eureka. She is a member of<br />
the Northcoast Children’s Services Board of Directors and proud mother<br />
of a future chef and a budding actor. Reach her at ociana@cox.net.
Sunday, 10:00 am – 11:30 am SESSION 8<br />
BYRD LOCHTIE has had a long career of community service in Humboldt<br />
County, including establishing the Girl Scouts program in the community,<br />
service on the Eureka City Schools Board, establishing the first<br />
recycling center in Eureka, Humboldt Grand Jury, League of Women Voters,<br />
and Humboldt Human Rights Commission. She has been honored<br />
as a Woman of Achievement from the Eureka Quota Club. She was Beta<br />
Sigma Phi’s Woman of the Year, and received the Thanks Badge from the<br />
Girl Scouts. She can be reached at Byrdloch@aol.com.<br />
JOHN LYONS is a professional with the housing authorities of the City of<br />
Eureka and the County of Humboldt. He has been active in the community<br />
in many venues, including service as president of the local NAACP and,<br />
since 1997, a member of the County Human Rights Commission (HRC).<br />
LARRY MILLER is a human services professional who has worked with<br />
the poor in Humboldt County for 30 years . He is a graduate of HSU and<br />
is a past chair of the HRC, having served on Commission for over ten<br />
years. Reach him at jusco@humboldt1.com.<br />
RICK BOTZLER can be reached at rgb2@humboldt.edu.<br />
Academic Literacy<br />
Founders Hall 203<br />
LESSON STUDY: MAKING COLLEGIAL INQUIRY<br />
AND CRITIQUE POSSIBLE<br />
Three high school teachers and a librarian showcase their collaborative<br />
inquiry using the lesson study approach. Focusing on the development<br />
of academic reading and writing skills for diverse learners, this session<br />
includes discussion of building a community of inquiry among peers, specific<br />
challenges in implementing lesson study, and student learning.<br />
MARSHA MIELK serves as McKinleyville High School’s librarian; she<br />
also works on her district’s literacy initiatives. Media literacy is one of her<br />
many interests. Reach her at mmielke@nohum.k12.ca.us.<br />
BRENDA SUTTER teaches the secondary section, middle through high<br />
school, at Laurel Tree Learning Center. She is an experienced developer of<br />
interdisciplinary curricula and can be reached at laurel@tidepool.com.<br />
ANNE SAHLBERG teaches English at McKinleyville High School. She is<br />
a frequent collaborator in local literacy projects and her email is kbl871@<br />
cox.net.<br />
CHRISTA HARRISON teaches English at Arcata High School. She has<br />
worked with the Redwood Writing Project for many years and can be<br />
reached at raisngrl@inreach.com.<br />
Academic Literacy<br />
Founders Hall 111<br />
“WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?”<br />
Through full sensory experiential <strong>education</strong>, participants will learn about<br />
the various issues surrounding depression, anxiety, stress, self-image and<br />
learning disabilities among students. Participants will be guided through<br />
several interactive workshops to expose these daily issues as well as share<br />
some resources available to people for reference and help. Our goal for this<br />
program is to educate participants through creative and engaging techniques.<br />
ANONDAH SAIDE is originally from Los Angeles County and is currently<br />
a sophomore at Humboldt State University. She is Vice-President of<br />
the Residence Hall Association and Chair of the Residence Programming<br />
Board. She is majoring in business administration and psychology. Reach<br />
her at ars37@humboldt.edu.<br />
JENNIFER MARTINEZ is originally from Los Angeles County. She<br />
is a junior at Humboldt State University and a pre-nursing major. She<br />
loves taking care of people and has spent most of her life looking after her<br />
grandmother. Contact her at jmm114@humboldt.edu.<br />
KRISTINA KARMAN is a junior at Humboldt State University and currently<br />
the secretary of the Residence Hall Association. She is majoring<br />
in anthropology and is the oldest of four children. She is originally from<br />
Maryland and her email address is krk16@humboldt.edu.<br />
The following people are volunteers, presenters and/or resources for the<br />
program; KATIE MILLS at mm61@humboldt.edu, JOE MCKINZIE<br />
at jgm18@humboldt.edu, ALEX GRADINE at acg19@humboldt.edu,<br />
RALPH MCFARLAND at rdm7001@humboldt.edu, LEZIE SCALIATINE<br />
at ls78@humboldt.edu.<br />
Klamath River Room and Mad River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
RAISE YOUR VOICE AND GRAB A GUITAR:<br />
SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH THE<br />
CRAFT OF SONGWRITING<br />
This workshop will focus on the ways music and song have been crucial<br />
to raising social consciousness, mobilizing people to action, and<br />
creating community within the context of American socio-political<br />
movements. We will engage in a brief discussion spotlighting some<br />
of the ways in which music has been effective in bridging differences<br />
and fostering group identities. Furthermore, this workshop provides a<br />
space for interested people to share and develop their sense of the songwriting<br />
process as it relates to raising social awareness. As the workshop<br />
will be interactive, participants are encouraged to bring musical<br />
instruments, poetry, songs, and/or other creative works in progress.<br />
The workshop leaders will provide a few extra guitars for those unable<br />
to bring their own instruments.<br />
*Please bring musical instruments, poetry, songs, and other creative<br />
works in progress.<br />
JOSEPHINE JOHNSON, a second-year English MATW graduate<br />
student at HSU, is a contemporary singer/ songwriter with two CDs<br />
of original musical material under her belt. She originally hails from<br />
back east and has performed in coffee houses, listening rooms, and<br />
other intimate venues throughout the southeast United States. Contact<br />
her at jrj24@humboldt.edu.<br />
VINCENT CAVIN, a first year graduate student in the Community Development<br />
Psychology Program at Sonoma State, is an independent<br />
musician with a penchant for performing original, experimental music.<br />
Together with Josephine, he will facilitate a discussion about the<br />
importance of music in social movements as well as create a structured<br />
forum for people to share their own song-crafts.<br />
Founders Hall 025<br />
HOW TO CREATE SOCIAL CHANGE USING<br />
COMMUNITY ACTION AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE<br />
This workshop will discuss the history of community action, civil disobedience<br />
and the practical uses of these tactics in current social movements.<br />
It will also look at specific responses and scenarios communities have used<br />
to affect change as well as some of the more common non-violence codes,<br />
affinity group structures and decision making processes.<br />
MIKE AVCOLLIE has been involved in community organizing for 14 years<br />
with nuclear testing, forest preservation and anti-war issues. Currently he<br />
is parenting and homesteading in Kneeland.<br />
HEATHER MEADER-MCCAUSLAND grew up on the North West Coast<br />
and has been involved in social justice and environmental community organizing<br />
for 17 years. She has worked on such issues as: tenants rights,<br />
low income housing, poverty, globalization and forest preservation. She<br />
can be reached at h_mccausland@yahoo.com.<br />
Founders Hall 179<br />
5 North Coast Education Summit 2006
Sunday, 10:00 am – 11:30 am SESSION 8<br />
A ROLLING THINK TANK: IN WHAT WAYS HAS<br />
THE CURRENT INCARNATION OF THE RIGHT<br />
AFFECTED YOUR LIFE, YOUR FAMILY, and YOUR<br />
COMMUNITY?<br />
This session, one of five such gatherings taking place during the <strong>summit</strong>,<br />
attempts to bring together students and community activists to share experiences<br />
and stories related to living through the current political moment.<br />
See description on page 12.<br />
SUZANNE PHARR is widely considered to be one of the nation’s most<br />
knowledgeable experts on the Right. Suzanne can be reached at pharr39@<br />
bellsouth.net.<br />
Nelson Hall East 118<br />
209 VIDEO SCREENING:<br />
RACE IS THE PLACE (2005)<br />
Race is the Place offers a new and compelling look at one of the most<br />
explosive issues in America today. This video performance documentary<br />
presents a bold, lyrical, and often poetical montage of performances<br />
by established artists and up-and-coming young talent from minority<br />
communities who use words—spoken, sung or chanted—to get their<br />
message across. Each explores racism and its continued survival in this<br />
country, and each finds a new and innovative way to engage audiences<br />
and challenge them to think beyond our traditional conceptions, viewing<br />
race through the lens of creativity and performance to stimulate<br />
thought and debate. Artists include Piri Thomas, Amiri Baraka, Mayda<br />
del Valle, Michael Franti, Faith Ringgold, Michael Ray Charles,<br />
Culture Clash, Beau Sia, Andy Bumatai and more...<br />
Nelson Hall East 115<br />
North Coast Education Summit 2006 54<br />
HSU Partner School Districts<br />
2005–2006<br />
HSU’s Department of Education thanks the following<br />
North Coast school districts and charters for partnering<br />
with us this year in the preparation of our credential<br />
candidates as they seek a teaching credential. We<br />
greatly appreciate the support of their teachers, administrators,<br />
staff, board members and superintendents.<br />
academy of The redwoods<br />
arcata School district<br />
Big Lagoon School district<br />
Big Lagoon charter School<br />
Blue Lake union School district<br />
cuddeback union School district<br />
cutten School district<br />
del norte unified School district<br />
east Bay coservation corps charter School<br />
eureka city Schools<br />
Ferndale unified School district<br />
Fieldbrook School district<br />
Fortuna union elementary School district<br />
Fortuna union high School district<br />
Freshwater School district<br />
humboldt county office of <strong>education</strong><br />
Jacoby creek School district<br />
Klamath-Trinity Joint unified School district<br />
Loleta union School district<br />
Mattole unified School district<br />
McKinleyville union School district<br />
John Muir charter School<br />
northern humboldt union high School district<br />
Pacific union School district<br />
rohnerville School district<br />
Scotia union School district<br />
South Bay union School district<br />
Southern humboldt unified School district<br />
Trinidad union School district
Sunday, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm<br />
LUNCH BREAK<br />
Consider enjoying a hearty lunch at the J in the Jolly Giant Commons. Perhaps you might visit the food<br />
booth in Goodwin Forum, Nelson Hall East and pick up a snack. Met any interesting people this <strong>summit</strong>?<br />
Why not invite them to lunch?<br />
Special Lunchtime Event<br />
A PUBLIC CONVERSATION WITH HOLLY NEAR:<br />
Cultural Work, Education, and Social Justice<br />
Bring a brown-bag lunch (recycle that bag!) and don’t miss this exciting opportunity to join in a public conversation with one of our time’s leading<br />
cultural workers whose vision and integrity have defined progressive activism for many people of various generations and diverse movement niches.<br />
Using an Actor’s Studio format, Holly initially will be interviewed by longtime friend and political colleague CATHY DREYFUSS, longtime activist<br />
attorney who has recently settled in Humboldt County. Then Cathy will open the discussion to <strong>summit</strong> participants’ questions.<br />
HOLLY NEAR is a unique combination of entertainer, teacher and activist. An immense vocal talent, Holly’s career as a singer has been profoundly<br />
defined by an unwillingness to separate her passion for music from her passion for human dignity. She is a skilled performer and an outspoken ambassador<br />
for peace who brings to the stage an integration of world consciousness, spiritual discovery, and theatricality. Although she sang in public from<br />
the age of eight, Holly’s professional career began with numerous performances in film and television, and a run in the Broadway production of Hair.<br />
Torn between a career as an actor or a singer, Holly chose to pursue her love of music, especially that music which articulated the social conditions of<br />
the world community.<br />
Throughout her career, Holly has used her performances to educate audiences. The unifying<br />
and healing nature of her work explains the diverse nature of the groups who call on her<br />
to speak and sing. She presented the 2004 Ware Lecture for the Unitarian Universalist General<br />
Assembly in Long Beach, California; delivered the keynote address for Women Change<br />
America, a conference presented by the National Women’s History Project at Smith College;<br />
spoke to participants at HerbFest in Iowa and the<br />
Bioneers Conference in California; and led a Martin<br />
Luther King Day celebration in Northern California.<br />
She participated and performed at the March For<br />
Women’s Lives in Washington, DC and at the Stop<br />
The War demonstration in New York, NY. In 2004,<br />
Holly joined Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda, Sally Fields,<br />
Christine Latti, and noted Mexican performers, in<br />
Montclair Women’s Cultural Arts Club, CA. Holly, Andre dos the V-Day march in Juarez, Mexico to protest the<br />
Santos Morgan, Cris Williamson, and John Boswell, 2001. uninvestigated killing of hundreds of young women.<br />
PHoTo: Donna Korones<br />
In Toledo, Ohio, she sat witness to the testimony of<br />
women reporting rape and other violence against<br />
women. Holly helped raise funds for 10,000 Kites, a<br />
collaborative anti-war project between young people from Israel and Palestine who will fly kites over the wall<br />
that separates them in May 2005.<br />
Fiercely independent, Holly was one of the first women in the U.S. to go it alone when she founded Redwood<br />
Records in 1972. Holly’s vision for Redwood was to promote and produce music by politically conscious<br />
artists from around the world, a mission it fulfilled for nearly 20 years. Finding herself at the forefront of a<br />
movement, Holly worked for world peace, multi-cultural consciousness, and feminism. The world was her<br />
university and social change movements informed her songs. She sang the secrets long before such ideas<br />
found space in the major media. A natural teacher, Holly presents master classes in performance craft and<br />
song writing to a wide array of audiences.<br />
March For Women’s Lives, Washington DC,<br />
April 2004<br />
Both as a participant and a leader, she bears personal witness to the hugely important role that music plays in political action movements. Holly’s<br />
unique personal perspective, which makes the subject matter leap out of the books and into the classroom, draws praise from college faculties around<br />
the country. And her strength and versatility as a performer has led to creative collaborations with such artists as Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger, Arlo<br />
Guthrie, Mercedes Sosa, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Inti-Illimani, Bonnie Raitt, Cris Williamson, and Linda Tillery. Holly has released over 20 recordings,<br />
including the seminal Imagine My Surprise, and performs as a guest on many others. Over the past few years, Holly has been busy re-releasing<br />
much of her early material as well as new works on her own label, Calico Tracks Music. Her recent recording, Edge, clearly demonstrates that Holly<br />
is not resting on her laurels, but continues to write and sing political songs with the grace, humor, and maturity that come from doing social change<br />
work for over 30 years. Holly’s integrity has earned her a reputation as one of the most powerful and articulate political artists of our time.<br />
Founders Hall 118<br />
55 North Coast Education Summit 2006
Sunday, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm SESSION 9<br />
Sunday, 12: 0 pm – 1: 0 pm Session<br />
HOW TO HELP YOUR STUDENTS BECOME<br />
BETTER MATH STUDENTS<br />
Teachers can help students master mathematics and gain confidence in<br />
their ability to do math by teaching them study skills. Learn techniques<br />
that can help students do better on exams and be proud of their work.<br />
When they succeed they will want to take more math classes, become<br />
math majors; then they will want our jobs.<br />
SANDY VREM wrote: “In 1969 Sandy Vrem received her BS degree in<br />
mathematics from Hood College and in 1972 earned a MATM degree<br />
from the University of New Mexico. I have been teaching mathematics for<br />
36 years at the secondary level and college level. In 1969 I started teaching<br />
at the junior high level and then became a community college instructor<br />
in 1979. I have team taught at Eureka High School and helped in my<br />
children’s classrooms when they were in elementary school. I love teaching<br />
math and feel I have the best career in the world!” Sandy can be reached at<br />
sandy-vrem@redwoods.edu.<br />
ERIN WALL wrote: “I have been teaching mathematics for 5 years. I<br />
earned my Bachelors in mathematics from Western Oregon University<br />
in 1999 and my Masters in mathematics from Oregon State University<br />
in 2001. I graduated cum laude from Western Oregon University as their<br />
outstanding graduate in mathematics. I started college at Portland Community<br />
College and enrolled in elementary algebra. I have struggled with<br />
math since junior high school when I took pre-algebra. It was good teaching,<br />
including the teaching of study skills, that made me fall in love with<br />
mathematics in college and lead to my achievements. It is my passion to<br />
pass this love of math onto my students.” Contact Erin at erin-wall@redwoods.edu.<br />
Klamath River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
SCHOOL DISCIPLINE—WITH A HEART AND A<br />
MIND<br />
A teacher/teacher educator who has worked seven years in an innovative<br />
middle school in Napa and a principal in a new, innovative high<br />
school in Humboldt County will present the workings of a school<br />
discipline plan that fosters responsibility, responsiveness and respect<br />
among students. The school in Napa has developed and refined the<br />
system over many years. The high school in Humboldt is in the process<br />
of learning to use the plan effectively. Although the plan is used<br />
school-wide at both sites, the plan could be used by individual teachers<br />
seeking to make classroom discipline something more than rules and<br />
punishment.<br />
MARY LYNN BRYAN has worked for the last seven years at The River<br />
School in Napa, CA. She earned National Board Certification in 2003.<br />
Currently she is serving a Distinguished Teacher in Residence in the<br />
Secondary Education Program at Humboldt State University. She can<br />
be reached at mlb87@humboldt.edu.<br />
KERI GELENIAN is Principal of the Academy of the Redwoods Early<br />
College High School and a teacher at the school, which is located on<br />
the campus of College of the Redwoods. Currently he is on loan from<br />
Humboldt State University where he is Associate Professor of Education.<br />
He can be reached at Keri-gelenian@redwoods.edu.<br />
Kate Buchanan Room – B, University Center<br />
North Coast Education Summit 2006 56<br />
SEEING IS ASSUMING: INTERPRETING VISUAL<br />
INFER-MATION<br />
The techniques learned in this participatory session can be applied at any<br />
level from kindergarten to graduate school. By collectively describing a<br />
Rockwell painting depicting 6-year-old Ruby Bridges on the front line of<br />
forced school integration in New Orleans, participants will practice careful<br />
observation of a charged situation. Then we will consider multiple perspectives<br />
in our interpretation of the painting and finally we will share<br />
implications for our own work. Observing before judging is a productive<br />
method of enhancing understanding and communication with students or<br />
colleagues of all ages and backgrounds.<br />
DELLA PERETTI is Academic Coordinator of UC Berkeley’s two-year<br />
M.A./Multiple Subject Credential Developmental Teacher Education Program<br />
(DTE). Berfore coming to Berkeley, Peretti taught in the Oakland<br />
Public Schools for 19 years in grades K and 5–8, including Spanish bilingual<br />
and French foreign language classes. As a participant in the Arts<br />
Education Initiative (AEI), the DTE program seeks to deepen teachers’<br />
knowledge of academic content and pedagogy by infusing the arts into all<br />
aspects of the curriculum and field placements. Reach her at dperetti@.<br />
berkeley.edu.<br />
Agate Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
NON-VIOLENT CRISIS INTERVENTION PROGRAM:<br />
AN INTRODUCTION<br />
The workshop introduces the strategies, procedures and the types of restraints<br />
that are taught in the non-violent crisis intervention program. Enrollment<br />
information will also be provided.<br />
KEN BUCK is a student in the Secondary Education Credential Program<br />
at Humboldt State University and just completed his training in the nonviolent<br />
crisis intervention program and would like to share this experience<br />
with others in the <strong>education</strong> profession. Ken has worked as a respiratory<br />
care practitioner since 1988 and plans to begin teaching full-time in the fall<br />
of 2006. He can be reached at elkman333@hotmail.com.<br />
Moonstone Beach Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
SPREADING WORLD HARMONY THROUGH MUSIC<br />
This session will include a brief history of the Redwood Coast Children’s<br />
Chorus, accompanied by a Powerpoint presentation. Students of the High<br />
School Ensemble will accompany the director in sharing the philosophy<br />
of the chorus, including the chorus’s goal of spreading world harmony<br />
through music, past tours that have contributed to reaching this goal, and<br />
the experiences that have assured the positive results in fulfilling these<br />
goals. Methods of teaching music by means of the Kodaly method will also<br />
be included in the presentation, along with an interactive outline of rhythm<br />
patterns and basic sight-reading excercises for children that teachers will<br />
be encouraged to incorporate in their own teaching. The session will be<br />
concluded with a small performance by the High School Ensemble.<br />
SASHA LYTH has been a member of the Redwood Coast Children’s Chorus<br />
since childhood. Her mother, Kathe Lyth, founded the chorus in 1978<br />
and has led the chorus on eight World Harmony Tours in sixteen countries.<br />
Sasha has performed with the chorus on six of these tours. Kathe recently<br />
moved to Spain to develop a children’s chorus in Salamanca and Sasha has<br />
since taken on Kathe’s role as director. Sasha challenges chorus members<br />
musically and encourages students to be dedicated and focused in working<br />
towards the chorus’s goal of spreading world harmony through the sharing<br />
of music with other cultures.<br />
Founders Hall 125
Sunday, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm SESSION 9<br />
THE CARDS ARE IN YOUR FAVOR… OR ARE<br />
THEY???<br />
So, you think you can always get the cards right? What if life was a game<br />
of cards? Would you come out on top? Does anyone really come out on top?<br />
Come see if the cards are in your favor with the newest version of poker,<br />
with a social justice twist.<br />
KIMBERLY MILLETT is a junior at Humboldt State majoring in mathematics<br />
<strong>education</strong>. Among many things Kim does in her free time, she is a<br />
living group advisor on the HSU campus. Kim can be reached at kkm24@<br />
humboldt.edu.<br />
JEAN SEBASTIEN PRADEL is a senior at Humboldt State University,<br />
majoring in biochemistry with an emphasis in medicine. Although he<br />
spends most of his time studying, he also works as a living group advisor<br />
and is very involved on campus. He can be reached at jsp25@humboldt.<br />
edu.<br />
NICOLE JOHNSON is a junior at Humboldt State University majoring<br />
in international studies with a minor in psychology. Nicole is very active<br />
in the comunity here at Humboldt State residence halls and is currently a<br />
living group advisor. She can be reached at nmj12@humboldt.edu.<br />
Founders Hall 179<br />
BOOKS BUILDING BRIDGES<br />
The club Books Building Bridges was formed in the aftermath of Hurricane<br />
Katrina. We have collected books to replenish what was lost at an<br />
elementary school library in Lumberton, Mississippi. We will present how<br />
Books Building Bridges was formed, our goals, and share our experience<br />
after returning from our trip delivering books to the Mississippi school.<br />
KRISTINA LINDSAY is an HSU student and a member of the Hurricane<br />
Katrina relief group, Books Building Bridges. She can be reached at kkl8@<br />
humboldt.edu.<br />
JED D’ABRAVANEL is an HSU student and a member of the Hurricane<br />
Katrina relief group, Books Building Bridges. He can be reached at jhd5@<br />
humboldt.edu.<br />
Founders Hall 111<br />
BEYOND BUYING LOCAL: CREATING STRONG AND<br />
SUSTAINABLE LOCAL ECONOMIES<br />
Buying locally and eating from one’s own bio-region are a piece of creating<br />
strong, sustainable, local economies. However, issues of employment,<br />
inflation, and state and federal taxes, also need to be addressed. Community<br />
currencies have played a key role throughout history in the struggle to<br />
maintain economic self-sufficiency in the face of globalized economies. In<br />
Humboldt County the Humboldt Exchange Community Currency Project<br />
was started in 2003. Since that time, hundreds of people and several business<br />
have participated in this project. The money created by this project<br />
stays in the local community, continuously recirculating and creating new<br />
jobs. This workshop will explore the history of community currencies,<br />
their role in creating strong sustainable local economies, and explain the<br />
role of the Humboldt Exchange in our community.<br />
RYAN ERIC EMENAKER is a member of the Democracy Unlimited Steering<br />
Committee and a founding member of the Humboldt County Youth<br />
Arts Program. He helped open the Placebo, an all-ages music and art<br />
venue that gives youth a positive alternative to drugs and alcohol. Ryan is<br />
the chair of Arcata’s Committee on Democracy and Corporations. Ryan<br />
is working toward his MA in the Humboldt State University multidisciplinary<br />
Environment and Community MA Program and is attempting<br />
to complete his thesis on “A Corporate History of Humboldt County.” In<br />
2003 Ryan helped start the Humboldt Exchange Directory and is one of<br />
the core organizers for the Humboldt County Community Currency Project.<br />
Contact Ryan at jammeal@aol.com.<br />
Siemens Hall 128<br />
INCLUDING WRITERS OF DIVERSE IDENTITIES<br />
IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM<br />
The goal of the participant-centered workshop will be to gain greater<br />
knowledge of minority writers and the importance of including their<br />
works in a central position in the secondary classroom. Participants<br />
will respond to the particular ways in which poetry is able to elicit powerful<br />
emotional responses from readers. They will discuss their personal<br />
definitions of poetry and analyze the perspective of specific writers<br />
of diverse identities. This will take into account pedagogy for teachers<br />
as well as offer a possible lesson plan for students.<br />
DAREN ZOOK is a student teacher at Eureka High School pursuing a<br />
secondary teaching credential in English at Humboldt State University<br />
and an avid reader of minority poets. He can be contacted at dhaarmabum@yahoo.com.<br />
VANESSA MARTINEZ is a student teacher at Eureka High School,<br />
pursuing a secondary <strong>education</strong> credential in English at Humboldt<br />
State University. Fluent in Spaniish and French., Vanessa attended international<br />
schools in Spain and Switzerland and she can be contacted<br />
at vam6@humboldt.edu.<br />
MARK HERTZ is a student teacher at Academy of the Redwoods, pursuing<br />
a secondary <strong>education</strong> credential in English at Humboldt State<br />
University. He has an MA in English from Humboldt State University<br />
and his email is mah21@humboldt.edu.<br />
BRANDI SHERMAN is a student teacher at Fortuna High School pursuing<br />
a secondary <strong>education</strong> credential in English at Humboldt State<br />
University. She has an MA in <strong>education</strong>al psychology from UC Santa<br />
Barbara and her email is bls40@humboldt.edu.<br />
Siemens Hall 115<br />
Zero-WaSTe eVenT<br />
in keeping with the <strong>summit</strong>’s commitment<br />
to social and environmental sustainability,<br />
we have decided to make<br />
the <strong>summit</strong> a Zero-Waste event. There<br />
are three ways that you can help:<br />
1. Bring your own mug and foodware (i.e. utensils, plate).<br />
2. reduce the amount of materials you use.<br />
3. embrace our collective efforts toward zero waste and<br />
encourage others to do the same.<br />
Zero waste is a whole-systems approach to both<br />
product design and consumption. The idea seeks to<br />
follow nature’s example: all materials are cycled back for<br />
productive use.<br />
5 North Coast Education Summit 2006
Sunday, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm SESSION 9<br />
VIDEO SCREENING:<br />
THE COLOR OF FEAR: AN ANALYSIS OF<br />
PRIvILEGE, POWER ANd dIvERSITY<br />
During the film, The Color of Fear, one of the main participants points<br />
out to those watching that racism and oppression are mainly a white<br />
problem and that white folks need to take a lead role in ending racism<br />
with in the U.S. by first recognizing its existence and then actively<br />
working against it. This workshop will focus on the examination of<br />
white privilege, supremacy and diversity through the use of the documentary<br />
video, The Color of Fear. This workshop will address the question<br />
of “What if?” Participants of this workshop should gain a clearer<br />
understanding of privilege and ways we individually support a system<br />
that perpetuates inequality. Our hope is to close the gap between the<br />
privileged and the marginalized with a vision of a future in which each<br />
individual takes responsibility for perpetuating equality for all.<br />
MIKE KITTREDGE can be reached at mk7003@humoldt.edu. His copresenter<br />
is TOBY WALKER.<br />
U Extended Session: 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm<br />
Nelson Hall East 116<br />
TEACHING MULTICULTURAL DIVERSITY<br />
THROUGH MUSIC<br />
This session, led by Joseph Newnam, will focus on the importance of creating<br />
rich multicultural components to most subject areas through the use<br />
of World Music. Whether you work in a music classroom, social studies,<br />
history class or most any other subject area, with the use of music in the<br />
classroom students can learn even more about diversity, acceptance and<br />
relevancy. By utilizing classroom performance and student participation<br />
Mr. Newnam will demonstrate that exposing students to the variety of<br />
music from around the world will not only enhance any subject area, but<br />
will help create greater cultural awareness. This session will include a sitar<br />
performance, lecture on musical strategies to enhance understanding<br />
and cultural acceptance, and group singing which fosters bilingualism.<br />
Specific strategies to enrich most content areas through simple musical<br />
components will also be covered.<br />
JOSEPH NEWNAM has been a professional musician, composer, performer,<br />
and music specialist in California public schools for over 15 years.<br />
He attended Ali Akbar College of Music as a student to Dr. Khan on sitar.<br />
Joe has his BA in music from Humboldt State University and is currently<br />
acquiring his California credential in music <strong>education</strong>. The focus of Mr.<br />
Newnam’s music specialist experience is teaching mulitcultural music<br />
and enhancing other subject areas throughout rural Northern California<br />
schools. Joe has played over five hundred concerts on sitar nationwide<br />
and had recorded CD’s for record labels around the world. Reach him at<br />
joenewnam2001@yahoo.com.<br />
Mad River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
EFFECTIVE RESPONSES TO MILITARY<br />
RECRUITERS AT YOUR SCHOOL<br />
The military uses increasingly sophisticated methods for recruiting young<br />
people for the volunteer army. Young people often join the military believing<br />
that they can provide service, obtain an <strong>education</strong> or training, and<br />
save money to be used for college. This workshop provides information for<br />
teachers, administrators, parents and students on how to opt out of provid-<br />
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ing information to military recruiters, information about promises recruiters<br />
may make (and the realities of the promises), alternatives for providing<br />
service to young people who want to make a difference, and ways to obtain<br />
and pay for an <strong>education</strong>.<br />
MELANIE WILLIAMS is a longtime peace and social justice advocate, and<br />
an instructor at HSU. She helped to found the Redwood Peace and Justice<br />
Center and works as a counselor for the GI Rights Hotline. Contact her at<br />
mew2@humboldt.edu.<br />
BARBARA GOLDBERG is a faculty member in the English Department<br />
and helped to found the GI Rights Hotline, for which she is also a counselor.<br />
She can be reached at bag4@humboldt.edu.<br />
RICK CAMPOS is a peace and social justice activist, and a counselor for<br />
the GI Rights Hotline.<br />
Nelson Hall East 106<br />
WRAPPING UP THE ROLLING THINK TANK:<br />
BRINGING TOGETHER ALL THE PARTICIPANTS<br />
IN SUZANNE PHARR’S SMALL-GROUP<br />
CONVERSATIONS<br />
This session brings together all the participants in the four sessions led<br />
by Suzanne Pharr focused on the ways people have been affected by the<br />
current incarnation of the Right and the new knowledges and organizing<br />
strategies needed to create social and political changes.<br />
SUZANNE PHARR is widely considered to be one of the nation’s most<br />
knowledgeable experts on the Right. Suzanne can be reached at pharr39@<br />
bellsouth.net.<br />
Kate Buchanan Room – A, University Center<br />
VIDEO SCREENING<br />
“FUNdI”: THE<br />
STORY OF ELLA<br />
BAKER (1 80)<br />
Rosa Parks was not the<br />
only female leader in the<br />
Civil Rights Movement<br />
and, while we honor her<br />
memory and her legacy,<br />
we need to educate ourselves<br />
about the work of<br />
her colleagues. This film<br />
highlights Ella Baker’s work in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1970s.<br />
Her work spanned over half a century, in both the North and the South.<br />
The film portrays the struggles of earlier decades and captures the continuity<br />
of the fight for racial justice and social change. 48 minutes<br />
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we are considering broadening<br />
the name of the <strong>summit</strong> for 2007.<br />
any ideas?<br />
want to help us vision and brainstorm?<br />
write eric at er7@humboldt.edu.
Sunday, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm SESSION 10<br />
Sunday, 2:00 pm – : 0 pm Session 10<br />
WHAT dO WE LEARN FROM KATRINA? LESSONS<br />
FROM THE SOUTH FOR HUMBOLDT COUNTY<br />
AND ALL CONCERNED PEOPLE<br />
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina riveted America’s attention on<br />
issues of poverty, race and class, and federal budgetary priorities. It<br />
also drew our attention to the Deep South, a region of our nation that<br />
has traditionally been ignored, stereotyped or maligned by much of the<br />
rest of the nation. Months later, what lessons do we take away from<br />
this tragedy? How does the urban poverty under the spotlight in New<br />
Orleans inform our thinking about the rural poverty here on the North<br />
Coast? What is the color of poverty in our area (and what is its gender)<br />
and what is our collective responsibility in meeting the human needs of<br />
our neighbors? What can we take away from Katrina (or from the Crescent<br />
City tsunami just a few decades ago) that might inform our preparedness<br />
efforts on the North Coast? A panel of distinguished guests<br />
with experience with Katrina, the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean,<br />
and knowledge of race and class in the South will share their thinking<br />
about lessons to be learned here on the North Coast of California.<br />
ANDREA CANAAN is Support Services Manager for the Canon Barcus<br />
Community House, a facility that provides permanent housing in<br />
a 48-unit building in San Francisco. An African-American social worker<br />
raised in New Orleans, Canaan returned to the area this fall for a<br />
month to relocated two dozen family members and friends in Louisiana<br />
and Mississippi after Katrina. Among her many publications is the<br />
oft-quoted poem “Brownness,” first published in Cherie Moraga and<br />
Gloria Anzaldua’s pioneering collection This Bridge Called My Back:<br />
Writings By Radical Women of Color.<br />
YVONNE EVERETT is an ecologist and natural resources planner who<br />
teaches in the Environment and Community MA Program at HSU. She<br />
was in Sri Lanka for the tsunami in 2004 and worked with university<br />
and NGO colleagues there on the relief effort on the East Coast from<br />
January-June 2005. She teaches a seminar on disaster planning this<br />
semester. Contact Yvonee at yvonee.everett@humboldt.edu.<br />
SUZANNE PHARR is the former director of the Highlander Center in<br />
New Market, Tennessee. She is the founder of the Women’s Project in<br />
Arkansas, where she was on the staff for 19 years. Suzanne also worked<br />
as a lead strategist and media officer for the No on 9 Campaign for a<br />
Hate-Free Oregon. For the past three decades, her work has focused on<br />
building a multi-racial, multi-issue progressive movement. Suzanne is<br />
the author of Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism and In the Time of the<br />
Right: Reflections on Liberation. She is widely considered to be one of<br />
the nation’s most knowledgeable experts on the Right. Suzanne can be<br />
reached at pharr39@bellsouth.net.<br />
Founders Hall, Green and Gold Room<br />
EXPLORING HISTORIC “GHOST SCHOOLS” AND<br />
VOICES FROM THE PAST<br />
Photographer and arts educator Diana Schoenfeld will present an update<br />
on “Schoolhouse Odyssey,” her extended photographic study of remote<br />
location “ghost schools” and the oral histories she has gathered along the<br />
way. Through photography, literature, colorful spoken memoirs, and vintage<br />
textbooks dating from the1860s, Schoenfeld will share her discoveries<br />
as she continues to compose what will become a large exhibition on this<br />
subject. Participants will see photographs of old one-room schoolhouses<br />
as they appear in unique landscapes from Georgia to California, some<br />
nearly forgotten, falling into ruin, some preserved as museums occasionally<br />
open to the public. Her most recent photography has been done near<br />
the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon, in the Blue Ridge/Smoky<br />
Mountain region of North Carolina, and peering through the windows<br />
of a tiny log schoolhouse preserved in Wyoming. The photographs show<br />
old reading scrolls, bulging cardboard blackboards. fragile, dusty schoolbooks,<br />
lunch boxes, slate boards and other schoolhouse memorabilia scanning<br />
the century from 1840 and 1940. The presentation will take the form<br />
of a slide show with Schoenfeld’s commentary on the evolving project, her<br />
research methods, resources on historic one-room schools, and increasingly<br />
frequent efforts being made to restore and preserve them. A display<br />
of antique illustrated text books, vintage photographs, and related memorabilia<br />
will be included.<br />
DIANA SCHOENFELD is a fine arts educator specializing in photography<br />
and related exhibition, art history, and interdisciplinary projects. As<br />
a member of the California Arts Project, she has created intriguing art<br />
workshops for students and teachers, K-12. She has taught in college and<br />
university art departments from Michigan to Hawaii where she was author/curator<br />
of Symbol and Surrogate: The Picture Within. Schoolhouse<br />
Odyssey is Schoenfeld’s most extensive photographic project to date. She<br />
can be reached at dianas@northcoast.com.<br />
Siemens Hall 128<br />
HISTORY BY DOING: A HANDS-ON, COMMUNITY<br />
APPROACH TO EDUCATION THAT WORKS<br />
Project-based learning means bringing students and hands-on community<br />
projects together to teach how buildings and history create the cultural<br />
heritage of which we all are proud. Teaching other teachers how to incorporate<br />
project-based learning into their classroom occurs when out-of-thebox<br />
teaching takes place. Historic preservation is not just a fancy term, but<br />
an interaction between present-day living and past stories that excite all of<br />
us. Life-long learning comes easiest by putting one’s hands into <strong>education</strong>.<br />
Old buildings are perfect textbooks for teaching history and history comes<br />
alive when you touch it. An example of a local school bell restoration project<br />
that was completed with elementary and middle school students will<br />
be presented, along with other community training events like Women in<br />
Construction, a Girl Scouts and Soroptimists International sponsored day<br />
of tools and equipment training at College of the Redwoods.<br />
BILL HOLE is a full-time professor in Construction and Historic Preservation<br />
Technology (HPRT) at College of the Redwoods (CR) in Eureka,<br />
California and consults privately. He has been instrumental in developing<br />
the first hands-on, two-year undergraduate historic preservation and restoration<br />
degree program west of the Mississippi. Through a unique interagency<br />
agreement between a federal agency and state community college,<br />
Bill helped CR and the Presidio Trust (Trust) of San Francisco design a<br />
two-year custom hands-on preservation compliance and sensitivity training<br />
series. Over the last two years he has helped consult on the Point Cabrillo<br />
Light Station Restoration Project as a trainer and project planner.<br />
One of his initial teaching assignments was in a Basque girls school teaching<br />
English as a Foreign Language, and Bill is no stranger to teaching both<br />
kids and adults to succeed. Contact him at bill-hole@redwoods.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Founders Hall 163<br />
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Sunday, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm SESSION 10<br />
THE WORLD OF MUSIC: LIFE LESSONS FROM THE<br />
MASTERS<br />
What secrets of life can we learn from the music of Mozart, James Brown,<br />
and the humpback whale? Find out in this highly interactive lecture/workshop<br />
by educator, author, and multi-instrumentalist, Andy Barnett. Andy<br />
shares musical activities that build attention, cohesion, and inspiration in<br />
groups of all levels, presenting music as a window into nature, culture, and<br />
the power of individual voices to change the way we think about ourselves<br />
and our community. For middle schoolers to adult.<br />
For twenty five years ANDY BARNETT has taught music at all levels from<br />
pre-school to the university. A Top Ten children’s music producer, and author<br />
of “Compose Yourself! Awakening to the Rhythyms of Life,” he is a<br />
presently guest lecturer at the Delle Arte School of Physical Theater, and<br />
the music director at the K-12 Leggett Valley School. Reach Andy at abarnett@asis.com.<br />
BETH WELLS will be a co-presenter in this session.<br />
Founders Hall 108<br />
ACADEMIC LITERACY IN THE 21 ST CENTURY: WHAT<br />
IS IT? WHO NEEDS IT?<br />
This session will provide an opportunity to explore some of the issues facing<br />
us all as individuals, students, educators, community members, readers<br />
and writers in a world where literacy is constantly redefining itself.<br />
How is literacy changing? How are our schools responding? What are<br />
teachers doing? How are students faring?<br />
LESLIE LEACH works at the College of the Redwoods Writing Center tutoring<br />
students at all levels of academic writing. She has been an associate<br />
faculty member in English at CR for ten years. In addition, she is a Redwoods<br />
Writing Project fellow, and she has been a member of the Reading<br />
Institute for Academic Preparation for the past two years. Contact Leslie<br />
at leslie-leach@redwoods.edu.<br />
For the last two years, VINCENT PELOSO, an instructor at the College<br />
of the Redwoods, has been teaching GS 360: Basic Academic Literacy,<br />
“a class for those students whose placement scores indicate a need for<br />
further preparation before moving into developmental reading and writing<br />
coursework.” Vinnie also produces and hosts Mad River Anthology,<br />
a twice-monthly, half-hour poetry program on KHSU radio, 90.5 FM, in<br />
Arcata. He is a widely published poet. Contact him at vinnie-peloso@<br />
redwoods.edu.<br />
Academic Literacy • Nelson Hall East 106<br />
SEE THE BIG PICTURE WITH POSTER PROJECTS<br />
How can we help students put the skills they learn in class into a broader<br />
context? We will share student work from our mathematics classes and<br />
provide guidelines for conducting poster projects. Walk away with resources<br />
and ideas for assigning a poster project for your students.<br />
Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Humboldt State University, BETH<br />
BURROUGHS is a math educator and former high school mathematics<br />
teacher. Contact her at burroughs@humboldt.edu.<br />
SHARON BROWN is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Humboldt<br />
State University. She has had success assigning poster projects in her calculus<br />
through graduate-level courses. She can be reached at slb25@humboldt.edu.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Siemens Hall 115<br />
THE STORY WE TELL<br />
Participants will view the film, The Story We Tell. This will be followed by<br />
an in-depth discussion of the ways in which race has been used to rationalize<br />
inequality throughout history, as well as the the current status of his-<br />
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tory <strong>education</strong> in the U.S. Other sources for this workshop will include the<br />
texts A People’s History of the United States, Lies My Teacher Told Me,<br />
and You’re Are Being Lied To.<br />
ANIKA BAKER-LAWRENCE is Living Group Advisor in Cypress Hall at<br />
HSU and she can be reached at arb45@humboldt.edu.<br />
Founders Hall 203<br />
TEACHABLES FROM TRASHABLES: USING<br />
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS TO ENHANCE<br />
CLASSROOM LESSONS<br />
Using a variety of easily collected recyclable materials, Jackie Hamilton<br />
will demonstrate hands-on lessons that will make science, language arts,<br />
and other classroom curriculum more exciting. As with all Ready To Learn<br />
workshops, the presentation will also feature books and clips from PBS<br />
programs that tie into each activity, making each lesson accessible to students<br />
with visual, audio, and kinesthetic learning styles.<br />
JACKIE HAMILTON has been working in child care for over twenty-five<br />
years. She has spent the last six years working for KEET-TV Ready To<br />
Learn service, teaching child care providers, teachers and parents how to<br />
extend the learning from PBS children’s programming to hands-on lessons<br />
in the home and classroom. Reach her at kiddieteacher@hotmail.com.<br />
SUSAN SEAMAN is program coordinator for this project.<br />
Klamath River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
FACULTY LEADERS AT HSU SPEAK OUT ON<br />
HOT TOPICS<br />
There are many issues currently facing Humboldt State University<br />
and the California State University system as a whole. In this session,<br />
HSU/CSU faculty leaders at various levels speak out on what they<br />
consider to be some of the hottest issues at the moment. Panelists will<br />
give their personal and professional opinions and will welcome dialogue<br />
among session participants.<br />
BERNADETTE CHEYNE is a professor in the Department of Theatre,<br />
Film and Dance at HSU. She has been involved in faculty governance<br />
for many years, including serving as chair of the campus Academic<br />
Senate from 1999-2001. She currently is one of two statewide representatives<br />
from HSU on the Academic Senate of the California State<br />
University.<br />
JENNIFER EICHSTEDT is currently Chair of the University Curriculum<br />
Committee at HSU and member of the Diversity Plan Action<br />
Committee. Her primary concerns are creating a racially just campus<br />
and increasing excellence in undergraduate teaching and learning.<br />
ROBIN MEIGGS, Head Coach of the women’s rowing team, is chapter<br />
president of the California Faculty Association at Humboldt State<br />
University.<br />
SAEED MORTAZAVI is Department Chair and Professor of Economics<br />
and Finance in the School of Business at HSU. He is currently serving<br />
as the HSU Academic Senate Chair.<br />
MARSHELLE THOBABEN, Chair of the Academic Senate of the<br />
CSU, has been a faculty leader for the past twenty years. She has held<br />
a variety of positions within the Academic Senate CSU (ASCSU),<br />
Humboldt State University’s Academic Senate, and California Faculty<br />
Association.<br />
SALLY BOTZLER, panel moderator, is a professor in the Department<br />
of Education at Humboldt State University and is the campus Faculty<br />
Development Coordinator.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education<br />
Agate Room, Jolly Giant Compound
Sunday, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm SESSION 10<br />
VIDEO SCREENING:<br />
RAISING A RUCKUS: NEW ACTIVISM AND THE<br />
RESPONSE TO GLOBALIZATION (2001)<br />
This report looks at the new face of anti-globalization activism and<br />
how the Bay Area, with its strong roots in nonviolent social protest,<br />
has been instrumental to its rise. The program follows several passionate<br />
anti-globalization protest leaders from Bay Area organizations<br />
and explores the strongest renaissance of activism in the United States<br />
since the 1960s. The documentary also explores how these activists are<br />
affecting change and providing leadership on issues of economic disparity<br />
and social injustice aroudn the world through nonviolent means.<br />
Featured on Bay Windows, KQED TV, San Francisco. 59 minutes.<br />
Nelson Hall East 115<br />
WORLD PEACE STARTS WITH INNER PEACE: AN<br />
EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP ON DEALING WITH<br />
STRESS, ANXIETY, AND PAST TRAUMA<br />
This workshop gives attendees do-it-yourself techniques for dealing<br />
with the stressors of everyday life. Activities include learning acupressure<br />
points for dissolving fear and sadness, simple meditations to combat<br />
worry and anxiety, easy herbal tea formulas for anxiety and headaches,<br />
and more. Understanding the importance of personal healing and inner<br />
wellness is critical for activists and those who are engaged in teaching and<br />
service work. Personal healing is political in that our own health is a precursor<br />
to making positive and lasting outward social change. Come join us<br />
in learning new techniques to better care for yourself as you help to make<br />
the world a more peaceful place.<br />
PAIGE ALISEN, PH.D. is an educator, author, and activist who has extensive<br />
knowledge in dealing with trauma and post-traumatic stress in an<br />
integrative, holistic approach. She is founder and director of The Emma<br />
Center, a new local nonprofit serving women abuse and trauma survivors.<br />
She is author of, Finding Courage to Speak: Women’s Survival of Child<br />
Abuse. Contact her at info@emmacenter.org.<br />
A recent HSU graduate and social justice activist on issues ranging from<br />
women’s rights to Cuba solidarity and houselessness, SHANNON RYAN<br />
knows firsthand the importance of taking care of yourself to avoid activist<br />
burn-out and to do effective social justice work. She is Program Director<br />
of The Emma Center, a new local nonprofit serving women abuse and<br />
trauma survivors. Contact her at info@emmacenter.org.<br />
Mad River Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
MEDIA AS (PRE)TEXT: EXAMINING NEWS AND<br />
DOCUMENTARY IN THE POST-MILLENNIAL<br />
COMPOSITION CLASSROOM<br />
The current media landscape affects students and their ability to think,<br />
read and write critically. This panel explores methods of bringing media<br />
literacy into the composition classroom, preparing students to navigate a<br />
media-saturated culture, encouraging writers to examine rhetorical principles<br />
at work in everyday life, and sharpening students’ analytical abilities.<br />
ADRIA ZIMMERMAN is a lecturer in HSU’s English Department. Her interests<br />
include the teaching of composition and media literacies. Her email<br />
is adz1@humboldt.edu.<br />
TIMAREE MARSTON teaches composition in HSU’s English Department<br />
and conducts inquiry into media studies. Her email is tfm1@humboldt.edu.<br />
JODI SIMMONS cultivates her interest in increasing media literacy, especially<br />
at the college level. She teaches in HSU’s English Department.<br />
Teaching in Higher Education; Academic Litearcy<br />
Founders Hall 125<br />
UNDERSTAND ME: PRODUCING POEMS OF<br />
PLACEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT<br />
Through poetry your students can not only express their feelings, they<br />
can also explore who they are, where they’ve come from, and how they can<br />
change the world. Dan will teach you a triad of lesson plans, getting you<br />
to write your own poems during this fun and investigative workshop. The<br />
lessons are called “Right Here, Right Now,” “To Understand Me,” and<br />
“What Changes the World” (subject to change, though not likely).<br />
DAN LEVINSON teaches students of all ages all over Humboldt County<br />
through California Poets in the Schools residencies. He has taught at<br />
Humboldt State University, College of the Redwoods, and the Redwood<br />
Coast Writers’ Center, and is a teacher-consultant for the Redwood Writing<br />
Project. Learn more at www.ZevLev.com or ask questions at zevlevinson@hotmail.com.<br />
Moonstone Beach Room, Jolly Giant Compound<br />
ARCHIE BUNKER’S NEIGHBORHOOD<br />
This interactive workshop explores class, discrimination and the distribution<br />
of economic resources in a diverse community. Participants are divided<br />
into groups and given different materials, resources, and access to<br />
political control. The goal is to try to build a community.<br />
MELISSA HOODLET is a senior majoring in ethnic studies and working<br />
in HSU Housing as an assistant coordinator in Residence Life. Contact<br />
her at msh24@humboldt.edu.<br />
KATIE MILLS is a senior and a senior living group advisor. She can be<br />
reached at kmm61@humboldt.edu.<br />
SEBASTIEN PRADEL is a senior and a living group advisor. His email<br />
is jsp25@humboldt.edu.<br />
JOE MCKINZIE is a senior at HSU and a living group advisor. Reach him<br />
at jgm18@humboldt.edu.<br />
Other facilitators will be KIM MILLETT and NICOLE JOHNSON.<br />
Founders Hall 179<br />
Be sure to stop by the 100 Fires<br />
book table in goodwin Forum!O<br />
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Sunday, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm SESSION 10<br />
ADOLESCENT GIRLS’ GROUPS: FEMINIST<br />
EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE<br />
This workshop will explore the use of gender-specific spaces as a tool to<br />
address and combat gender oppression facing adolescent youth. Participants<br />
will experience the empowerment-based tools and methodologies<br />
practiced by girls’ group facilitators, and will have the opportunity to learn<br />
from adolescent girls currently participating in local girls’ groups. While<br />
the content of this workshop will focus mainly on the experiences of young<br />
women, our vision will be to equip educators with tools and perspectives<br />
needed to support the empowerment of all adolescent youth.<br />
EILEEN ROCHA is a recent HSU graduate in the fields of women’s studies<br />
and psychology. She is currently active in organizing and facilitating<br />
local girls groups through Girls Inc. of the Redwood Coast as a member of<br />
StraightUp AmeriCorps. Contact her at er18@humboldt.edu.<br />
JENNY GUIDI is a recent HSU graduate who majored in Women’s Studies<br />
and minored in ethnic studies and multicultural queer studies. A former<br />
co-director of the Humboldt State University Women’s Resource Center,<br />
she is currently organizing girls’ groups at the Transitional Opportunity<br />
Program Continuation Middle School as a member of StraightUp Ameri-<br />
Corp.<br />
Other workshop organizers and presenters include FRANKIE NIWOT of<br />
Girls Inc. of the Redwood Coast, SHANTI JENSEN of TAPESTRY at<br />
Eureka High School, as well as some of the incredible young women currently<br />
participating in local girls’ groups.<br />
Nelson Hall East 113<br />
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EMPOWERING STUDENTS TO TAKE CHARGE<br />
AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE: THE EAST SERVICE<br />
LEARNING EDUCATIONAL MODEL<br />
Come join the North Coast’s nationally recognized service learning programs<br />
in a workshop that will share the <strong>education</strong>al impact of meaningful<br />
student-directed projects. EAST students from Arcata, Eureka, and Fortuna<br />
high schools, as well as Zane and Winship middle schools will present<br />
the service projects currently underway. Facilitators will share ways<br />
that individuals interested in challenging and empowering their students<br />
to make a real difference in their community can integrate service learning<br />
into their curriculum. Community members interested in partnering with<br />
or mentoring student projects are encouraged to attend. Featured projects<br />
include the Youth Relay for Life, Youth Ready to Respond, and Project<br />
Diversity.<br />
RON PERRY has been an EAST facilitator at Eureka High School for the<br />
last five years. Eureka High School was awarded the prestigious Founder’s<br />
Award in 2004 and the Golden Bell Award for instruction in 2005. Ron is<br />
a recent recipient of the Stagecoach Award from Wells Fargo and can be<br />
reached at perryr@eurekacityschools.org.<br />
JENNIFER JOHNSON has been an EAST facilitator at Eureka High<br />
School (EHS) for the last five years. Jennifer has implemented systemic<br />
school reform at EHS that has utilized the EAST model for senior projects.<br />
Her email address is johnsonj@eurekacityschools.org.<br />
LOUIS ARMIN-HOILAND has been the EAST facilitator at Arcata High<br />
School since its inception in 2000. Arcata’s CEDAR Academy has earned<br />
numerous grants and awards including the Toyota Tapestry Grant and the<br />
Founder’s Award in 2005. Contact him at lah@nohum.k12.ca.us.<br />
ERRIN ODELL is the EAST facilitator at Fortuna High School. In 2005<br />
his students earned awards for their use GIS software and garnered a “superior”<br />
rating at the EAST Conference. Contact Errin at eodell@fuhsd.<br />
k12.ca.us.<br />
JAMIE BUSH is in her second year as EAST Facilitator at Zane Middle<br />
School. In 2005 Zane earned a “superior” rating at the national EAST<br />
Conference. Jamie’s email is bushj@eurekacityschools.org.<br />
DANA JACOBS is the EAST facilitator at Winship Middle School. Her<br />
students earned a “superior” rating at the national EAST conference. Contact<br />
her at jacobsd@eurekacityschools.org. • Founders Hall 204<br />
FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT AS A<br />
CLASSROOM-BASED TOOL FOR ALL EDUCATORS<br />
Functional behavior assessment will be defined and a four-step intervention<br />
process will be explained. The presenter will utilize a behaviorist technology<br />
originally developed in the late 1960’s for persons with moderate to<br />
severe disabilities such as mental retardation and autism, and apply this<br />
technology to students who demonstrate problem behavior and high levels<br />
of cognitive functioning. He will apply single-subject behavior intervention<br />
in regular <strong>education</strong> settings to teach appropriate social behavior to<br />
the single-subject via social validation and other supports from the group;<br />
thus replacing the maintaining consequence(s) that supported the aberrant<br />
behavior to begin with.<br />
GREGG ALLBRIGHT is a 1994 graduate of HSU Teacher Credential Program<br />
in Social Science. He is a 1997 recipient of the Frank Roberts Youth<br />
Conservation Project of the Year award for Oregon and a 1999 graduate<br />
of University of Oregon’s Exceptional Learner MA in Education program.<br />
He was awarded in 2005 the Lead Teacher of the Year award for Joseph<br />
P. Kennedy Foundations’ Community of Caring Program for integrating<br />
students with and without disabilities via best practices prescribed by the<br />
National Administration on Developmental Disabilities at South Fork<br />
High School. He can be reached at gallbright@humboldt.k12.ca.us.<br />
Founders Hall 206
Sunday, 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm<br />
SUMMIT CLOSING KEYNOTE SESSION<br />
ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITY KEYNOTE ADDRESS<br />
FROM SILENT SPRING TO SILENT NIGHT:<br />
WHAT DO HERMAPHRODITIC FROGS TELL US ABOUT<br />
ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMAN HEALTH?<br />
TYRONE HAYES, PH.D., a professor of biology at UC Berkeley, has produced a series of high-profile studies<br />
challenging the ecological safety of atrazine, the most widely used pesticide in the United States. His research suggests<br />
that the weed-killer may be short-circuiting the reproductive machinery of amphibians exposed to farm chemicals<br />
in spring runoff. The mysterious ill health of amphibians native to North America is one of the more alarming<br />
environmental stories of recent years, and Dr. Hayes was the first to find a link to pesticides, both in the laboratory<br />
and in field studies. While his findings were repeatedly attacked by industry-funded scientists and public relations<br />
specialists, Dr. Hayes persisted in his scientific investigations, confirming and extending his results. He also showed<br />
through rigorous analysis that industry-funded studies purporting to contradict his research were highly biased. He is a<br />
winner of the 2005 Jenifer Altman Award, given annually in honor of outstanding commitment and service to promoting<br />
and protecting human and ecological and specifically for outstanding dedication to scientific integrity in environmental<br />
health sciences and the pursuit of science in the public interest.<br />
Final Greetings and Gratitudes by <strong>Eric</strong> <strong>Rofes</strong>, Summit Coordinator<br />
Opening Performance by Hip Hop Artists The Chosen: William Russell and Tom Helm<br />
Followed by closing reception in Karshner Lounge sponsored by HSU Environment and Community MA Program<br />
Kate Buchanan Room<br />
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With Gratitude . . .<br />
THE SUMMIT 2006 ORGANIZING TEAM<br />
SUMMIT COORDINATOR: <strong>Eric</strong> <strong>Rofes</strong><br />
KEY ADVISORS AND HELPERS AT IMPORTANT<br />
MOMENTS: Jerome Bearbower, Jeff Brandenburg, Dan<br />
Derdula, Christine Miller, Dan Malloy, Paul Cienfuegos,<br />
Crispin Hollings, Jessica Urban<br />
STUDENT TEAM: Jenni Allen-San Giovanni, Ken Buck,<br />
James Corcoran, Libby Currier, Virginia Gardner, Jillian<br />
Gerner, Saqib Keval, Jen Majka, Terri McClure, Joe<br />
Newnam, Kevin Simmons<br />
PROPOSAL REVIEW COMMITTEE: June Boitano, Sally<br />
Botzler, James Corcoran, Ron Craig, Richard Delcore,<br />
Ann Diver-Stamnes, Maggie Gainer, Martha Haynes, Nina<br />
Marinas, Sheila Rocker Heppe, Jen Majka, <strong>Eric</strong> <strong>Rofes</strong><br />
TRACK COORDINATION: Entrepreneurship, Maggie<br />
Gainer, Kristin Johnson, Bob Judevine, and Jaqueline<br />
Aboulafia; Teaching in Higher Education, Sally Botzler;<br />
Charter Schools, Jenni Allen-San Giovanni and Nick Driver;<br />
Academic Literacy, Nikola Hobbel and Cathleen Rafferty;<br />
Native American Issues in Schools, Kevin Simmons;<br />
Adventure and Experiential Learning, Jon O’Connor<br />
ENTREPRENEUR TRACK THANKS: Michael Thomas,<br />
Nancy Vizenor, Brandon Hemenway, Saeed Mortazavi,<br />
Nick Frank, Humboldt County Film Commissioner Barbara<br />
Bryant, Steve O’Meara of Kokastat, Patrick Cleary of Los<br />
Coast Communications, Mark Doggett, Kristin Johnson<br />
and Bob Judevine of the North Coast Small Business<br />
Development Center<br />
PROGRAM OUTREACH AND IDEAS: Gregory Zobel,<br />
Holly Grace, Clarena Larotta, Humboldt County Office of<br />
Education, Diane Sabin, Patty Yancey, Manolo Callahan,<br />
Ran Perry and the CTA, Diane Ryerson, Marylyn Paik-<br />
Nicely; Mary Gelinas, Bruce Fisher, Mary Lynn Bryan, Guy-<br />
Alain Amoussou, David Ellerd, Laura Rose, Kathy Munoz,<br />
Susan Higgins, and many others<br />
ROOMS AND AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT: <strong>Eric</strong> Van Duzer<br />
with Carlene Metaxas, Rosheen Rathbun, Bruce Fisher,<br />
John <strong>Eric</strong>kson and staff of University Center; Phillip Hooker,<br />
Larry Rice; Christine Miller and Dan Malloy. Special thanks<br />
to Steve Butler<br />
GREETERS EXTRAORDINAIRE: Pam Philley and Sheila<br />
Rocker Heppe<br />
WEB-PAGE DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE: Joan Van Duzer<br />
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CULTURAL PERFORMANCES: Ryan Mann-Hamilton<br />
PROMOTION: <strong>Eric</strong> <strong>Rofes</strong>, Jane Rogers and Paul Mann;<br />
Jerome Bearbower, Linda Pulliam<br />
DESIGN OF PROMOTIONAL TABLOID: Dan Derdula<br />
ARCATA PLAZA BANNER: Renee Menge at Bob’s Sign Shop<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY AND PROGRAM BOOK COVER<br />
PHOTOGRAPH: Martha Haynes<br />
SUMMIT PROGRAM BOOK: <strong>Eric</strong> <strong>Rofes</strong> (Editor), Crispin<br />
Hollings (Proofreader) and Jeff Brandenburg (Designer and<br />
Typesetter); special thanks to HSU Graphic Services for<br />
printing the book<br />
SPECIAL TASKS: On-Site Registration: many volunteers;<br />
Poster Sessions: David Ellerd; Book Sales: Paul Cienfuegos;<br />
Fundraising: <strong>Eric</strong> <strong>Rofes</strong>, Kevin Simmons, Manolo Callahan,<br />
James Braggs, Sierra Barnes, and Liberty Currier;<br />
Tabling Coordination: Jillian Gerner; Summit Logo: Jeff<br />
Brandenburg; Diversity Reception: Helen Jones and<br />
Marylyn Paik-Nicely; Alumni Reception: Larry Rice<br />
ZERO-WASTE COORDINATOR: Christine Miller with<br />
Daniel Malloy, Arlene Miller, James Thomson, and HSU<br />
Campus Recycling Program<br />
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Lois Waters, with support from<br />
HSU Sponsored Programs Office and Extended Education<br />
OFFICE ASSISTANCE, PHONE CONTACT, AND OTHER<br />
TASKS: Carlene Metaxas, Rosheen Rathbun, Melissa<br />
Estrada, Vannida Mel, Christine Hall and Lois Waters.<br />
PRE-SUMMIT REGISTRATION: Carl Hansen and Extended<br />
Education<br />
SPECIAL THANKS FROM ERIC ROFES TO: Dean Susan<br />
Higgins, Cathleen Rafferty, President Rollin Richmond,<br />
Burt Nordstrom, Joan Berman and Wayne Perryman; Kumi<br />
Watanabe-Schock, Denice Helwig, Paul Mann, Casey<br />
Crabill, Deborah Nolan and our friends at College of the<br />
Redwoods; Patty Lindley, John <strong>Eric</strong>kson & Staff, Peter<br />
Pennecamp, Pam Philley, Christina Accomando, David<br />
Orphal, Accion Zapatista Humboldt, Kim Berry, Lynn<br />
Johnson, Louie Bucher, Twyla Henderson, Ron Rudebock,<br />
H. W. Seng, Suzanne Pharr, Manolo Callahan, Lois Waters,<br />
and all of the volunteers and volunteer faculty members who<br />
make the <strong>summit</strong> possible!<br />
REDWOOD PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER FOOD BOOTH:<br />
Jerome Bearbower, Becky Luening, Melanie Williams,<br />
Andrew Freeman
Saturday, February 4, 2006 – Kate Buchanan room, HSU
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<strong>education</strong> <strong>summit</strong> 2006<br />
SponSorS & SUpporTerS<br />
We thank the following sponsors for their funding and support<br />
LeAD SpOnSORS<br />
california Teachers Association<br />
hSu college of professional Studies<br />
hSu Department of <strong>education</strong><br />
The James irvine Foundation<br />
MA JOR SpOnSORS<br />
California Charter Schools Association<br />
Center for Educational Excellence, Collaboration & Inquiry<br />
College of the Redwoods<br />
HSU Faculty Development Office<br />
HSU Office of Economic and Community Development<br />
HSU Office of the President<br />
Humboldt Adventure—A Division of Camp Fire USA<br />
KHSU-Radio<br />
KHUM-Radio<br />
KIEM-TV<br />
Northcoast Mathematics and Science Initiative<br />
Redwoods Science Project<br />
We thank the following sponsors who have lent additional financial support to this <strong>summit</strong><br />
Associated Students<br />
Black Student Union<br />
HSU College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences<br />
HSU College of Natural Resources and Sciences<br />
HSU Diversity Plan Action Council<br />
HSU Environment and Community Graduate Program<br />
HSU Faculty Diversity Development Committee<br />
HSU Library<br />
HSU Multicultural Center<br />
HSU Multicultural Queer Studies Program<br />
Sponsor of the national Teacher of the year Keynote Address<br />
Humboldt County Office of Education<br />
HSU Office of the Provost and Vice President for<br />
Academic Affairs<br />
HSU Women’s Enrichment Fund<br />
HSU Women’s Studies Program<br />
Humboldt Reading Council<br />
Indian Teacher & Educational Personnel Program (ITEPP)<br />
Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District<br />
North Coast Beginning Teacher Program<br />
North Coast Small Business Development Center<br />
Northern Humboldt Union High School District<br />
The following supporters have lent their name to supporting this event<br />
Center for Anti-Oppressive Education Garfield Elementary School District<br />
Democracy Unlimited Fieldbrook Elementary School