Call for Workshops for this year's 8th annual Teachers 4 Social Justice Conference!

This conference is all about grass roots professional development for teachers by teachers and community educators so that we can collectively build power and make change in our classrooms, our practice, in the community at large, and for and with the youth. We need your contribution to continue making this conference a powerful experience and place of real learning for all! Last year's T4SJ conference reached 1200 educators from the Bay Area and across the country and featured 40+ social justice teaching workshops for teachers to choose from—these workshops are really the heart of the conference.

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Community Partnership for Mindfulness in Education of Park Day School Presents
Mindfulness in the Classroom
A Weekend Training for People Bringing
Mindfulness into Schools
Saturday & Sunday May 3 & 4, 2008

Park Day School
370 43rd Street, Oakland, CA 94609
(510) 653-0317 Ext 105

The workshop is open to anyone currently teaching mindfulness to grades K-12, or who is interested in doing so. We will teach the practice of mindfulness & present a sample curriculum for a mindfulness training course targeted toward children and young adults. It can be used as a template for a 5 - 8 week, two to three times per week training, or can be adjusted to accommodate other programs. We will give recommendations for adjusting the curriculum to fit the constraints of particular situations. The workshop will be lecture, practice and interactive exercises.

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FHAO Summer Seminar Calendar
Holocaust and Human Behavior
June 23-27, 2008
This Facing History and Ourselves seminar is a five-day intensive study of the
historical development and lessons of the Holocaust. The inter-disciplinary approach
begins with explorations of identity and membership in society, and then moves
to a consideration of "hard history" focusing on the steps that led to the loss
of democracy in Weimar Germany and the explicit stages of the Holocaust. The case
study includes questions about justice and judgment; examples of rescue and
resistance, courage, and compassion; and explorations of the many legacies of
this history. Through a rigorous examination of a complex and layered narrative,
participants learn that few events in history are inevitable and that most are
the result of choices made by countless individuals and groups. Even the smallest
of those decisions may have profound consequences that affect generations to come.
Location: Youth Empowerment School, 8251 Fontaine Street, Oakland
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Race and Membership in American History:  
The Eugenics Movement
July 14-18, 2008
This Facing History and Ourselves seminar is a five-day intensive study of a
largely untaught aspect of American history, a movement that claimed it could
strengthen the nation by ridding society of "inferior racial traits."  Eugenics
negatively influenced educational practices, immigration law, marriage and
family law, and land use and housing patterns.   As an international movement,
it pre-figured Nazi racial laws, and solidified attitudes about racial
superiority among its many adherents.
Location:  San Mateo County Office of Education, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City