UW School of Education to work with Madison schools on recruiting minority teachers

n a partnership described as “the Wisconsin Idea come to life,” the UW-Madison School of Education will be working with the Madison Metropolitan School District to improve the quality and diversity of teachers and principals to help close the academic achievement gap.

“We all agree in terms of schooling, the most important thing is for a student to have a great teacher in every classroom and a great principal in every school,” Julie Underwood, dean of the School of Education, told Madison School Board members last week as they approved the partnership. “We want to partner with the school district to make sure that that happens, and to close the opportunity gap for all children in this district.”

In a news release announcing the partnership, Forward Madison: A Collaborative for Learning and Leadership, the multi-year project is described as having three main components: intensified support for new teachers and principals, efforts to improve diversity of the school district workforce and commitment to continued professional learning.

Such a close partnership is long overdue, school board member T.J. Mertz said.

Celebrating Linguistic Diversity Conference April 30-May 2, 2014

Updated versions of the conference program, abstracts and information page are now available on our CLD page.

Reconceptualizing Diversity

Conference:

Reconceptualizing Diversity: Engaging with Histories, Theories, Practices, and Discursive Strategies in Global Contexts

29th October to 2nd November 2014
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Website: http://www.iaie.org/toronto2014/1_call.html
Contact person: Michele Kahn

The main aim of the conference is to bring together educational professionals working on issues pertaining to diversity and equity in various contexts.

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15th June 2014

AESA/IAIE Conference in Toronto

Joint AESA/IAIE conference in Toronto, Canada
English, Español, Francais 
October 29 – November 2, 2014
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2014

The American Educational Studies Association (AESA) and the International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE) are presently accepting proposals for their joint tri-lingual conference, to take place in Toronto, Canada.

The main aim of the conference is to bring together educational professionals working on issues pertaining to diversity and equity in various contexts.  Though all quality proposals fitting the general theme of the conference will be considered, we would like to invite proposals relating to any of the following, especially if they have an educational dimension:

• Migration and Refugee issues
• Transnational identities
• Social Justice
• Inclusion and exclusion
• Empowerment
• Language and identity
• (Post) – colonialism
• Gender identity and sexual orientation
• Indigenous education
• Majority – minority relations
• Lingua franca issues
• Human rights and activism
• Transformative pedagogies
• Confronting majority privilege and nationalist
tendencies in education

World Education Research Association

Intersectionality, Methodologies and Knowledge Mobilization in Research for Social Justice
New WERA International Research Network
The International Research Network on Intersectionality, Methodologies, and Knowledge Mobilization in Research for Social Justice in Education will have its inaugural meeting at the Celebrating Linguistic Diversity conference.  We invite all interested researchers and graduate students who would be interested in joining the network to meet with us on Tuesday April 29 at 2:00 p.m. to discuss plans for the network and opportunities for participation. The meeting will be held in room 11-164, OISE, University of Toronto, 52 Bloor Street West, Toronto.
Date: 2014-04-29
Start time: 14:00:00
End time: 16:00:00
contact: antoinette.gagne@utoronto.ca