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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" lang=EN><STRONG>ARE <SPAN style="COLOR: red">YOU </SPAN>A <SPAN style="COLOR: red">TEACHER </SPAN>ENGAGED <SPAN style="COLOR: red">IN</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" lang=EN><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: red"> </SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN><STRONG>CRITICAL URBAN<SPAN style="COLOR: red"> EDUCATION</SPAN>??</STRONG></SPAN><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" lang=EN><FONT face="Times New Roman">
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<SPAN lang=EN><FONT size=3>One of the most <SPAN id=ecxlw_1272338673_0 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1272339057_1 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1272339495_0 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1272543476_0 class=ecxyshortcuts>important education policy</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> challenges facing California and the nation is developing new ways to recruit, develop, and retain a high quality teaching force for urban schools. Most of these new teachers are teaching in disadvantaged urban and rural communities and in schools where most students battle poverty and negotiate cultural and linguistic differences between home and school. These young people urgently need teachers who want to teach them and who can teach well. They also need teachers who will stay in teaching, remain in urban communities, and become leaders of much needed school reform.</FONT></SPAN><BR>
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<SPAN lang=EN><FONT size=3>In an effort to meet this challenge, a growing group of <SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272338673_1 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272339057_2 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272339495_1 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272543476_1 class=ecxyshortcuts>teacher educators</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> committed to <SPAN id=ecxlw_1272338673_2 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272339057_3 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1272339495_2 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1272543476_2 class=ecxyshortcuts>social justice</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> through a true praxis are changing the ways to educate teachers and think about their development, based on socio-cultural <SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272338673_3 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272339057_4 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272339495_3 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272543476_3 class=ecxyshortcuts>learning theories</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> and an explicit commitment to <SPAN id=ecxlw_1272543476_4 class=ecxyshortcuts>social justice</SPAN>.</FONT></SPAN><BR>
<SPAN lang=EN><FONT size=3><FONT color=#ff0000><STRONG>But how, when, and where adults learn to teach?</STRONG></FONT> <FONT color=#ff0000><STRONG>How these teachers develop a <SPAN id=ecxlw_1272338673_4 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272339057_5 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1272339495_4 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272543476_5 class=ecxyshortcuts>political consciousness</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> and cultural sensitivity in their teaching?</STRONG></FONT> By intersecting the political content of <SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272338673_5 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272339057_6 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272339495_5 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=ecxlw_1272543476_6 class=ecxyshortcuts>critical pedagogy</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> with situative and distributed notions of cognition from cultural-historical <SPAN id=ecxlw_1272338673_6 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1272339057_7 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1272339495_6 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1272543476_7 class=ecxyshortcuts>activity theory</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>, the current communities of practice are surrounding how teachers learn to teach in urban, multicultural settings.</FONT></SPAN><BR>
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<SPAN lang=EN><FONT size=3>A vast number of teachers learn to teach on the job, with little or no preparation. Urban schools shoulder the burden of this underprepared workforce. In fact, if you are a student of color in California , you are now five times more likely than a non-minority student to have an underprepared teacher. Experts use critical theory and constructivism as lenses to help these teachers engage their own students in inquiry science and more broadly the process of becoming transformative intellectuals.</FONT></SPAN><BR>
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<SPAN lang=EN><FONT size=3>Empowering urban teachers to critique the structural inequities inherent in schools is a theme that must be addressed in every forum, conference or seminar situated in meaningful practice and empowering of teachers as intellectuals and as agents of reform. <SPAN id=ecxlw_1272339495_7 class=ecxyshortcuts>Teacher educators</SPAN> must help new teachers recognize schools as sites of political resistance, which they must work to improve. </FONT></SPAN><BR>
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<SPAN lang=EN><FONT size=3>If you are a teacher eager to engage in REAL urban education, you must attend the Association of Raza Educators’4<SUP>th</SUP> <SPAN id=ecxlw_1272338673_7 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1272339057_8 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1272339495_8 class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1272543476_8 class=ecxyshortcuts>Annual Conference</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> this May 15<SUP>th</SUP> in Lincoln High School , San Diego CA. The theme for the conference is <STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>“Striving for True Praxis to Reclaim Public Education”.</FONT></STRONG></FONT></SPAN><BR>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=right><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" lang=EN><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: red"><SPAN><STRONG><FONT color=#000000><SPAN> </SPAN>UNA </FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: red">EDUCACION</SPAN><FONT color=#000000> URBANA </FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: red">REALMENTE </SPAN><FONT color=#000000>CRITICA</FONT></STRONG><SPAN style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 16pt">??</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=right><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" lang=EN><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: red"></SPAN></STRONG></SPAN> </FONT></SPAN></P></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="One of
the most
important education policy challenges facing California and the nation
is developing new ways to recruit, develop, and retain a high quality
teaching force for urban schools.">Uno de los retos políticos más importantes que enfrenta la educación de California y la nación entera, es el desarrollo de nuevas formas de reclutar, formar y retener una fuerza docente de alta calidad para las escuelas urbanas. </SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="Most of these new
teachers are teaching in disadvantaged urban and rural communities and
in schools where most students battle poverty and
negotiate cultural and linguistic differences between home and school.">La mayoría de estos nuevos maestros están enseñando en comunidades rurales y urbanas desfavorecidas, en escuelas donde la mayoría de los estudiantes batallan con la pobreza y negocian las diferencias culturales y lingüísticas entre el hogar y la escuela. </SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="These young people
urgently need teachers who want to teach them and who can teach well.">Estos jóvenes necesitan con urgencia profesores que quieran enseñar y que puedan enseñar bien. </SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="They also need teachers who will stay in teaching, remain in
poor communities, and become leaders of much needed school reform.">También necesitan maestros dedicados a la enseñanza y que ademas se queden en las comunidades pobres, y se conviertan en líderes de la reforma escolar que tanto necesitan. </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND: white">
<P class=ecxMsoNormal align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"><BR><SPAN class=ecxlongtext1></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="In an effort to meet this challenge, a
growing group of teacher educators committed to social justice through a
true praxis are changing the ways to educate teachers and think about
their development, based on socio-cultural learning theories and an
explicit commitment to social justice."><FONT size=3>En un esfuerzo por responder a este desafío, un creciente grupo de formadores de docentes comprometidos con la justicia social a través de una praxis verdadera están cambiando la manera de formar al profesorado y pensan en su desarrollo, basado en las teorías del aprendizaje socio-culturales y un compromiso explícito con la justicia social. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P></SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND: white">
<P class=ecxMsoNormal align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT></P></SPAN><SPAN class=ecxlongtext1></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="But how, when, and where adults learn to teach?"><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>Pero, ¿cómo, cuándo y donde los adultos aprenden a enseñar? </FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="How these teachers develop a
political consciousness and cultural sensitivity in their teaching?"><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>¿Cómo enseñar a estos maestros a desarrollar una conciencia política y sensibilidad cultural en la enseñanza?</FONT></STRONG> </SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="By intersecting the political content of critical
pedagogy with situative and distributed notions of cognition from
cultural-historical activity theory, the current communities of practice
are surrounding how teachers learn to teach in urban, multicultural
settings.">Mediante la intersección del contenido político de la pedagogía crítica con las nociones situacionales y distribuidas de la cognición de la teoría de la actividad histórico-cultural, las comunidades actuales de la práctica se encuentran en torno a cómo los docentes aprenden a enseñar en contextos urbanos y multiculturales. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman">
<P class=ecxMsoNormal align=left><BR><SPAN class=ecxlongtext1></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="A vast number of teachers learn to teach on the job, with little
or no preparation.">Un gran número de profesores aprenden en el trabajo a como enseñar, con poca o ninguna preparación. </SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="Urban schools shoulder
the burden of this underprepared workforce.">Las escuelas urbanas llevan la carga de esta mano de obra de baja preparación. </SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="In fact, if you are
a student of color in California, you are now five times more likely
than a non-minority student to have an underprepared teacher.">De hecho, si usted es un estudiante de color en California , tiene cinco veces más probabilidades que un estudiante no minoritario a tener un maestro con baja preparacion academica. Los expertos usan la teoría crítica y el constructivismo como lentes para ayudar a estos profesores involucrar a sus propios alumnos en la ciencia de investigación y, más ampliamente el proceso de convertirse en intelectuales transformadores. </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal align=left><BR><SPAN class=ecxlongtext1></SPAN><FONT size=3><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="Empowering urban teachers to critique the structural inequities
inherent in schools is a theme that must be addressed in every forum,
conference or seminar situated in meaningful practice and empowering of
teachers as intellectuals and as agents of reform.">Capacitar a los maestros urbanos a la crítica de las desigualdades estructurales inherentes en las escuelas es un tema que debe abordarse en todos los foros, conferencias o seminarios situados en la práctica significativa y el empoderamiento de los profesores como intelectuales y como agentes de la reforma. </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN title="Teacher educators must help new
teachers recognize schools as sites of political resistance, which they
must work to improve."></SPAN><SPAN class=ecxlongtext1><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Los educadores de docentes deben ayudar a los nuevos maestros reconocer a las escuelas como lugares de resistencia política, que debe trabajar para mejorar. </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal align=left><BR><SPAN><FONT size=3><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="If you are a teacher eager to engage in REAL
urban education, you must attend the Association of Raza Educators'4th
Annual Conference this May 15th in Lincoln High School, San Diego CA.">Si usted es un maestro comprometido con una verdadera educacion urbana, debe asistir a la 4ta Conferencia Annual de la Asociación de Raza Educators este 15 de mayo en Lincoln High School, San Diego CA. </SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" title="The theme for
the conference is “Striving for True Praxis to Reclaim Public
Education”.">El tema de la conferencia es "<STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>La lucha por la verdadera praxis para el reivindicamiento de la educación pública".</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></P> <br /><hr />Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1' target='_new'>Learn more.</a></body>
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