\r\n\r\nWhat does real school transformation look like? How will we win? Real transformation is rooted in the communities that schools serve, respect the rights of all school employees, and is fully funded.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nFebruary 10 & February 11, 2012<\/strong> \r\nRSVP ASAP: Jimenez.rosa@gmail.com or (909) 753-9007 \r\nConference Presented Jointly by\r\nCoalition for Educational Justice and Progressive Educators for Action\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n \r\nKeynote Speakers<\/strong>\r\nBill Fletcher<\/em><\/strong> \r\nJohn Rogers<\/em><\/strong> \r\nWorkshops<\/strong>
\r\nFri: 4:30 to 7:00pm
\r\nSat: 8:30 to 5:00
\r\nUCLA Community School<\/strong>
\r\n3201 W. 8th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90005\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nChildcare, Food, and Translation Provided Both Days\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nLabor\/civil rights leader and author Bill Fletcher will speak to the attacks on the public sector, the need to project an alternative social vision, and the critical need for an organizing strategy (he is co-author, with Fernando Gapasin, of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and New Pathways Towards Social Justice).\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nJohn Rogers from UCLA IDEA (Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access), will speak on a panel with student, parent, and teacher leaders on real, community and labor led reform models in schools, including a community schools model, and the difficulty of implementing reform within a climate of unrelenting attacks against our communities.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nThere will also be over ten workshops led by students, parents, and teachers that demonstrate the work currently being done in our schools that are signs of real community-driven, democratic, culturally relevant, and transformative practices. These include (along with others):\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n