3rd Annual BESJ Conference: Educate to Liberate – Creating the Schools We Deserve
May 17 and 18, 2013, English High School
144 McBride Street, Jamaica Plain, MA
Friday 5 – 7:30pm – Opening Panel followed by Open Mic
with Youth Performances
Saturday 9am – 5pm – Workshops and Visioning Session
for The Schools We Deserve!
Conference Website with More Info: besj.weebly.com
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Video from our 2nd annual conference in 2012:
Spring Kick Off Event!
We are excited about Spring! On March 23rd, TAG Boston will have a meeting from 3 to 5:30 pm at Savin Bar & Kitchen on 112 Savin Hill Ave in Dorchester.
At this meeting, we will be sharing the work of the planning team and engaging the larger TAG community in discussion around the renewed mission statement for TAG Boston. This meeting will also be a place for rallying for the Spring Social Justice conference! as well as a chance to socialize and get to know one another. Spread the word! We are excited about kicking off Spring with this great event!
TAG Boston Social
Educators, Activists and Community Members join TAG Boston for our February social/meeting this Friday, February 1st from 5-7pm at Savin Bar and Kitchen. When we discussed starting up meetings we were looking for a space that allowed for more private dialogue and Savin Bar and Grill has been gracious enough to open up the space for us. In honor of our hard work as educators, Savin Bar and Grill is offering dollar oysters and ½ price appetizers with the purchase of a beer, wine or cocktail between 3pm and 6pm. We are excited to share the great work that TAG has been and will be doing in the future. We look forward to seeing everyone on Friday!!!!!
Who: TAG-Boston
What: February Meeting/Social
Where:
Savin Bar and Kitchen
112 Savin Hill Avenue
Dorchester, MA
directly across the street from the red line (Savin Hill T Stop)
When: February 1st, 2013 fro 5pm-7pm
End Of Year TAG-B Social
It’s on! The end of year TAG-Boston Social will be next Thursday, December 20th at Canary Square from 4-7pm or whenever we feel like going home. Details about our recent work and updates will be forthcoming, but put it in your calendars. We hope you can make it out to celebrate the year!
Canary Square is located at 435 South Huntington Ave, Jamaica Plain, MA, 02130
Film Screening of August to June
There’s a better way to educate children than constant testing, destructive “turnarounds,” and charter conversions.
Come to a screening of August to June, a film about a public school that manages to keep its focus on children
— not billionaires who are sure they know best,
— not bureaucrats who want to please the billionaires.
The star of the film, teacher Amy Valens, will be at the screening. She will offer a peek at a new film project she and her husband are producing about Boston’s Mission Hill School.
When: Nov. 27, 6 pm.
Where: Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street (near the Copley T stop).
For more info about the film please go to augusttojune.com
Four Opportunities to Support Tucson’s MAS Program
Sean Arce – co-founder and former director of Tucson’s Mexican American Studies program — is coming to Worcester and Boston to speak about the current situation in Tucson and to raise funds for the Raza Defense Fund. There are four opportunities to see him this weekend and into Monday. Here is the info on the events:
- Saturday (11/3) – Community Change, Inc., 14 Beacon Street, Boston, 1st floor — see details below and please email Myrna to RSVP (Myrna@communitychangeinc.org)
- Sunday (11/4) — Worcester, 2:00-4:00pm, place TBD — check the Facebook site for update info: https://www.facebook.
com/events/131188323695933/? ref=ts&fref=ts
- Monday (11/5): two different events
- Harvard Graduate School of Education – 2:15-3:45pm in Larsen room 203 — see more details here: http://cmei-harvard.
ning.com/events/special-event- ; the event is free and open to the publicsean-arce-former-director-of- the-mexican-studies-pr - Suffolk Law School – 6-8pm - first floor function room, food, accepting donations for legal defense fund; brought to you by the Latin American Law Students Association at Suffolk Law
Hope you can make one or more of these events! And if you can’t but you want to contribute, you can make donations to the Raza Defense Fund here: https://www.wepay.com/
donations/144408 .
- Harvard Graduate School of Education – 2:15-3:45pm in Larsen room 203 — see more details here: http://cmei-harvard.
TAG Boston Educators of Color Social Gathering
This Friday! October 26th
4-7 PM
Canary Square
435 South Huntington Avenue Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Hope to see you there and please help spread the word!
October TAG Boston General Meeting
Please mark your calendars for our October general meeting, which will take place next Friday, October 19 from 4-7pm in the back room of Doyle’s Cafe in Jamaica Plain, across the street from English High. For the first hour or so, we will have a meet-and-greet social similar to our September meeting. Then, around 5pm, we’ll let you know about some amazing upcoming events that TAGB is sponsoring and provide an open forum for folks to share any other upcoming events, opportunities for activism, etc. Then, for the last hour or so, we’ll just have some fun with other like-minded educators and activists, because it is Friday after all. Hope to see you there, and bring a friend or two!
Host a Precious Knowledge House Party
Check out a Documentary Bucket to host your Precious Knowledge House Party! Friday, October 12th is a National Day to support the Ethnic Studies Battle. All across the country Precious Knowledge screenings are going to be held in family rooms, community centers, and schools to raise awareness and funds. We are launching a TAG Boston documentary lending library and you can check out a Precious Knowledge screening bucket!
What’s in the kit?
2. materials to copy/handout including:
–>guiding discussion questions for the documentary
–>guidance on fundraising for the cause
–>further resources/references on the topic
3. a popcorn inspired cup for raising money that day. Make a donation here.
4. a complimentary couple bags of popcorn!
5. www.tagboston.org materials to copy/handoutIf you are interested in hosting a Precious Knowledge screening, there are 5 buckets available to be checked out. Contact: mehtasw@gmail.com (Swati Mehta) for more details.
Report on BPS School Choice Plans
According to researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Boston Public Schools’ proposed student assignment plans do not address inequitable access to high quality schools and, in fact, make the situation worse.
Direct link to the executive summary and reports: https://sites.google.com/site/bpschoiceanalysis/home
