Educators’ Network for Social Justice
Mission Statement
We are an organization of educators including classroom teachers, teacher educators, and community activists, who strive for educational justice. We work to protect the right of all students to a quality and equitable public education. We do this by promoting social justice curricula, cultivating our political understanding, and mobilizing for collective actions to create change.
Anti-racist•Anti-bias Teaching
A One-day Conference
April 20, 2013
Educators’ Network for Social Justice is pleased to have Dr. Kevin Kumashiro as this year’s conference keynote speaker. Dr. Kumashiro is director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education and president of the National Association for Multicultural Education.
He is a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago where he researches approaches to teaching and teacher education that challenge different forms of oppression in schools and society. Dr. Kumashiro is the author of Bad Teacher! How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture (Teaching for Social Justice) and The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools, and co-authored Teaching Towards Democracy: Educators as Agents of Change.
Dr. Kumashiro is no stranger to Wisconsin. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000.
He is a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago where he researches approaches to teaching and teacher education that challenge different forms of oppression in schools and society. Dr. Kumashiro is the author of Bad Teacher! How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture (Teaching for Social Justice) and The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools, and co-authored Teaching Towards Democracy: Educators as Agents of Change.
Dr. Kumashiro is no stranger to Wisconsin. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000.
