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WHY A CONFERENCE ON ANTI-RACIST, ANTI-BIAS EDUCATION?

As educators we recognize the need for on-going conversation on teaching about issues of race and bias at all levels of schooling. However, we see very few staff inservices or resources devoted to these important topics. We want to give educators and community members an opportunity to learn from and network with one another and to find new resources (print, web and human) that can help us all confront racist and classist education.

If you or your organization would like to co-sponsor an ENSJ conference, take a look at our sponsorship information sheet. If you have further questions or are ready to become a co-sponsor, contact the conference program chair, Royal Bonde-Griggs .


2010 Anti-racist/Anti-bias Teaching Conference

ENSJ’s third annual One-day Conference on Anti-racist, Anti-bias Teaching is Saturday, March 6, 2010. Hosted once again at the beautiful Indian Community School in Franklin, Wisconsin, this year’s conference keynote speaker is Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy and Culture at UMASS - Amherst and recipient of numerous teaching and social justice awards.

The deadline for early conference registration is February 19, 2010. Download the 2010 Conference Registration form, print and mail with registration fee to the address on the form. (Registration on the day of the conference is limited and not guaranteed — register today to make sure you have a spot.)

Co-sponsors for the 2010 Conference include:

  • The Indian Community School
  • Rethinking Schools
  • Alterra Coffee
  • National-Louis University
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Education
  • Latinas en Acción
  • Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English
  • The Milwaukee Graduate Assistants Association (AFT 2169)
  • Alverno College
  • Mt. Mary College
  • Carroll University Department of Education
  • Milwaukee Area Academic Alliance in English, UW-Milwaukee College of Letters and Science
  • Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association (MTEA)

Send any questions about the 2010 conference to the planning committee at ENSJ Conference

The 2010 Conference Program will be available soon. Many of the 2010 workshop descriptions are available here.

2010 ENSJ Conference Planning Committee:
Royal Bonde-Griggs (Chair), Judy Gundry, Angel Hessel, Mary Hauser, Cathy Sansone, Ava Hernández, Lee Abbott, Wansheba Townsend, Marilyn Diaz, Julie Kailin, Beth Kaplan, Karen Kelley Rigoni, and Sherri Jones.


2009 Anti-racist/Anti-bias Teaching Conference

Over 275 people attended the second annual Anti-racist/Anti-bias Teaching Conference at the Indian Community School on March 28, 2009. Rosemary Christensen started the conference with a well-received keynote on the oral traditions of teaching. Twenty-eight workshops were offered by educators on a range of topics: View the 2009 AR*AB Conference Program.

Thanks to everyone who participated, and to our co-sponsors:

  • The Indian Community School
  • Rethinking Schools
  • Alterra Coffee
  • National-Louis University
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Education
  • The Milwaukee Graduate Assistants Association (AFT 2169)
  • Milwaukee Area Academic Alliance in English
  • Mt. Mary College
  • Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association (MTEA)
  • YWCA-Greater Milwaukee

Photos from the 2009 Conference will be available (here) soon!

2009 Conference Planning Committee:
Karen Kelley (Chair), Judy Gundry, Andrew Hurie, Angel Hessel, Kim Cosier, Mary Hauser, Amy Miller, Cathy Sansone, Sherri Jones, Julie Kailin, Larry Hoffman, Beth Kaplan, Royal Bonde-Griggs, and Marilyn Diaz.


2008 Anti-racist/Anti-bias Teaching Conference

Hosted at the Indian Community School in Franklin, Wisconsin, Saturday, May 3, 2008. Keynote presenter: Lisa M. Edwards, Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, Marquette University. 28 interactive sessions with topics such as, “Bias in Books: How to Find Stereotypes in American Indian Literature”; “Muslim and Jewish Students: On Building a Sustained Intergroup Dialogue/Lovefest”; “Queering Barbie”; “Making the Invisible Visible: A Hands-on Approach to Understanding Oppression”; “Interacting with Milwaukee History: Strategies for Engaging with Hidden Histories.” View the full 2008 AR*AB Conference Program.

First Annual Teaching Conference Co-sponsors:

  • The Indian Community School
  • Rethinking Schools
  • Milwaukee American Jewish Committee - Hands Across the Campus
  • The National College of Education at National-Louis University
  • Council for the Spanish Speaking
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Education
  • YWCA-Greater Milwaukee

View Pictures of the 2008 AR*AB Conference.

2008 Conference Planning Committee:
Karen Kelley (Chair), Judy Gundry, Bob Peterson, Hope Longwell-Grice, Amy Miller, and Eva H.

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