[Fdu] Sanctuary Schools

[Cynthia Wright]

Sanctuary Schools Forum

Saturday May 7th (10am – 1pm)

OISE, Room 2-211

252 Bloor St. West




Organized by Educators for Peace & Justice and No One Is Illegal



Opening Panel    10:00-10:30  


              

Resisting Neo-Liberalism – Tim McCaskell (Educator, Activist & author of Race to Equality)

Preventing Gender Based Violence & Supporting LGBTQ2 Youth and their Families – Javier Davila (Teacher, Gender Based Violence Prevention Office, TDSB)

Keeping Students Safe from Deportation – Sheilagh Hewlett (No One Is Illegal)

Protecting Students from Police in Schools – Sabrina Gopaul (Jane & Finch Action Against Poverty)

Working Groups        10:30-11:30

·        Movement Building: Mobilizing Teachers to Resist Neo-Liberalism - Nigel Bariffe (teacher, activist, TDSB) & Tim McCaskell

·        Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell - Sheilagh Hewlett & Parmbir Gill (student)

·        Preventing Gender-Based Violence - Javier Davila & Kyro DaSilva (student)

·        Resisting Policing - Sabrina Gopaul & Kabir Joshi (student)




Creating the Framework & Next Steps     11:30-12:30

Moderated by Caitlin Hewitt-White and Syed Hussan




Register at: http://bit.ly/SanctuarySchoolForum

·        Refreshments and light snacks provided

·        Get more information at: www.epjweb.org (ready by May 1) and                          http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/

·        To endorse this event or request a table, please contact Lynda Lemberg at unite1999 at hotmail.com




Forum Mission Statement




Our schools, and especially our students and their parents, are increasingly under attack. 

Teachers have a unique and special responsibility to ensure that our schools can be places of sanctuary where we can all create the socially just and equitable communities we expect and deserve. 

In order for teachers to be effective agents for social change and justice, we must work in direct coalition with our students, their parents, and all other groups who are working to address the issues which affect the daily lives of our communities. 

Often teachers find ourselves working in isolation from our colleagues, from the communities we work in, and from the lives of our students and their families.

The Sanctuary Schools Forum will be an opportunity to break this isolation, and connect teachers to each other as well as to the social movements being led by our students and their communities. 





Endorsers

·OSSTF District 12 Human Rights Committee

·TDSB Gender Based Violence Prevention Office

·Student Teachers Union, OISE
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