AFS Professional Development Day, Dec. 2

Abington Friends School Presents:

WHO ARE WE?

CONVERSATIONS ABOUT IDENTITY FEATURING PEGGY MCINTOSH AND ROSETTA LEE

DECEMBER 2, 2011, 8AM-3PM ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL JENKINTOWN, PA

Guest Speakers PEGGY MCINTOSH Peggy is founder and co-director of the National S.E.E.D. (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Project on Inclusive Curriculum.

The SEED Project helps educators create their own year-long, sitebased seminars on making school climates, curricula, and teaching methods more gender fair and multi-culturally equitable. She is the author of many influential articles on curriculum change, women’s studies, and systems of unearned privilege. She is best known for authoring the groundbreaking article, “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies”. The analysis and its shorter form “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”, have been instrumental in putting the dimension of privilege into discussions of gender, race, and sexuality.

A gifted teacher, Peggy has taught English, American Studies, and Women’s Studies at the Brearley School, Harvard University, Trinity College (Washington, D.C.), Durham University (England), and Wellesley College, among other institutions.

ROSETTA LEE Rosetta serves Seattle Girls’ School (www.seattlegirlsschool.org) in dual roles. As a faculty member, Rosetta teaches such diverse subjects as science, math, technology, ethics, model building, and more. As a professional outreach specialist, she designs and delivers trainings for all constituencies of the school community, as well as local and national educational and nonprofit sectors. Rosetta is a diversity speaker, facilitator, and trainer on a variety of issues, including cross cultural communication, identity development, relational aggression among adolescent girls, cultural competency, ending bullying and bias in schools, prejudice reduction and coalition building, and gender bias in the classroom, especially in the STEM fields.

Organizations Rosetta has worked with include the White Privilege Conference, Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools, Washington State Association for Multicultural Education, and numerous nonprofits and schools. She has served several years on the faculty of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Summer Diversity Institute, as well as its diversity think-tank cadre, Call to Action. Rosetta’s presentations are provocative, authentic, humorous and generous.

Breakout Sessions Multiracial Action Pedagogy In partnership with The E. E. Ford foundation and the University of Pennsylvania, a recent two-year research project supported 24 faculty members on an intensive journey toward best teaching practices for inclusion, full engagement, and success of all students in our intentionally diverse community.

Be a part of conversations with teachers who have been a part of that work and hear about their Action Research projects.

Film Viewing: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin Bayard Rustin was a Quaker civil rights activist, designer of the 1963 March on Washington and an openly gay African American in a deeply homophobic America. This film, which has won more than 25 awards and honors, depicts his life and work in the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s.

Diversity in the Outdoor Classroom A recent study showed that 78% of visitors to America’s national parks and forests are white, compared to 9% Hispanic and 7% black. Our conversation will focus on the lack of involvement of non-white people in outdoor recreation and environmental conservation and it’s implications in a diverse classroom. These conversations have become increasingly important as AFS begins plans for creating and Outdoor Classroom.

Critical Friends Group: Text Rendering A text rendering is a protocol for deconstructing texts or documents.

Participants will pull resonating sentences, phrases and words delving deeper into the content with each ensuing round. The resulting conversation helps the members to expand, clarify and deepen their own understanding of the material.

Texts will be chosen based on the themes of the day.

The Circles of Our Multicultural Selves with Peggy McIntosh Each person will attend a one-hour workshop led by Peggy during the Breakout Sessions. This workshop will focus on personal identity development.

During Lunch. . .

Participants will have the option of choosing to be a part of a lunch bunch.

Topics will include: Discussion of film Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, Affinity Groups in Middle and Upper School, The N-word today, and others.

Schedule for the Day 8:00-8:30 Registration 8:30-9:45 Guest Speaker Rosetta Lee 10:00-11:00 Breakout Session 1 11:00-11:15 Break 11:15-12:15 Breakout Session 2 12:15-1:15 Lunch 1:15-2:45 Guest Speaker Peggy McIntosh 2:45-3:00 Wrap-Up and Evaluations

Register Online @ HERE Registration opens Friday, November 4th and will be open for 2 weeks or until maximum number of attendees is reached.

DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 18 Registration Fee: $75 (includes Continental Breakfast and Lunch)

About AFS‌ Abington Friends School is a Quaker co-ed college preparatory school serving students from 18 months to grade 12. The work of the School is rooted in its core Quaker values, which include a profound respect for individuals and an emphasis on equality, simplicity, integrity and service to others.

AFS has stood on its original campus in Jenkintown since 1697 and today, rich in racial, socioeconomic and ideological variety, the School draws students from approximately 75 ZIP codes around the greater Philadelphia area.

At AFS we are building skills and knowledge for engaging the tensions, multiple truths, and conflicts of being a diverse community. Our explorations actively move us towards the reality of our diversity as a context for educational excellence.

Abington Friends School 575 Washington Lane Jenkintown, PA 19046 www.abingtonfriends.net

Toni Graves Williamson Director of Diversity and Inclusion twilliamson@abingtonfriends.net 215-576-3951