• Multicultural Children's Literature Awards
  Arun Toké, Editor of Skipping Stones Magazine
  • 2-pg list of 2011 awards (pdf)

CONCURRENT SESSION ONE

• Gratefulness: An impact of "niceness" - A barrier to authentic understanding, relationship building, and change
  Divya Bheda
  
  
• Uncovering themes of social justice and critical questioning of "nice" children's literature
  Kena Avila, Cynthia Basye, Jennifer Kumar
  
  
• "Con permiso": Latinos changing Eugene's sustainability culture
  Artemio Paz, Jr., Marcela Mendoza


• Creating a balanced jury: An integrated approach to understanding proportionalities and the justice system
  Jessica Hopson, Megan Vosk
  
  
• Cultural linguistics: Decolonizing education
  Susan Dwoskin, Ana Quintero-Arias
  • Handout of useful references
  
  
• Using real talk (about race, class, & culture) to create & maintain an inclusive school culture that supports high achievement
  Keisha M. Edwards
  
  
• No more wimpy people: A workshop designed to help people in "helping" professions help themselves
  Niskaw Nipissing
  
  
  
• The Chinese in Oregon: Triumph, tragedy, challenge and change
  Jon Lee, Edmund Lee, Florence Lee
  
  

CONCURRENT SESSION TWO

• Disability as a culture: A missing perspective
  Neera Malhotra, Pauline Lavingston
  
  
• Dynamics: Race, gender, and negotiation in our mentor-mentee portraits
  LeoNora Cohen, Kathleen Cowin, Kathryn Ciechanowski, Richard Orozco
  
  
• Not the boss of me!
  Jose Luis Alonso, Kate Tierney
  
  
• Teaching mathematics as multicultural activity
  Manuel Guerra, Taylor A. Marrow III
  
  
• Moving Beyond Whiteness in Multicultural Education
  Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Brian Greer
  • PowerPoint – VERY large file! Lots of photos.
  
  
• Paper identity: Impacts of the new US Department of Education requirements for the collection and reporting of race and ethnicity data
  Jane Waite
  
  

• I too am Eugene: Multicultural historical activism
  Mark Harris
  
  
• Breaking the cycle of racial disparities and civil rights violations in school
  Joyce Harris
  
  
• Beyond awareness of white privilege: Strengthening the will and skills of white anti-racist educators
  Jacqueline Duyck, John Lenssen
  
  
• Rehearsals for life: Using interactive theatre to build effective allies
  Abigail Leeder, Mia Tuan
  
  

POSTER SESSIONS

• Raising awareness of race, power and privilege in predominantly white preservice teachers
  Anita Zijdemans Boudreau, Glenda Moss
  • Handout
  
  
• Questions that demand our attention
  Scott Nine
  
  
• Integrating Web2Quests into multicultural education courses in Taiwan
  Limei G. Lin
  
  
• Exploring sona in a mathematics course for preservice teachers
  Ann Sitomer
  
  
• Diverse learners and teacher education: A sociocultural approach from pK-12 to higher education
  Stacey Van Blom, Elissa Blackhurst
  • PowerPoint PDF
  
  
• In search of authentic learning: The experience of three emerging teachers in Baja
  Doug Neill, Melissa Lutsch
  
  
• Confronting prejudice: Conversations about discrimination in the middle school classroom
  Ashley LaVelle, Amanda Greene-Chacon
  
  
• Am I racist? One white man's journey to self-awareness
  Jay Stahly