3 results for tag: education

Whose Voices Matter: Creating a Transformative Educational Community

On March 21st, PARCEO took part in NYCoRE's 2015 conference "Justice not Just- Tests". Yasmin and Nina facilitated PARCEO's workshop "Whose Voices Matter: Creating a Transformative Educational Community," with 25 participants from various educational contexts, from high school and graduate students to teachers and community organizations. The session provided an overview of PAR and how it can be used to create a just and inclusive school community centered around students, parents and educators, particularly those marginalized in our current system. The session also focused on cultural resistance and how different collective art forms can be used ...

PARCEO’s Community Advisor, Marilyn Barnwell receiving award from the Bloomingdale Family Program

PARCEO's Community Advisor, Marilyn Barnwell receiving award from the Bloomingdale Family Program Marilyn Barnwell, Bloomingdale’s Education Director and PARCEO's Community Advisor, was honored on April 5th by the Bloomingdale Family Program for her 50 years of outstanding service and dedication to Early Childhood Education. She has been Bloomingdale’s Education Director for the past 33 years, working closely with our teachers, our children and their families. For the past two years...Continue to read

NYC Parents Stand in Solidarity with the Chicago Teachers Union

The Parent Leadership Project (Uptown, NYC) and La Unión (Brooklyn, NYC) stand in solidarity with the Chicago Teachers Union. Like Parents 4 Teachers in Chicago, we know that teachers’ working conditions are our children’s learning conditions. In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been implementing similar reforms to Rahm Emanuel's in Chicago. In both cities, structures of Mayoral Control combined with federal reforms such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have claimed to make schools more accountable to students and their parents. But our experience has shown us that the opposite is true. Closing historically under-resourced ...