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As the fourth event in the Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life<\/a> speaker series, Dr. Patrick Camangian has requested that all attendees please complete the survey found here<\/a>\u00a0(enter PIN# 7193)<\/strong>. I’m not familiar with this resource and I found the interface engaging and I’m curious how it will be woven into Dr. Camangian’s presentation. I hope you will take a few minutes to complete it and<\/em>\u00a0I hope you will join us!\u00a0As usual we will be in\u00a0Clark A205<\/a>\u00a0at 5:30 and the event is free<\/strong>. Here is a bit of info about Dr. Camangian\u2019s presentation:<\/p>\n Moving\u00a0Left\u00a0of\u00a0Center: Teaching a New Ending<\/strong><\/p>\n If teachers truly want to make their classrooms more culturally empowering, we need the type\u00a0of learning, an ability to read the world, as Paulo Freire says, that leads to social transformation in students\u2019 actual lives. This presentation honors this by discussing the importance\u00a0of\u00a0tapping into the humanity that young people bring into classrooms, treating their most pressing concerns as worthy\u00a0of\u00a0intellectual interrogation and important starting points for all learning. Toward this end, this presentation will draw on work done in urban schools throughout California as a context to understand the socio-educational experiences of different cultural groups in urban communities and, more importantly, consider ways in which classroom teachers can more effectively remedy the problems facing urban communities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Last week, Dr. Haddix mentioned<\/a> that she always has her students read one of Dr. Camangian’s articles in her class. The article in question is\u00a0Starting with Self: Teaching Autoethnography to Foster Critically Caring Literacies<\/a>. It comes from a stellar issue of\u00a0Research in the Teaching of English<\/em>\u00a0and I’d encourage you to peruse the rest of the issue here<\/a>.<\/p>\n See you Tuesday!<\/p>\nTell people this is awesome:<\/h3>