Mount St. Mary's College Center for Cultural Fluency and
the Education Department present: 

Critical Teaching in Action Conference

Saturday, April 5 2008
8:30a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Critical Teaching in Action is a one day conference on the Doheny campus bringing together educators at all levels who are engaging in activist education with Los Angeles' diverse youth. Throughout the city, individual educators and organizations, often in isolation, are enacting innovative curricula for social transformation. Inside and outside the classroom, they engage and inspire multicultural youth in critical educational projects towards a society that is just, equitable, and democratic.

Mount St. Mary's conference will serve  as a focal point to bring practitioners and youth together to share their visions and best practices at the K-12, college, and community level. Participants will leave the CCF conference with not only inspiration and a sense of community, but specific teaching tools and contacts/resources they can use to engage diverse youth.

Conference highlights

Keynote Speaker: Sandra Robbie is the writer/producer of the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children / Para Todos los Ninos. Mendez tells the story of the Orange County school desegregation case that ended legal school segregation in California seven years before Brown v. Board of Education.

Workshops/Presentations on: Using Popular Culture in the Curriculum; Teaching Critical Media Literacy; Teaching Arts and Social Justice; Creating Alliances with Parents; Defining Your Own Social Justice Mission and many more!