Saturday Seminar #2: Emerging and Converging with Equity
 

Saturday, January 26, 2019

Keynote:
Mission High School Team
Mission High
Pirette McKamey has been an educator since 1989 and is now an Assistant Principal at Mission High. An educator for thirty years, Robert Roth teaches both History and Ethnic Studies at Mission High. Kristina Rizga is the author of Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph. Bita Nazarian directs 826 Valencia, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting under-resourced students with their creative and expository writing skills. Roth, McKamey, and Nazarian are all Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP) Teacher Consultants. Come hear these educators and journalist discuss their experiences in the panel: Students Are Thinkers: Developing a Dynamic Approach to Teaching in our Schools
 

Saturday, March 23, 2019

Keynote: Ruth Cossey

Ruth Cossey teaches pre-service mathematics methods, Equity Leadership, and master degree research courses in the Mills College School of Education in Oakland, California, where she has taught over 20 years. Her most recent research focuses on the establishment of the Oakland Urban Teacher Residency which supports career development of excellent mathematics and science teachers in Oakland. Before holding an endowed Chair at Mills College, Professor Cossey was a mathematics teacher in elementary and secondary schools in Oakland, Washington DC, and Richmond, California. Cossey is co-author of Family Math.