For more info click here.

Check out the book events here.

I’m delighted to announce that my new book, Lift Us Up Don’t Push Us Out! Voices from the Front Lines of the Educational Justice Movement is now out! It’s an anthology of essays by community organizers, education activists, and other movement builders lifting up their analysis, stories and strategies to build a renewed educational justice movement. Check it out at www.liftusupmovement.org[liftusupmovement.org]

Come join us online for livestreaming of our national book launch event September 11^th 6:30pm at Busboys and Poets in Washington DC at www.liftusupmovement.org[liftusupmovement.org] .

Exam copies available from www.beacon.org[beacon.org]  and heavily discounted bulk orders by contacting Jennifer CanelaJCanela@beacon.org

Best wishes,

Mark

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Follow us on twitter: @liftusup_book

“Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out! is a bold and exciting book that presents the stories we never hear — powerful stories of successful grassroots organizing in schools and communities across the nation led by parents, students, educators, and allies. The lessons we can learn from these inspiring activists and campaigns need to be spread far and wide.”

Karen Lewis, Chicago Teachers Union President

“Each one of the essays in “Lift Us Up” is a tour de force. You are captivated by the passion, the fury, the courage, the honesty, and the determination that is expressed so brilliantly by the writers, each who have found a way, by working arm-in-arm with others, to fight for educational justice for all children. I plan to assign this book to all of my students to bring the powerful and authentic voices of these parent and community movement leaders into my classroom.”

Karen Mapp, Senior Lecturer on Education at the Harvard School of Education

I would like to share with you a link to the editorial for a special issue of the European Journal of Operational Research that I’ve co-edited with Prof. Gerald Midgley of the University of Hull, titled “Community Operational Research: Innovations, Internationalization and Agenda-Setting Applications”. The link for free access to the editorial is here[authors.elsevier.com], and is good through May 30, 2018.

In addition, there are two other pieces in the special issue I’ve co-authored that are open access and available to all: the lead piece, “What is Community Operational Research?[doi.org]”, and the final article, “Emerging Trends and New Frontiers in Community Operational Research[doi.org]”.

The entire special issue is available on the EJOR website at this link[sciencedirect.com]. I’m happy to share proofs of any other articles in the special issue that you would like. I welcome any questions and comments.

Sincerely,

Michael

Michael P. Johnson

McCormack Graduate School[mccormack.umb.edu]

Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs

University of Massachusetts Boston

Boston, MA 02125-3393

michael.johnson@umb.edu

More about URBAN national https://urbanresearchnetwork.org/[urbanresearchnetwork.org]

This is an update on our URBAN Education Node activities.

Our website has all of the URBAN Education sessions. aera2018offsite.wordpress.com[aera2018offsite.wordpress.com]

Off-Site Session: Saturday, April 14, 1pm-3pm at City as School High School, 16 Clarkson St, #401, New York, NY 10014, NYC.

Our Off-Site is going to be amazing. We have two really strong human rights schools presenting their work on human rights and we have the Education Video Center presenting student PAR films. We also have CEJ, a local culturally responsive coalition of parents. This will be a chance to do some important coalition building across our regions and nodes. It will be a chance to re-envision our work for this next year.

Business Meeting

Our business meeting will be held in the lobby of the Grand Hyatt on Sunday, April 15 from 12:30pm-1:30pm. We will be unpacking the sessions from the conference and re-envisioning based on the momentum created at the Off-Site. Once we figure out where in the lobby we will be, we will put out signs. So look for the signs

Graduate Student Meeting

There will be a graduate student meeting on Sunday at the Grand Hyatt, from 2pm-3pm. If you are only coming for this, again, just look for the signs.

URBAN Social

For those interested in a social hour, we will do/organize something informal after the Business Meeting, so we will be in the lobby at the Grand Hyatt at 1:30pm and will take it from there.

All other sessions are on the site.

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Qualitative Research Learning Series (see flyer)

Come check out the Qualitative Research Learning Series, Part 2!
In Part 2 of this workshop, experienced graduate scholars from the CUNY Psychology Department will talk about qualitative research design, data collection, and data analysis, and will provide attendees with opportunities for hands-on practice and discussion. See below for details about our first presenters, Allison Cabana and Devin Heyward.
Community members, graduate students, faculty, and staff in all disciplines are invited.
Attendees do not need to have attended Part 1 of the workshop series.

Date: 10 am – 1:30 pm, Saturday, April 14
Location: East Hall 105
***To attend, please RSVP to pienkos@hartford.edu no later than Monday, April 9, 2018***
In your RSVP, please indicate whether you are a student, faculty, staff, or community member, and your discipline/area of research. Thank you!

Presenter information:
Devin A. Heyward, MPhil., M.A. is a doctoral candidate in the Social-Personality Psychology Doctoral Program at the Graduate Center – CUNY and a professor at St. Peter’s University in the Sociology/Urban Studies Department. Devin’s dissertation analyzes how racial identity changes over the life span and how it is influenced by self-initiated encounter events, in particular genetic ancestry testing. Additionally, she has worked on varying projects concerning HIV prevention for college going women; a national Queer Person of Color (Q-POC) participatory research project for incarcerated persons; and two international projects in Uganda and Peru concerning children’s rights. Prior to joining the Sociology/Urban Studies Department at St. Peter’s University, Devin taught several courses at The City College of New York, including Psychology and the Black Experience, Social Psychology and the Social Psychology of Racism and Prejudice. Additionally, she has taught Health Psychology at Lehman College, Intro Psychology at the Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY), and “Teaching Diverse Learners,” a Master’s level course, at SUNY Empire State College.

Allison L. Cabana is a participatory researcher and doctoral student in the Critical Social Psychology program at the CUNY Graduate and University Center. Her work has included “What’s Your Issue?,” a national PAR project employing a participatory online survey, as well as, being a part of a local NYC based youth research collective investigating LGBTQ+ & GNC youth of color’s experiences with community and identity. Employing a PAR epistemology in her work, Cabana has interrogated knowledge production and academic scholarship using ethnographic interviews, participatory surveys, and quantitative data analysis. Allison’s work is committed to prioritizing the experience(s) and knowledge(s) of queer and trans people of color. In addition to her research work, Allison has taught Psychology courses at Bronx Community College, and been involved in a variety of workshops focusing on participatory epistemology and methodology (PAR and CPAR).

URBAN @AERA

Look for fellow scholars presentations and connecting with others in the network http://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings

ENHP Day
April 26, 2018 (See full day of faculty, student and community events attached) http://www.hartford.edu/enhp/community/enhp-day/

KEYNOTE SPEAKER MICHELLE FINE
Critical participatory research in revolting times:
Interrogating racial (in)justice and bearing w(h)iteness in schools, prisons and community life
4:15-5:15 p.m., Auerbach Auditorium
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Urban Education
Founding Faculty Member, Public Science Project
The Graduate Center, City University of New York

FILM – COMMUNITY EVENT Paper Tigers
6 – 8pm Auerbach Auditorium The final event of the day will be a viewing of the film Paper Tigers with an interactive dialogue about contemporary issues facing our communities.
Co-facilitated with Hartford Public Schools.

The URBAN 2018 Conference will convene university scholars, community organizers, educators, activists and artists to connect, share stories, and develop practices and strategies for supporting communities in rapidly-changing cities and outlying areas across the US. Disruptions such as school closures, immigration enforcement, mass incarceration, gentrification, and environmental racism are cumulatively displacing low-income communities and communities of Color. The overlapping nature of these issues call for intersectional approaches that draw upon the expertise of youth and community organizers, educators, and university researchers working in equitable partnerships, consistent with the tradition of community-based participatory research.
The Conference brings together members of URBAN from across the country to discuss their efforts to build and sustain research partnerships that address these issues. The Conference will take place from May 17-19, 2018 in Denver, Colorado. (Critical Participatory Action Research Pre-Conference on Thursday, May 17).

For more information about this year’s Conference, please contact Vanessa Roberts, Conference Coordinator (vanessa.roberts@colorado.edu).

Registration: Please make sure to register for the conference by April 15th: https://edu.z2systems.com/np/clients/edu/eventRegistration.jsp?event=2623&

Travel & Lodging: The Denver International Airport is the closest airport and boasts numerous ground transportation options. Please refer to the  URBAN Conference 2018_Lodging Options document for more information on the hotel discounts we have secured and recommended neighborhoods for those who might prefer room-share or alternative accommodations.

Conference Program: URBAN conference draft agenda – 4/27/18