[EDEQUITY] Weekly resource list

From: Hilandia.Rendon, EdEquity.Moderator, (EdEquity-admin@phoenix.edc.org)
Date: Fri May 18 2001 - 11:51:14 EDT


Dear EdEquity members:

Here is our weekly resource list. Please remember to send me new resources
that you would like for me to post.

BOOKS:
The Body Project
An Intimate History of American Girls
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Current Affairs | Vintage | Trade Paperback | September 1998 | $13.00 |
0-679-73529-1
In The Body Project, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg answers this question,
drawing on diary excerpts and media images from 1830 to the present.
Tracing girls' attitudes toward topics ranging from breast size and
menstruation to hair, clothing, and cosmetics, she exposes the shift from
the Victorian concern with inner beauty to our modern focus on outward
appearance--in particular, the desire to be model-thin and sexy.
Compassionate, insightful, and gracefully written, The Body Project
explores the gains and losses adolescent girls have inherited since they
shed the corset and the ideal of virginity for a new world of sexual
freedom and consumerism--a world in which the body is their primary
project.
There is a Website of questions and discussion topics intended to enhance
your reading and discussion of Joan Jacobs Brumberg's The Body Project. The
questions give you a number of interesting angles from which to approach
Brumberg's provocative historical analysis of the experience of growing up
in a female body during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in
America. See book information and discussion questions at
www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/body project/

CALL FOR PAPERS:
K-12 TEACHERS OF COLOR: Call for Papers
This is a call for papers (approximately 5-10 pages, double-spaced, l-in
margin, 12 point font) written by K-12 teachers of color.
PROPOSAL
Please respond by July 1 2001 (or sooner), include:
1. An intent to submit statement
2. Brief biographical information
3. Brief description of your teaching setting
4. An abstract of what you intend to write (150-300 words)
ACCEPTED PROPOSALS
1. The deadline for the first draft (approximately 5-10 pages, double
spaced, l" margin, 12 point front) written by K-12 teachers from ethnic
groups of color is October 15, 2001 for accepted proposals
2. Author/teachers with essays that are published will be compensated
$100.
3. At the point of publication pseudonyms and generalized settings can be
used if you wish.
* Feel free to just respond to me with a list of topics that you personally
would like to read about.* Please forward this call for papers to others.
Please send all correspondence to Rosa Hernández Sheets (rosa@sfsu.edu)
Dual Language Education in the New Millennium Institute June 28-29, 2001
Hartford, CT

DIRECTORY on Technical Assistance Network:
The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education has compiled a
directory of national and regional technical assistance providers. The
network of U.S. Department of Education-funded providers
exists to provide high quality assistance and information designed to help
states, school districts, and schools improve teaching and learning for all
students. NCBE's directory contains contact and profile information on
state and federally-sponsored technical assistance providers and Title VII
grantees for the 2000-2001 school year
by state and type of grant program.The directory is available in PDF format
at:
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/tan/directory.htm

EQUITY RESOURCES;
Teaching/Learning Gender Equity (found at
http://www.gov.on.ca/mczcr/owed/English/publications/gender-equity)
introduces the Gender Equity in Education projects successfully undertaken
and completed by the faculties of education at The University of Western
Ontario, Laurentian University and the University of Ottawa. These
innovative print and video resources apply different methods and approaches
to teaching gender equity. They achieve this by:
*teaching pre-service students how to analyze the gendered structure of all
aspects of education;
*helping pre-service students understand the need to improve the
educational
experiences of females in elementary and secondary schools;
*introducing appropriate strategies to meet this goal; and
*ensuring that gender equity becomes a core component of the teaching
courses and processes of faculties of education.
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The educational resources are available to individuals or organizations
wishing to purchase copies by contacting:
The Althouse Press, Faculty of Education
The University of Western Ontario
1137 Western Road
London, Ontario N6G 1G7
Tel: (519) 661-2096
Fax: (519) 661-3833
E-mail: press@julian.uwo.ca

FUNDING:
The Three Guineas Fund located in San Francisco just issued two wonderful
reports about strengthening programs that fund girls' issues. Check out
http://www.3gf.org/links.html for a copy of "Girls as Grantmakers Network:
Profiles of Six Innovative Programs," and "Improving Philanthropy for
Girls' Programs." Three Guineas has also been instrumental in organizing a
national network of foundations that operate girls as grantmaker programs.
Bess Bendet (at Three Guineas) and the members of the network would be a
great resource for you or others hoping to include girls in a funds
allocation process---which is pretty crucial if you plan to fund girls'
programs.

INSTITUTE ON DUAL LANGUAGE:
The Hartford Public Schools Bilingual/Bicultural Education Department
and the Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission are cosponsoring a
dual language institute for K-12 teachers, administrators, curriculum
specialists, and education students.

The Institute will offer the opportunity to discuss:
         * Principles of instruction and promising practices in dual
           language programs
         * Literacy and thinking skills development in dual language
           settings
         * Dual language programs, "Success for All," thematic or sheltered
           instruction

Among the keynote speakers are: Margarita Calderon of the Johns
Hopkins University; Gil Garcia of the Office of Educational Research
and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education; and other
nationally-recognized experts in dual language education and
research. For more information, call the Bilingual/Bicultural Department
at(860) 297-8444 or visit the Department's website at:
http://www.hartfordschools.org

Final note:

Information on these resources is provided as a service to listserv
subscribers. EdEquity does not review or necessarily endorse these
publications or events.

Hilandia Rendon
EdEquity Moderator and Administrator
EdEquity-admin@mail.edc.org



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