Out of sight, out of mind, but not gone forever-- once it leaves our fingertips, how does trash resurface in our lives? Join us at Cinema Detroit on Wednesday March 28th at 5:30pm for the release of "Trash Life," a film by The James and Grace Lee Boggs School students and PIE about where our trash goes.
The screening will include a Q & A with the students and light refreshments. See you there!
How can schools, classrooms, and other spaces of learning become sites for justice and liberation? When and how should we encourage young people to break rules? When and how should teachers make trouble? We will share practices, principles, and resources that empower young people and educators to teach to and for their human being.
Connections will be made locally and nationally on humanizing and creative ways to educate for liberation. Participants will walk away with spirit and drive to create transformative educational spaces of teaching with a network to lean on for support, resources, and organizing.
Coordinators of this track are Nate Mullen, Thomas Nikundiwe, Ammerah Saidi, and Matt Homrich-Knieling.
We are seeking proposals for panel discussions, workshops, presentations, and facilitated discussions that explore the ways in which we can teach for justice, liberation, and healing. Whether you’re a teacher, youth organizer, administrator, student, or activist engaged in educational justice, we are looking for presenters to collaboratively engage in this work by sharing your stories, your experiences and your skills, your successes and your challenges. Together, we can transform education to become a space to create and practice freedom!
Specifically, we’re looking for sessions that:
2. Position students and young people as leaders and activists:
3. Make space for building a local collective of social justice educators and creating connections with national networks:
We see this track as building on the transformative educational justice work that is already happening inside and outside of classrooms, while also creating space for new possibilities, strategies, and collaborative networks.
If you have questions or want to discuss ideas for a proposal with the coordinating team, please contact us at matthewknieling@gmail.com.
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In 2017, we did so much with our PIE pals. We rebranded as People In Education with help from our design pals at The Work Department. We made our way to Baltimore to present and learn at Free Minds Free People and connect with the Education for Liberation network. We made new friends in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon’s CreateLab (even gave a little talk at their conference Context -- you can watch the video HERE). We traveled to Vermont at the invitation of our long time supporters The Bay and Paul Foundations and gained many new connections with folks who are also doing great work in arts and education. We did all this work with the support of Allied Media Projects. As always, we continued to work with the most amazing collection of Detroit educators, artists and young people to produce amazing media!
In 2018, we want to make our commitment to growing relationships our explicit goal, because the shift from Detroit Future Schools to People In Education isn’t just a change in our name. It is a purposeful declaration of our commitment to change that happens through people.
We are also growing our staff! We’re seeking a Communications and Fundraising Assistant. Know a person who would be good? Pass along the call.
If you are interested in connecting with PIE, please drop us a line. I am so excited to grow and expand our network of “PIE pals.”
Here's to 2018, a year of growing through relationships!
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Director, People In Education
