"From the Old to the New Jim Crow": NCSS presentation (2015)

Thank you for attending our session today at the NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) Conference in New Orleans. Please feel free to contact either of us:

• Spiro Bolos (Teacher, New Trier High School)
• Tom Kucharski (Instructional Supervisor, Glenbrook South High School)

Below is an unabridged version of our presentation that you can use in the classroom. It includes strategies for talking to students about race, as well as a full array of statistics on mass incarceration.

From the Old to the New Jim Crow from Spiro Bolos

For classroom materials and embedded links to multimedia, please click on the image below:

The Justice Project Summit

Dan Lawler and I participated in a presentation/panel discussion called, "Inclusive Schools and Education Equity" in which the following questions were posed:

1. What does it mean to be a welcoming school district within the constraints of segregated housing patterns? 
2. What can suburban residents do to effect change in a metropolitan system that sanctions separate and unequal educational opportunities? 
3. Does diversity in schools create a net gain for all?

GUEST PANELISTS:

• Dan Lawler and Spiro Bolos, New Trier's Metropolitan Community Project
• Steve Bogira, The Chicago Reader
• Kourtney Cockrell, Student Enrichment Services at Northwestern University

The Justice Summit: The Metropolitan Community Project from Spiro Bolos

"A Lighthouse": Opening Day Speech (2015)

For my "Opening Day" speech (as President of the New Trier Education Association), I chose to focus on the theme of race, and I used a publishing platform called "Medium" (iOS app available) because of the beautiful balance it affords between multimedia and text. See the original slidedeck here.

A Lighthouse