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News & Events
Sixth Annual Teaching as Civic Engagement Conference
Held October 29, 2011
On Saturday morning, October 29, 2011, as New
England began to brace itself for the first snow of
the season, the Tufts University Department of
Education convened its sixth annual Teaching as
Civic Engagement Conference.
The conference - "Immigrant Youth and School: What
Educators and Communities Need to Know" – brought
together graduate students, alumni, department
faculty, area teachers and school psychologists, and
parents and teenagers associated with the Welcome
Project, an organization based at Somerville's
Mystic Public Housing Development that works to
empower the city's refugee and immigrant groups.
Lynne Pepall, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences, kicked off the event at 9:30am with a
warm welcome and words of encouragement for the work
ahead. Double Jumbo Pete Shungu (LA '03, MAT '10)
then took the stage and captivated the room with his
words and trumpet in a spoken word performance that
explored the complicated territory of the immigrant
experience. Before the attendees broke off into
lively small group workshops for the final activity
of the morning, Warren Goldstein-Gelb and Maria
Landaverde of the Welcome Project moderated an
enlightening hour-long discussion with the parent
and teenage panel.
Diane Lind, longtime educator with the Tufts
Department of Education and current University
Supervisor with the department, commented, "The
parents' determination to do what's best for their
children was almost palpable...As always, the
students themselves were riveting because they are
so honest and because they have found their way
through 'the system' by so many different paths."
Please take a look at the
conference website for more information about the annual event, and
listen
to 2010 MAT alum Pete Shungu share his opening poetry and music.
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Department of Education, Paige Hall, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155 |
Tel: (617) 627-3244 | Fax: (617) 627-3901 |
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