WWU Hosts 17th Annual Educational Law and Social Justice Forum May 6

Western Washington University’s Woodring College of Education will present the 17th annual Educational Law and Social Justice Forum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 6, in the Miller Hall Collaborative Space on Western Washington University’s Bellingham campus.

The theme of this year’s forum is “Bringing Family and Community Strengths into the Life of the School: the Parent Action Team Project.” The forum explores the topic of the winter 2015 issue of WWU’s Woodring College of Education’s Journal of Educational Controversy and will bring to campus authors whose articles appear in that issue. The forum is free and open to the public.

This year’s event features parents, community members, students and faculty who have formed a parent action team in a Mount Vernon elementary school. These members will discuss their work as a collaborative partnership with the Woodring College of Education that resulted from a $1.5-million grant awarded by the Washington State Legislature to develop models of effective practices for today’s diverse learners.

For more information on the Parent Action Team project, visit http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/v009n001/. The theme of the issue is: “Challenging the Deficit Model and the Pathologizing of Children: Envisioning Alternative Models.”

This forum is sponsored by the Journal of Educational Controversy and the Center for Education, Equity and Diversity at the Woodring College of Education.

For more information contact Lorraine Kasprisin, editor, Journal of Educational Controversy and professor of Educational Philosophy, Secondary Education Department, Woodring College of Education at 360-650-3871.