About this Event
Come join Clergy & Laity Who Are Public School Supporters & Advocates to learn about the benefits and challenges of our public schools , discover how you can support children in public school, and network with like-minded people.
Keynote Speaker on May 6 for the banquet - James Ford (https://www.jameseford.net/about-james) - award-winning educator and consultant on issues of equity in education. Principal Consultant at Filling the Gap Educational Consultants, LLC. and the Executive Director of the Center for Racial Equity in Education (CREED). He was appointed by Gov. Cooper in 2018 to serve as a member of the North Carolina State Board of Education, representing the Southwest Region. In 2014-15 North Carolina Teacher of the Year and the representative for 95,000 public school teachers throughout the state. For a full year, he traveled the state and country speaking before thousands of teachers, students, business leaders and policymakers about the importance of education.
Strategy Session on Tuesday - led by Jennifer Berkshire - co-author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door. She writes about education and politics for the Nation, the New Republic, the Baffler, and other publications.The creator and co-host of the education policy podcast “Have You Heard,” she teaches aspiring podcasters in the journalism program at Boston College and the Labor Studies program at UMass Amherst. Berkshire discovered her passion for storytelling while covering a series of bitter labor battles that wracked her native Midwest in the early 1990’s. A licensed public school teacher, Berkshire lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Convention Center, Convention Center, Orlando, United States
USD 50.00
