About the Presenters:
Morna McDermott has been working in, with, and around public schools for over twenty years. Currently she is a full Professor at Towson University, in Maryland. Her scholarship and research interests focus on democracy, social justice, and arts-informed inquiry in K-post secondary educational settings, and working with beginning and experienced educators. She recently authored a book The Left Handed Curriculum: Creative Experiences for Empowering Teachers (IAP, 2012) and maintains a blog at www.educationalchemy.com . She currently lives in Baltimore with her husband and two children.
Ruth Rodriguez holds a BA in social work and did graduate studies in Bilingual Education at Boston University. Ruth taught Kindergarten for 5 years at Chandler Magnet School, a two-way bilingual school in Worcester, MA. She was a Community Fellow in the Urban Studies Department at MIT where she researched school violence.
About United Opt Out:
United Opt Out National serves as a focused point of unyielding resistance to corporate ed. reform. We demand an equitably funded, democratically based, anti-racist, desegregated public school system for all Americans that prepares students to exercise compassionate and critical decision making with civic virtue. Find more info at: http://unitedoptout.com/
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