Social Justice Seminar – Champaign Unit 4 School District 5pm 09/30/14
School to Prison Pipeline and Restorative Justice
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm – Mellon Board Room
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Seminar is Open to Everyone
CPDUs Provided and Refreshments Served
Agenda
- Review of Committee Norms and Introduction Laura Taylor
- School to Prison Pipeline Jenine Wehbeh, Illinois Safe Schools Alliance
- Restorative Justice
- Patricia Avery, Champaign County NAACP President
- Sara Balgoyen, Executive Director of the Illinois Balanced and Restorative Justice Project
- Yalanda Graham, Jill Johnson, and Delores Lloyd – Unit 4 Administrators
- Barbara Cekander and Miche’le Johnson – Garden Hills
- Teachers
History and Purpose of the Social Justice Initiative
During the 2012-2013 school year the social justice committee focused on learning about social justice by studying relevant literature and engaging in collaborative learning sessions. The committee generated a definition of social justice and a social justice framework for our district. The framework, agendas, meeting notes, and documents can be found at http://www.champaignschools.org/pages/social-justice-committee/meetings in English and Spanish. Having met the two goals of creating the definition and framework, the planning group now provides professional development and project opportunities via social justice seminars and topic specific task forces. Please contact any of the following individuals for more information: Maria Alanis (Spanish speaker), Angi Franklin, Jonathan Kosovski (Spanish speaker), Jaime Roundtree, Laura Taylor, Orlando Thomas, Nick Gaines and Danielle Cook.
Unit 4 understands social justice as a continual ommitment to houghtfully consider and actively challenge societal norms that privilege some and not others.