Research Participants Wanted

Reclaiming ME, a Muslim Educators Research Collective, is conducting the first national study of Muslim American teachers.  

Are you a Muslim American teacher? Do you know a Muslim American teacher? 

  We are looking for folks who: 

• self-identify as Muslim (with varying degrees of religiosity or who identify with Muslim as a cultural category)

• represent any racial or ethnic background

• teach in public K-12 schools in the U.S. 

• are adults over 18 years of age who can provide consent

• would be willing to complete a 15-20 minute online survey

Participants are invited to complete a 15-20 minute survey. They will be asked to answer questions about their own experiences as teachers. 

We are raffling off two iPads and all participants who complete the survey are eligible to enter the raffle.

Questions, please contact:

ReclaimingMuslimEducators@gmail.com

This study has been approved by Montclair State University’s Institutional Review Board IRB-FY17-18-983

Please use the QR Code to access the survey. 

Montclair State University Network for Educational Renewal

Black History Month Celebration

Sponsored by: MSUNER District Operations Coordinators

"Introduction to the Author and Reading"

Readings by people of color who have authored children's books, once each week

(this Thursday, February 18^th, 4 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.)

“A Visit to the Bahamas from A-Z” by Veronica McFall

https://montclair.zoom.us/j/89198444404?pwd=c0hIN20wbWc4ZmJjeDQxU3hJdVA2UT09

Password: 157624

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://montclair.zoom.us/j/86770861649?pwd=WWtYT2NsOUlObnJLNERvclZKUHlMdz09

    Password: 400210

Montclair State University Network for Educational Renewal

Black History Month Celebration

Sponsored by: MSUNER District Operations Coordinators

"Introduction to the Author and Reading"

Readings by people of color who have authored children's books, once each week

(this Friday, February 5^th, 4 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.)

“Nuri’s Tinkle Collar” by Ms. Jasmine Johnson

www.thenuricollection.com

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://montclair.zoom.us/j/86230307782?pwd=Qll1RExjb1BPcXgxTk4vaFNQekN4UT09
    Password: 012501
Or iPhone one-tap :
    US: +14086380968,,86230307782# or +16699006833,,86230307782#

If you can, please complete the survey found here: SURVEY

Thank you!

“In presenting the sweeping narrative of American history, African Americans have for too long, been cast in minor roles far from events, personalities and themes that become engrained in every student’s memory. In New Jersey, that is all changing ... ”

The Amistad Commission Virtual Summer Institute Professional Development Course

The wait is over! The Amistad Commission - NJ Department of Education is excited to launch our inaugural on-line class, our virtual Summer Curriculum Institute Course for Educators and Administrators. Please join us.

Our virtual professional development course will launch on Tuesday, August 18^th -  Saturday, August 22^nd , 2020

The American Paradox:
An Analysis of Special Topics for NJ Schools on the Legacies of Structural Racism, Systemic Disparities, Self-Government, Enslavement, Native Dispossession,

Democracy, Civil Liberties and Civic Engagement throughout our American Narrative in the Classroom

Course Information and Registration is available now at:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfSJu5TD155o0HSxWTHaOZXv5lRUnzj4Z7pAwUyiAoHjmIpRQ/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1

Deadline to register is Sunday, August 16th, 2020

*Virtual Sessions Tuesday-Thursday at 10:00 am and at 2:00 pm*

*Virtual Sessions Friday-Saturday at 10:00 am - 2:00 pm & 6 pm*

*Daily uploads to our YouTube Channel of PD materials for the following day’s lecture preparation*

*Lecture schedule and daily log-in credentials meeting ID and passwords will be emailed to registered participants only- no one will be admitted into the virtual sessions without registering in advance via this event form.  Please subscribe to our YouTube channel in preparation for the professional development course - TheNJAmistad Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWAtQ4tbQfgFkSCvtQ5VbQg

We hope that you will join us to learn on August 18^th for this free PD opportunity for New Jersey Schools!

Course Description:

August 2019, marked the 400 year anniversary in Tidewater Virginia, where at the banks of the Jamestown River, American democracy and American enslavement emerged hand in hand. That marriage of ideals had consequential offspring, which have provided a complex inheritance for every generation of this nation’s citizens for the last 400 years. 2020 has catapulted our national attention and our family discussions, national news, social media platforms, and timelines have been filled with the remnants of these consequential offspring. We currently find ourselves in conversations involving our current global pandemic with its ever-climbing fatalities and evidenced medical disparities among communities of color; economic upheavals; federal and state’s rights debates and clarifications; constitutional and civics education reviews; political party infighting and polarizations; voting disenfranchisement concerns; questions of medical bioethics; conversations regarding reforms after the witnessing of police brutalities; civil rights and racial injustice; economic upheavals with the possibility of impending foreclosures and evictions; and finally the explications of structural racism, social justice, and policy changes.

This summer our proposed institute topic selection has been identified and abridged based on both our current national and global events. Our current realities and circumstances have created increased inquiries from teachers across the state, to the Amistad Commission for a multitude of areas for historic understanding, resources for students, and suggested learning approaches; most especially with the transition to online and remote learning. In response, we have crafted a late summer  professional development session before our Educators begin their school year that will provide content lectures, resources, as well as student engagement and classroom strategies.

Our goal is to assist NJ Educators and Administrators who tackle issues ripped from our headlines that are embedded throughout the NJ Learning Standards and Progress Indicators for Social Studies and district curriculum maps. At this moment, a space has been created for an indispensable teaching moment to educate our teachers and administrators, on the historic legacies at the root of our daily conversations that will no doubt continue to extend to our classrooms. It is a history that is only understood by telling the full story of our often-difficult American narrative. This must be part and parcel of all school curricula and professional development trainings nationwide.

This professional development online course will include virtual experiential learning, primary and secondary resources, lectures, multimedia presentations, curriculum development, and teaching strategies, lesson plan writing and methodology structuring sessions, we invite  NJ K-12 teacher, content specialist, administrators, and community stakeholders together  for these conversations while enlisting experts scholars in the varied topic areas of each lecture.

#AfricanAmericanHistoryISAmericanHistory

#KnowlegeISPower

#TruthBeTold

Montclair State University's Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Project is pleased to invite all MSU students, faculty, staff, alumni, community partners, and K-12 educators to:

Decolonizing the Curriculum

Indigenous Perspectives on Teaching Native American History in New Jersey

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

3:30 – 5:00PM

Free & Online

Registration link: https://bit.ly/DecolonizeMSU

Join Montclair State University faculty and Ms. Trinity Norwood of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation to learn how to revitalize, decolonize, and vastly improve lessons on Native American history and culture. Free and open to the public, please encourage MSU students to attend!

The Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children at Montclair State University (IAPC) is proud to announce three new, important resources for engaging in thoughtful dialogue with children and teens. One is the revival of Thinking in Stories: Reviewing Philosophy in Children’s Literature as an active weblog (https://www.montclair.edu/iapc/thinking-in-stories/). Each post in the weblog summarizes a popular children’s story and reflects on how it raises philosophical questions intriguing to adults and children alike—questions that invite playfully serious, inter-generational dialogue. Thinking in Stories began in 1979 as a column written by the late American Philosopher Gareth B. Matthews for Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children. With support from Montclair State’s College of Education and Human Services, the column has been recreated as a weblog with Dr. Peter Shea as contributing and commissioning editor. 

The second resource is the curriculum series Wise Owl: Talking and Thinking about Children’s Literature(https://www.montclair.edu/iapc/wise-owl/) that Matthews developed with educators in Amherst public schools in the 1980s. The series is designed to use children’s literature to provide primary school students the opportunity to explore philosophical questions while developing critical and creative thinking skills. Each Wise Owl packet includes a Teacher’s Guide to the philosophical issues in a children’s book and to facilitating philosophical discussions with young people, along with reproducible Activity Cards with philosophical discussion questions based on the book. Similar guides to other children’s books can be found at Matthews’ Philosophy for Kids website (http://www.philosophyforkids.com/).

The third resource, valuable for researchers, is a webpage about Gareth B. Matthews under the IAPC Fellows rubric(https://www.montclair.edu/iapc/gareth-b-matthews/), which includes links to the above pages, as well as a link to the first-ever complete curriculum vitae of his publications in the three sub-fields he helped to initiate: philosophy in children’s literature, philosophy of childhood, and philosophy for/with children. 

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