Equity & Leadership Week 2010
Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) Conference
& Summer Leadership Academy
August 10-13
Riverhouse Hotel & Convention Center
3075 N. Business 97, Bend, Oregon 97701
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During Equity & Leadership Week 2010, you’ll do more than build your network — you’ll learn how to connect the essential pieces of our work as educators and association members. You’ll help cultivate our community.
(Registration is now closed)
Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) Conference
Aug. 10 & 11
During OEA's MAC Conference, educators will come together to focus on equity in education for all students. Join us to share ideas, learn new approaches and be moved to advocate for progress and change! There will be three sessions with a wide variety of courses to choose from, including:
- Civil Rights in Schools
- De-escalation Drive-Thru: Super-Sized Strategies for Saving the Day!
- Gang Awareness and Prevention
- Help! I Can’t Connect with Students of Color
- History of Native American Law - From the 1452 Discovery Doctrine to Manifest Destiny
- History of Native American Law - From The 1887 Dawes Act to Tribal Termination and Restoration.
- MAC: You can have your MAC and enjoy it too!
- Micro-Aggressions: Making a Molehill Out of a Mountain
- Preventing and Countering School-Based Harassment and Cyber-Bullying
- Racial Disparities in Oregon's Child Welfare System: "Beyond Good Intentions to Intentional Action"
- Spotting Detours: Staying on Track to Address Race in Schools
Full descriptions of 2010 MAC Conference sessions
Summer Leadership Academy
Aug. 11 - 13
During the Summer Academy, expand your knowledge by choosing one of the following in-depth workshops:
- Basic & Advanced Bargaining
- Basic & Advanced Advocacy
- Leadership Development
- Policy, Politics, Public Opinion, and You
- What's New in Teaching and Learning
- SPARKS Advocacy (invitation only)
Full descriptions of 2010 Summer Leadership Academy workshops
Tentative Agendas
MAC Conference -
-- August 10 --
10:30 AM - 1:00 PM Registration
12:30 - 1:30 PM LUNCH
1:45 – 3:00 PM Session I
3:15 – 4:30 PM Session II
5:30 - 7:30 PM DINNER
7:15 - 9:15 PM TBD
-- August 11 --
8:00 - 9:00 AM MAC Breakfast
9:15 – 10:30 AM Session III
10:30 AM Checkout
11:30 - 1:15 PM Closing Lunch w/SLA Participants
Summer Leadership Academy -
-- August 11 --
10:00 AM Registration
11:30 AM – 1:15 PM Opening Session Lunch w/MAC Conf. Participants
1:30 – 5:00 PM Breakout Sessions
-- August 12 --
7:30 AM Breakfast Buffet
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM Breakout Sessions
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Lunch
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Breakout Sessions
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Dinner (dinner may be on your own)
-- August 13 --
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM Breakfast Buffet
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM Breakout Sessions
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Closing (w/ Keynote Speaker)
1:15 PM Boxed Lunches to go
Watch the video below to see testimonials from OEA members about involvement in the Minority Affairs Committee. You can also read a page and view a photo album about the 2007 MAC Conference, held in Kah-Nee-Ta.
Each year the Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) Conference is a place where educators who care about the equity and education of all students come together to share ideas, reflect both individually and collectively, gain wisdom and strength from their peers, and be moved to advocate for progress and change.
Getting Involved in MAC
In the 1950s, Oregon Education Association was the first NEA state affiliate to form a Human Rights Commission. Teresa Ferrer, Consultant with the OEA Center for Teaching and Learning, serves as the staff liaison to the OEA Minority Affairs Committee, which meets at least four times a year. The best way, Ferrer says, to get involved in the MAC is to attend the MAC Conference or a MAC meeting.
Contact Teresa Ferrer at 1-800-858-5505 or teresa.ferrer@oregoned.org for future MAC meeting dates.
