Next Steps

NEXT (and Past) STEPS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO FREEDOM SCHOOL
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Last updated April 29, 2008

April 15: Workshop given to four 9th grade "prides" at Kipp King in San Lorenzo

April 12: Workshop and class given at Cal State Sacramento at 14th Annual BMED Conference

January 31: WHY VOTE? forum at SFSU co-sponsored with KQED Education Network (PDF flyer of event)

6/7-8/18: SF Freedom School (see 2007 Curiculum) Saturdays only -- 10 AM - 4 PM, Parish Hall of St. Francis Lutheran Church, 152 church

6/21-24: Chicago Conference: SFFS is presented on Saturday
Old School/New School: Freedom Schools Then and Now:
Sandra Adickes, 1964 Freedom School teacher; Jimmella Stokes Jackson, 1964 Freedom School student; San Francisco Freedom School; Chicago Freedom School Project. Conference Home Page

6/12 Planning committee meeting at Cafe Malika (4416 18th St at Eureka), 4:30 PM

5/12: FUNDRAISER--Performance and Discussion: The Black Response to Racist Violence: Pacifism, Tactical Nonviolence and Armed Resistance (6PM food, program 7-9 PM at St. Francis Lutheran Church, 152 Church Street-- sliding scale) -- Civil Rights vets and Awele Makeba featured -- see our PROGRAM (pdf) Co-sponsored by United Playaz.

5/8: Planning committee meeting at Cafe Malika (4416 18th St at Eureka), 1:30 PM

4/24: Planning committee meeting at Cafe Malika (4416 18th St at Eureka), 4:30 PM

4/14: picket of National Association of School Boards annual meeting in SF-- Sing don't Chant SFFS blog entry

4/3: Planning committee meeting at Cafe Malika (4416 18th St at Eureka), 4:30 PM

3/29: Frontline Conference: A Conference on Violence, Gangs, and Turf (recommended by United Playaz).

3/24: Kathy presenting at Fresno State's Cesar Chavez. Conference on Critical. Literacy and High. Stakes Testing.(info). Go to SFFS Blog for details of what happened

3/17: Kathy giving a workshop at CSUS Multicultural Conference on history of 1964 Freedom Schools (how they can help teachers create empowering curriculum today).

3/13: SFFS Planning committee meeting at Queen Malika Cafe (4416 18th St at Eureka), 4:30 PM

3/5 and 3/6: Bernice Johnson Reagon lectures at Stanford University, 7 PM -- (information)

2/21: planning meeting (4:30 PM Queen Malika) for Alice Griffith Housing event on 2/24

1/26: Professional Development day at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy focused on why and how to get Civil Rights History into the Classroom. (see outline of workshop).

Kathy went to San Quentin on December 8th with members of the United Playaz who were participating in the Choices Program. They need as much support as people can give them. The conditions at the prison are horrible (particulary the food, crowding and medical care), which is why they are under federal receivership and being investigated by the FBI.

November 11, 2006, SFFS Annual Retreat. Agreed to continue the summer program July and August of 2007; recruit intergenerationally (targeting those who work with youth but welcoming everyone); and develop alliances throughout the year.

Kathy went to the Highlander Center Workshop, October 13-15 2006, and did a "report back" to 10 teachers, organizers and other interested parties the week after on October 22nd.

Did NOT manage to offer a workshop at the October 2006 Conference that T4SJ puts on every year. It was a terrific conference as always.

YWCA (sf/marin) SFFS did an afternoon workshop on Race and Racism on July 13th as part of a series of workshops they are doing for girls, 14-17 on "Violence is Preventable."

Kathy and Sherri went to Chicago June 14-18, 2006 to help them understand how to use the history of the 1964 Freedom Summer Curriculum (and its historical context) as they plan to open the Chicago Freedom School in the summer of 2007. It was an amazingly wonderful trip. The Chicago FS Program is being coordinated by an advisory board that consists of representatives from several non-profit organizations. They have been planning this for 3 years. Their weekday summer program will be aimed at students from 14-16 years old. But they also want to have an evening or weekend program for adults. The goals of the school are to develop leadership, identity, big picture awareness, movement building strategy and research/documentation. Sherri and Kathy did two days of workshops, one for 27 youth (who wanted to know more about the Southern Freedom Movement and the Chicago Freedom School Project) and another one for 15 adults from the steering/advisory committee (who wanted to know how the 1964 MI FSC could inform their understanding of their own goals and expectations).

Four Thursday evenings in March: a teacher workshop (PDF) at Mission High School.

May 6, 2006 (PDF) Celebration/Concert/Fundraiser event at St. Francis Lutheran Church (Church and Market) from 6:30 - 8:30 PM.

Several of the students joined the co-founders in presenting a workshop at the October 15th Teachers 4 Social Justice 2005 Conference. Participants expressed interest in meeting with us to continue brainstorming around bringing the SFFS curriculum into classrooms and other community spaces.

On November 19th, 2005(11 AM - 4 PM), we had our first retreat and plan for NEXT SUMMER as well as brainstorm ideas for how to offer parts of the summer's curriculum to the Bay Area Community during the school year. Please contact us if you are interested in participating in future meetings.