SOS Conference 2012 Day 1
I am back this year for the Save Our School Conference at the Marriott Wardman hotel in Washington, DC. I found last year's conference very inspiring, and wrote about it here, here, and here.
The format was a little different this year. Starting on a Friday afternoon, and jumping straight into sessions, I first attended a session about confronting the issue of race with students in the classroom. There, having been presented with a number of scenarios in which race might come up in an elementary classroom, I had the opportunity to hear thoughts on race and pedagogy from Deborah Meier, Katie Osgood, Jesse Turner, Leo Casey, Susan DuFresne, and Mary Beth Tinker.
There was one scenario, taken from a real classroom with real
