Movimiento Sin Fronteras
Movement Without Borders
NDSG 2016 explores crossing borders that are literal and symbolic. A border can be a wall, a river, a political line that keeps people from moving from one place to another; a border can be a teaching or educational practice that keeps children, teachers, and families from partaking in teaching and learning that is enlightening and healthy. The U.S.-Mexico border wall looms as the backdrop for this year's meeting, and participants will have opportunities to reflect deeply on educational practices and issues such as immigration, testing, and race that can help us move across borders.
NDSG 2016 explora el cruce de fronteras que a la vez es literal y simbólico. Una frontera puede ser una pared, un río, o hasta un movimiento político que prohíbe o desalienta a trasladarse de un lugar a otro. Una frontera puede ser un lenguaje, un sistema de creencias, o la práctica educativa que permite a los niños, los maestros y las familias participar en la enseñanza y aprendizaje que engrandece y es saludable. El muro de la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México se perfila como el telón de fondo para la junta de este año; los contribuyentes tendrán la oportunidad de reflejar intensamente en prácticas docentes y cuestiones temáticas de inmigración, exámenes estandarizados y la raza que ayudan al movimiento entre fronteras.
NDSG 2016 explora el cruce de fronteras que a la vez es literal y simbólico. Una frontera puede ser una pared, un río, o hasta un movimiento político que prohíbe o desalienta a trasladarse de un lugar a otro. Una frontera puede ser un lenguaje, un sistema de creencias, o la práctica educativa que permite a los niños, los maestros y las familias participar en la enseñanza y aprendizaje que engrandece y es saludable. El muro de la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México se perfila como el telón de fondo para la junta de este año; los contribuyentes tendrán la oportunidad de reflejar intensamente en prácticas docentes y cuestiones temáticas de inmigración, exámenes estandarizados y la raza que ayudan al movimiento entre fronteras.
PROGRAM
Thursday: Pre Meeting/Opening
Pre-Meeting: Spanish Immersion Art Experience
- 9:00-4:00 PM Pre-Conference Institute: Spanish immersion art experience (led by Monica Valadez) at the Hidalgo Pump House, Hidalgo, TX
- 6 pm Welcome: Gather in Echo Lobby, walk to Edinburg Library
- 6:30 pm: Art Exhibit activity
- 7:15 pm: Dinner/Cultural Experience
- Home Groups with guided questions
- Conversation with Deborah Meier and students
- 6:45 am: Breakfast
- 8:00 am: Ride to the Pump House Morning Activities (Pump House)
- 8:30 am: Pump House Stories: Welcoming by Hidalgo ISD Director of Bilingual Education, Martha Garza and Hidalgo Superintendent Ed Blaha
- 9:30 am: Home group - Poem: “To live in the Borderlands means you” by Gloria Anzaldúa
- 10:30 am: Bus ride to site visits
- 11:00 am - 3:30 pm: Site visits
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm: Lunch
- 3:30 pm: Bus ride to Pump House
- 4:00 pm: Break
- 4:30 pm: Home Group
- 5:30pm: Bus Ride to Llano Grande Center for dinner: Texas BBQ @ Llano Grande with local music
- 8:30 pm: Auction fundraiser
- 8-9am Breakfast
- 9- 10:30am Building Movements Panel:
activists, will tell stories of movements across borders. Rossy will share about her immigration experiences
in South Texas, Xian will talk about testing resistance in Chicago, and Tawana will present on issues of racial
justice movement in Detroit. Rossy, Xian and Tawana will elaborate on how their work represents
movements across borders both in concept and delivery. The presenters will employ multiple genres (poetry,
spoken word, story, media) for delivering their message. The following questions will help guide the
presentations: What is my work?; Where do I get the courage to do my work?; How do I do this work and with
whom. ; Why is this work important? We invite you (conference participants) to reflect on these questions
for your own work.
Panelists include:
Tawana Honeycomb Petty, Detroit, MI: Tawana is a social justice organizer and poet who centers visionary organizing and resistance as an avenue to combat sexism, racism, capitalism, militarism, and
extreme materialism in her organizing work. Tawana is committed to social justice and youth advocacy, and
is heavily engaged in transformative visionary organizing on the ground in Detroit. She is a board member of
the Jamesand Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, a Data Justice Community
Researcher for the Detroit Community Technology Project, a Detroit Equity Action Lab (DEAL)
Fellow, a member of Detroiters Resisting Emergency Management, We the People of Detroit, and the The
Detroit Digital Justice Coalition.
XianBarrett, Chicago,IL: Xian Franzinger Barrett teaches 7th and 8th grade social studies and language arts
in Brighton Park, Chicago. He is a strong supporter of student led social justice movements and was a
founding member of #EduColor, UCORE and CORE, a social justice union caucus within the Chicago Teachers
Union. He was ranked #5 in the universe for education policy on social media by a completely invalid and
unreliable measure.
Rossy Lima, South Texas: Rossy Evelin Lima, linguist and translator. Her fist poetry book Ecos de Barro
published by Otras Voces Press was recognized by the International Latino Book Awards 2014. She received
the Gabriela Mistral Award 2010 by the National Hispanic Honor Society. She was awarded the international
poetry award Concorso di poesia Altino in Italy. The author has been published in numerous anthologies and
literary magazines in Spain, Canada, USA, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Italy and Mexico. The author is
included in the Antología de Poesía y Narrativa Hispanoamericana (2016 Madrid, Spain). Her second book of
poetry Augacamino was published by Mouthfeel Press. Lima co-organizes the Sin Fronteras Independent
Book Fest.
Emiliano A. Guajardo, South Texas (facilitator) is a recent graduate of Texas State University, graduating
with degrees in Philosophy and Anthropology. Emiliano is a North Dakota Study Group committee member
and participant as well as a long time Youth facilitator with the Community Learning Exchange. He is a poet,
philosopher, civil rights activist, mentor, and has a deep passion for indigenous philosophy and writings.
Miguel A. Guajardo, South Texas (facilitator) is an Associate Professor in the Education and Community
Leadership Program and a member of the doctoral faculty in School Improvement at Texas State University-
San Marcos. His research interests include issues of community building, community youth development,
leadership development, race and ethnicity, university and community partnerships, and Latino youth and
families. He was a Fellow with the Kellogg International Leadership Program and the Salzburg Seminar. He is
also a co-founder of the Llano Grande Center for Research and Development the Community Learning
Exchange an emerging interdisciplinary community of practice that unites the power of place and the wisdom
of people to advocate and work towards community change. This work is highlighted in the 2016 book he co-
published with a team of colleagues: Reframing Community Partnerships in Education:Uniting the Power
of Place and Wisdom of People https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138840768
- 10:45-12:15 Open Space Technology
- 12:15-1:15pm Lunch
- 1:15-2:30 Works In Progress (WIPs)
- 2:45- 4:45pm Racial Affinity Groups (RAGs)
- Transitional Break
- 5:30pm: Bus to Economedes High School
- 6 pm: Dinner at Economedes High School in Edinburg; participants will dine with home groups; a student panel will present during dinner about their experiences with the early college high school, and they’ll speak to their experience crossing borders. The panel will be facilitated by Delia Perez, an NDSG alumna who is also an administrator at Economedes High School
- 7:30pm Cultural Experience: Dance performance at the Economedes HS Performing Arts Center: “Irish and Other Works”; the “other works” is a combination of Mexican folklorico, tap, and jazz; performance will be followed by a Q&A with student performers, who range from ages of 12-18
- 8-9 am Breakfast
- 9 am Closing Circle
Site Visit Options
NDSG honors the importance of place-based experiences. In 2012 NDSG members made a committment to organizing a place-based annual meeting. We spend much of Friday visiting different regional schools and organizations. These 'site' visits connect us to the place and issues framing our on-going discussions about education.
Click here to read descriptions of the 2016 Site Visits.
NDSG honra la importancia de las experiencias basadas en el lugar. En NDSG, los miembros se comprometieron a cambiar el sitio de las reuniones anuales a uno diferente cada dos años. Pasamos gran parte del primer día (viernes) de cada reunión anual visitando diferentes escuelas y organizaciones regionales. Estas visitas de ‘sitio’ nos conectan con el lugar y los temas que enmarcan las pláticas continuas enfocadas en la educación.
Click here to read descriptions of the 2016 Site Visits.
NDSG honra la importancia de las experiencias basadas en el lugar. En NDSG, los miembros se comprometieron a cambiar el sitio de las reuniones anuales a uno diferente cada dos años. Pasamos gran parte del primer día (viernes) de cada reunión anual visitando diferentes escuelas y organizaciones regionales. Estas visitas de ‘sitio’ nos conectan con el lugar y los temas que enmarcan las pláticas continuas enfocadas en la educación.