TTT#469 Black Lives Matter NOW!
Channel: Paul Allison
Date: 2015-12-02

Two weeks ago I was in a workshop https://youtu.be/jPO85pmxvlU
at the National Writing Project's Annual Meeting in Minneapolis with four high school students who are active in the Black Lives Matter uprising  Minneapolis after the shooting of Jamar Clark. At the end of that workshop, many of us committed to continuing our learning and the fight for justice. We want to pick up that spirit by connecting with educators and activists involved in local Black Lives Matter efforts in their cities.

Before leaving Minneapolis, I read this article: https://via.hypothes.is/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/10735901065741f7abf120ae4251f3d1/man-killed-police-shooting-tried-escape-troubled-past  Perhaps you can see from my responses to this article, how important Tim Hoag's insights about Jamar are. Tim is going to join us on TTT this week.

We have invited -- are inviting -- educators, students, and activists to talk more about the issues of racism and violence in our cities and campuses. We'll be talking about how the Black Lives Matter movement is impacting on our lives and in our classrooms this Wednesday, December 2 at 9PM Eastern/6PM Pacific at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt Would you be able to join us?

We want to talk across all levels of schooling and community, and we are a very informal group that is committed to justice in our classrooms and constantly learning what this means. We meet once a week on Wednesdays at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt and I've collected the episodes/conversations (mostly from the past 18 months) that we've done on TTT related to Black Lives Matter: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY9e9zEmLwtPnN74JE8Z4RH_XtkbO67mG I also pulled together some resources with a summary here: http://digitalis.nwp.org/collection/ferguson

Please join +jay gillen  a teacher and leader in the Algebra Project in Baltimore, +Sarah Garton , an activist/urban farmer who brought +Christopher Rogers  and me to the 4th Precinct in Minneapolis two weeks ago, +Elliott Young  who charted the Black Lives Matter movement at Lewis and Clark recently  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-young/do-black-students-lives-m_b_8597332.html AND MORE!

Please join us at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt on Wednesday, December 2, at 9PM ET/8PM CT/8PM MT/6PM PT.