2013-2014

Staying the Course

The Film and Lecture Series is an effort to bring staff from across the district together to talk about racial differences. The film and
lecture series is an opportunity for staff and community alike to continue conversing about race, equity and difference and the
impact on PPS students. Food and beverages will be provided. Teachers will be able to receive PDUs for their participation in the
series. The Film and Lecture Series is held in the Board Room of the BESC, 501 N. Dixon. If you have any questions or concerns,
please feel free to contact the Office of School-Family Partnership at 503-916-3073.

FILM SERIES

LECTURE/DISCUSSION SERIES

Thursday, March 6, 4:30 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 19, 4:30 6:30 p.m.

If These Halls Could Talk

How Innovative Equity Work

Benefits Students

In the summer of 2010, Lee Mun Wah brought together eleven

college students from around the country to explore issues of
race on their campuses. In the process of sharing their stories
and different life experiences with each other, they discover
and expose the complexity and anguish that accompany those
experiences, while trying to be understood and validated in
a predominantly white environment. Their stories are starkly
emotional and the issues they provoke are equally perplexing,
begging to be heard and confronted.
PRESENTERS:

Cynthia Macleod,

Assistant Director-Equity, Integrated Education Services

Lisa McCall,

Portland Public School, Principal

Thursday, April 3, 4:30 6:30 p.m

For The Rights of All:

Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

Charter schools provide innovative programs with specific

educational philosophies and/or delivery models that offer
additional options for students and families within Portland
Public Schools. Their flexibility allows them to quickly take
the pulse of their stakeholders and implement new initiatives.
PPSs charter schools have attacked racial inequity and
opportunity gaps in a variety of ways. Panelists will share
their stories of how their unique approaches and innovative
practices have increased student achievement, participation,
and engagement for students of color, as well as transformed
their student body demographics in some instances. Come
with your questions!
PANELISTS:

Andr Goodlow,

SEI Academy Principal

Carl Reinhold,
LEP High School Principal

Two decades before the civil rights movement took hold in

the American south; Alaska Natives were fighting their own
battle against the archaic Jim Crow Laws oppressing them.
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska examines
the non-violent struggle of Alaska Natives through interviews,
historical footage and photos, and reenactments.

Tara ONeil,

PRESENTER:

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome lays the groundwork for

understanding how the past has influenced the present,
and opens up the discussion of how we can eliminate nonproductive attitudes, beliefs and adaptive behaviors and,
build upon the strengths we have gained from the past to
heal injuries of today.

Karen Kitchen (Osage Nation),

Program Manager, PPS Title VII Indian Education

Thursday, May 8, 4:30 6:30 p.m.

Valentinos Ghost:
Images of Arabs/Muslims in the
American Mainstream Media
Valentinos Ghost takes viewers on a chronological journey
through more than a century of images of Muslims, Arabs and
Islam in the U.S. media, from the early 20th-century fantasies
of romantic sheiks of todays damaging stereotypes as evil
fanatics. Through interviews with Robert Fisk, Niall Ferguson,
and John Mearsheimer amongst others, the film shows the
way in which the changing image of Arabs and Muslims has
mirrored Americas political agenda in the Middle East.
PRESENTER:

Kayse Jama,

Director, Center for Intercultural Organizing

The Emerson School

Thursday, April 24, 4:30 7:30 p.m.

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Part II

Back By Popular Demand!

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Joy Degruy,

Author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome:

Americas Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing

Wednesday, May 21, 4:30 6:30 p.m.

Understanding LGBTQ
Instersectionality
Lets discuss the elements of overlapping identities, how they
affect us and our students and what we can do to create a
learning atmosphere that is conducive to inclusivity and social
justice for everyone.
PRESENTER:

Leila Hofstein

PFLAG Youth Coordinator