ES Colloquium: Dr. Jay Gillen
"Sustaining Insurgent Youth for the Long Haul: Radical Education, Organizing and Employment"
About the Discussion
Young people have woken up many adults in the country by their work on the streets this year. They command attention. However, strategies for developing youth power for radical Black, Latinx and Indigenous adolescents have only begun to surface in public schools. Current strategies focus mostly on culturally relevant pedagogy and restorative justice/anti-carceral initiatives--which are certainly important. We can go further. This talk will center on sustaining youth insurgencies through employment, organizing, and educational strategies used in the Baltimore Algebra Project and rooted in the Black Freedom Struggle.
This talk will follow the Educational Studies faculty meeting with Zoom link.
About Jay Gillen
Jay Gillen has taught and organized in and around Baltimore City Public Schools since 1987. In 1994, after a 2-year organizing campaign, he became teacher-director of the new Stadium Middle School, the first community-controlled public school in Baltimore in many years. Working with graduates of the Stadium School, Gillen developed the peer-tutoring Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP). He is currently helping to design youth-led math research centers and to develop a peer-to-peer youth enterprise incubator. Gillen is the author of Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty and The Power in the Room: Radical Education through Youth Organizing and Employment.