Ms. Bartley will discuss her new book in conversation with some local educators who will be announced later. The event is FREE and open to the public; copies of the book are currently available at Talking Leaves…Books, 951 Elmwood Avenue, and will be available for purchase at the event as well.

Trenchant, political, and personal, A Different Vision offers a vision for the radical transformation of public education in the United States. Designed for educators, district leaders, administrators, professors, parents, and community members who are concerned about systemic racism in public education, it demonstrates the ways in which white supremacy is perpetuated at the institutional and classroom levels, while providing an alternative vision for U.S. schools. Acknowledging the reality that 82% of U.S. educators are white, it challenges readers to examine how racism is perpetuated in our district offices, schools, assessment systems, and classrooms. Bartley demands the inclusion of more educators of color in service of our diverse student populations. The book invites readers to employ a new set of strategies, at the administrative, teacher, union, and community levels, to revolutionize public education with the goal of greater social equality. Educators, administrators, students, parents--any stakeholder in the education of our children and the future of our country will benefit from this book and discussion.

Susan Anglada Bartley is a Buffalo native and graduate of City Honors, an activist since childhood who now lives, teaches, and writes in Portland, Oregon. For her stellar teaching skills and for her progressive, innovative and extremely successful Advance Placement Scholars program in Portland’s Franklin High School that helped narrow the achievement gap between white students and students of color, she was awarded a National Education Association H. Councill Trenholm Human and Civil Rights Award in 2013, and the OnPoint Community Credit Union Award for Excellence in Education in 2014. She writes on education, race, anarcha-feminism, addiction, media, environmental justice, and resistance. Her articles can be found at NEA Magazine, NEA Ed-Votes, Literary Arts Portland, Hampton Institute: A Working Class Think Tank, Latino Rebels, and on Medium. A Different Vision is her first book.

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