COMMEMORATING THE PAST AND ENVISIONING THE FUTURE MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR 26 YEARS CENTER FOR MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION 30TH SYMPOSIUM Friday, April 27, 2018 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Walker-Ames Room, 225 Kane Hall University of Washington, Seattle A MESSAGE FROM JAMES A. BANKS SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE Director of the Center and Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies The Center’s final symposium under my leadership offers a Most of the Center’s alumni were research assistants in the time for celebration, reflection, and affirmation of our goals Center or teaching assistants for the Center’s multicultural 9:00 TO 10:30 Opening Plenary Session to improve practice related to equity issues, intergroup education courses when they were graduate students at the relations, and the academic achievement of all students. This University of Washington. A highlight of this symposium is a OPENING OF CONFERENCE publication describes the Center’s major accomplishments, panel, “Passing the Torch to the Next Generation,” in which James A. Banks which have been recognized nationally and internationally alumni discuss their research and current work. Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies and Founding Director, Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington, Seattle since it was established in 1992. The Center received two In addition to commemorating the Center’s past, another coveted awards in 2003. The Brotman Diversity Award from WELCOME purpose of this 30th symposium is to envision the future the University of Washington was given to the Center for Dr. Constance W. Rice of the Center and to introduce Professor Django Paris, the “exemplary advancement of the diversity of our University Regent, University of Washington Center’s incoming director. Dr. Paris is the inaugural James community.” In addition to the recognition it gave the A. and Cherry A. Banks Professor of Multicultural Education KEYNOTE ADDRESS Center, the Brotman Diversity Award provided a grant that and will assume the directorship of the Center in June 2018. enabled the Center to enhance its research and publications Linda Darling-Hammond I am pleased to welcome Professor Paris to the University President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and program. The Center also received the Multicultural Program of Washington as the incoming director of the Center. He will Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus, Stanford University Award from the National Association for Multicultural describe his vision for the Center in the closing session of Education (NAME) for an “exemplary program that makes this symposium. outstanding contributions to the field of multicultural 10:30 TO 11:00 Q and A Session education.” The Center also received the Multicultural Book ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Award from NAME in 1997 for the Handbook of Research on I would like to thank Robert W. Keener and Amber Mormann- Multicultural Education. Peraza—the research assistants in the Center for the 11:00 TO 12:30 Passing the Torch to the Next Generation: Center Alumni Panel 2017-2018 academic year—who have worked very hard The Center has published a number of landmark and on the logistics and other aspects of this symposium to CHAIR internationally influential publications, including the make it successful. Kent Jewell, in Teaching, Curriculum, Caryn Park Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education; Diversity and Learning in the College of Education, has provided Antioch University, Seattle and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives; the Routledge the Center’s staff with unwavering, expert, and courteous International Companion to Multicultural Education; and PRESENTERS support for almost a decade. I would like to thank John Linse, Citizenship Education and Global Migration: Implications for Tyrone C. Howard, University of California, Los Angeles senior publications designer at Creative Communications, Theory, Research, and Teaching, which was published by Özlem Sensoy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada University of Washington, for the exquisite designs of the the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Tao Wang, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China Center’s consensus reports and symposia programs, including 2017. The Center’s series of consensus reports, developed this one. I am grateful to Mia Tuan, Dean of the College of Nicole M. Joseph, Vanderbilt University primarily for school practitioners, have been widely used Education, for her efforts in recruiting Professor Django and cited. Two of these reports were developed and Paris. Cherry A. McGee Banks has supported the Center published jointly with other institutions: Learning In and Out 12:30 TO 1:30 Lunch Break and its director since the Center’s founding and has of School in Diverse Learning Environments: Life-Long, Life- contributed her vision, intellect, and diligence, for which Wide, Life-Deep was published jointly with the LIFE Center at I am immensely grateful. the University of Washington. Youth Civic Development and 1:30 TO 3:00 Envisioning the Future of Multicultural Education Education: A Consensus Report was published with the Center on Adolescence at Stanford University. CHAIR Mia Tuan In addition to its research, publications, symposia, book Dean, College of Education, University of Washington, Seattle talks, and courses, the Center has a doctoral program in multicultural education that has produced graduates who CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKER are having a significant influence on education research Django Paris and practice in the United States and in nations around the James A. & Cherry A. Banks Professor of Multicultural Education world, including Canada, China, Taiwan, and Switzerland. and Associate Professor, College of Education, University of Washington, Seattle Incoming Director, Banks Center for Educational Justice, University of Washington, Seattle CENTER CONFERENCES AND INSTITUTES Global Migration, Structural Inclusion, and Citizenship Twentieth Anniversary Conference and Launch of the Ethnic Diversity and Citizenship Education in Multicultural The Center co-sponsored the firstTeaching Tolerance Institute Education Across Nations, an international invitational Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education. Linda Darling- Nation-States, an international invitational conference sponsored with the Southern Poverty Law Center on the University of conference sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Hammond, Stanford University, was the keynote speaker. by the Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington, Washington campus, July 13 to August 1, 1997. Speakers in this Education, University of Washington, Seattle. Held at the Talaris November 9, 2012, University of Washington. Seattle. Held at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in institute for classroom teachers included Vivian Gussin Paley, Conference Center in Seattle, Washington, June 22-26, 2015. Bellagio, Italy, June 17-20, 2002.This conference was supported by University of Chicago Laboratory School; Elizabeth Cohen, Education for Diversity in a Global Society. Launch conference This conference was supported by grants from the Spencer the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, and the Spencer Foundation, Stanford University; Ronald Takaki, University of California, for The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Foundation, Chicago, and the American Educational Research Chicago. It included participants from 12 nations. Berkeley; Lily Wong Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley; Education, October 30, 2009, University of Washington. Suzanne Association (AERA), Washington, D.C. It included participants Clara Rodriguez, Fordham University, New York City; and Geneva Romaine, University of Oxford; Reva Joshee, University of Toronto; Diversity Within Unity: Essential Principles for Teaching and from 16 nations and was a successor to the Center’s 2002 Gay, University of Washington. Geneva Gay, University of Washington; and Kenneth Zeichner, Learning in a Multicultural Society, an invitational conference, conference that was held in Bellagio, Italy. This conference University of Washington, made presentations. December 6, 2000, University of Washington. The Center for Achieving Academic Excellence in Our Multicultural Schools. resulted in the publication of Citizenship Education and Global Multicultural Education released the results of a four-year study A national conference sponsored by the Common Destiny Migration: Implications for Theory, Research, and Teaching, edited Learning In and Out of School in Diverse Learning delineating the essential principles for educating students in Alliance, University of Maryland, and the Center for Multicultural by James A. Banks and published by the American Educational Environments: Life-Long, Life-Wide, Life-Deep, an invitational a diverse society. The Center invited teams of leaders from Education, held in Washington, D.C., June 27-29, 1996. This Research Association in 2017. conference, May 11, 2007, University of Washington. Min Zhou, five selected school districts throughout the region, as well as conference was part of an effort, supported by the Carnegie University of California, Los Angeles; Philip Bell, University of Youth Civic Development and Education: A Conference numerous independent schools, to attend the conference. More Corporation of New York, focused on the academic benefits of Washington; Cherry A. McGee Banks, University of Washington, and Book Launch, a conference on the development of civic than 100 educators