<table bgcolor="#b7c296" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width="100%" height="100%"><tr><td valign="top"><font color="#000000"><DIV align=center><EM><FONT color=#800000><STRONG><FONT size=4>Please forward widely!</FONT></STRONG> </FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV align=center><EM><FONT color=#800000>We need your help to promote this opportunity.</FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV align=center><EM><FONT color=#800000></FONT></EM> </DIV> <DIV align=center><EM><FONT color=#800000><STRONG>The Social Justice Education (SJE) concentration in the School of Education at <BR>the University of Massachusetts Amherst presents:</STRONG></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT color=#800000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT color=#800000 size=5>SJE Summer Institute<BR>Enhancing Student Achievement </FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT color=#800000 size=5>through Social Justice Education<BR>July 13-16, 2006<BR>UMass Amherst </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT color=#800000!
size=5></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT color=#800000><STRONG>For more information, go to: </STRONG></FONT><A
href="http://www.umass.edu/sjei"><FONT color=#800000><STRONG>www.umass.edu/sjei</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT color=#800000> <BR> <BR>You can find registration information on the website and on the attached flyer.</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT color=#800000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT color=#800000>Please help us get the word out to K-12 teachers, counselors, principals, superintendents, school Board/Committee members, teacher educators, staff development professionals, graduate students—anyone and everyone you can think of who might find this conference informative and helpful toward improving student achievement and toward creating a social justice education curriculum in their classrooms and an equitable climate in their schools.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT color=#800000></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT color=#800000>The Institute presents a social justice education model for
critically examining curricular, programmatic, organizational and professional development aspects of K-12 schooling. Participants will be introduced to SJE practices to enhance student academic achievement, and will be encouraged to become social justice change agents for their schools and school systems. </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT color=#800000></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT color=#800000>Participants will develop a classroom/curriculum/school climate change plan while at the Institute, and Institute Faculty will find ways to help monitor participant success implementing the change plan.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT color=#800000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT color=#800000>Please direct your questions and expressions of interest to Keri DeJong, at <BR></FONT><A href="mailto:sje_institute@educ.umass.edu"><FONT color=#800000>sje_institute@educ.umass.edu</FONT></A></DIV> <DIV
align=center><FONT color=#800000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=center><EM><FONT color=#800000>Thank you for your help in getting the word out on this upcoming project!</FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT color=#800000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT color=#800000>Keri DeJong<BR>SJE Summer Institute Coordinator<BR>University Of Massachusetts Amherst<BR></FONT></STRONG><A href="mailto:sje_institute@educ.umass.edu"><STRONG><FONT color=#800000>sje_institute@educ.umass.edu</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><STRONG><FONT color=#800000>413.545.3620</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=center><A href="http://www.umass.edu/sjei"><STRONG><FONT color=#800000>www.umass.edu/sjei</FONT></STRONG></A></DIV></font></td></tr></table>