THEME: African American Studies: Remembering the Past, Relevance for the Present, Sustaining the Future

Conference Schedule

9:00 am – 4:00 pm	Registration Table Open
9:30 am – 10:00 am	Continental Breakfast
10:00 am – 11:30 am	Opening Session & Keynote Speaker Stephanie Mitchem, Director of the African American Studies Program at USC
11:45 am - 12:30 pm	Concurrent Sessions
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm	Lunch (provided w/conference registration)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Concurrent Sessions
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm	Feature Presentation/ Aunt Pearlie Sue and Kutay

SATURDAY: February 7th, 2009

8:30 am – 4:00 pm	Registration Table Open
8:30 am – 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am – 10:00 am	Concurrent Sessions
10:10 am - 11:10 am	Concurrent Sessions
11:10 am – 12:30 pm	Feature Presentation / Lunch
12:30-1:30 pm	Concurrent Sessions
1:40-2:40 pm	Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	SCCAAS Annual Meeting

Workshop Titles

• Media Literacy:  Using Media to Decode History

• Integrating Literature and Geography to Teach African American Studies Scoping Sources and Stimulating the Senses

• Culturally Relevant Pedagogy:  What is it? and How Can I Use It to Help My Students Succeed?

• Quilts and the Underground Railroad

• ETV’s Knowitall.org: An interactive learning web environment

• Understanding African Spirituality and Melanin: A Factor in Developing Creative Learning Experiences for Children

• Remembering Marian Anderson:  A Voice from the Past, an Example for the Present, and Hope for the Future

• Creating a Multidisciplinary African American Studies Elective for High Schools: Integrating Social Studies, Literature, and Sociology

• Black Achievers Determined to be Different

• An Extension of STEM Success Unit:  Women in Engineering at Benedict College

• TLC Diversity: Teaching Learners about Diversity through Children’s Literature

• Liberation Literature: Positive Cultural Messages in Children’s and Adolescent literature at Freedom Schools

• Radicalized Anomie Theory and the African American Deviance: Impact on Education