An Evening with Educator, Jane Elliott

Name: An Evening with Educator, Jane Elliott
Start: 2024-11-11T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-11T20:30:00-05:00
Location: McCaskey East High School

Schedule

Mon Nov 11 2024 at 06:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McCaskey East High School | Lancaster, PA

Jane Elliott, an internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, will conduct a workshop with McCaskey High School students and offer a lecture open to the public during a visit to Lancaster on November 11.
As a schoolteacher, Elliott became known for her “Blue eyes/Brown eyes” exercise, which uses eye color rather than skin color to demonstrate racial segregation to school-age children. She says she was motivated to teach about racism’s effects watching news coverage of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The “Blue eyes/Brown eyes” classroom exercise was filmed in 1970 and became the documentary, “The Eye of the Storm.”
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𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐭’𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐦. 𝐃𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐭 6 𝐩.𝐦., 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 6:20. 𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 7 𝐩.𝐦.
The first 25 McCaskey students who arrive will receive a FREE signed copy of "Shades of Brown" by McCaskey teacher Dr. Mealy.
Registration is not required, but encouraged
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“We fully expect the evening’s discussion with Jane Elliott to be thought-provoking, but also personally engaging for our students – several McCaskey students will take the lead in organizing the event, hosting Mrs. Elliott, and moderating the discussion,” said McCaskey history teacher Dr. Todd Mealy. “Jane is an individual that challenges her audiences, regardless of background or ideology. I think our students will be up for the challenge and we hope the community will join us.”
Mealy oversees the Leon “Buddy” Glover Public Service Project, an interdisciplinary program open to any interested student, primarily juniors and seniors. Students are given an array of problems to solve and a series of speakers talking about problems in different fields, such as law.
Each student is completing an individual project aimed at improving life at McCaskey and can earn a community service credit.Past speakers as part of the project include law professor LeRoy Pernell, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging controversial new education laws in the state of Florida, filmmaker Keith Beauchamp, producer of the movie “Till,” about the life and death of Emmett Till, and author Kate Clifford Larson, whose Harriet Tubman biography “Bound for the Promised Land” became the basis for the film “Harriet.”