At the schoolhouse gate:
The Status of Students' Rights in Public Schools
Thursday, October 24, 2024, Erie 1 BOCES Center, 8:00AM-3:00PM
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Featuring in-person keynote addresses from Mary Beth Tinker, free speech advocate and plaintiff in the 1969 Supreme Court case Tinker v Des Moines Independent Community School District, and Justin Driver, professor of constitutional law at Yale Law School and author of The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind. In addition to breakout sessions, there will be a panel discussion of local school administrators sharing their recommendations on how educators should navigate free speech and difficult conversations in the classroom.
Perfect for secondary ELA, Social Studies, Technology, Librarians, and school administrators, the goal of this event is to equip and inspire educators with the tools they need to navigate free speech in the classroom today Registration includes CTLE credits, a catered lunch, and more importantly, the confidence to navigate tough topics in your classroom.
Registration: $200
Educators, please consult your district bursar for CoSer payment options that may be available. CTLE certificates will be distributed at the end of the conference.
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The registration link will take you to the Erie 1 BOCES website.
presenters
Justin Driver is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law and is the author of The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind. The book was selected as a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and an Editors’ Choice of The New York Times Book Review. The Schoolhouse Gate also received the Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law, and was a finalist for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award.
Driver has a distinguished publication record in the nation’s leading law reviews and he has also written extensively for general audiences, including pieces in Slate, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic, where he was a contributing editor. In 2021, President Biden appointed Driver to serve on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Driver is a graduate of Brown, Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), Duke (where he received certification to teach public school), and Harvard Law School (where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review). After graduating from Harvard, Driver clerked for then-Judge Merrick Garland, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (Ret.), and Justice Stephen Breyer.
Driver has a distinguished publication record in the nation’s leading law reviews and he has also written extensively for general audiences, including pieces in Slate, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic, where he was a contributing editor. In 2021, President Biden appointed Driver to serve on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Driver is a graduate of Brown, Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), Duke (where he received certification to teach public school), and Harvard Law School (where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review). After graduating from Harvard, Driver clerked for then-Judge Merrick Garland, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (Ret.), and Justice Stephen Breyer.
Mary Beth Tinker is a free speech activist known for her role in the 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District Supreme Court case, which ruled that she and other students could not be punished for wearing a black armband in school in support of a truce in the Vietnam War. The American Civil Liberties Union took the case to the Supreme Court for named plaintiffs John and Mary Beth Tinker and Chris Eckhardt. In 1969, the Court ruled in a landmark decision that students in public schools do have First Amendment rights. Justice Abe Fortas wrote in the majority opinion that students and teachers do not “shed their constitutional rights…at the schoolhouse gate.”
Mary Beth comes from a family of activists. One of Mary Beth’s early memories is of her parents going to Ruleville, Mississippi in 1964 as part of Freedom Summer, an effort organized by Robert Moses and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to register African Americans to vote.
Mary Beth continues to educate young people about their rights, speaking frequently to students groups across the country. An advocate for the rights of youth, particularly in the areas of health and education, she is a retired pediatric nurse and holds masters degrees in public health and nursing.
Mary Beth comes from a family of activists. One of Mary Beth’s early memories is of her parents going to Ruleville, Mississippi in 1964 as part of Freedom Summer, an effort organized by Robert Moses and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to register African Americans to vote.
Mary Beth continues to educate young people about their rights, speaking frequently to students groups across the country. An advocate for the rights of youth, particularly in the areas of health and education, she is a retired pediatric nurse and holds masters degrees in public health and nursing.