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NEA's Conference on Racial & Social Justice
2025 Conference on Racial and Social Justice Details
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Join us in Portland, Oregon at the Oregon Convention Center for three days of Promote. Protect. Strengthen. Public Education: The Foundation of our Democracy!
Together with educators, creatives, activists, organizers and other leaders we will advance racial and social justice for Our Schools, through the power of Our Stories and organize for Our Future.
The Conference on Racial and Social Justice is presented by NEA’s Center for Racial and Social Justice. The purpose of the conference is to provide a unique space for educators, students, parents and families, organizers, community members and leaders to unite for the advancement of Justice in Education.
We are currently accepting workshop proposals for the 2025 Conference on Racial and Social Justice. For more information and to submit your proposal, please visit https://bit.ly/2025-crsj-rfp. Proposals will be accepted through November 1, 2024.
2023 CRSJ Highlights and Photos
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Educators participate in the Kairos Blanket Healing Exercise, a unique, participatory history lesson that fosters truth, understanding, respect, and reconciliation among Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
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Conference attendees, including Winter Marshall-Allen (left), peruse the display of banned and challenged books.
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Moses Mitchell Photography
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