Two upcoming events at the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution

Chai Time!

Tuesday, October 17

2PM-3PM

ACCESS Lounge, Dean Hall, Room 5/6, Ground Level

Learn about special programs and opportunities for students through the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

For more information, click here to see the flyer

Click here to see the Visitor Zone Map for Dean Hall

Microdemocracy: A New Vision for Strengthening our Communities and our Democracy

Thursday, October 26, 2017

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Dean Hall, Room 5

Please attend a special opportunity to meet and participate in a discussion with Luz Santana, co-founder of the Right Question Institute. Santana is the co-developer of the breakthrough idea of Microdemocracy and co-author of two highly regarded books in education about activating students and building parents capacity to partner with educators. Luz will discuss how the “Right Question Strategy” that she and colleagues developed over the past two decades, can greatly increase the capacity of people in low-income communities to advocate for themselves and participate effectively in key decisions that affect them. A contributor to the Harvard education publishing blog, Luz will share her own experiences navigating systems and facing challenges, as well stories from the field that inform the theory and practice of Microdemocracy and the Right Question Strategy. This session includes an opportunity to participate and learn from each other.

This event is co-sponsored by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Spark Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, UHM Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education, and Ceeds of Peace.

Light refreshments will be served.

Speaker Biography

Luz Santana, Co-Director of the Right Question Institute and co-author of Partnering with Parents to Ask the Right Questions (ASCD: 2016) and Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions (Harvard Education Press: 2011).

In the late 1980s, as a parent of children in the Lawrence, MA public school system, Santana began to work with other parents as part of a drop-out prevention program. At the time, she was also traveling a path that led from her own personal experiences coming from Puerto Rico and navigating the welfare and other public systems to earning an associate’s degree, a bachelor’s, and a master’s degree from Springfield College School of Human Services. One of the founders of RQI, she is now a nationally recognized educational innovator, facilitator, and keynote speaker in English and Spanish who has designed a wide range of participatory learning curricula in many fields, including parent involvement, adult education, social services, health care, immigrant advocacy, neighborhood organizing, and voter engagement.

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What people are saying about the Right Question Institute

“What I appreciate about The Right Question [Institute] is its effort to meet parents where they are. Equally important is its recognition that no system, no professionals, no individual dealing daily with large numbers of people can meet all their needs without the avid involvement of those whose needs are to be met…”

—Professor Martha Minow of Harvard Law School, in The Justine Wise Polier Memorial Lecture: In the Meantime: The Gap Between Promises and Realities for Kids, February 2001

“As a result of this workshop I plan to: whatever it takes to get the information I need.”

—Parent in a workshop at a homeless shelter in Louisville, Kentucky

For more information about the event, contact: Dr. Patricia E. Halagao at phalagao@hawaii.edu or 808-956-9295