Members present: Linda Tubach, Bill Morgan, Joel Flores, Kenadi Le, José Colón, Jenn Laskin, John Delloro, Ed Wang and Fred Glass.

Reporter: Linda Tubach and Jenn Laskin

Topics Discussed:

•  Agenda review/adoption
•  Approve minutes, January 23, 2010
•  Quick news from around the state:
  a.       Health status report: Roller Derby sister Sheri Pavelka
  b.      Quick highlights: March for California: Jim Miller
  c.       Other
•  Collective Bargaining Education Project: reinvention progress report
  LAUSD/UTLA “institutionalization” report
  a.       Inside LAUSD
  b.      Outside LA:
  -   Berkeley (date set April 8)
  -   Oxnard
  -   Pajaro Valley (Jenn Laskin contact)
• Curriculum status reports: publication dates, distribution plans, etc.
  a.       Mission Labor
  b.      Farm Labor comic book
  c.       Yummy Strawberry
  d.      GLWH Farm Labor – self-contained DVD
• Labor History week
• Committee Budget
  a.       Committee T-shirt
  b.      Travel
  c.       Curriculum development
• Programs/workshops/classes
  a.       Dolores Huerta Labor Institute
  b.      San Diego CC program
  c.       SFCC
  d.      Tubach/Pavelka – LAUSD salary points
  e.       UALE workshop
  f.       Other
• Speakers Commission report
• National Task Force for K-12 Labor Education status report
• Curriculum Framework and Evaluation Criteria Committee for History/SS
  a.       CFT convention resolution and status report
• Other
• Next meeting

Action Taken:

• Joel Flores will send pictures of banners on 4/21 to Fred.
• Summer – Three new publications written by Bill Morgan (2) and Phyllis Chiu (1) will go to print (Mission Labor, Farm Labor comic book, Yummy Strawberry) and Golden Lands, Working Hands Farm Labor – DVD to accompany print.

Future Plans:

• New elementary publications – Mission Labor, Farm Labor comic book, Yummy Strawberry.
• Fred will put our curriculum booklets on website as pdf.
• Labor in the Schools Committee T-shirt.
• Jenn – presenting Labor in the Schools at two conferences…will shadow CBEP in L.A. to prepare for Watsonville next year.
• Joel – Review Labor literature list in GLWH and DHLI primer and identify English/Language Arts standards that Labor themes address.

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