Brown Bag Seminar: The Reconstitution of Crenshaw High School, Filmscreening and Panel Discussion

Join us for the opening presentation of SCOPE's 2014-15 Brown Bag Seminar Series with a screening of Crenshaw — a short documentary that explores the process of reconstituting one high school in South Los Angeles. Crenshaw students, teachers, and parents detail the consequences of the reconstitution and its impact on this public high school. This documentary takes the viewer inside the lives of those most affected by this policy, chronicling the story of teachers, students, parents, and the community.

Following the screening there will be a panel discussion featuring Lena Jackson, Cathy Garcia, and Larry Cuban and moderated by SCOPE Executive Director John Snyder.

Lena Jackson is an independent filmmaker and teacher. She has produced, researched, shot, and edited multi-platform programs for WHUT-Howard University Television, Fusion TV, Nomadic Wax, Sesame Workshop India, Cultural Survival, Cuba Skate, and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in international relations from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in documentary film from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Cathy Garcia is a former math teacher at Crenshaw. She was there for 8 years before being displaced in the spring of 2013. She received her bachelor's degree from St. John's College in Santa Fe and worked on her master's in education at UCLA.

Larry Cuban, Stanford Professor Emeritus of Education, is a former high school social studies teacher and school district superintendent. He is the author of numerous articles and books on classroom teaching, the history of school reform, how policy gets translated into practice, and teacher and student use of technologies in K-12 and college. His most recent research projects have been a study of school reform in Austin, Texas, 1954-2009, and of a large comprehensive school in Mapleton, Colorado, being converted into several small ones between 2001 and 2009. Both studies were published in early 2010. Among his works are Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom (2001), How Teachers Taught: Constancy and Change in American Classrooms 1890-1990 (1993), The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can’t Be Businesses (2004).