MoCCA Presents 'The Journey, in Comics' 7/17

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art - MoCCA
is pleased to present:
To Teach: The Journey, In Comics
William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner in conversation with Calvin Reid
Thursday, June 17, 7 PM
Admission: $5 | Free for MoCCA Members

Join MoCCA for a conversation with William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner moderated by Calvin Reid of Publisher's Weekly.

To Teach: The Journey in Comics brings to life William Ayers's bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition. From Ayers's early days teaching kindergarten, readers follow this renowned educational theorist on his "voyage of discovery and surprise." We meet fellow travelers from schools across the country and watch students grow across a year and a lifetime.

To Teach is a vivid, honest portrayal of the everyday magic of teaching, and what it means to be a "good" teacher-debunking myths perpetuated on film and other starry-eyed hero/teacher fictions. Illuminated by the evocative and wry drawings of Ryan Alexander-Tanner, this graphic version of To Teach will engage while it instructs. It is a much-needed reminder of how curiosity, a sense of adventure, and a healthy dose of reflection can guide us all to learn the most from this world as we educate the next generation. Teacher educators and professional developers will want to use this dynamic graphic novel alongside the traditional text for a unique teaching and learning experience.

More about To Teach:
To Teach video trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Uwcw2DzaY

More info / purchase: http://bit.ly/ToTeachComic

Join To Teach fanpage -- http://facebook.com/ToTeach

About the creators
William Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society. A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Bank Street College of Education, Bennington College, and Teachers College, Columbia University, Ayers has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. He is currently the vice-president of the curriculum division of the American Educational Research Association, and a member of the executive committee of the UIC Faculty Senate.

Ayers' articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Rethinking Schools, The Nation, Educational Leadership, the New York Times and the Cambridge Journal of Education. His latest book To Teach: The Journey, In Comics (May 2010, Teachers College Press) is co-authored with the artist Ryan Alexander-Tanner; this full-length graphic novel is an adaptation of Ayers' bestselling textbook To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher.

Ryan Alexander-Tanner is a Brooklyn-based artist and educator. He specializes in writing and drawing comics, teaching kids how to make them, and teaching grown-ups how to teach them. He received a Xeric grant in 2007 to publish his independent comic book, Television. He is online at ohyesverynice.com
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Calvin Reid is senior news editor at Publishers Weekly and coeditor of PW Comics Week

MoCCA Thursdays are made possible in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Additional support comes from and the members of MoCCA.

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R. Sikoryak: How Classics and Cartoons Collide
June 15 through August 29, 2010

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Thursday, June 17, 7 PM
To Teach: The Journey, in Comics
William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner in conversation with Calvin Reed
Admission: $5 | Free for MoCCA Members

Thursday July 22, 7 PM
Typographic Comics
with James Pannafino
Admission: $5 | Free for MoCCA Members

Education at MoCCA <http://www.moccany.org/content/education>

HOW TO WRITE ANIMATION
Instructor: ANNE D. BERNSTEIN
6 sessions, TUESDAYS June 22 & 29; July 13, 20, 27; August 3
6:30-9:00 pm
$385 tuition | $360 for MoCCA members

HOW TO WRITE COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Instructor: DANNY FINGEROTH
6 sessions, WEDNESDAYS June 23 & 30; July 14, 21, 28; August 4
6:30-9:00 pm
$385 tuition | $360 for MoCCA members

MASTER CLASS IN COMICS ART AND STORYTELLING with KIM DEITCH
Monday, June 28, 6:30-8:30 pm
Admission $40 | $35 for MoCCA Members

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