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The Conference on Teaching about Global Child Labor and Human Trafficking will serve as a kick-off event for the new Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Drew University, and will showcase the program’s conceptual framework of training teachers who can prepare students to live and work in the Global Age. The highlight of the program will be the forum where former child laborers from South America, and victims of trafficking within the US will share their stories. These stories will be videotaped for teachers to use in their classrooms. The end purpose will be for the participants to develop teaching ideas which can be used with these narratives. The narratives and lessons will be published for use in the schools. When American students are able to see and hear the stories of their peers trapped in bondage, it can be a transformative experience and motivate them to begin to think and act as global citizens who must solve the problems of the 21^st Century.

National Education Association
American Federation of Teachers
International Initiative to End Child Labor/Emily Sandall Foundation
Ramsay Merriam Fund
Galen Films
Theological School and Division of Continuing Education Drew University
With the collaboration of the International Labour Organization

Drew University, founded in 1867, enrolls 2,500 men and women in three schools: the College of Liberal Arts, the Theological School, and the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. Drew is located on 186 acres in Madison, New Jersey, 25 miles west of New York City.

The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies's commitment to quality instruction, personal attention, and full participation in classroom discussions is possible because of the size of our programs. Small group settings enhance close study and generate the trust necessary to challenge and share. Drew’s motto, “freely you have received, freely give,” embodies the essential characteristic of our graduate enterprise. Our guiding principle is to educate tomorrow’s brightest scholars and leaders.

Drew’s Master of Arts in Teaching program leads to an M.A.T. degree and provisional teaching certification in biology, chemistry, English, math, Spanish, or social studies. The focus of the program is to train teachers who can prepare students for the challenges of the Global Age. Coursework stresses the development of 21^st Century Skills: sophisticated critical thinking and analytical skills, the transferability of knowledge and skills, a deeper understanding of other cultures, and the knowledge of global trends within students’ own subject areas. The M.A.T. program offers a small, personal, and highly supportive environment. Students are part of a cohort that enters in June and graduates the following May. Students pursue both their field work and student teaching internship in partner schools that have been carefully selected for excellence and innovation.

International Center on Child Labor and Education ICCLE is a non profit organization working to build and strengthen worldwide efforts to protect and promote the rights of all children especially to be free from economic exploitation and to receive a free and meaningful education. ICCLE focuses on social exclusion in education from the
perspective of the hardest to reach children. In the policy domain, ICCLE seeks to provide a voice for the 79 million children out of school whose needs are currently not represented in their countries’ national education plans. In addition, ICCLE aims to bring an informed perspective on child labor to stimulate consumer awareness by establishing meaningful outreach to teachers in the Middle and High Schools in the US.
ICCLE provides appropriate resources and information on actions taken by US students and teachers on www.knowchildlabor.org and ongoing technical assistance to teachers committed to infusing global child labor issues into their classroom

The SCREAM – Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media – programme was developed by the International Labour Organization’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO/IPEC) in 2002. The SCREAM Education Pack, which forms the basis of the programme, is made up of 14 multidisciplinary, educational modules and a User’s Guide for educators interested in empowering young people to become a force for social change. It introduces young people to the complexities surrounding the issue of child labor through an “ interactive-learning” approach and helps them to channel their creative energies in a positive and constructive way to develop appropriate responses. The methodology places emphasis on the visual, literary and performing arts as a means to provide young people with powerful tools of self-expression. The modules are flexible and can be used as “building blocks” or adapted to whatever constraints an educator may face, either in time or resources. The cutting edge pedagogy is geared towards high school students. However, it can be easily adapted to middle and upper elementary grades. The SCREAM education pack can be used by educators in any country and in both formal and non-formal education settings. University students can learn the methodology and become SCREAM team leaders and trainers. SCREAM has been successfully implemented in 62 countries and the education pack has been translated into 19 languages. It will be introduced to US audiences at the Drew University conference.

Day 1, Friday, April 25

8:00-8:30 a.m. – Registration & coffee

8:30-8:45 a.m. – WELCOME from Drew University President Robert Weisbuch and ICCLE Executive Director Sudhanshu Joshi

8:45-9:15 a.m. – Keynote: David Parker, MD, MPH, photographer and author, Stolen Dreams and Before Their Time

9:15-9:45 a.m.
Plenary:
Introduction to Child Labor
Presentation
ILO/IPEC SCREAM- Supporting Children’s Rights through Education,
the Arts and the Media- Programme

9:45-10:00 a.m. – Break

10:00-11:00 a.m. – Innovative Approaches to Introducing Global Child Labor: SCREAM Basic Information module
Provides innovative techniques and background information on global child labor to stimulate interest and understanding of the complex issues surrounding the problem in the global era

11:10a.m.-11:30 a.m. – Break

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. – Building Empathy: SCREAM Image module
Provides multiple collaborate techniques for building empathy and deepening understanding of the issue

1:00-2:00p.m. – Lunch - University Commons

2:00-3:30 p.m. – Writing Across the Curriculum: SCREAM Creative Writing module
Demonstrates how 4-square writing approach can be used to enhance writing skills and develop conceptual maps of the causes and means to eliminate the problem of child labor

3:10-3:20 p.m. – Break

3:30-5:00p.m. – Synthesis of Content through Role Play: SCREAM Role Play & Drama modules
Provides hands-on activities which build on knowledge acquired and promote sophisticated content integration that appeals to a variety of learning styles

5:00-7:00p.m. – Dinner

7:00-9:30 p.m. - Film Festival, optional –Independent filmmakers Len and Georgia Morris will show and discuss the 1-hour PBS version of their film Stolen Childhoods and excerpts from their new film Rescuing Emmanuel
Open to the public

Day 2, Saturday, April 26

9-9:45 a.m. – Keynote Panel:
- Armand F. Pereira, Director, ILO-Washington
- Mark Taylor, Senior Coordinator, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP), U.S. Department of State
- Ad Melkert, UN Under Secretary General and UNDP Associate Administrator (waiting for confirmation)
- Nike Rep (0.45 h)

9:45-10:00 a.m. – Break

10:00-11:00 a.m. – Testimonies of Former Child Laborers & Trafficking Victims

11:00-11:15 a.m. – Break

11:15-12:15p.m. – Breakout sessions choices:

1) Transition from Child Labor to Schooling in Early America
Sharon Sundue, Assistant Professor of History, Drew University and author of
“Industrious in their Station: Young People at Work in Urban America, 1720-1810.”

The expansion of schooling opportunities in the US at the end of the 18th century did not affect all groups of children evenly. This presentation will explore how access to education, both academic and vocational, became an essential mechanism elites used to control the potentially unruly poor. By comparing elite efforts to afford the young poor both vocational and formal academic education, this presentation explores how inequality was constructed both prior to and after the Revolution, highlighting the disparate impact of class, race and gender in early America.

2) Interview with Tina Frundt
Gain insight into the problem of
Human Trafficking in the US by conducting small group oral history interview with former trafficking victim Tina Frundt.

3) Child Soldiers and the Work of War
David Rosen, Professor of Anthropology and Law, Fairleigh Dickinson University and author of “Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism”
& Susan Rakosi Rosenbloom, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Drew University

This session contextualizes the persistence of child soldiers from an historical, anthropological, and sociological perspective by focusing on key issues in the global debate about child soldiers. Questions about international legal definitions of childhood, and youths’ rights, abilities, and agency in decision-making about soldiering are explored.

4) Sweatshops
Richard Greenwald, Dean, Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor of History, Drew University and author of “The Triangle fire, the Protocols of Peace and Industrial Democracy in the progressive Era” co-editor “Sweat shops, U.S.A.”
Sweatshops: This workshop will examine sweatshops through a global and historical perspective from the 19th century to the present.

5) Recognizing and Assisting Victims of Human Trafficking:
Kay Itzigsohn, International Institute of New Jersey’s Cross-Cultural Counseling Center, Program for Survivors of Torture and Human Rights Violations.

This interactive workshop will help prepare participants to recognize the signs of trafficking as it may manifest in victims. Utilizing case study examples, participants will learn the predominant characteristics that distinguish victims of trafficking from victims of other forms of violence. Finally, participants will gain insight into various resources available to assist victims.

6) Interview with Former Child Laborer from South America
Gain insight into the problem ofGlobal Child Labor by conducting small group oral history interview with former child laborers from South America.

12:15-1:30p.m. – Lunch

1:30-2:30p.m. – Breakout sessions
1) Successful Student Activists: Learning from Local, National, and International Anti-Trafficking Campaigns
Alexis Kennedy, President, Rutgers University Campus Coalition Against Trafficking& Amari Verástegui, Organizer, Fight Human Trafficking NJ Group

This session provides an overview of human trafficking, and focuses on how elementary and secondary school students can became successful activists. Participants will learn about specific local, national, and international campaigns that help fight child sexual exploitation and child labor. Teachers will also receive resources that can be used to implement anti-trafficking projects in their own classrooms.

2) Useful Hands: Child Labor and the Orphan Trains of America
Janet Wells Greene, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies
The Harry Van Arsdale Center for Labor Studies Empire State College, SUNY
Co-Author: From Forge to Fast Food: A History of Child Labor in New York State

This session examines the changing attitudes toward working children in American history, and explores a variety of reform movements aimed at solving the social problems of which children were a part such as slavery; the urban poor; tenement workshops; and mining. This session will contrast the well known work of the Children’s Aid Society and the photography of Lewis Hine with a less well-known program called Orphan Trains, in which poor children from New York were sent to the Midwest to work on farms.

3) Enslaved: Working with Victims of Trafficking
Tina Frundt, independent anti-Human Trafficking Consultant and former trafficking victim with the U.S.

This session will focus on how to identify and respond to trafficking victims. Victim characteristics such as social, class, race, ethnicity and age will be described. In addition, problems such as leaving the trafficker and resuming a normal life will be discussed.

4) Interview with Former Child Laborer from South America
Gain insight into the problem of
Global Child Labor by conducting small group oral history interview with former child laborers from South America.
(For Spanish language teachers. Session will be conducted in Spanish and taped for classroom use.)

2:30-2:40p.m. – Break

2:40-3:00p.m. – AFT video Lost Futures

3:00-3:45p.m. – U.S. Youth Action and Education Impact: teacher-advisor Ron Adams of the famous Kids Campaign: A School for Iqbal at Broad Meadows Middle School in Quincy, MA, and his students

3:45-3:55p.m. – Break

3:55-5:00p.m. – Curriculum Workshop (Next Steps: How will teachers use the Interview dvd, SCREAM modules… in their classrooms?)

5:00-5:30p.m. – Closing remarks, evaluations, certificates (30 minutes)

Tina Frundt
Anti- Human Trafficking Consultant
Tina. Frundt has been working on the issue of Human Trafficking since 2000 with organizations and independently. She is one of the most high profile national advocates on the issue of domestic sex trafficking. As a survivor of child commercial sexual exploitation, Ms. Frundt is deeply committed to helping other children and women who are living through similar experiences. She has been featured in numerous national shows and publications, including the Oprah Show, the Montel Williams Show, and was recently nominated for the CNN Heroes award; Ms. Frundt also won the Redbook Heroes award, and has testified before U.S. Congress about her own experiences and the need for greater protection and services for trafficked persons. She has her degree in Business and a certificate in Non-Profit Bookkeeping

Georgia Morris
Writer
Documentary script writer and playwright, Georgia is a co-owner of Galen Films and has written numerous Galen productions. Her work has won several Cine Golden Eagles and was nominated for a CableAce for Best Writing for Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western. Recently, Georgia directed a retrospective for Theatre Communications Group, Forty Years of Passion. Her plays have been produced in New York and Martha's Vineyard and her screenplay won an Independent Filmmaker Grant from the American Film Institute. Stolen Childhoods, which Georgia wrote, had a theatrical release in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and selected cities, has been broadcast worldwide and aired on PBS. She is presently working on the second film of a trilogy on poverty and children’s issues, Rescuing Emmanuel.

Len Morris
Producer, Director, Writer
Len has produced, directed and edited television documentaries for over twenty years. His films have been syndicated and broadcast on HBO, TNT, PBS and other cable and international networks. His independent production company Galen Films has produced numerous award-winning documentaries. Len is a recipient of an Independent Filmmaker Award from the American Film Institute. His films are on subjects as diverse as schizophrenia, environmental justice, street children, hunger in Africa, legal aid during the apartheid era in South Africa, the Holocaust . . . and a string of specials on Hollywood . . . film noir, the American Western and singing cowboys. Len is following Stolen Childhoods with a film on street children, Rescuing Emmanuel, and a third film, as yet untitled, on the Millennium village at Sauri in Kenya.

David Parker
Since 1992, David Parker, MD, MPH, has pursued dual careers: working as an occupational physician and epidemiologist in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and photographing children working, labor conditions, and public health problems around the world. His work has been widely exhibited in museums throughout North America. He has written and photographed three books: Stolen Dreams: Portraits of Working Children (Lerner Publications, 1998), and By These Hands: Portraits from the Factory Floor, (Minnesota Historical Society, 2002). A third book, Before Their Time: The World of Child Labor, was published in early 2007. He has also written 75 scientific manuscripts and reports, and is a recipient of the Christopher Award for work affirming the highest values of the human spirit.

Mark Taylor
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
U.S. Department of State

Mark Taylor has served as Senior Coordinator for the Trafficking in Persons Report at the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons since November 2003.

Previously, Mark Taylor worked at the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria in two capacities: as the Embassy's first Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Officer, which involved designing and implementing anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) projects; and later as the Embassy's Corporate Responsibility Officer engaging oil companies, Niger Delta communities and Nigerian police in a dialogue on human rights and security principles.

In the late 1990s, he performed similar work at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, where he opened the State Department's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) office and started the U.S. Government’s first anti-trafficking projects in India. In the mid-1990’s he served as a Political Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon, Burma, covering narcotics, ethnic insurgencies and human rights issues. Mr. Taylor has also worked in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research as an analyst of Asian crime and narcotics issues.

Participants are eligible to earn 12.5 Professional Development Hours (1.25 CEUs). Participants must attend the entire conference in order to earn a certificate and the 12.5 Professional Development Hours. Drew University is a registered provider with the New Jersey Department of Education.

(Mention that you are coming for the conference at Drew University to receive a discounted rate).

Photos by David Parker,MD MPH.
His book new book, Before Their time: The World of Child Labor and accompanying CD will be available for purchase at the conference.