Workshops Offered

 This session is a follow-up to the Reading, Writing, and Racism: Disrupting Whiteness in Teacher Education and the Classroom Keynote. Participants will take a closer look at the connection between teacher education curriculum and what happens in schools. They will discuss the consequences of not addressing race in teacher education coursework. As a result of the workshop, participants will identify next steps and begin to develop action plans rooted in an antiracist vision.

Audience: University Faculty/Teacher Educators

At the start of this interactive, follow-up workshop for educators, participants will learn about a framework that will help them identify racist curriculum. Participants will then have the opportunity to examine how racism may be present in their own classroom and curriculum. The session ends with opportunities for participants to reframe and revise their practices in alignment with racial justice. 

Audience: Pre- and In-service teachers, coaches, administrators

In this interactive workshop, participants will develop a “Justice Lens” in order to analyze educational and curricular issues. We will discuss a framework entitled “The Four I’s of Oppression and Advantage” which breaks down issues of injustice through 4 lenses: Ideological, Institutional, Interpersonal, and Internalized. This workshop will focus specifically on racial oppression and advantage. Participants will have the opportunity to apply this framework to their own curriculum and to think about how their teaching can move toward racial justice. 

Audience: Any

While people of all racial identities have a role to play in advancing racial justice, the work is not necessarily the same depending on how you have been racialized in our society. Also referred to as identity caucusing, racial affinity groups provide a space for White people and people of Color to separately explore issues of race, particularly internalized racial inferiority and superiority. This allows people in both groups to be bravely honest, to stumble or confide, and to move forward while minimizing cross-racial harm.  

Audience: All

Issues of antiracism and social justice are often viewed as irrelevant in the otherwise “neutral” mathematics curriculum. In this session, the facilitator will draw upon the Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions (Smith & Stein, 2011) to discuss how to teach mathematics for social justice. The interactive session will engage participants in an example lesson before providing time and support to plan a unit or lesson of their own.

Audience: Mathematics Educators

Educators often view culturally relevant teaching or teaching for social justice as important but daunting tasks that seem above and beyond what they truly need to practice in order to be effective.  Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers, in particular, can even consider these practices irrelevant for their “politically neutral” content areas.  In this session, Dr. Maloney will make the case for culturally relevant teaching and teaching for social justice in STEM classrooms.  She will share her experiences designing teacher preparation programs with a social justice agenda. Dr. Maloney will focus on how STEM teacher educators can draw on the NGSS standards to prepare their pre-service teachers to begin to develop a practice that uses science to help their students understand and even act on real-world issues of inequity and injustice.  The session will include specific examples as well as a broader framework for thinking about and enacting this work.

Audience: Pre- or In-service STEM Educators/Teacher Educators

The 6 Elements framework is for anyone thinking about how to advance racial justice in education.  It provides a framework of six elements of social justice curriculum design for elementary and/or humanities classrooms. The elements move from students learning self-love and knowledge about who they are and where they come from to learning respect for people different from themselves. Students explore social injustice, learn about social movements, raise awareness, and engage in activism. By addressing all six elements, teachers can support students to develop an analysis of oppression and the tools to take action. The elements help teachers visualize social justice education by providing examples of projects, making social justice in K-6 settings accessible, practical, and achievable   

Audience: Elementary Educators/Humanities Educators/Teacher Educators