Professional Learning Opportunities

Asynchronous Learning Opportunities

How to Be an Antiracist Book Study Course open June 28, 2021 - August 17, 2021


An asynchronous and synchronous 20 CTLE hrs study of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist and Be Antiracist: A Journal of Awareness, Reflection, and Action facilitated by Bryan Whitley-Grassi including a live Q&A with the author.


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Please contact Bryan Whitley-Grassi from Orleans Niagara BOCES, bwhitley-grassi@onboces.org, for questions about the session content.

Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework Workshop. Course open June 28, 2021 - August 17, 2021

An asynchronous 6 CTLE hours course exploring the NYS CR-SE Framework presented by Bryan Whitley-Grassi. The CR-S framework helps educators create student-centered learning environments that: affirm racial, linguistic and cultural identities; prepare students for rigor and independent learning, develop students’ abilities to connect across lines of difference; elevate historically marginalized voices; and empower students as agents of social change.


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Please contact Bryan Whitley-Grassi from Orleans Niagara BOCES, bwhitley-grassi@onboces.org, for questions about the session content.

Synchronous Learning Opportunities

May 2021

5/25 An Introduction to Antiracist Teaching w/ Dr. Jevon Hunter, 8:00am - Noon.

Join us for an introduction to Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Antiracist Education to understand how these instructional frameworks empower all learners to become productive members of a global society.


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Please contact Bryan Whitley-Grassi from Orleans Niagara BOCES, bwhitley-grassi@onboces.org, for questions about the session content.


August 2021


8/17 Creating an Antiracist Curriculum w/ Dr. Jevon Hunter, 8:00am - Noon.

Join us for a deep-dive into Antiracist Education and how to create curricular approaches that inspire, engage, and empower all learners to become productive members of a global society through project-based learning.

This event has ended.

Please contact Bryan Whitley-Grassi from Orleans Niagara BOCES, bwhitley-grassi@onboces.org, for questions about the session content.