Getting Started with Ethnic Studies Conference

Northern California teachers and administrators, join together to Get Started with Ethnic Studies. This conference will inspire, educate, and build your professional network as districts across Northern California begin the process of developing courses designed to meet the new Ethnic Studies graduation requirement.

Session Topics include:

Steps in Developing an Ethnic Studies Class (Logistics, Timeline, Community Engagement)
Ethnic Studies Content Overview
Ethnic Studies Pedagogies
Ethnic Studies Resources From the Field
Identity Development (teachers and classroom)

Registration

Keynote

Lok Siu is a professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Berkeley and is currently completing a manuscript tentatively titled, Chino Latin@: Recovering Hemispheric Asian America, which explores the transnational connections among Asians in the Americas within the context of coloniality, geopolitics, and competing nationalisms. She is also expanding her interest into food studies and working on an ethnography tentatively titled, The Food Truck Generation.

Reception/Networking

Opportunities will be made available for administrators and teachers to meet in person with their region during the keynote networking and on Saturday at lunch to discuss the local context of Ethnic Studies implementation.

Breakouts

Breakouts will include student and teacher panels, Ethnic Studies content experts and organizations, as well as county and district leads.

Questions about the conference can be sent to Matt O'Donnell modonnell@scoe.org