Session 1: 10:45-11:30 am

This session gives humanities teachers an opportunity to gather to explore how to further anti-racism initiatives within our current courses.

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This session is a workshop designed for teachers to practice using resources and tools that can help teach science through a social justice lens. We will use Questions for Critical Thinking to reframe topics covered in our science curriculum and design performance outcomes that incorporate the three dimensions of NGSS and at least one social justice standard.

Resources:

• NGSS through the Macroscope website

• Teaching Tolerance Social Justice Standards

• Critical thinking worksheet for Updating your Essential Questions

• Slides for Session

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This session will focus on equipping teachers with the tools to translate their learning around anti-racist and abolitionist teaching into action. We will focus on both teacher moves and institutional barriers and supports to this work.

Contact info for Deonna Smith, deonnasmithconsulting@gmail.com

Instagram: @deonnasmith and @theotherenglishteacher

Teacher Podcast with Darius and Deonna

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In this session, attendees will review Rita Pierson’s Every Kid Needs a Champion and discuss main takeaways from the video. We will do a thinking exercise reflecting on how we show up in the classroom, both in person and digitally, as our authentic selves. We will address how our own identities impact our experience as educators and how our students' identities impact their experience. We will also explore vulnerability in the classroom, including why it is important and how modeling vulnerability helps students practice social emotional learning.

Resources

Every Kid Needs a Champion Ted Talk

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