11:30-12:00 am Session

This session will present a new year-long map of the 10th Grade World History curriculum, with climate change and colonialism as the central focus throughout the course. This session will argue three things: 1) that in any thorough analysis of climate change, colonialism is essential to understanding where we are now, 2) that in conversations about solutions to capitalism, decolonization and a shift away from racial capitalism are the keys to building a sustainable, just world, and 3) that in order to support students in understanding colonialism, racial capitalism, and decolonization, tools to explore how power and the process of social/political/economic change operates in different contexts (both historically and present-day) need to be embedded within the curriculum. This session will discuss how these elements are integrated into this pilot 10th grade course, and participants will be invited to explore how they can bring in these elements to their own course (regardless of what grade/course you teach, though this will probably be most applicable to teachers of the humanities.)

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Place-based education, as defined by David Sobel, is the "process of using the local community and environment as a starting point to teach concepts in language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and other concepts across the curriculum." In this interactive workshop, we will discover how this process can look in action via the (quite frequently messy) adventures of a small group of students on a converted school bus, explore some practical ways in which this concept can be brought into our own teaching practice, and spend some collaborative workshop time brainstorming our own next learning adventure.

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"Schools Grieve, Too: A Death Doula's Guide to Nurture Schools, Teachers, & Children through Grief & Loss" is a curriculum and PD series that Chaski has developed to support educators and their communities to navigate their own personal as well as collective grief. In this brief 30 minute presentation Chaski will share a bit about who they are and their teaching journey, why and how making space for grief in schools and our personal lives is absolutely necessary in the times we now live, and a brief snapshot of what is included in their curriculum and PD series. If you are interested in getting in touch with and making more space for grief in your personal life and/or interested in how to make space for grief in schools and classrooms then this workshop is just right for you!

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