Day 1

9:00 - 9:30

Coffee, Mix & Mingle, Quiet Time and some tunes

9:30 - 9:45

Welcome to Advanced Institute, Land Acknowledgement, and NWP Social Practices

Lenape means “original people,” the “first people,” the “true people.” When William Penn arrived to this land in 1682, there were some 8,000 Indigenous people here. Lenapehoking stretches from the Delaware River Valley to the lower Hudson River Valley (including Manhattan), covering all of New Jersey and Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania and southern New York.

• Video: Reverend John Norwood reflects on Lenni-Lenape and Lenapehoking (Philadelphia: The Great Experiment)

• Allyship with Lenape Tribal Nations (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends)

• The original people and their land: The Lenape, pre-history to the 18th century (West Philadelphia Collaborative History Center)

9:45 - 10:20

Writing into the Day with Journal Groups & Re-introductions

Writing into the Day - What literacy roots/routes brought you to this institute? What are you hoping to get from this experience? What are you hoping to contribute to it?

Converse in your journal groups which are a PhilWP ISI tradition. Then, we will share out whole group using serial testimony.

• Journal Groups are small groups of teachers that write daily and then convene to share their writing.

• Recommended - Write for 20 minutes, then meet together for 20 minutes to share and discuss.

10:20 - 10:30

Working Group Agreements

• Reflect on three proposed working agreements: (1) fully engage, (2) equitable discourse, and (3) speak/write your truth.

• In pairs, discuss how we might practically honor and instantiate these agreements; designate a reporter.

• In whole group, share what your group discussed.

10:30 - 10:45

Portfolios

10:45 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:00

Allener M. Baker-Rogers and Fasaha M. Traylor share an overview of They Carried Us: The Social Impact of Philadelphia’s Black Women Leaders

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch & Reading

1:00 - 2:45

Deeper Discussions with Allener M. Baker-Rogers and Fasaha M. Traylor

• TCU Interview Protocol

2:45 - 3:00

Closing and Reflecting

• Add a word to a shared slide to describe how you are feeling after day 1.

• Reaction Sheet

Readings for Day 2:

• Ballenger, C. (2009). Puzzling moments, teachable moments: Practicing teacher research in urban classrooms NY: Teachers College Press.

• Cochran-Smith, M. & Lytle, S. (2009). Inquiry as stance: Ways forward. In Inquiry as stance: Practitioner research for the next generation (pp. 118-166). New York: Teachers College Press

• Lytle, S. L. (2008). At Last: Practitioner Inquiry and the Practice of Teaching: Some Thoughts on Better.