For more information or questions, contact Dr. Janis Fitzsimmons, Director of the Center for Success

FULL PROGRAM BELOW SPEAKER PHOTOS

Join us for sessions pertinent to Illinois educators of all levels, including preservice teachers.

Sessions include:

• Critical Race Theory in our Practice: Centering Critical Bilingual Educators Doing Race Work with Dr. Erica Dávila, Marlena Ceballos, and Dr. Elvira Pichardo

• Book Banning: Understanding challenges with Dr. Emily Knox

• “I’ve never experienced a presentation like that before”: The importance of telling stories unapologetically in our classrooms with Dr. Martín Alberto Gonzalez

• Social Studies Standards, Culturally Responsive Teacher and Leader Standards and Teaching Citizens with Mary Ellen Daneels and Dr. Bonnie Laughlin Schultz

• LGBTQ+: How to be advocates and allies with and for students with a panel including educator Suzie Hutton, students Anusha Nadkarni, Addi Weaver, & Hex Rahm

• Who Knew Illinois Has a Curricular Mandate on Disability History and Awareness? with Dr. Mary Fisher

• Trauma Informed Educational Practices with Katie Pepe

• Culturally Responsive Practices that Support an Equitable Learning Environment for Diverse Learners with Dr. Karen Blaha

Raffles of Children's and YA literature

Session 1: Critical Race Theory in our Practice: Centering Critical Bilingual Educators Doing Race Work with Dr. Erica Dávila, Marlena Ceballos, and Dr. Elvira Pichardo

Resources shared:

• Book Recommendation:

  • Latina/o/x Education in Chicago: Roots, Resistance, and Transformation Edited by Isaura Pulido, Angelica Rivera, and Ann M. Aviles

Session 3: “I’ve never experienced a presentation like that before”: The importance of telling stories unapologetically in our classrooms with Dr. Martín Alberto Gonzalez

• This session was not recorded

Resources Shared:

• 2019 Boxnard: Counterstories as counterpunches | Martín Alberto Gonzalez | TEDxOxnard

• Book ordering website: https://vivaoxnard.bigcartel.com

• Viva Oxnard! The Coloring Book (Free Download)

KEYNOTE: DR. BETINA HSIEH AND DR. JUNG KIM

Asian Americans: {MIS}representation and {IN}visibility in Curriculum, Education and Pedagogy

Resources shared:

• Slides (If using any material from these slides, please make sure to credit the presenters)

• Asian American Apple Playlist

• AAPI Athletes Book list

• Twitter: follow them on Twitter: Jung: @jungkimphd & Betina @ProfHsieh

• Book Recommendations:

  • From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo

  • A Map into the World by Kao Kalia Yang

Session 7: Who Knew Illinois Has a Curricular Mandate on Disability History and Awareness? with Dr. Mary Fisher

Resources shared:

• Slides (If using any material from these slides, please make sure to credit the presenter)

• Google Drive of Related Readings

• Illinois Mandate

• Keywords Essays

• Hannah Diviney

• A helpful resource for Medical Model vs. Social Model:

• Social Studies: DIsability Resources in the Classroom

• Critical Design Lab

• Book Recommendations:

  • Rolling Warrior by Judy Heumann

  • Disability Visibility anthology for young people by Alice Wong

  • My City Speaks by Darren Lebeuf

  • I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott

Session 9: Culturally Responsive Practices that Support an Equitable Learning Environment for Diverse Learners with Dr. Karen Blaha

Resources shared:

Slides (If using any material from these slides, please make sure to credit the presenter)

• Book Recommendation:

  • Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond