PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MATTERS

This session will provide context, tools, and activities that teachers who wish to engage students in meaningful dialogues around social justice issues. Drawing on her years of experience as a Social Justice Educator- Facilitator, Marine will introduce concrete activities and approaches that she uses to craft inclusive lesson plans designed to help students connect in authentic, challenging, and transformative ways. This talk will be a mix of theory and practice; it will provide explanations of inclusive pedagogies as well as opportunities to experience the material in action.

Interactive session
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This PD opportunity will expose participants the role race plays in the lives of young children and ways to begin conversations and engage in activities that enable them to develop a more factual and objective understanding of race. The session will include dialogue/discussion, pop quiz questions, as well as self-reflective activities.
The session goals are:
1. To give participants an opportunity to explore their own racial past and experiences as an integral step in becoming comfortable talking with children about race.
2. Support participants in learning about when young children develop an awareness of race, including the ages at which various kinds of understandings occur.
3. Offer practical examples of how to respond when issues of race emerge as well as how to proactively introduce conversations and activities.