An update from this conference that may be of interest to readers.

Friends — Following up on my previous two emails, I’m sharing below a preview of the breakout sessions on the third and final day (Saturday 10/8) of the upcoming online 12th International Conference on Education and Justice:

5.1. Community Activism and Community Education

• Arts Based Activism to Build Community & Raise Critical Consciousness
• Chinese American Elementary Students Respond to COVID-related Discriminations and Racism Through Reading Picture Books
• Cultural Humility as an Approach to Racial Equity Education: Multimedia Learning/Unlearning for College Students and the General Public (with Minimal Academic Readings)
• K-20 Anti-Racist Activism in Post-2017 Charlottesville
• Making Community Engagement Meaningful: Student & Community Partner Perspectives

5.2. A Showcase of Podcasts (Second of Two Sessions)

• Dancing on Desks Podcast
• Educators Amplified Podcast
• Educators and Immigration Podcast
• Ethical Schools Podcast
• Nothing Never Happens: A Radical Pedagogy Podcast
• That’s All Folx Podcast

6.1. Transforming Colleges and Universities

• Building a Center for Educational Justice: Working Collectively Across Communities
• Mentoring for Social Justice and Community Building: Growing Capacity through Near-Peer Experiential Mentorship in Higher Education
• Nonexistent Threat: Critical Race Theory’s Undeniable Exposure in Interrogating the Role of Race and Racism in Visual Artifacts amid a post-Trump Society
• Operationalizing an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Statement in a College of Education & Professional Studies
• The Path to Naming the Problem

6.2. Scholar Collectives Impacting Teacher Diversity

• Disrupt, Reimagine, Mobilize! Tackling Educator Diversity, Equity and Culturally Relevant & Sustaining Education (CRSE) in Pennsylvania
• “Kitchen Table” Networks: Sustaining One Another through Applied Scholarship for Diversification of the Educator Workforce
• A Massachusetts Collective for Social Justice & Equity from Graduate School through the Career Lifespan

7.1. Special Session on Video, Graphics, and Community Arts

• Black Lives Matter Collective Storytelling Project
• El Canto Del Mar
• Mo‘olelo Murals
• Primer on Protest Art
• The World As It Could Be

7.2. Building Teacher Capacity

• Centering Voices in Developing Educational Policy: A Comparative Study of the Process of Setting Teaching Standards in New Zealand and the USA
• Deepening Civic Engagement with Pa’lante: Onward with Art
• THIRST: Courageous Critical Conversations in Elementary Classrooms
• Promoting Teachers’ Learning About and Use of Instructional Conversations for Equitable Participation with Native Hawaiian Students

7.3. Reframing Educational Policies

• A Yearlong Journey into the Use of a Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Self-Assessment for Critical Reflection to Develop Equity Action Plans in Schools
• Abolishing Lunch Debt: How to Fight for Lunch Debt Cancellation and Free School Meals for All
• The Evolution of a Library Policy and Its Impact on a School District
• Open the School Doors: Community Afternoon Activities as a Policy Model
• Utilizing the Hyflex Instructional Approach to Offer Universally Designed Learning Experiences in Higher Education

To view the full schedule and to register, visit here.

***

Kevin Kumashiro, Ph.D.

https://www.kevinkumashiro.com

Movement building for equity and justice in education

***