CANCELED: TeachingWorks Seminar Series: Valerie Kinloch
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Whitney Auditorium (1315)
The third and final talk of the 2019–2020 TeachingWorks streaming seminar series will be on March 23, from 4–6:00 p.m., with Dr. Valerie Kinloch. Dr. Kinloch's talk is entitled "Waiting for What? Equity, Justice, and the Future of Teaching and Learning." More information can be found here.
About the series:
“Rather than being consumed by the darkness, I want to pivot towards the light. I want to frame our continued and deepening work as a project of inspired creativity, a deep gesture of nuanced counterpoint.”
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (AERA 2017 Distinguished lecture).
In this year’s TeachingWorks seminar series we continue to take on, with radical seriousness and urgency, the core problem of educational justice. Taking inspiration from Lawrence-Lightfoot, we ask:
• What are pressing problems and challenges of making justice integral?
• How can we name and operationalize these problems?
• And, what might be ways we can and should take action on these challenges so that we might make meaningful headway?
Addressing these questions will necessitate a great audacity, a deep humility, and a tireless dedication. It will also take sustained impatience and urgency.
We are resolute in keeping our eyes on the societal patterns that reflect centuries of oppression, structural injustices, and everyday racism and doing more than just noticing these, but striving to counter and disrupt them in the common spaces of our work and our lives. We strive to not be deterred by forces that prevent us from the necessary work to restructure and re-envision how we work with children and teachers in our schools and how we prepare and support our teacher candidates so that they can work skillfully and caringly with their students to help them thrive.
We have invited of a series of humble, highly skilled, powerful speakers to share with us what is it that keeps them up at night in the unending fight against racism and oppression. What do they think we must we do now and in each and every day following, to pivot towards the light? How can we act in urgency, in solidarity, marshaling our greatest creativity and imaginations?