Summer Equity & Antiracism Professional Development
Compiled by the Education Justice Coalition of Vermont with support from our community! Have something you’d like to add? Email alyssa.edjvt@gmail.com. Thanks!
Special Education: Global Disability Studies - 3 Credits
UVM / Sefakor Komabu-Pomeyie, Ph.D
Dates: May 22- August 11, 2023
The main concept of this course is to present students with broader views of disability, advocacy, and communication in the traditional African context through the voices and experiences of African disability rights advocates globally.; Asynchronous online course; (Students learn at their own pace & at their own time). Opportunities to meet with instructor online or in person available on request. I am happy to answer any questions you might have regarding the course. Email: sefakor.komabu-pomeyie@uvm.edu. Learn more and sign up here!
Classroom Design Supporting Multilingual Learners: Co-Planning for Informed ELL Instruction in K-12 Classrooms
Champlain Valley Educator Development / Kayla Johnson, ELL Consultant, Marina Brzostoski and Christine Sealey, EWSD ELL Teachers
Dates: June 27th - June 28th
This two-day workshop incorporates the lessons learned from CVEDC’s 2018 workshop with Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld around Collaboration and Co-Teaching. Having implemented this model in EWSD, our presenting team wants to share their strategies for designing lessons that support their ELL students. Co-Planning with multilingual and Classroom Teachers has been a critical factor for student success. Learn more and sign up here.
Neurodiversity: A Framework for Teaching and Learning - 3 Credits
VT-HEC / Hannah Markos
Dates: July 10th
This course will offer an introduction to the Neurodiversity movement, including its origins, history, evolution, key concepts, and vocabulary. Participants will have an opportunity to use their new learning to inform teaching practices both in service to students receiving special education and in honoring the neurodiversity inherently present in all spaces where students learn.
Participants will engage in small and large group work with an emphasis on active learning. Students will reflect on their new learning and application of course concepts to their existing professional practice. Learn more and sign up here.
Landmark College
Dates: Ongoing
They have many online and in person opportunities to learn about how to better support students with learning disabilities. Learn more and sign up here.
Summer Course: Language Policy, Race & School - 3 Credits
Dates: July 17-August 11, 2023; Asynchronous Online Course
UVM / Arby Ghemari
This course explores the theories, practices, and policies related to the intersection of race, language policy, and school. We will learn about how language is used to construct notions about race, influence the teaching and learning of English learners (ELs) in multilingual and multicultural settings.
2023 Education Transformation Jam
Dates: August 7-12th; 2.5hrs a day
The YES! Education Transformation Jam (Ed Jam, for short) is a unique gathering for folks engaged in education. We bring together about 30 leaders and visionaries from across the oft-divided education world: public, private, independent, and charter schools, unschooling, homeschooling, after-schooling, learning communities, youth empowerment, youth activism, leadership development, adult education, early childhood, community college, higher education, and more. For our ninth year, we are experimenting with our first hybrid structure jam (Zoom + in-person cohorts!)–Learn more here!
Equity Literacy Institute Anti-racism Trainings
Dates: ongoing
Learn more about these trainings offered in connection with the work of Paul Gorski here.
Documenting Everyday Life - 1 Credit
Vermont Folklife
Dates: Tuesday, June 27 - Wednesday, June 28
This 2-day, in person workshop will present the foundations of the “ethnographic toolkit”, Vermont Folklife’s particular skill set and approach. The Vermont Folklife’s work is guided by this central question: How can I/we understand experience from the point of view of the person or group to whom that experience belongs? Learn more here. Deep listening and description help us capture the scope of everyday life and are an important part of how ethnography builds context. These tools can be used by anyone looking to engage with a community or group of people to reach a deeper understanding about how we live and live together.
Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy
Dates:
Session 1: Reading Toward Freedom (K-12) – Sunday, July 16, to Tuesday, July 18, 8am to 4pm
Session 2: Writing Toward Freedom (3-12) – Thursday, July 20, to Saturday, July 22, 8am to 4pm
Antiracism Course for White Educators
Dates: September 2023- January 2024 - Weekday evenings 7-9ET (6-8CT/5-7MT/4-6PT)
The Institute for Democratic Education in America (IDEA) is pleased to announce that we will continue offering our Antiracism Course for White Educators in the Fall Semester of 2023. This course is open to white educators working in early childhood, K-12, and post secondary schools, as well as summer camps, community organizations, and after school programs who are interested in working on and deepening their anti-racist practice. Learn more here!
Creating an Equity-Focused, Healing Centered Classroom and School - 3 Credits
Rhiannon Kim / St. Michaels College
Dates: 7/17-7/21 asynchronous; 7/24-7/28 9:00-3:00pm in-person; 7/31-8/4 asynchronous HYBRID
Creating the conditions for ALL learners to thrive is not only about developing the awareness, knowledge and skills around a broad set of factors that influence the learning environment, it is also about developing a keen personal awareness around our own biases and limiting belief systems. While research exposes the existence of systemic inequities impacting students of color and students with special needs, these “systems” can only be changed by a fundamental shift in how each of us sees and responds to the youth we serve on a day-to-day basis. Based on this belief, this course asks students to not only work to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary, but to engage in mindful awareness practices and courageous conversations designed to uncover the ways we unconsciously underserve some students. Central to the course is how restorative approaches weaves together SEL, trauma informed practices, and mindfulness to create equitable and healing centered learning environments for all. Learn more here.
Antiracism: Critical Theory & Praxis - 3 Credit
Rebecca Haslam / St. Michaels College
Dates: 4:30-7:30PM T: 6/6, 6/13 sync; W: 6/7, 6/14 async; 4:30-7:30 PM M-TH: 6/19-6/22 sync; 1:00-4:00pm M-TH: 6/26-6/29 sync ONLINE
This course employs racial reflexivity to explore the ways in which we are all stakeholders in the advancement of antiracist policies, ideologies, and social ways of being. We will employ critical reflexivity to intentionally attend to the context of knowledge construction, confront our own assumptions, and consider how social positionality affects one’s analysis of inequity and racism. Drawing upon critical consciousness theory (Friere, 1973) this course examines the dynamics of marginalization and oppression in creating and sustaining social inequity. Antiracist educators must reveal and disrupt racist and inequitable systems, policies, behaviors, language, and ideologies in the name of collective liberation. To this end, we will read and discuss the work of critical theorists, scholars, and authors to explore the fundamental questions they ask and address, and how they are relevant to antiracism in our own lives and pedagogical practice. Learn more here.
Ethical Leadership & Disability Policy Studies - 3 credits
St. Michael's College / Sefakor Komabu Pomeyie
Dates: 1-4pmM-Th: 7/10-7/27 (3 weeks)ONLINE
