2024 Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice
June 26 - 28, 2024
University of California, Riverside
Hosted by the School of Education
Sponsored by the California Endowment, College of Education and San José State University Lurie College of Education, and Verizon
University of California, Riverside
Hosted by the School of Education
Sponsored by the California Endowment, College of Education and San José State University Lurie College of Education, and Verizon
Deadline to Submit Proposals: January 15, 2024
The Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice (ITOC) seeks teacher leaders, community partners, teacher educators, and scholars who self-identify as people of Color to facilitate racial justice-focused workshops for teachers of Color with advanced racial analysis. The goal of these workshops is to deepen their critical literacies and to support their transformative work in classrooms, schools, and communities. We are specifically interested in workshops that engage critical theories, are interactive and engaging, and offer participants concrete strategies to work towards racial justice in K-12 education. Proposals are accepted December 15th - January 15th.
We welcome proposals that address a variety of critical topics, with particular interest in those that focus on:
For questions about proposal topics or submissions, please email us at [email protected]
We welcome proposals that address a variety of critical topics, with particular interest in those that focus on:
- Strengthening teachers' critical consciousness and racial literacy (i.e., addressing the complexities of intersectional oppression, anti-Blackness, white supremacy, misogyny, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, bans on Critical Race Theory, etc.)
- Improving educational conditions for historically marginalized students and their communities (i.e., students who embody or are the intersections of multiple positionalities, such as undocumented students, emergent bilingual speakers, dis/abled students, students who are criminalized and overdisciplined, etc.)
- Transforming and reimagining classrooms (i.e., Ethnic Studies, critical pedagogy, abolitionist teaching, YPAR, restorative or transformative justice)
- Sustaining justice-oriented teacher leaders in the classroom (i.e., healing and wellness, self and community care, critical teacher development, racial justice teacher leadership, teacher organizing, etc.)
For questions about proposal topics or submissions, please email us at [email protected]