2019 Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice
June 20-22, 2019
University of California, Riverside
Hosted by the Graduate School of Education
Sponsored by the California Endowment, College of Education and the College of Social Sciences at San José State University, the School of Education at the University of South Dakota.
ITOC IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING WORKSHOPS FOR OUR 2019 CONVENING.
June 20-22, 2019
University of California, Riverside
Hosted by the Graduate School of Education
Sponsored by the California Endowment, College of Education and the College of Social Sciences at San José State University, the School of Education at the University of South Dakota.
ITOC IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING WORKSHOPS FOR OUR 2019 CONVENING.
The Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice (ITOC) seeks teacher leaders, community partners, and teacher educators 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 and schools. We are specifically interested in workshops that engage critical theory, are interactive and engaging, and offer participants concrete strategies to work towards racial justice in K-12 education.
We welcome proposals that address a variety of critical topics, with particular interest in those that focus on:
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, islamaphobia within communities of Color)
- Improving educational conditions for marginalized students (i.e. this includes students who embody or are the intersections of multiple positionalities including: students who are undocumented, emergent bilingual speakers, labeled with a disability, criminalized and overdisciplined)
- Reimagining classrooms (i.e. Ethnic Studies, critical pedagogy, YPAR, restorative or transformative justice)
- Confronting the hostile political climate and its impact on communities of Color
- Sustaining justice-oriented teacher leaders in the classroom (i.e. critical teacher development, racial justice teacher leadership, teacher organizing, community engagement, self and community care)