Cultivating Brave Spaces in English Classrooms: Equity in Action with Dr Sawsan Jaber
How can educators design instruction and create spaces that nurture all students? How do we integrate Engagement, Representation, Action and Expression, into the ethos of a school culture while grounding our stance as educators in equity? This session will guide participants on the ways to transform classes into brave spaces doing a deep dive into the interrogation of their own identities and discussing ways to help students gain a sense of belonging. It will answer the question of how do we create mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors amplifying our students' voices as a means of creative truly inclusive spaces? This session will also provide educators at all levels of a school hierarchy with the tools to engage in emancipatory teaching by working to develop students' liberatory consciousness.
Together, we will answer the following questions:
• How can we work to lead systemic change at all levels in our schools that will ultimately positively impact student outcomes?
• How do we capitalize on the idea that schools are community centers, and leverage school spaces to impact the community while also creating opportunities for students to carry their learning out into the community?
• How do we build students' capacities to navigate the barriers of inequity and social injustice?
• How do we disrupt the systems in our locus of control?
• How do we integrate the use of technology to promote social action and civic engagement?
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