Multilingual Learners: Creating a Climate for Equity and Success
Who are our multilingual learners, and how do we create an assets-based climate that leads to their success? Join us as we use Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s equity framework around identity, criticality, intellect, and skills to lift our multilingual learners and families and ensure their success.
Questions related to this course should be directed to Kalyn Wulatin wulatik@resa.net and Zeinab Haidous HaidouZ@resa.net
When: April 25, 2023
Time: 4:30 - 6:00pm
Where: Virtual
Cost: FREE!
Literacy is Liberation featuring Dr. Kim Parker (WRESA)
In this interactive workshop series, participants will spend some time thinking about why we need to assure our classrooms are spaces that meet the literacy needs of students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Starting with ourselves, we'll think about how who we are as educators is the first consideration for how we show up for our students, especially considering our complex identities. Then, we’ll turn to the literacy lives and needs of our students, especially BIPOC ones and how to make sure we’re thinking about them when making critical curriculum choices. Finally, we'll end with some broader considerations and next steps about the work and collaborative opportunities we can continue to do, for ourselves, and for our students.
The intended audience for this workshop series is literacy coaches, teachers of English language arts, instructional leaders, and those who are seeking to learn more about the connections between literacy and equity.
Questions related to this course should be directed to Dr. Rosalyn Shahid at Shahidr@resa.netshahidr@resa.net or Jeffrey Austin at AustinJ@resa.net
When: January 31, 2023 and February 7, 2023 (2-day series)
Time: 4:30 - 6:00pm
Where: Virtual
Cost: FREE!
Advancing Racial Literacy: Archaeology of Self (WRESA)
Questions related to this course should be directed to Jennifer Snapp at snappj@resa.net
When: September 26, 2022 and December 05, 2022 (2-day series)
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Where: Virtual
Cost: FREE
Advanced Disciplinary Reading and Writing in the Elementary Grades (WRESA)
As educators, how do we work toward accelerating and nurturing the literary genius of Black boys? In this three-part series, award winning author and researcher, Dr. Alfred Tatum will share how to build upon the natural intellectual curiosity of Black boys through advanced disciplinary literacy and knowledge building practices.
During the first two sessions, Dr. Tatum will discuss a multidimensional reading model to move students toward advanced reading, writing and intellectual development giving attention to instruction and texts. Through examining the literacy development of Black boys, student artifacts, and the tenets of disciplinary literacy in the elementary grades, participants will leave with a greater understanding of a proven learning acceleration model. To conclude, participants will design interdisciplinary lessons that center culturally and historically advanced reading and writing skill development.
The intended audience for this mini-series is literacy coaches, school leaders, and teachers. To fully participate in this series, participants should have access to a copy of Dr. Tatum's book, Teaching Black Boys in the Elementary Grades: Advanced Disciplinary Reading and Writing to Secure Their Futures.
Questions related to this course should be directed to Dr. Rosalyn Shahid at Shahidr@resa.netshahidr@resa.net or Jennifer Snapp snappj@resa.net.
When: October 25, 2022, November 3, 2022 and November 29, 2022 (3-day series)
Time: 4:30pm-6:00pm
Where: Virtual
Cost: FREE!
The Magnificent Makers: Riding Sound Waves featuring Dr. Theanne Griffith (WRESA)
Boom! Snap! Whiz! Zap! The Magnificent Makers chapter book series is filled with science, adventure, and characters kids will love!
Wayne RESA invites third graders and their teachers to a spectacular virtual event featuring neuroscientist and children’s author, Dr. Theanne Griffith.
Dr. Griffith will take kids on a magical adventure to discover how ears hear sounds and model an eardrum experiment.
Interested classroom teachers should APPLY HERE to participate in this unique student-centered event. Participating classrooms must have access to Zoom, a classroom projector to display Dr. Griffith’s talk, and audio equipment to ensure the sound quality of the session. Select classrooms will receive a classroom set of The Magnificent Makers: Riding Sound Waves.
Questions related to this course should be directed to Dr. Rosalyn Shahid at Shahidr@resa.net
When: September 20, 2022
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Where: Virtual
Cost: FREE!
The Magnificent Makers: Race through Space featuring Dr. Theanne Griffith (WRESA)
Have you ever run at top speed with stretched out arms then catapulted into the air? If you’ve dreamed of flying, you’re not alone. Since the beginning of time, folks have watched the majesty of birds and wondered - can I do that?
Wayne RESA invites fourth and fifth graders and their teachers to a spectacular virtual event featuring neuroscientist and children’s author, Dr. Theanne Griffith, to discover the science of flight.
Dr. Griffith will take kids on a magical adventure to discover how things fly. She will demonstrate Bernoulli's Principle then kids will have an opportunity to do some discovering of their own.
Interested classroom teachers should APPLY HERE to participate in this unique student-centered event. Participating classrooms must have access to Zoom, a classroom projector to display Dr. Griffith’s talk, and audio equipment to ensure the sound quality of the session. Select classrooms will receive a classroom set of The Magnificent Makers: Race through Space.
Questions related to this course should be directed to Dr. Rosalyn Shahid at Shahidr@resa.net
When: September 20, 2022
Time: 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Where: Virtual
Cost: FREE!
Rooting to Rise: Centering Student Voices through Joy and Justice (WRESA)
Join us as mother-daughter literacy activists, Dr. Raven L. Jones and Zuri Hudson Stanbrough, facilitate an interactive session examining community advocacy, Black Girls' literacies, and amplifying students' voices inside and outside of the classroom. Dr. Jones and Zuri Hudson will share their commitments to teaching and learning while forwarding culturally sustaining practices and empowering educators to center students' lived literacies and identities. Participants will also engage in understanding approaches to advancing self-care, mental wellness, and journal writing processes across subject area disciplines and educative spaces.
Questions related to this course should be directed to Dr. Rosalyn Shahid at shahidr@resa.net
When: November 15, 2022
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Where: Virtual
Cost: FREE!
Understanding the Multiplicity of our Experiences (WRESA)
As a nation, these last few years have been a time of rapid change, increased demands to address the intersections of injustice, and further harm to many of our communities. As educators, our time and energy continues to be depleted through the advance of educational gag orders that usurp our autonomy of pedagogical choice. Now, more than ever, our students and their communities are faced with further challenges due to the ongoing pandemic and the threat of erasure of their histories and experiences from an often and already marginalizing curriculum. This session will provide a turn in considering how to address the intersections of injustice despite the advance of policies that could impact our pedagogical choice. Participants will discuss how to create and sustain communities that support our pedagogical choices as we advocate with and alongside our students and their communities. Participants will be introduced to a framework of pedagogies for coalitional liberation that draws on doing so through the use of primary source materials. The intended audience for this session are literacy teachers, curriculum leaders, and academic coaches. Participants are encouraged to bring curricula maps and for forthcoming units that could be extended through this framework. Some sample lesson plans across grades, resources for extending primary sources to center justice in our teaching of literacies, and historical and contemporary contributors for considering inclusion in our curricula will be provided.
Questions related to this course should be directed to Dr. Rosalyn Shahid at shahidr@resa.net
When: October 18, 2022
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Where: Virtual
Cost: FREE
Textured Teaching Series with Lorena Escoto Germán (WISD)
What is Textured Teaching? Textured Teaching is a dynamic framework with strategies that aim to engage all learners to work toward social justice. This means restructuring how we've historically done things in this country that oppressed and marginalized many people based on various elements of their identity and favored only a narrow few. Lorena talks about changing this system by teaching the values of love and community, justice and truth, and knowledge. Lorena Escoto Germán has held educational leadership positions at the department level, school-wide level, and in the larger district level from designing curriculum to strategizing for improvement. She is the Chair of the National Council of English Teacher’s Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English and she’s a co-founder of #DisruptTexts. She’s also Director of Pedagogy at EduColor. Lorena has written multiple books, including Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices and The Anti Racist Teacher: Reading Instruction Workbook.
Questions related to this course should be directed to Melissa Brooks-Yip at mbrooksyip@washtenawisd.org
When: August 10, 2022 10:00am, August 23, 2022 4:15pm; November 8, 2022; & March 8, 2023 4:15pm (4-day series)
Where: Virtual
Cost: FREE!
Creating confident Writers (WISD)
In this two-day series, Dr. Troy Hicks will introduce teachers to the three components of the Creating Confident Writers approach: inviting, encouraging, and celebrating their writers. Participants will explore digital tools that can help facilitate these instructional goals. Teachers will leave this session with concrete strategies to plan for continued implementation through the remainder of the academic year. To fully participate in this series, participants should purchase a copy of Creating Confident Writers: For High School, College, and Life by Troy Hicks and Andy Schoenborn. The intended audience for this series is high school English teachers, curriculum directors, and instructional coaches.
Questions related to this course should be directed to Melissa Brooks-Yip at mbrooksyip@washtenawisd.org
When: August 16, 2022 10:00am and October 12, 2022
Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Where: Virtual
Cost: FREE!
The Civically Engaged Classroom (WISD)
inquisitive, and active citizens by
reframing teaching so that it's not just
about content and standards, but also
civic virtues. The Civically Engaged
Classroom is packed with practical
guidance designed to support teachers in
giving students the skills, knowledge, and
tools to be active participants in society.
Questions related to this course should be directed to Melissa Brooks-Yip at mbrooksyip@washtenawisd.org
When: October 19, December 14, 2022, February 8,
Time: 4:15-5:15pm (all dates)
Where: Virtual
Book provided for Washtenaw County educators
Creating Confident Writers/Letting Go of Literary Whiteness (WISD)
Questions related to this course should be directed to Melissa Brooks-Yip at mbrooksyip@washtenawisd.org
When: September 14, 2022 and October 18, 2022
Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Where: Virtual
Cost: FREE!
