Registration open! This convening will offer thematic workshops led by scholars, community leaders, and veteran teachers. Sessions will emphasize strategies for integrating content focused on Black, Latinx, LGBTQIA+ and Dis/Abilities studies material into the existing New Jersey core curriculum content. Participants may register for a morning and afternoon workshop, go.rutgers.edu/registerTAE. 9:30am: Check-in and Breakfast 10am: … Read More
This workshop will explore the rhythms of resistance and resilience with songs that encouraged marginalized people to continue their fight for social justice and change. It will use music to amplify the voices and discuss the history of marginalized communities throughout history. Facilitator: As an esteemed educator with a passion for igniting the spark of … Read More
Rights alone are not justice. A narrow focus on compliance provides little sense that the acknowledgement ofr inclusion of disabled communities have any larger benefit or that accommodations serve anyone other than the person who requests them. How can we move past legal compliance to understand disability in all of its complexity-- as a culture, … Read More
Recognizing that many New Jersey teachers are hesitant to discuss issues of social justice and current events occurring in many communities, this 90-minute session will discuss and practice how to use specific resources to guide and engage students in conversations about marginalization and discrimination. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy as a guide and situating topics that involve … Read More
LGBTQ+ students should see themselves represented in the classroom. In this 1 hour 15-minute session, we will explore how the Queer Newark Oral History Project can be a resource for … Read More
A Work in Progress In Collaboration with Lunaape/Lenape Tribal Nation and the Public History Project Through a land curriculum, this workshop explores the knowledge, experiences, and histories of the New … Read More
In this eighty-minute workshop, participants will explore several diverse methodologies that revolve around the practice of spoken word and performance poetics through the optics of the Nuyorican poetry school which … Read More