Teaching Against Erasure

The grounding session of Teaching Against Erasure is a 30-minute welcome and reflection. Here we will celebrate your dedication to safe and meaningful education for the students you teach, advise, mentor, and support. This opening pre-session is also our time to think about the links in our work in and outside of classroom settings. The emphasis … Read More

Why is disability so often left out of the curriculum— and what difference does this make?  How can disability studies engender transformative teaching and learning for all?  In this session you will learn more about the field disability studies, its connections to related justice movements, and explore demonstration lessons for your own classroom.  Facilitator: Lauren … 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. By situating topics in the law and New Jersey landscape that … Read More

In this two-hour workshop, participants will explore ways of engaging with poetry as historical text and history as poetic text. The workshop will offer ideas on how to work with students on close reading, listening, and research using poetry and oral history as primary texts. Teachers will leave with a set of sources and activities … Read More

In this 1 hour 30-minute session, we will explore how the Queer Newark Oral History Project is a practical resource for educators implementing the N.J. LGBTQ+ curriculum mandate. Queer Newark’s repository is not only an asset for diverse LGBTQ+ historical inclusion but also provides other thematic inroads into local, state, and national history more broadly. … Read More

In this two-hour session, we will analyze primary and secondary sources, as well as teaching strategies for including queer Black voices into your World History and World Literature classes, advisory, and Gender/Diversity clubs. Together, we will explore contemporary media, short stories, autobiographical writing, and legislation. This workshop asks how Black diasporic contexts challenge Western or … Read More