Teaching Against Erasure

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 students and educators. Queer Newark is a free and public repository of local New Jersey history through the eyes of diverse people who lived it. … 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 Jersey Lunaape/Lenape peoples. During this eighty-minute workshop, we will discuss ideas and engage in activities that ground land curriculum and affirm indigenous ways of knowing … 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 is responsible for writers like Miguel Algarín, Victor Hernández Cruz, Nancy Mercado, Willie Perdomo, and Elisabet Velasquez. The Nuyorican school is well documented in Latinx … Read More