Audience: All staff, teachers and administrators
Dates: 1/29/2024 to 3/22/2024
Location: Online
This is Free class is open to all. However, consortium members will be given priority registration and non-consortium members will be waitlisted. If space permits, we will then enroll waitlisted teachers
The NYSED Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework names one of its principles as "Ongoing Professional Development” where teachers are expected to engage in ongoing professional learning and support. The Teacher Center DEI Book Club will provide an opportunity for all educators to engage in a professional learning community with peers around DEI topics.
For the Winter/Spring Edith Winthrop Teacher Center DEI Book Club, we will be reading the 2023 updated edition of "How to Be An Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi. In this book, the author "takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas - from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities - that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.” This paperback edition contains a new preface about the author's life as well as annotations and other text updates.
What to expect:
All participants are asked to purchase the book before the start of the book club cycle. Purchase the updated paperback edition published in 2023.
All participants are asked to read the book and come prepared for book discussions across three live mandatory Zoom meetings:
February 8th - 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. (Discussion will be on the Preface to the Paperback Edition, My Racist Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4)
February 29th - 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. (Discussion will be on Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12)
March 14th - 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. (Discussion will be on Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18)
All participants are required to do three asynchronous assignments after each live Zoom discussion