TTT#474 Black Lives Matter at EduCon2.8
Channel: Paul Allison
Date: 2016-01-20

+Christopher Rogers and +sam reed will be joining us on http://edtechtalk.com/ttt Wed, Jan 20 at 9pmET/6pmPT. Chris, Sam and I (+Paul Allison  ) are facilitating a "conversation" at EduCon2.8 on Sunday afternoon, Jan 31, "Building Curriculum for Racial Justice" http://2016.educon.org/conversations/building_curriculum_for_racial_justice. 

Join us for an open planning meeting where we plan talk about #BlackLivesMatter  and how this movement is impacting our classrooms and schools -- and those of our colleagues -- all of this in preparation of our conversation at EduCon2.8.

Here's the description of our conversation:

Civil Rights leader, Rep. John Lewis inspires our thinking for this conversation.

In a Washington Post interview (25 Dec. 2014), he compares the 1965 Selma-Montgomery March with the recent Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter protests:

“What is happening is not like a firecracker where you just come and pop off and make a lot of noise, and you’re gone,” Lewis said. “It’s more like a pilot light that continues to burn.”

In this conversation we will ask: What's the pilot light in our curriculum that helps students to connect around important issues of race and justice in our time?

Another way to ask this question: How do we build curriculum, rituals, tools, and skills in modular, open, inspiring ways that will give students the permission to follow their passions, yet also invites them to go deep into important issues as committed and informed citizens?

We hope to learn from each others stories of building curriculum for racial justice in our classrooms.

Join us on Wed. Jan 20 at 9pmET/6pmPT for an update for the ongoing conversations we have been having on Teachers Teaching Teachers in reference to Black Lives Matter: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY9e9zEmLwtPnN74JE8Z4RH_XtkbO67mG