FREE

Saturday Seminar Series 2016-2017

Innovate and Create Presented by BASP/BAMP/BAWP

February 11, 2017 – Longfellow Middle School 1500 Derby St. Berkeley, CA 94703

*Free Continental Breakfast * Free Parking

8:45 am - 9:00 am: REGISTRATION

9:00 am -10:45 am: KEYNOTE PRESENTATION AND FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION

"It's NOT Whatever:

Dangerous Teacher Development towards Innovating and Recreating You"

It’s whatever. People say this when they feel they are powerless and must accept a situation. Assata Shakur, however, asserted the more we get used to our oppression, the more we think of it as the normal state of things. Such a phenomena is created by both structural and cultural conditions, as well as one's personal relationship to change and sense making. If this problem can be located at these intersections, so can potential solutions. “It’s NOT Whatever,” allows us to re-imagine a “dangerous” (Ladson Billings, 1999) kind of teacher development that authentically cultivates humanizing, critically conscious, intellectually engaged, and reflective practitioners.

Keynote: Dr. G Reyes

Coming from East Oakland, California, Dr. G Reyes is currently a Scholar at Stanford University where he primarily focuses on research and professional development with

teachers, school leaders, and districts associated with language practices, program/school design, communities of practice, and performance assessments. As a professional in the

field of Education, he has had a variety of experiences in K-12 schooling, Youth Development, teacher development, and teacher preparation. He has been blessed to work with committed and passionate professionals, youth, and families as a university lecturer in

teacher education; as a high school principal at a small school in East Oakland; an elementary, middle, and high school teacher; an Executive Director and Program Director of a Youth Development community-based organization that focused on intersecting arts and

social justice; a teacher/school leader developer/coach; and a cultural worker/youth development program leader developer/coach.

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FREE

Saturday Seminar Series 2016-2017

Innovate and Create Presented by BASP/BAMP/BAWP

February 11, 2017 – Longfellow Middle School 1500 Derby St. Berkeley, CA 94703

*Free Continental Breakfast * Free Parking

10:45 am – 11:00 am: BREAK

11:00 am – 12:15 pm: WORKSHOPS

Science Workshop (BASP)

Enacting Social Justice in the Science Classroom

Kathryn Ribay, PhD Student, Science Education, Stanford University and

Sara Dozier, PhD Student, Science Education, Stanford University

Grades: 6-12

Join us for a discussion about teachers as agents for social justice in the science classroom. Participants will examine

how they currently approach science teaching for social justice and explore areas for growth. We will share guiding

principles and concrete strategies for enacting a social justice science curriculum.

Writing Workshop (BAWP)

Developing | Voice Through Writing and Performing of Poetry

HIllary Walker, Teacher REALM Charter High School, Mills Teacher Scholars Program Associate

Grades: K-12

This session will explore how poetry can open up possibilities for experimentation, performance, play and critical

conversation in the writing classroom. Participants will experience a poetry workshop model that invites them to

write, and ultimately perform, their own spoken word piece. This workshop will highlight several equity strategies that

engage reluctant writers and provide multiple entry points for students. Participants will leave with a toolkit of writing

and participation strategies, poetry texts and their own writing to share with students!

Math Workshop (BAMP)

Cultivating Equity-based Classroom Practices in Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Karen Mayfield-Ingram, BAMP Associate Director. Co-author, The Impact of Identity in K-8 Mathematics

Learning and Teaching: Rethinking Equity-based Practices

Grades: K-6

In order to engage students who have not been successful in the past, we have to understand more about the

conditions by which they engage and the support systems necessary to create those conditions. This session will

focus on conceptual tools and equity-oriented practices that support powerful mathematics learning. Participants will

experience strategies that allow all students to deepen their mathematics understanding, utilize multiple

mathematical competencies, and affirm their learner identities.

For more information about upcoming events please contact

Vanessa Castaneda, vcastaneda@berkeley.edu or call (510) 642-7154