Calling all allies, equity warriors and change-makers!
In collaboration with the AFT Identity-Affirming Classroom Team (I-ACT), Share My Lesson and AFT Professional Learning are delighted to present a new three-part podcast series. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to listen in on a series of three intimate conversations between members of the AFT Identity-Affirming Classroom Team (I-ACT), including program facilitator Melanie Hobbs, AFT senior associate director, Educational Issues, and leading authors and researchers Dr. Becki Cohn-Vargas and Dr. Debbie Zacarian about their new book Identity Safe Spaces at Home and School: Partnering to Overcome Inequity.
Throughout this virtual learning podcast series, Cohn-Vargas and Zacarian provide listeners with practical, research-based approaches that empower educators, families and students to work together to create and sustain equitable learning communities and dismantle policies and practices that perpetuate stereotype threat, marginalization and “othering.” Register for the series now: https://webinars.on24.com/aft/iact
Each episode includes a guest contributor from the book, whose experiences are a testimony to why schools, families and the community at large must partner to disrupt the harmful effects of systemic racism and discrimination for future generations. You’ll hear about poignant moments in the stories shared where empathy, compassion and caring made a difference and how each contributor to this day uses the agency they gained to influence the lives of others.
