CEJTE Events
The Center for Equity and Justice in Teacher Education was established in 2019.
The CEJTE is partially funded through an $8 million dollar, U.S. Department of Education grant titled, Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED).
The center supports cross-school opportunities for teacher and school leader collaboration, reflection and professional learning.
Please check this site frequently for upcoming events. These events are free and open to the public, so please share widely.
Upcoming Events
The ELATE Discussion Series, “Small Talk about Big Ideas,” is a series of virtual events for fall 2024. The series focuses on key English Education topics. The discussions, featuring interactive sessions, breakout rooms and Q&As, will cover articles from the journal. The first event (Sept. 26) highlights LGBTQ+ ally work in rural schools. This event is free to anyone who would like to attend. The second (Oct. 22) focuses on abolitionist teaching practices and is only open to the National Council of Teachers of English and ELATE members. These sessions aim to engage educators in critical conversations and research. The series is co-sponsored by the Center for Equity and Justice in Teacher Education. More details are available on the NCTE website.
“Cultivating Math Success Among Black Males”
Friday, Oct. 27 | 12 p.m. | Virtual Presentation
Presenter:
Christopher Jett is an associate professor of mathematics education in the Department of Middle and Secondary
Christopher Jett, Ph.D.
Education. His research agenda examines Black males’ mathematical and racialized experiences. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), New Venture Fund and the U.S. Department of Education. He received an NSF CAREER Award, the 2019 Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Early Career Award and a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He is the author of “Black Male Success in Higher Education: How the Mathematical Brotherhood Empowers a Collegiate Community to Thrive” and co-editor of “Critical Race Theory in Mathematics Education.”
The link to join this event will be sent the day before the session to those who RSVP
Upcoming Learning Hours
Tonia Durden, Ph.D.
Friday, Nov 10, at noon: Tonia Durden, Ph.D. discusses her co-authored book We Are the Change We Seek: Advancing Racial Justice in Early Care and Education.
Each learning hour is a one-hour event, and it will be co-hosted by a CEJTE co-director and a CEHD graduate student.
These events are open to the public, but our target audience is faculty and doctoral students in the CEHD and PEF.
2023 Events
2023 Educating for Democracy Conference
Keynote speakers: Drs. LaGarrett King & Carol Lee
Took place January 28
This event is from The University of Virginia’s Center for Race and Public Education in the South
Download the flyer for the conference schedule and list of speakers.
The Learning Hour: CEJTE Research and Policy Talks
Thursday, Sept 21, at noon: Jennifer Esposito Norris, Ph.D. discussed her co-authored book Introduction to Intersectional Qualitative Research.
Thursday, Jan. 26, at noon: First in the series: Dr. Francesca López joined us via Zoom on January 26 to discuss the National Education Policy Center Report from 2021 entitled, “Understanding the Attacks on Critical Race Theory.”
Facilitators: Nadia Behizadeh, Marquis Baker, and Adrian Douglas.
Other Events
Come Celebrate with Me: A Poetry Workshop & Open Mic
Co-sponsored by The Center for Equity & Justice in Teacher Education and The Crim Center at Georgia State University as a pre-conference event for the 15th Annual Sources of Urban Educational Excellence Conference!
This event was a space for visioning and exploring how educators and artists might center healing and celebration in this challenging time in our personal, national and global landscapes. We used poetry writing as a communal process to unpack these ideas. This was followed by an open mic where participants were invited to share any vocal self-expression. Two amazing featured poets, Qianna Cutts and Ogechi, also read live!
Critical Collaborative for English Language Arts Education Speaker Series
The CEJTE and the Urban Literacy Collaborative and Clinic presented a virtual speaker series: Integrating Criticality into English Language Arts (ELA) Lessons. This featured two equity-centered literacy scholars, Gholdy Muhammad. Ph.D. and Noah Golden, Ph.D.
Criticality in education helps learners:
- Disrupt the commonplace
- Integrate multiple viewpoints
- Focus on socio-political issues
- Examine issues of race, gender and class and their intersections
- Take action to address injustices
Eye See It! Professional Development Series
The CEJTE, with support from the Library of Congress, presented a professional development series for K-12 educators focused on examining history with a historian’s eye! Historian Larry Earl and teacher educator Chantee Earl, Ph.D. hosted these events. The foci will shift for each session, but general topics include:
- Engaging students in historical inquiry
- Investigating historical events using primary source documents
- Incorporating virtual field trips and artifacts into the classroom
Examining History with a Historian’s Eye! A Professional Development Series for K-12 Educators
Presented by:
Larry Earl, Historian
Chantee Earl, Ph.D. Teacher Educator
Topics Included:
- Engaging students in historical inquiry
- Investigating historical events using primary source documents
- Incorporating virtual field trips & artifacts into the classroom
Presentation at the National Center for Teacher Residencies
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—bell hooks, from her 1994 book Teaching to Transgress