This professional learning community (PLC) is for anyone who is an Ethnic Studies educator in a school setting in Massachusetts. This PLC will be a place for Ethnic Studies educators to share in problems of practice, develop ideas, and learn together about developments in the field. We’ll be gathering in our virtual meetings as partners and be in communication throughout.
This PLC is participant-driven and topics will be decided by the group with facilitation by Naoimi Robles. Topics of our conversation may include:
- Engaging with each other on how to work with our community
- Exploring challenges faced by Ethnic Studies teachers
- Sharing example problems of our practice as a group and conferring together about potential solutions
- Exploring resources that can address the needs of students of the global majority and other marginalized communities
- Collaborating with other educators
We’ll be meeting for 8 sessions, mostly hybrid, once a month between September 2024 – May 2025. If you attend all 8 sessions and participate actively, you can receive 15 PDPs in content, so please come prepared to share (confidentially of course) any current situations, questions you have, and share your expertise.
The sessions will follow a structure to support our work which will look like:
- Welcome and review of agenda
- Conversations about our shared practice
- Protocol to help focus the conversation
- Closing and gratitude
Please note: If you would like PDPs, you will need to choose the $100 registration option. This fee covers the cost of administering PDPs. While participants can join at any time, PDPs are only provided to those who attend at least 6 sessions.