FLDC Codesigning Educational Justice Institute
We are ecstatic about the inaugural FLDC Codesigning Educational Justice Institute at the end of the month! We received a high level of interest and 8 teams were selected to join using criteria based on FLDC principles. Our powerful team, including Ann Ishimaru, Megan Bang, Anthony Craig, Muhammad Khalifa and other FLDC leaders and scholars will be […]
Creating Anti-Racist Childhood Spaces
Iheoma Iruka and other scholars co-authored, Creating Anti-Racist Childhood Spaces. They discuss the racial history of early childhood programs and the racism currently present and provide strategies for creating anti-racist early childhood spaces. Read Here
Inquiry and Learning in Literature
Carol D. Lee authored a chapter, Inquiry and Learning in Literature, in the International Handbook of Inquiry and Learning. This chapter discusses what comprehending and interpreting literature requires and the role that inquiry takes on in such learning. More Here
2021 FLDC Codesigning Justice Institute
Check out and apply for FLDC’s Codesigning Educational Justice Institute on June 30th and July 1st, 2021. The institute is a 2-day hands-on learning experience intended to support families of color and educators as leaders in collaborating together to foster more just learning for young people. Participants will take up solidarity-driven codesign as a collective practice to […]
Interrogating Languaging Through Power, Race, and Space in the Schooling of Translingual Student Populations
Kris D. Gutiérrez and colleagues co-authored a chapter titled, Interrogating Languaging Through Power, Race, and Space in the Schooling of Translingual Student Populations, in the Handbook of Urban Education. The chapter discusses how language can be used as a tool to teach but also as a tool for harm. Learn More
The Interview as Pedagogical Encounter: Nurturing Knowledge and Relationships with Youth
The Interview as Pedagogical Encounter: Nurturing Knowledge and Relationships with Youth, a chapter co-authored by Shirin Vossoughi in the book, Critical Youth Research in Education, examines typical approaches to the interview “as an information extraction procedure” to reframing it as a “dialogical, joint activity.” Learn More
Restorative Justice in Education: Transforming Teaching and Learning Through the Disciplines
Mariana Souto-Manning recently co-authored Race Matters in Early Childhood Education, a chapter in Restorative Justice in Education: Transforming Teaching and Learning Through the Disciplines. The book discusses how restorative justice can be leveraged to teach across disciplines. Learn More
Educating for Civic Reasoning & Discourse
Carol Lee recently co-edited, Educating for Civic Reasoning and Discourse, a report published by the National Academy of Education that aims “to better prepare students to examine and discuss complex civic, political, and social issues by ensuring that the curricula, pedagogy, and learning environments that they experience are informed by the best available evidence and practice.” Read Here
Handbook of Cultural Foundations of Learning
Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Carol Lee, Maxine McKinney de Royston and Roy Pea were co-editors of Handbook of Cultural Foundations of Learning. This book highlights research that explores learning as an inherently cultural process. Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román, Maxine de Royston and other scholars co-authored a chapter titled, Reconceptualizing the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide: Toward a New Empiricism. In this chapter, they […]
Summer Learning and Beyond: Opportunities for Creating Equity
Megan Bang, Kris D. Gutiérrez, Ann Ishimaru, Carol D. Lee, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Shirin Vossoughi and colleagues co-authored Summer Learning and Beyond: Opportunities for Creating Equity. This report was published by Learning Policy Institute and Spencer Foundation and aims to support schools in providing “equitable, rigorous, and meaningful” education during the pandemic and beyond. It brings together research on the […]
K-12 Equity Directors: Configuring the Role for Impact
Terrance Green, Ann Ishimaru, Decoteau Irby and other scholars recently co-authored, K-12 Equity Directors: Configuring the Role for Impact. The report discusses the growth of equity directors in school systems across the country and explores different role configurations that could catalyze systemic change. Read Here
Centering Black Families and Justice-Focused Educators during Pandemic Remote Schooling
FLDC members Ann Ishimaru and Filiberto Barajas-López co-authored a report centering the experiences of Black families during pandemic remote learning. Learn more about how their partnership is working to illuminate the experiences and priorities of families to catalyze district change Read Here
Understanding Root Causes of Inequities: Praxis During Pandemics
Learn about how the Center for Youth and Community Leadership in Education (CYCLE), led by FLDC member, Keith Catone, are supporting school districts through cross-site learning in creating deeper understanding of systemic and school-level barriers, identifying interventions that address those barriers, and bringing together school districts and communities to devise plans to reverse historical patterns […]
Adult vs. Child-Centered Learning: Why We Need Another Path
Adult vs. Child-Centered Learning: Why We Need Another Path highlights an article by Shirin Vossoughi and colleagues. They examine intergenerational learning that attends to and is reflective of “embodied collaboration” as a path towards educational justice. Read Here
Protecting the Promise: Indigenous Education Between Mothers and Their Children, will be released on April 2nd.
Timothy San Pedro will be releasing his new book, Protecting the Promise: Indigenous Education Between Mothers and Their Children (Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series) on April 2nd! This new book features short stories from “five Native families that speak to the everyday aspects of Indigenous educational resurgence rooted in the intergenerational learning that occurs between mothers […]
Tinkering Afterschool Program Demonstrates Moving Beyond Binary of Adult-Versus Centered Education
Shirin Vossoughi co-authored an op-ed, Tinkering Afterschool Program Demonstrates Moving Beyond Binary of Adult-Versus Child-centered education, in Youth Today. The authors discuss the limitations of the adult- versus child-centered binaries in teaching, and highlights teaching in which both student and teacher are active participants in making meaning together. Read Article
A call for a moratorium on damage-centered early childhood teacher education: envisioning just futures for our profession
Mariana Souto-Manning recently published “A call for a moratorium on damage-centered early childhood teacher education: envisioning just futures for our profession”, where she calls for a shift to desire-centered early childhood teacher education from a damage-centered perspective. Read More
Beyond the Binary of Adult Versus Child Centered Learning: Pedagogies of Joint Activity in the Context of Making
Shirin Vossoughi co-authored Beyond the Binary of Adult Versus Child Centered Learning: Pedagogies of Joint Activity in the Context of Making, where the authors make the argument that educator supports for their students are limited by the binary of adult vs child – so it’s time for a more “complex view” when considering how to […]
Fixating on Pandemic “Learning Loss” Undermines the Need to Transform
Maxine McKinney de Royston and Shirin Vossoughi co-authored an op-ed with Truthout, “Fixating on Pandemic ‘Learning Loss’ Undermines the Need to Transform Education”. The authors call for the need to redefine the purposes and the practices of education and the necessity to challenge the “learning loss” narrative along with other harmful educational myths that especially […]
Redefining High-Quality Early Learning – and Identifying Core Principles for Putting It into Practice
Mariana Souto-Manning has co-authored Redefining High-Quality Early Learning — and Identifying Core Principles for Putting It into Practice where they illustrate 7 principles of practice that encourage “high-quality early learning”, such as all children “are critical thinkers and inquirers” and “they learn best when they are in caring and reciprocal relationships.” Read more here. (Photo: […]
Humanizing practices in online learning communities during pandemics in the USA
Muhammad Khalifa, along with other co-authors, recently published an article Humanizing practices in online learning communities during pandemics in the USA. They reflect on the importance of community-oriented practice of women of color educators to achieve a more “humanizing practice” within teaching and school leadership education. Read more here. Read More
Learning-in-Relation: Implementing and Analyzing Assets Based Pedagogies in a Higher Education Classroom
Timothy San Pedro is an author for Learning-in-Relation: Implementing and Analyzing Assets Based Pedagogies in a Higher Education Classroom. Here the authors examine the ways in which assets-based pedagogical theories in higher education classes play a role in identity and learning for instructors and students. Read more here. Read Article
Embodied Pathways and Ethical Trails: Studying Learning in and through Relational Histories
Shirin Vossoughi is an author in Embodied Pathways and Ethical Trails: Studying Learning in and through Relational Histories. Here the authors address how children’s physical interactions when they are learning together reflect histories, ethical stances and relationships over time, which can lead to acts of solidarity among children. To read more, click here. Read Article
Rethinking schools, rethinking learning
Carol Lee and Na’ilah Suad co-authored Rethinking schools, rethinking learning where they explore and rethink what we want from our schools and what we want them to offer and do for young people, especially now as inequitable schooling conditions have been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more here. Read More
In an Era of Pandemic and Protest, STEM Education Can’t Pretend to Be Apolitical
FLDC members Shirin Vossoughi and Megan Bang, along with Daniel Morales-Doyle and Sepehr Vakil, are the authors of an op-ed in Truthout, “In an Era of Pandemic and Protest, STEM Education Can’t Pretend to Be Apolitical”. “Across the U.S., the push to reopen schools is predicated on troubling beliefs about schools and families. Time at […]
Organizing Engagement Interview with Keith Catone
Keith Catone, FLDC member, was interviewed by Organizing Engagement. “As the founding executive director of the Center for Youth and Community Leadership in Education (@CYCLE_RWU) at Roger Williams University, Keith Catone is committed to partnering with communities and schools seeking to build collective power to fight for and win education policies and practices that create equitable […]
Promoting Culturally Responsive Leadership Practices
Don’t miss this engaging new article from FLDC member Muhammad Khalifa: Promoting Culturally Responsive Leadership Practices: Shining a light on marginalized children with humanistic practices and data scrutiny. Excerpt: As a younger man, I worked as a teacher in Detroit, Mich., in a school with mostly black and brown children, some refugees and some white […]
Federal Education Policy: A Promise Neighborhood Case Study
This dissertation by FLDC member Derrick Lopez offers a case study that explicates the construct of “policy implementation process tools” as integral to the work of implementing the Promise Neighborhood Initiative. Policy implementation process tools reify and fortify the relationships necessary for local implementation of federal policy among collaborative partners. This dissertation proposes three classes […]
