Type of Work Focus: 

• • • Documenting the “story” of the preK-12 curriculum  
    • Doing a professional development “deep dive” around some aspect of subject related to progressive practice. This could draw on within department expertise and/or work with an outside consultant

Description of Work Focus: To map the social justice/activism strand in our program as it exists with an eye toward the following: Where are we studying social justice or reading/writing with a social justice lens? Where are we asking or encouraging students to take action or engage in activism? Where are the spots in our curriculum where we aren’t connecting to social justice or activism or could be more deeply invested in that work?

To share specific examples of best practices around reading/writing with a social justice focus and moving from learning to action. The goal in this second step is to apply those practices to places in our curriculum where we need to invent or reinvest in a more social justice/activism-oriented component. Ideally, we’d all emerge from this work with new approaches to a specific unit, project, or assignment that we could implement. 

Schedule for Work: We think a full-day or two half-day retreats would probably work best.