Post by addisona on Feb 14, 2022 15:26:27 GMT
Unique Training: Making black lives matter at School
With educators and communities coming together nationwide to ensure that Black students can live, grow and thrive with support and love, two CTA members have developed a training to help educators show that black lives matter at school.
CTA Board member Erika Jones and United Teachers Los Angeles President Cecily Myart-Cruz developed the training for the NEA Leadership Summit in 2016, highlighting the work done by UTLA’s Racial Justice Taskforce to facilitate tough conversations around race and racism in education. The task force was formed following the 2014 killing of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, which spurred the growth of the black lives matter movement.
“We developed the UTLA Racial Justice Taskforce and noticed that spaces for educators to talk through racial justice issues and begin unpacking what it means to be an anti-racist educator were nonexistent,” says Jones, a UTLA member. “Students and community members were far ahead in their understanding of the black lives matter movement and the impact it could and would have on classrooms.”
Jones and Myart-Cruz have trained thousands of educators nationwide, tailoring each session to the needs of their audience, focusing on breaking down misconceptions of black lives matter and racial justice, and centering the work of educators in love and empathy. The training asks educators to analyze what it means to be a member of a marginalized community and identify ways to bring racial justice to their schools.
www.cta.org/educator/posts/making-black-lives-matter-at-school
With educators and communities coming together nationwide to ensure that Black students can live, grow and thrive with support and love, two CTA members have developed a training to help educators show that black lives matter at school.
CTA Board member Erika Jones and United Teachers Los Angeles President Cecily Myart-Cruz developed the training for the NEA Leadership Summit in 2016, highlighting the work done by UTLA’s Racial Justice Taskforce to facilitate tough conversations around race and racism in education. The task force was formed following the 2014 killing of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, which spurred the growth of the black lives matter movement.
“We developed the UTLA Racial Justice Taskforce and noticed that spaces for educators to talk through racial justice issues and begin unpacking what it means to be an anti-racist educator were nonexistent,” says Jones, a UTLA member. “Students and community members were far ahead in their understanding of the black lives matter movement and the impact it could and would have on classrooms.”
Jones and Myart-Cruz have trained thousands of educators nationwide, tailoring each session to the needs of their audience, focusing on breaking down misconceptions of black lives matter and racial justice, and centering the work of educators in love and empathy. The training asks educators to analyze what it means to be a member of a marginalized community and identify ways to bring racial justice to their schools.
www.cta.org/educator/posts/making-black-lives-matter-at-school