8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
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Education for Liberation: Centering Black & LGBTQI+ Students

In an increasingly polarizing political climate, many protections and advancements to create safe, accessible, and affirming learning environments for Black and LGBTQI+ students are being threatened. Educators play a key role in shaping the learning experiences for marginalized students. Join M Adams in a generative discussion to better understand the barriers and threats Black students face and what we as educators must do about it.

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
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Isang Bagsak as an Educational Framework: Embodying Cross-Racial Solidarity towards Asian Americans

This talk breaks down how to embody cross-racial frameworks in practice through cross-racial movement inclusion, shifting staff and organization mindsets from scarcity to abundance, and embodying a multi-partial lens in program design, facilitation and participation.

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
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RACE: The Power of an Illusion - Part II: The Story We Tell

Educational Equity Movie Series

Episode II of RACE: THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION (The Story We Tell) uncovers the roots of the race concept in North America, the 19th century science that legitimated it, and how it came to be held so fiercely in the western imagination. The episode is an eye-opening tale of how race served to rationalize, even justify, American social inequalities as "natural."

It's true that race has always been with us, right? Wrong. Ancient peoples stigmatized "others" on the grounds of language, custom, class, and especially religion, but they did not sort people according to physical differences. It turns out that the concept of race is a recent invention, only a few hundred years old, and the history and evolution of the idea are deeply tied to the development of the U.S.
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** An online transcript is available for this film (English | Spanish) **

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
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Defective and Deficient: Disability Oppression as a Tool of Racism

Join queer disabled writer and activist Eli Clare as he uses storytelling, history, and critical analysis to explore ways that racism and white supremacy leverage ableism (disability-based oppression) to devalue and make disposable students of color, particularly Black, Indigenous, and Latinx students. He will focus specifically on how the ableist construction of defectiveness and deficiency strengthens racism, as well as other systems of oppression.

2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
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Engaging in Practice Centered in Love & Belonging

At the conclusion of each Institute, members from the Department of Public Instruction Equity Advisory Team will lead an Institute debrief and actively participate in engaging activities with participants. These opportunities are specifically designed to enhance the overall experience of the participants.