Day 7

9:00 - 9:15

Welcome, Reviewing Reflections

• Remember to update our names on Zoom to include pronouns.

• Continue to use the Parking Lot for questions, setting up Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and sharing resources.

• Review Reflections from Day 6 in Virtual Circle

9:30 - 9: 40

Writing Into the Day

• Introduce today's focus question: What are the resources our families and the community bring into a learning space?

• Watch this brief video. As you watch it, think about these questions:

• What are the resources our families and the community bring into a learning space? How might these resources be leveraged in the classroom?

9:40 - 9:50

Introduction to Funds of Identity

9:50 - 10:20

Create Your Own "Self-Portrait" or "Significant Circle"

10:10 - 10:20

Break

10:20 - 10:30

Funds of Identity and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy

• How can the Funds of Identity categories forward Alim and Paris’s call to liberate ourselves from dominant gazes in order to encourage “our abilities to envision new and recover community-rooted forms of teaching and learning?” (p.3).

• What are some very practical ways that Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy help to center the cultural communities of our students?

10:30 - 11:30

Community Mapping: Introduction and Work Time

• Complete a Community Map with a partner (if you teach together) or independently and explore Phillyhistory.org using your school’s address.

• How might either of these activities be adapted to help you and your students think of families and communities as resources?

11:30 - 11:45

Community Mapping: Whole Group Share

• Share what you worked on during your Community Map building

• Primary Sources and Our Communities

Closing and Afternoon Activities

• Journal groups

• Reaction Sheet

• Suggestion: Review and add to posts on the TPS Teachers Network

• Preparing Readings for Day 8:

  • • Delpit, L. (2006)

    • Ladson-Billings, G. (2006)

    • Reddy-Buttkovich, K. (2007)

    • Vasquez, M. (2017)

• In preparation for Susan Browne's visit:

  • • Life Histories Center Performance as Response to Text (Browne & Madden, 2020)

    • Reading, Writing, and Performing Life Histories to Explore Complex Interactions Between Life and Texts (Browne & Madden, 2020)

    • Slipping Away (Woodson, 1994) (must read)