Day 7
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
What are the resources our families and the community bring into a learning space?
9:00 - 9:15
Welcome, Reviewing Reflections
Remember to update our names on Zoom to include pronouns.
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
Closing and Afternoon Activities
Journal groups
Suggestion: Review and add to posts on the TPS Teachers Network
Preparing Readings for Day 8:
In preparation for Susan Browne's visit:
