Equity Literacy Series

This professional learning series delves into the joys and complexities of purposeful knowledge building, fostering identity-affirming and community-centered classroom practices. Designed for all who work with children, it combines engaging discussions, practical strategies, reflection, and action-oriented pedagogy to create a culture of care and academic excellence.

Participants may select from a session featuring a topic of interest or broaden their scope by attending several sessions throughout the year. The choice is yours. Join us.

Speaker Trevor Aleo will present this dynamic and interactive session, educators will explore the powerful intersection of asset-based pedagogies, schema building, and systems thinking. We'll delve into practical strategies that utilize students' diverse strengths and experiences as foundational building blocks for constructing conceptual frameworks that promote social wisdom and global justice. Leveraging scholarship from cognitive science and disciplinary literacy, this workshop will provide a bridge from the latest research to your daily classroom practice. By the end of this session, participants will have a toolkit of strategies to transform their classrooms into vibrant spaces where students' strengths fuels the engine of authentic inquiry, knowledge building, academic discourse.

Target audience: K-12 teachers, literacy/instructional coaches, school and district leaders

For more information about this session, contact Jeff Austin at AustinJ@RESA.net or Rosalyn Shahid at ShahidR@resa.net.

In our fast-paced world of continuously flowing information, quality control around the messages you receive and share is crucial for educators. In this session led by Huda Essa, the author of The Consciously Unbiased Educator, you will learn how to utilize the lifelong skill of critical consciousness to effectively analyze the materials and language you use with colleagues, students, and their families. Leave with the strategies and confidence needed to create and encourage mutually beneficial relationships, engagement, motivation, and community-wide achievement.

This session will teach you how to utilize the lifelong skill of critical consciousness to effectively analyze the materials and language you use with colleagues, students, and their families. Leave with the strategies and confidence needed to create and encourage mutually beneficial relationships, engagement, motivation, and community-wide achievement.

Target audience: K-12 teachers, literacy/instructional coaches, school and district leaders

For more information please contact Dr. Rosalyn Shahid ShahidR@RESA.net

Lawson’s emerging scholarship and teaching pedagogy support educators with incorporating culturally relevant texts throughout foundational literacy instruction in K-2. Join us as Amber Lawson shares how she incorporates children’s identities, lived experiences, home languages, and targeted phonics features by designing student-generated decodable readers co-authored by children to advance their decoding skills.

*Target audience for this workshop is K-2 teachers and instructional specialists.

K-5 teachers, literacy coaches/COSAs, school and district leaders are also welcome to attend.

For more information please contact Dr. Rosalyn Shahid ShahidR@RESA.net

Facilitated by Wayne RESA's own Celeste Johnson and Amber Wade, you are invited to enhance your literacy instruction by incorporating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to create more inclusive and effective learning environments. This session will explore practical strategies for implementing UDL in literacy education, focusing on how to address diverse student needs through flexible teaching methods, materials, and assessments. The first 30 participants to register and attend the workshop will receive a copy of Universal Design for Learning in English Language Arts.

Target audience: K-12 teachers, literacy/instructional coaches, school and district leaders

For more information please contact Dr. Rosalyn Shahid ShahidR@RESA.net

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If you have any questions in regard to scheduling, please contact:

Samantha Dial-Lane

Administrative Assistant, Educational Services

lanes@resa.net