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Welcome Back!

AP African American Studies

Workshop Series

Saturday, March 2, 2024

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Professional Development Points (PDPs):

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  • Participants will receive 10 PDPs for completing 10hrs of professional development, which means participants attended both workshops.
  • Participants are required to complete and submit the lesson plan exercise.
  • Participants are required to complete the post-assessment survey.
  • Deadline is Friday, March 8, 2024

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Fostering an

Inclusive Classroom

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and/or

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Humanizing Classroom Spaces

Dr. Keisha L. Green

College of Education

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Building a Foundation of Anti-Racist and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogical Practices.

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Historically and Culturally Responsive Education/Lesson Planning.

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"The term culturally sustaining requires that our pedagogies be more than responsive of or relevant to the cultural experiences and practices of young people—it requires that they support young people in sustaining the cultural and linguistic competence of their communities while simultaneously offering access to dominant cultural competence. Culturally sustaining pedagogy, then, has as its explicit goal supporting multilingualism and multiculturalism in practice and perspective for students and teachers. That is, culturally sustaining pedagogy seeks to perpetuate and foster—to sustain—linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of the democratic project of schooling."

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— Django Paris, 2012

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Humanizing Classroom Spaces:

  • Foster collaboration
  • Incorporate multimodal approaches
  • Center diverse identities & languages
  • Build classroom community
  • Share experiences
  • Encourage student voice
  • Develop social and emotional skills
  • Include laughter, joy, and curiosity
  • OTHER?

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Quietly write for five minutes: How does Asante’s poem apply to you? When have you had to “take two sets of notes”? Do you currently? Do your students?

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*Teaching for Black Lives Study Guide

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Teaching for Black Lives: A Study on Inclusive Classrooms or Humanizing Classroom Spaces

Pink: A Talk to Teachers by James Baldwin

Orange: Black Like Me by Renee Watson

Green: Dear White Teacher by Chrysanthius Lathan

Yellow: Bearing Witness Through Poetry

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Reading Exercise Steps and Prompts:

Part One:

  1. Read your assigned text (15 minutes)
  2. Think and take notes about… (5 minutes)
  3. Share your reflections with your small group (10 minutes)

Part Two:

  1. Switch - Create groups with at least 1 person from each color category
  2. Take turns sharing highlights from your assigned text–JigSaw
    1. 2 minutes each person
  3. Consider the “I notice; I wonder” prompts (5 minutes)
  4. Share your reflections with your small group (15 minutes)

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What do you notice? What do you wonder?

…about how to create inclusive classrooms or humanizing classroom spaces?

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  1. Together in small groups, discuss and jot down ideas based on tips for humanizing classroom spaces, the readings, and your own personal and professional experiences (15 minutes)
  2. Whole-group sharing (10 minutes)

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Lesson Planning

  • Sample materials needed to prepare for lesson planning:
    • AP AfricanAmerican Studies Framework
    • Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
    • Common Core State Standards
    • Student Demographics and Interests
  • Teacher Content Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions
  • Components of unit/lesson plans
    • Essential Questions
    • Learning Targets/Objectives
    • Texts/Materials
    • Lesson/Teaching and Learning
    • Assessments
    • Other…

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Now let’s apply what you’ve learned to the

AP African American Studies content…

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Questions? Thoughts?