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8:30a – 9:00a
Morning Breakfast
Make your breakfast, log into the link below and let’s eat and chat together.
Theme: What have you been up to over the last 15 years?
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9:15a – 10:30a
Opening Remarks and Morning Keynote
Conversation about conference theme of “Connecting the Dots in Urban Education: Memory, Identity and Vision”
Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University; Bettina Love, University of Georgia; Vincent Willis, University of Alabama
Moderator: Brian Williams, Georgia State University
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10:45a- 11:15a
Focus 30 Concurrent Sessions
The Power of Peace: Nonviolence and Conflict Reconciliation
Kit Cummings, Power of Peace Productions, Inc.
We are encountering intense conflict in our nation today, and our kids are watching and imitating how we handle it. Kit’s principles bring prison rivals together, and they work for youth as well. Unresolved conflict affects our young people’s ability to learn and thrive. Join us as we seek solutions!
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More than JUST Survival: An Exploration of Place-based Citizen Science and Community Collaboration
Marquis Baker and Danie Marshall, Georgia State University
Place-based citizen science is a unique way of understanding how people work within communities to investigate, explore, support and improve the environment around them. Recently, “Africa Town” near Mobile, AL and the Metro Atlanta Urban Farm of College Park, GA have begun to delve deeply into the place-based citizen science continuum and how this idea can positively affect communities of color for generations to come.
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Mi Rialiti in Education: Capturing Experiences Impacting Learning in Order to Create Better Physical and Emotional Environments for students
M. von Nkosi, Liquid Studios
Mi Rialiti [my reality] is a platform that allows users to capture, map and document past, present experience anywhere including social media. Mi Rialiti: This isn’t just another love story. Conceived and born from two realities, the pain of the victims of “ism” (i.e., age-, gender-, religion-, race-), and the reality of the collective economic buying power of trillions of dollars they spend. Yet outcomes for their children have not improved.
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11:30p- 12:30p
Session/workshop
Re-Thinking STEM Outreach & Engagement: Building Capacity through Building Community
Calvin Mackie, STEM NOLA
STEM NOLA has redefined STEM outreach through an intentional, consistent and innovative community-based engagement model. Through research and years of practice, STEM NOLA understands that early and ongoing exposure and experience with STEM concepts in a rigorous, culturally relevant environment is absolutely critical to unlocking the doors of economic opportunity that STEM careers uniquely provide. Dr. Calvin Mackie of STEM NOLA will describe the model in detail and explain how to create sustainable community-based STEM engagement in your community.
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12:45p – 1:45p
Session/workshop
Voices of Today: Advancing Justice in Public Education through Youth-led Movements and Organizing
Jon Gray, Young People Project: Baltimore; Selena D Allen and Jevonnie Williams, Young People Project: Florida
Moderator: Nautica Jenkins, Project South
More information coming.
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2:00p – 2:30p
Focus 30 Concurrent Sessions
Engineering Justice
David Windecher, Rehabilitation Enables Dreams (RED)
RED is dedicated to keeping people out of the criminal justice system — permanently — through programs that enhance the social, civic, and financial literacy of individuals referred to court. RED’s online Restorative Justice Curriculum is an innovative 12-month program that is revolutionizing the criminal justice system by creating a sustainable strategy for those seeking lasting rehabilitation.
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Culturally Responsive Empowerment and Encouragement: Stories of Color
Brian Harrison, Georgia State University; Jeffery Zwartjes, The Center for Puppetry Arts
We are educational artists who will share how we explore puppetry arts with black and brown children. We discuss how you can use puppetry arts to empower and encourage black and brown children to tell their own stories by developing their voice, as well as support their social emotional learning and well-being. We will also address how we can do those things during a time in which most learning is virtual. Make sure you download and cut out your John Henry puppet template before this session (see link just below). You’ll be using this puppet today!
Download John Henry puppet template here »
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Open session/Conversation with Community
Come talk about what you’ve learned at the conference so far, ideas and questions you have and get to know you other conference attendees.
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2:45p – 3:45p
Session/workshop
Back to school, virtually or in person: The importance of play for ALL children
Vera Stenhouse, Atlanta educator; Olga Jarrett and Anna Beresin, Global Recess Alliance
Three authors and advocates for play and social justice will discuss the need for play and playfulness as a necessary and equitable aspect of academic and social emotional learning, both during virtual learning and when schools re-open in person. This one hour session will include an audience participation activity appropriate for virtual learning and presentations by researchers on the importance of recess and playful approaches to learning for ALL children. There will be at least 20 minutes for audience participation.
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4:00p – 5:00p
Closing Keynote
“The Memory of Our Future”: Closing conversation
Joyce King and Brian Williams, Georgia State University
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5:00p – 6:00p
15th Annual Sources Conference Closing Celebration
Grab a beverage and some snacks, log into the link below and let’s chat together.
Theme: Your Sources Conference highlights from over the last 15 years (including today!) and your hopes and ideas for the next 15 years in education.