Moving Beyond Representation Toward Liberation

“Until we learn to talk about race, the poison of racism won’t go away.” The author of Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You and Antiracist Reading Revolution: A Framework for Teaching Beyond Representation Toward Liberation will offer specific strategies for teaching in ways that help students challenge racist ideas with antiracist ideas. 

Students’ ability to access books that serve as mirrors and windows has been a critical conversation in education. While representation is important, this alone isn’t enough. Participants will gain greater clarity around the scholarship that informs reading instruction moving beyond a representation approach toward a liberatory stance where the purpose of education becomes not only about standards but about freedom.  

Participants will learn about essential characteristics of antiracist teaching. Then, they’ll apply six critical lenses toward reading instruction (affirmation, awareness, authorship, atmosphere, activism, accountability). Participants will be able to identify strategies, resources and texts such as Stamped (For Kids) that support teaching about race, racism and antiracism. This toolkit for teaching can support educators as they cultivate identity-affirming classroom spaces where students recognize and dismantle dominant ideologies in order to imagine and work toward an antiracist future.

Please note, for Bellingham Public Schools staff, if you already registered, you do not need to register again.