Monday August 9, 4:30pm via Zoom. Sponsored by the Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning Collective. Advanced registration is required here.

Connecticut has a diverse group of educators, schools, and youth-led groups committed to teaching about race and racism in ways that are accurate, complex and centered on the experiences and interests of students. Why then have these approaches come under attack? What forces are behind these campaigns, and what is their agenda for public education? And as we return to school this fall, how can we ensure that educators, parents and administrators are not silenced and punished for their efforts to meet the needs of their students?

This panel centers the voices of teachers, students, parents, and education leaders in exploring these questions. We especially invite school leaders, including district leaders, principals, assistant principals, deans, instructional coaches, and others to learn about the important role they must play in safeguarding the rights of parents, students and teachers.

Panelists include Meredith Gavrin, co-founder of New Haven Academy; Daisha Brabham, History & Civics Teacher at Norwalk Public Schools; Andrea Walker, of Hearing Youth Voices; Jorgieliz Casanova, a New Haven Public Schools graduate and parent and Program Manager at New Haven Promise, Kristin Mendoza, an ESL and English Teacher at Wilbur Cross High School (New Haven); and Tenzin Dhondup, a student activist from Naugatuck Equity Alliance and Naugatuck High School. Co-moderated by Rashanda McCollum, Executive Director of Students for Educational Justice and Daniel Martinez HoSang, Yale University.