Partner Schools Network Educator Sparks Session - February 2024
About this event:
Single Session
Our single professional learning sessions are designed to easily fit into your day. Typically one hour or less, these sessions explore timely and relevant topics including teaching strategies, current events, and more.
Instructor-Led
This professional learning event will be led by Facing History staff. When you register, you will receive instructions for how to attend the event.
This event qualifies for Certificate of Completion.
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Key Points
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Learn from veteran Partner School educators about innovative Facing History curriculum, ideas, practices, works-in-progress, or dilemmas they are facing in their school communities.
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Connect and learn with Partner School educators throughout our network.
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Explore how Partner School educators utilize the PSN Common Principles inside the classroom and in school wide programming.
Join Partner Schools Network educators for an interactive Spark session.
An Educator Spark session is designed to stimulate conversation and thinking about new ideas emerging from Partner Schools and Facing History. Veteran educators from a variety of Partner Schools will present new ideas, curriculum, promising practices, or dilemmas they are facing in their school communities. Sparks are designed to combine short presentations with opportunities for participants to engage in discussions, ask questions and make connections to their own classroom and school. The goal of Sparks is to encourage the building of collective wisdom in our Partner Schools Network community.
Wednesday, February 21st from 7pm - 8 pm ET Spark Session
Teaching Civil Rights for People With Disabilities
Veteran teacher Sasha Guzman from Pacific Pathways Prep High School in Natomas, CA, will share her newly developed unit on the expansion of civil rights for people with disabilities (bio below). In this interactive spark session, Sasha will discuss how she approaches teaching this unit in order to help us consider how to bring this important but often neglected history into our classrooms. Sasha will highlight how she used the central text, Rolling Warrior by Judy Heumann, along with Facing History's Rolling Warrior Guide. Those in attendance will get access to her entire unit and teaching materials.
After 18 years teaching in Los Angeles, California I moved to and began teaching in the state capital of Sacramento in July 2021. As a social justice educator, I have created a classroom environment that supports both academic growth and the social emotional well being of my students. Restorative justice practices are the foundation for all of my interactions with them , as well as with colleagues. I work hard to empower and nurture my students self-actualization on all levels, so that they may see themselves as agents of change. I pride myself in creating opportunities for them to articulate their voices and experiences. My moral imperative is to create a curriculum that is culturally relevant, inclusive, and based on a foundation of love, respect, compassion, and humanity. I am a fierce anti-racist educator who strives to make my classroom a courageous space for anyone who enters it.
Meeting dates (virtual, 7-8pm ET):
- February 21, 2024
Speaker
Sasha Guzman
