WEEK 1: Getting to know each other.

DUE BY MONDAY, AUGUST 31 BY 11:59 pm:   
Complete the introductory survey.
Sign up for a session. 
Read the syllabus. 

DURING CLASS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1:
1. Whole session zoom. (Password: fun) 
2. Syllabus. 
3. Artifact activity.
4. Talk about next class.

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WEEK 2: How can learning about educational movements help you to understand a community’s purpose of education?

DUE BY MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 @ 11:59 PM:
1. UPLOAD your personal collage or song share with reflection in FlipGrid. 7:10 or 8:00
2. READ Chapter Two in Cultivating Genius by Gholdy Muhammad.
3. LISTEN to School Colors podcast.

DURING CLASS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8:
1. Whole session zoom.
2. One minute reply to someone's FlipGrid. 7:10 or 8:00
3. Purpose of Education discussion/activity.
4. Educational Movement research project introduction. 

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WEEK 3: What is your purpose of education?

DUE BY MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 @ 11:59 PM:
READ We Need to Ask Our Children to Dream and Dream Big by Bill Bigelow
READ Engaged Pedagogy (Ch.2)- bell hooks Teaching to Transcend 
OPTIONAL: The Green New Deal and Our Schools by S.E. Bloom

DURING CLASS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15:
1. Whole session zoom.
2. Compare different purposes of education and discuss from where they stem.
3. Project check-ins. 

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WEEK 4: WORKING DAY

DURING CLASS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22:
Working Day

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WEEK 5: How do we situate a school within a changing neighborhood? How do policies affect different schools differently?

DUE BY MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 @ 11:59 PM:
1. UPLOAD your presentation on FlipGrid - 7:10 & 8:00. 
Share your slides, reflection and script with me ([email protected]) or email me your presentation if you are not using google.  
2. LISTEN to Nice White Parents: Episode Two - I Still Believe in It. 
3. READ Choosing a School for my Daughter in a Segregated City. 

DURING CLASS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6:
1. Whole session zoom.
2. Discussion of asset mapping. 
3. Discussion of historic and current policies that affect children. 
4. Discuss next project. 

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WEEK 6: WORK DAY

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WEEK 7: How do you build a classroom community in the present while keeping children’s personal histories in mind?

DUE BY MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 @ 11:59 PM:
EMAIL or Share your presentation with me and post your flipgrid here: 7:10 and 8:00
LISTEN to this classroom “management” podcast with Carla Shalaby (1 hour) 
READ  Three Illusions: Teaching Children to be Change Makers by Julia Putnam from Teaching While the World is On Fire 

DURING CLASS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20:
1. Whole class zoom check-in.
2. Share insights about the school or neighborhood.
3. Discuss the readings and take-aways
4. Read excerpts from Responsive Classroom 
5. First week of school planning template.

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WEEK 8: How do you create meaningful relationships with parents?

DUE BY MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 @ 11:59 PM:

LISTEN to school norms podcast.
READ Aren’t You on the Parent Listerv? 
READ Rethinking Parent Engagement in an Urban School

DURING CLASS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27:

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WEEK 9: WORK DAY

November 3rd: Nothing due. Work on your assignments.

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WEEK 10: How do theories of pedagogical practice affect teacher practices?

DUE BY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 @ 11:59 PM:
EMAIL first week of school schedule for your grade with model activities. 
EMAIL Communication Plan and Welcome Letter 
READ Abolition Teaching by Bettina Love (part 1 & 2)
LISTEN Trickle Down History from This American Life. 
READ Todos Math Assessment

DURING CLASS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10:
Understand By Design 
Assessment Strategies
Facilitation Questions

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WEEK 11: How do you teach creativity and radically when you have a scripted curriculum? How do we stay responsive to our students’ needs and true to our purpose?

DUE BY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16 @ 11:59 PM:
WATCH woke read aloud. 
READ Subvert Scripted Language Arts Curriculum by Carolina Valdez
READ Lesson Plan & Slides Example in Resources
LISTEN Subversion: An Essential Tool of the Master Teacher 


DURING CLASS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17:
Methods and resources for subverting the system.

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WEEK 12: WORKING DAY

DUE BY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23 @ 11:59 PM:

DURING CLASS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24:

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WEEK 13: WORKING DAY

DUE BY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 @ 11:59 PM:

DURING CLASS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1:

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WEEK 14: How do we say goodbye?

DUE BY MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 @ 11:59 PM:
UPLOAD One revised lesson plan with facilitation questions, and one mini-lesson on flip-grid.

DURING CLASS ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8:

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WEEK 15

No class; final project due by Monday, December 14 @ 11:59 p.m.