After careful consideration and out of concern for the health of participants and the students and families they work with, as well as our commitment to doing our part to reduce the overall spread of COVID-19, we have made the very unfortunate decision to cancel the School Redesign in Action Conference originally scheduled for March 23 and 24 in Norwood, MA. This cancellation includes all events scheduled at the conference including pre-conference sessions. FMI: newenglandssc.org/conference
The Mastery Collaborative (MC) is a community of practitioners from more than 50 schools in New York City that implements mastery-based and culturally responsive-sustaining practices. Together, the community has embarked on a mission to better serve their diverse students through student-centered and anti-racist practices. This work has necessitated a great deal of professional learning about racism at the institutional, interpersonal, and internalized level. MC practitioners have honed their skills identifying inequity and checking their own implicit biases in order to improve their school and classroom practices.
In this session, come try your hand at interrogating a practice of teaching and learning through a critical race lens, and work collaboratively to identify under what conditions a “best practice” is culturally responsive. You’ll hear about the multifaceted approach to professional learning around race the Mastery Collaborative has adopted, as well as a bit about the rewards and challenges of that work.
