Day 8

9:30 - 9:45

Welcome and Reviewing Reflections

• Here's a document we can use for Parking Lot questions, setting up Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and sharing resources.

• Review reflections from day 7.

9:45 - 10: 00

Writing into the Day

• Introduce today's focus question: How might speculative education, freedom dreaming, and fugitive pedagogies, help us to reimagine teaching and learning?

• Using the Chalk Talk routine, we will respond to four quotes from the readings:

  • •  "Love (2019) explained that freedom dreams "are not whimsical, unattainable day-dreams, they are critical and imaginative dreams of collective resistance" (p.101). 

    • The Literacy Futurisms Collective-in-the-Making (2021) stated, "In essence, literacy futurisms envision multiple futures, presents, and pasts in which the literacies of minoritized communities are centered.  In reworking the past to imagine new presents and futures, we also reconstruct how literate identities come to be" (p. 432).

    • Toliver (2021) spoke about Afrofutures: "This is not the world we have but it's one we can build...the Afrofuture does not exist in a vacuum in a non-historical void. My dream exists alongside the dreams of those who are named here."

    • Givens (2021) wrote about fugitive pedagogies: "[Tessie] McGee escaped this official curriculum by way of the 'hidden transcript' literally resting on her lap" (p. 5).

10:00 - 10:45

Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America

• Explore the groundbreaking joint exhibition developed by the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America."

• The exhibition invites audiences to reflect on and respond to the provocative and timely question: “Is the sun rising or setting on the experiment of American democracy?”

10:45- 11:30

Guest Speaker: Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau, 邱玉娟

• Lisa is a PhilWP TC, a teacher at Key School, a Yale National Initiative fellow through the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia, and a Poetry Inside Out teaching fellow.

11:30 - 12:15

Journal Groups

12:15 - 1:00

Lunch & Reading

1:00  - 2:30

Analyzing Data from the Black Girls Literacies Project Using the ATLAS Protocol

• Teachers in the Philadelphia Writing Project and other practitioner inquiry communities have a history of using descriptive review processes for looking closely at student work.

• Work with Barrett using the ATLAS protocol to look closely at student work from the Black Girls Literacies Project. 

2:30 - 3:00

Closing

• Reaction Sheet

• Prepare Readings for Day 9:

  • • Muhammad, G. E. (2023). Unearthing joy: A guide to culturally and historically responsive teaching and learning. Scholastic. [Chapters 5-7].

    • Garcia & Mirra. (2021). Writing toward justice: Youth speculative civic literacies in online policy discourse. Urban Education, 56(4), 640–669.