About the Event:
Calling all parents, educators, and community stakeholders! Join us for our annual Teacher Truth Perspectives event, where we share what we’ve learned from our ongoing Black educator story collection project. Hear directly from Black educators and expert researchers about what’s working well and what changes are urgently needed.
This year, we’re celebrating five years of our first story collection featuring the five Black educators whose stories were the launch pad to this industry-specific research. Join us for an insightful and inspiring event that lifts up the importance of teacher leadership and cultures of care along with other recurring themes from our research, all in celebration of the power of Black educators and their stories.
Meet the Research Team:
With the central goal of identifying, supporting, and documenting the rich legacy of Black women, Dr. E’rika Chambers has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to transformational servant leadership that uplifts the voices of Black women, girls, and educators. For more than 30 years, Dr. Chambers has worked in education, providing support and services for students of all ages. Her unique perspective on creating cultures of care, cultivating voice that leads to action, and utilizing historically responsive pedagogy inspires students, professionals, and communities to do the work required to thrive in their purpose. Dr. Chambers currently serves as Director of Programs and Teacher Truth Lead Researcher at BlackFemaleProject, where she and her team affirm Black women’s experiences, provide a platform for self-expression, and offer insights for achieving self-defined success in the workplace and beyond. Dr. Chambers is also a Without Walls Community Development Corporation board member, a U.S. historian, and a global educator.
Dr. Micia Mosely is the founder and director of the Black Teacher Project, a program of the National Equity Project committed to developing a Black teaching force in order to transform schools into communities of liberated learning. She began her career as a high school social studies teacher before earning her Ph.D. in education from U.C. Berkeley. Mosely’s research and practice focus on equity, race, and urban education. Mosely is also known for her one-woman show, Where My Girls At?, a comedy about Black lesbians.
Dr. Tameka L. McGlawn provides transformational leadership to urban learning communities and brings a deep devotion to increased equity and economic opportunities for all students, families, and communities. Over the last 25 years, she’s served at every institutional level (K-20), in a variety of settings and professional roles, offering unique perspectives on student-centered assets and achievement, leadership optimization, and equity-based outcomes. Dr. McGlawn is currently the executive director of the University of California Berkeley’s College and Career Academy Support Network; a board member for the Buck Institute for Education; a Deeper Learning Equity Fellow, and a member of the University of California Office of the President’s UC Curriculum Integration Advisory Council.
Britte Haugan Cheng, Ph.D., is the Principal and Founder of Menlo Education Research (MenloEDU), where she leads research and development on persistent problems in education. Over the last 20 years, Dr. Cheng has led multiple projects to advance the science of scaling innovations in education, with a focus on methods that develop the capacity of educational systems and stakeholders. She received her MA and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley
This is event will take place online via Zoom is FREE with RSVP.