Peace and Equality in Education Mural – – Harvey Milk Academy – Castro. photo by Haydn Blackey

How it works: All preservice and in-service teachers and friends are invited to dialogue on the ways we build communities of support to sustain our justice-centered teaching. Our goal is to read and discuss shared texts in our own communities (i.e., in our local teacher education classrooms), and then to post about these discussions and texts. The following week, we invite you to respond to these initial posts, and to dialogue with educators in different contexts as you explore ways of building and sustaining justice-oriented teaching and learning.

Dates for the Spring 2025 dialogue:

The English Language Arts Teacher Educators Commission on Social Justice (ELATE-SJ) Spring 2025 dialogue will begin the week of March 24^th – April 1st, 2025 (reading/posting week); and continue throughout the week of April 2^nd – April 10th, 2025 (responding week). This dialogue provides an opportunity for preservice and in-service teachers from across the United States and international contexts to engage in shared readings, post their thoughts on/analysis of those readings, and then review and respond to one another’s posts. The topic for this dialogue is building communities of support to sustain justice-centered teaching. Two articles and one video to focus our dialogue are linked below.

Dobbs, C. L., Consalvo, A., Covino, K., David, A. D., Emeran, C., & Mason, P. A. (2024). “lots of ways to be brave”: A teacher’s guide to facing censorship. English Journal, 113(3), 22–28.

Dunn, A. H. (2023). “Why did we never learn this?”: Preparing educators to teach for justice and equity on days after. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 37(5), 1481–1495.

Overarching questions/considerations connected to the theme for the Spring 2025 dialogue:

What are some topics or issues in your local community that we should bear witness to?

What are some actions you can or have taken to bear witness and challenge silence in your school community?

To share posts and respond on the justice.education website, please click on this link. Use the password shared by your professor to enter the dialogue space.