Are you interested in helping diversify the teacher workforce and help high school and community college students explore the possibilities of teaching as an act of social justice? Apply to join our team! The IUE is looking for a dynamic educator to help coordinate our teacher pipeline programs!
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Click to watch our most recent IUE Webinar Series focused on anti-racism in the classroom!
Secondary Math and Science Classrooms: An Anti-Racist Lens – Click HERE
Talking About Race in the Elementary Classroom – Click HERE
IUE presents a webinar providing P-12 educators with technology tools for facilitating learning in the classroom as well as remote learning. Continue reading “IUE Voices in Education: Technology Tools for Classroom-Based and Remote Learning”
IUE presents a webinar providing P-12 educators with information for differentiating instruction in remote learning situations. Continue reading “IUE Voices in Education: Techniques for Differentiation in Remote Learning”
IUE presents a webinar providing P-12 educators with information how to empower student voice in the classroom. Continue reading “IUE Voices in Education: Promoting Student Voice & Agency in the Classroom”
IUE presents a webinar providing educators with information about Anti-Racist classroom practices, including a brief historical context, information about culturally responsive, culturally relevant and anti-racist teaching strategies and tips. The webinar concludes with a panel discussion of current educators in Kansas City area schools and organizations.
Facilitators: Dr. Brad Poos and Jennifer Fergerson, Institute for Urban Education at UMKC
Panelists: Kirsten Brown, Crossroads Academy Charter School; Susana Elizarraraz, Latinx Education Collaborative; Chaur Jacobson, Turner High School; La’Shawna Wilson, West Park Elementary, Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools
Keichanda Dees-Burnett grew up at UMKC. From an active undergraduate majoring in communications studies, to a graduate student in higher education administration, to the director of Multicultural Student Affairs and co-interim dean of students, the Kansas City native is a key source of support for minority students on campus.