Dear John,
Our next webinar for educators—Supporting Youth Activism—features panelists with a range of experiences, from academia to organizational leaders to current young people who are working to affect change in their communities. This webinar will equip educators with the tools needed to support youth activism in their contexts. This webinar will follow our new panel discussion format, responding directly to the needs of educators.
Register here for the webinar and share your questions here for our co-hosts, and we’ll do our best to answer them in the webinar. The deadline to submit questions is 11:59 p.m. CT on Friday, March 8. Here’s information about the webinar co-hosts:
Sara O’Brien is the Director of Curriculum and Pedagogy for the EdEthics initiative, which is housed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. In this role, she creates pedagogical tools that help educators, school and district leaders, and policy makers think through challenging ethical questions in education. A variety of these tools help educators unpack the challenges of supporting student-led activism in schools and provide resources for those adults looking to serve as allies and promote youth voice in schools.
Justin is an associate professor of digital media in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department at MIT and the director of the Teaching Systems Lab. He is the author of Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools and Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education, and he is the host of the TeachLab Podcast. He has helped to develop numerous online courses including Youth In Front: Understanding and Supporting Student-Led Activism.
Tamir Harper co-founded UrbEd Inc., a nonprofit that combines community organizing and policy to uplift students, educate communities, and develop coalitions to give students the education they deserve, at 16 years old. He is currently pursuing a Master's in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and teaching 8th-grade students English and Social Studies in the School District of Philadelphia. Harper is a graduate of American University and an awardee of the Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholars Program.
Anoushka Lal is a high school senior from the Chicago Public School System and serves as her school's Student Government president. Anoushka was previously the Public Health Chair of the Chicago Mayor's Youth Commission at City Hall, working with two mayoral administrations to address the pressing needs of city youth, including mental health and resource consolidation for over 340,000 public high school students. She currently serves as a Civil Rights Scholar at the Chicago Public School District, countering bias-based harm, and has written socio-political Op-Eds in magazines like Teen Vogue to represent the voices of her generation.
The webinar is set for 3:30 p.m. CT on April 16. Don’t forget to submit your questions here!
As always, thanks for everything you do for students.
Jalaya Liles Dunn
Director, Learning for Justice
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