Building an Inclusive Environment
One Read, One School of Education Community: Firekeeper's Daughter
In the 2023-24 academic year, we came together for the inaugural One Read, One School of Education Community: Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley. This shared reading experience enriched our community as we read, discussed, found common threads, explored themes, and learned about the experiences of others. All members of the School of Education community were encouraged to participate. Across the year we hosted discussions and incorporated the themes of the book into various courses and events.
Find the book at your local bookstore, a public or university library, online apps and resources or the Dean's Office lending library (email Kim [email protected] to reserve a copy).
Events
- SOE Book Club Fall 2023: Fridays, 1 - 2 p.m. on Zoom, 9/15, 10/20, 11/17, 12/15. Contact Kim Smith [email protected] to sign up and receive the Zoom invite. Book Club flyer
- Community Lecture: 11/13/23, noon - 1 p.m., Standish Room, UAlbany and the "Civilizing Mission": Indigenous Teacher Training, Colonialism, and UAlbany's Origins by Dr. Maeve Kane, associate professor in history. Community Lecture flyer
- SOE 3, 2, 1 Coffee Hour: 11/16/23, 10 a.m., 1st Floor open lounge, co-sponsored by Educational Psychology RGSO
- Virtual Author Visit with Angeline Boulley: 1/31/24, 4 - 5:30 p.m. on Zoom. This visit is the launch event for the edTrends Book Study below. All are welcome to this event (do not have to be in the book study).
- edTrends Spring Book Study: Wednesdays, 4 p.m. on Zoom, 2/28, 3/20, 4/24, 5/25
Open to everyone! Will include panel presentations and invited guests.
Book Club
Starting in 2019-2020 as a means to foster meaningful dialogue about the role of race and equality in the School of Education, the faculty and staff come together to read and discuss important texts engaging with deep considerations of social justice. All SOE faculty, staff and students are welcome and encouraged to join. Contact Kim Smith mailto:[email protected] for a copy of the current semester's book and a Zoom link.
- Fall 2024: Help us to select the book for Book Club Spring 2025!
- Spring 2024: Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love
- Academic Year 2023-2024: see above section on the One Read, One School of Education Community: Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- Spring 2023: From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education by Tia Brown McNair, Estela Mara Bensimon, Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux
- Fall 2022: Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard, Jennifer Zivoin (Illustrator)
- Spring 2022: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks
- Fall 2021: Black Fatigue by Mary-Frances Winters
- Spring 2021: How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibrahim X. Kendi
- Fall 2020: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Spring 2020: We Want to do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
Reflecting Diversity in our Physical Spaces
The Freedom Dreaming for Educational Justice project begins from the premise that in order to change inequitable schooling systems, we must first imagine a better reality. With support from a UAlbany StAR grant, this public engagement project draws on the anti-racist scholarship of Bettina L. Love and concepts of freedom dreaming and the Black imaginary within the work of Robin D. G. Kelley. This project brings together K-12 educators, UAlbany students, authors, artists, faculty, K-12 students, and the broader community to create education freedom dreams to be exhibited in online and public spaces, as well as preserved in a living archive for ongoing research. Experience the online gallery or view a sampling of the artwork on the 2nd floor of the Catskill Building.
Sharing freedom dreams for educational justice
An art exhibition reflects teacher and student quests for educational justice
What does equity in education look like? UAlbany exhibit featuring students, teachers explores topic
UAlbany's 'Freedom Dreaming' artwork selected for exhibition at Columbia Teachers College
Writing Project Celebrates 20 Years at UAlbany with Art Exhibition, Book Launch
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice/Climate Committee
Created in 2019, the SOE Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice/Climate Committee is chaired by Dr. Tammy Ellis-Robinson, SOE director of equity and inclusion. This group meets monthly and includes faculty, staff and students from SOE as well as administrative leaders from throughout the university. Their charge is to develop and carry out activities that support the SOE equity and inclusion efforts.
Opening Listening Sessions
Town Hall: Equity and Social Justice in Education and Mental Health
Check back for upcoming events...
3, 2, 1 Coffee Hours
3, 2, 1 Coffee Hours gather students and faculty to informally chat over a cup of joe. There is one on each floor of the Catskill Building (3, 2, 1) per semester and they are co-sponsored by varying student groups in the SOE.
- Thursday, 9/5/24, 10 a.m., 3rd Fl, CK 370
- Wednesday, 10/9/24, 10 a.m., 2nd Fl, CK 204
- Tuesday, 11/19/24, 10 a.m., CK 1st Fl open lounge
SOE Talent Show
Discover the range of talent we have right in our own SOE community! Sing, dance, rap, play an instrument, make people laugh, lip sync, read poetry, sing a song in ASL, juggle, yodel, do a magic trick, spin a basketball, hula hoop, yo-yo, arrange flowers, speed paint, origami - think outside the box! If sharing a talent is not for you, come and cheer on your peers and friends as they dazzle us all! Please register either way - as a participant or as a guest. Let’s get together and build community – it is a guaranteed good time! Faculty, staff and students are welcome and encouraged to share in the fun.
Friday, March 8, 2024
7:30 p.m.
Campus Center West Multipurpose Room
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