{"id":25624,"date":"2023-09-21T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-education\/?page_id=25624"},"modified":"2024-12-18T11:40:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T16:40:31","slug":"previous-sessions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-education\/social-justice-academy\/pds\/previous-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Academy Professional Development Series – Previous Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fall 2024 Series<\/h2>\n\n

The Courage to Challenge Racial Injustice and Build Equity in Education<\/h3>\n\n\n

Oct. 22, 2024<\/strong>
4 p.m.-5 p.m.
Pollak Theatre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Conversation with Ruby Bridges<\/strong> in recognition of the 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-moderated by Vernon Smith, Ph.D., and Zaneta Rago-Craft, Ed.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-sponsored with the Monmouth University Intercultural Center<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall Distinguished Speaker<\/h4>\n\n\n

Ruby Bridges is a civil rights icon, activist, author, and speaker who at the age of 6 was the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school alone in Louisiana. She was born in Mississippi in 1954, the same year the United States Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision ordering the integration of public schools. Her family later moved to New Orleans, where on Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges began attending William Frantz Elementary School, single-handedly initiating the desegregation of public education. Her walk to the front door of the school was immortalized in Norman Rockwell\u2019s painting “The Problem We All Live With”, in Robert Coles\u2019 book “The Story of Ruby Bridges”, and in the Disney movie “Ruby Bridges”.

She established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to provide leadership training programs that inspire youth and community leaders to embrace and value the richness of diversity. Bridges is the recipient of numerous awards, including the NAACP Martin Luther King Award, the Presidential Citizens Medal, and honorary doctorate degrees from Connecticut College, College of New Rochelle, Columbia University Teachers College, and Tulane University. Bridges is also the author of “Through My Eyes”, “This Is Your Time”, “I Am Ruby Bridges”, and “Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts”, released in January 2024. In March 2024, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n\n\n

Spring 2024 Series<\/h2>\n\n

Supporting Queer and Trans Students in K-16 Classrooms and Building an Intersectional Research Agenda in Education <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Mario Suarez, Ph.D. (he\/him\/\u00e9l)<\/strong>
Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies at Utah State University <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario I. Su\u00e1rez, Ph.D., (he\/him\/\u00e9l) is an assistant professor of cultural studies in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at Utah State University. Mario\u2019s research agenda examines individual, environmental, contextual, and systemic factors that work together (or not) to (re)produce unequal educational outcomes for minoritized populations. He analyzes how these factors shape K-16 spaces through standards, curriculum, and teaching practices for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC students and teachers. To this end, he primarily employs critical quantitative research methods using secondary data analysis, though also draws on qualitative methods and primary data collection when large data are not available. He envisions these factors as metaphorical gears, some larger than others, that sometimes do not fit together and are working against each other, more so for some minoritized populations over others, to create inequality in K-16 spaces. His research has appeared in journals like Educational Researcher <\/em>and Journal of LGBT Youth, <\/em>among others, and recently co-edited the book <\/em>“Trans Studies in K-12 Education: Creating an Agenda for Research and Practice” <\/em>with Melinda M. Mangin, Ph.D., (Rutgers University) for Harvard Education Press. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall 2023 Series<\/h2>\n\n

Building and Practicing Racial Literacy: Moving from Theory to Practice<\/h3>\n\n

Featuring Our Fall Distinguished Speaker, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Ph.D.<\/h4>\n\n\n
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Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Ph.D., is a professor of English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and a sought after speaker on race and educational equity issues. She is author of numerous academic articles, co-editor of four books, and co-author of the multiple award-winning book Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces<\/em>, where she examines her concept of Archeology of Self\u2122 in education. At Teachers College, she is founder of the Racial Literacy Roundtables Series where for 15 years, national scholars, teachers, and students facilitate conversations around race and other issues involving diversity. Yolanda has appeared in several documentaries including Spike Lee\u2019s 2 Fists Up: We Gon\u2019 Be Alright<\/em> (2016), a documentary about the Black Lives Matter movement and the campus protests at Mizzou. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Love from the Vortex & Other Poems<\/em> was published in March 2020. Her sophomore book of poetry, The Peace Chronicles<\/em>, was published in July, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2023 Series<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

Disrupting Educational Inequities: Managing Roadblocks to Social Justice & Anti-Racist Practices in the Classroom<\/strong>
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Featuring Educator and Activist Alfred “Shivy” Brooks<\/h5>\n\n\n
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