The UC Irvine Office of Inclusive Excellence put out a call to for project that respond to address the needs of the UC Irvine community while confronting extreme ideology. Dr. Adriana Villavicencio, Dr. Doron Zinger, and Socorro Cambero received a small award to pursue project called, Confronting Extremism through Culturally Responsive Pedagogies in a STEM Educator Program. This work set the foundation for the CalTeach books clubs during the 2021-2022.
We began the book look engagin with This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell, which provides a foundation on the social identities, manifestations of racism, the history of racism and steps towards anti-racism work.
CalTeach students made a collective decision to engage in Teachers of Color during Winter 2022.
This is the book club material for Winter 2022 that CalTeach participants picked up early in Janurary. We planned to meet every Thursday for 6 weeks during Winter 2022 to engage with, Teachers of Color by Rita Kohli, which was a book of their choosing. The package includes a book club schedule, a bookmark with their name, and a notebook that is used for critical reflection journaling and document moments in their life that relates to the content discussed in the book. We needed to order more books because there were 12 students who expressed interest in taking part during Winter 2022, which was more than anticipated. We were concerned initially because we did not have enough packages to for everyone to pick up.
The following are the reflection questions for Chapter 2 in Dr. Rita Kohli's Teachers of Color
The following are the reflection questions for Chapter 2 in Dr. Rita Kohli's Teachers of Color.
The following are the reflection questions for Chapter 3 in Dr. Rita Kohli's Teachers of Color.
The following are the reflection questions for Chapter 4 in Dr. Rita Kohli's Teachers of Color.
The following are the reflection questions for Chapter 5 in Dr. Rita Kohli's Teachers of Color.
This exhibit will include the various pits stops throughout the book club journey, which I conceptualize as being a few of the actionable steps the collective makes. For instance, students reflect and share on how they foresee themselves taking action in different spaces including class, when navigating with teacher colleagues, or their families. Importantly, the actionable steps can look different, thus there will be different collections of actionable steps.
