Building a New Table: Tracing the Pedagogies of Early Career, Women of Color Teachers during the Pandemic

• In Event: Together Apart: Online Community, Healing, and Racial Justice During the Pandemic

Abstract

This paper examines a multi-year, auto-ethnographic coalition dedicated to honoring and amplifying the experiences of pre-service and early career, Women of Color (WoC) teachers, in order to cultivate and sustain a diverse teaching force. We discuss the challenges and successes participants faced as they sought to leverage their experience-based knowledge to engage pedagogies of healing, belonging, and joy during their first years teaching, and the ways that these pedagogical commitments shifted when moving from in-person to online instruction.

Authors

• Danielle R. Filipiak, University of Connecticut - Storrs

• Grace D. Player, University of Connecticut - Storrs