Rethinking Professional Development as Participatory Development: Examining Racial Literacies Development in Collaboration

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session Three
  In Roundtable Session: Partnerships for Advancing Classroom Learning (Table 7)

Abstract

This presentation outlines a university-community participatory collaborative model consisting of three early career elementary teachers and one doctoral student. The goal of this collaboration was the racial literacies development (RLD of each member of the team through engaging in critical conversations about race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity with the ultimate goal of improving their teaching in culturally responsive and sustaining ways for their students through a dialogical and teacher-led form of professional development. Following Sealey-Ruiz’ pyramid of racial literacies development in education scholarship, the four collaborators highlight the four integral components – establishing goals, sharing and vulnerability, consulting resources, and implementing their learning – and the cyclical manner in which they engaged in each toward greater RLD.

Authors

• Mary Adu-Gyamfi, University of Missouri
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• Joey Laurx, University of Northern Colorado
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• Trustin Dinsdale, University of Missouri - Columbia
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• Rylie Kever, North Kansas City School District
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