Online Professional Learning Community: White Teachers Facing and Disrupting Their Own Oppressive Classroom Practices

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable 9:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Disrupting Whiteness in Practice (Table 37)

Abstract

In this year-long study occurring during the 2020-2021 COVID pandemic, nine white ELA teachers created community, engaged with anti-oppression scholarship, and found ways to connect that scholarship to their classroom practice. These women participated in weekly ZOOM meetings led by a white presentation, Latina lesbian professor from a large, private university in the northeast. The participants focused on a deep study of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, critical whiteness, and their own teaching practice. The teachers ranged in experience, age, location, and grade levels. This qualitative narrative study highlights the ways three of the participants reflected upon and actively changed their classroom practice as a result of critical, long-term, professional learning.

Authors

• Laura M. Jimenez, Boston University

• Betsy Beckert, Boston University

• Brenda Lynn Le Blanc Jaster, Boston University