ADED Social Justice Colloquia
As part of our faculty retreat in Summer 2009, the ADED faculty started discussing how Social Justice emerged in separate courses as a part of a larger discussion about issues of diversity in teacher education. In Summer of 2010, the ADED faculty participated in a Diversity retreat facilitated specifically for our group by an outside facilitator. In subsequent semesters, we regularly included (sometimes difficult) discussions of readings focusing on social justice oriented teacher education.
To more explicitly enact our emerging social justice commitments, we developed the social justice colloquia in Fall 2012. The social justice colloquia have been part of our program from 2012 to 2017 with revolving and evolving topics. This presentation from the 2015 OCTEO conference (PDF) outlines the nature of this work.
Currently, the topics of the ADED Social Justice Colloquia are:
- Race
- Poverty
- LGBTQ Issues in Schools
- Culturally-Relevant Pedagogy
- Differentiated Instruction and Special Education
- Human Trafficking
- Working with Families
- English Language Learners
Resources for these Social Justice Topics
Human Trafficking
- Collaborative to End Human Trafficking of Greater Cleveland
- Polaris Project
- United States Department of Health and Human Services
LGBTQ
- LGBTQ+ Resource Guide (PDF) from the City of Columbus LGBTQ Health Initiative
- OJELA Articles on LGTBQ Issues in Teaching English Language Arts
- Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance): Common Roadblocks
- ACLU LGBT Know Your Rights (PDF) - see also the ACLU's LGBT Youth page
- National Center for Transgender Equality: Know your Rights (PDF)
- GLSEN Back To School Guide for Creating LGBT-Inclusive Environments (PDF)
- We Need Diverse Books
- John Green discusses Why We Need Diverse Books (time 3:05)
- Book Lists:
American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards (includes all winners from 1971-present)
The American Library Association lists books for younger children
The Rainbow Book List (ALA GLBT Round Table Committee) - LGBTQ Youth & Education: Policies and Practices by Cris Mayo (Teachers College Press, 2013)
Differentiation for Students with Special Needs
- Differentiation Handout (PDF)
Family
- CAEP has made available three Family Engagement Modules
Teaching English Language Learners
- Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol Resources (SIOP)
- Colorín Colorado Resources by Grade
- Edutopia Resources for Teaching English Language Learners
- WIDA English Language Development Standards
- Adapting Instruction for English Language Learners from Spring 2017 Social Justice Colloquium (PDF)