Action Dreaming: A Community Conversation about the Future of Learning and Education

Thu, Sep 19 2024
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Central Library, Dweck Center

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In an educational landscape teeming with uncertainties, it has become increasingly difficult to parent children, harder to teach them, and it is especially challenging to be one. So much of the conversation now is about what’s good for education, but few people are talking about what is actually good for children -- and what is good for the people who love them.

Join Kass and Cornelius Minor in partnership with Kwame Alexander for a participatory evening of dreaming and community conversation about the future of learning that is centered on children and the villages that nurture them. Be ready to engage in storytelling, listening, and art-making as we explore what education has been and what powerful, transformative learning can be.

Who should attend?
This event is for educators, parents and caregivers, dreamers, artists, activists, and anyone who believes in the power of community to foster educational change. It's for those who seek to not only envision a better future for education but to actively participate in its creation. Together, we'll explore how collective imagination, and creativity can pave the way for a future where education embodies equity, joy, and boundless possibility.

Please register for the event through the Eventbrite link at right.


PARTICIPANTS

Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, publisher, Emmy® Award-winning producer, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of 40 books, including This is the Honey, Why Fathers Cry at Night, An American Story, The Door of No Return, Becoming Muhammad Ali (co-authored with James Patterson), Rebound, which was shortlisted for the prestigious UK Carnegie Medal, and The Undefeated, the National Book Award nominee, Newbery Honor, and Caldecott Medal-winning picture book illustrated by Kadir Nelson. Photo credit Rowan Daly

Kwame is also the Executive Producer, Showrunner, and Writer of the Emmy-award winning series The Crossover, based on his Newbery-Medal winning novel of the same title, which premiered on Disney+ in April 2023. The series was produced in partnership with LeBron James' SpringHill Company and Big Sea Entertainment, Kwame's production company that is dedicated to creating innovative, highly original children’s and family entertainment. 

Kwame serves as Michael I. Rudell Artistic Director of Literary Arts for Chautauqua Literary Arts, and he serves as the Chautauqua Institution’s Inaugural Writer-in-Residence. 

His mission is to change the world, one word at a time.

Kass Minor is an inclusive educator who is deeply involved in local, inquiry-based teacher research and school community development. Alongside partnerships with the Teachers College Inclusive Classrooms Project and the New York City Department of Education, since 2005, she has worked as a teacher, staff developer, adjunct professor, speaker, and documentarian. She has contributed content to the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Edutopia, Heinemann Education Blog, inclusiveclassrooms.org, and has been featured in KQED Mindshift, Parents Magazine, Teaching Tolerance Magazine and the critically acclaimed New York Times Serial Podcast, Nice White Parents. Kass’s book, Teaching Fiercely: Spreading Joy and Justice in Our Schools, offers educators important, practical antidotes to remedy injustices experienced by kids, teachers, and families in schools everywhere, every day, all the time.

Cornelius Minor is a Brooklyn-based educator and part-time Pokemon trainer. He works with teachers, school leaders, and leaders of community-based organizations to support equitable literacy reform in cities (and sometimes villages) across the globe. His book, We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be, explores how the work of creating more equitable school spaces is embedded in our everyday choices — specifically in the choice to really listen to kids.

 

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Add to My Calendar 09/19/2024 06:00 pm 09/19/2024 08:00 pm America/New_York Action Dreaming: A Community Conversation about the Future of Learning and Education

In an educational landscape teeming with uncertainties, it has become increasingly difficult to parent children, harder to teach them, and it is especially challenging to be one. So much of the conversation now is about what’s good for education, but few people are talking about what is actually good for children -- and what is good for the people who love them.

Join Kass and Cornelius Minor in partnership with Kwame Alexander for a participatory evening of dreaming and community conversation about the future of learning that is centered on children and the villages that nurture them. Be ready to engage in storytelling, listening, and art-making as we explore what education has been and what powerful, transformative learning can be.

Who should attend?
This event is for educators, parents and caregivers, dreamers, artists, activists, and anyone who believes in the power of community to foster educational change. It's for those who seek to not only envision a better future for education but to actively participate in its creation. Together, we'll explore how collective imagination, and creativity can pave the way for a future where education embodies equity, joy, and boundless possibility.

Please register for the event through the Eventbrite link at right.


PARTICIPANTS

Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, publisher, Emmy® Award-winning producer, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of 40 books, including This is the Honey, Why Fathers Cry at Night, An American Story, The Door of No Return, Becoming Muhammad Ali (co-authored with James Patterson), Rebound, which was shortlisted for the prestigious UK Carnegie Medal, and The Undefeated, the National Book Award nominee, Newbery Honor, and Caldecott Medal-winning picture book illustrated by Kadir Nelson. Photo credit Rowan Daly

Kwame is also the Executive Producer, Showrunner, and Writer of the Emmy-award winning series The Crossover, based on his Newbery-Medal winning novel of the same title, which premiered on Disney+ in April 2023. The series was produced in partnership with LeBron James' SpringHill Company and Big Sea Entertainment, Kwame's production company that is dedicated to creating innovative, highly original children’s and family entertainment. 

Kwame serves as Michael I. Rudell Artistic Director of Literary Arts for Chautauqua Literary Arts, and he serves as the Chautauqua Institution’s Inaugural Writer-in-Residence. 

His mission is to change the world, one word at a time.

Kass Minor is an inclusive educator who is deeply involved in local, inquiry-based teacher research and school community development. Alongside partnerships with the Teachers College Inclusive Classrooms Project and the New York City Department of Education, since 2005, she has worked as a teacher, staff developer, adjunct professor, speaker, and documentarian. She has contributed content to the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Edutopia, Heinemann Education Blog, inclusiveclassrooms.org, and has been featured in KQED Mindshift, Parents Magazine, Teaching Tolerance Magazine and the critically acclaimed New York Times Serial Podcast, Nice White Parents. Kass’s book, Teaching Fiercely: Spreading Joy and Justice in Our Schools, offers educators important, practical antidotes to remedy injustices experienced by kids, teachers, and families in schools everywhere, every day, all the time.

Cornelius Minor is a Brooklyn-based educator and part-time Pokemon trainer. He works with teachers, school leaders, and leaders of community-based organizations to support equitable literacy reform in cities (and sometimes villages) across the globe. His book, We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be, explores how the work of creating more equitable school spaces is embedded in our everyday choices — specifically in the choice to really listen to kids.

 

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