“Activism, Power & Identity”' is a culturally-sustaining, civics curricular intervention in a time of socio-political upheaval. Harkening back to Septima Clark’s Citizenship Schools and SNCC’s Freedom Schools, students co-create an anti-oppressive educational space that centers analyzing their positionality within the US political system alongside enacting their own freedom dreams. This workshop will share historically and culturally-responsive pedagogical frameworks, example lesson plans, and whole-school engagement strategies to successfully implement critical civics curriculum. This session is geared towards social studies educators, curriculum specialists, and others who will gain (1) pedagogical analysis to situate critical culturally sustaining civics curriculum in our current time, (2) tools to cultivate family, educator and administrative buy-in, and (3) space to freedom dream their own interventions in their schools and communities.
