Celebrating Black History in Education
Saturday, February 3, 2024 · 8:30am-3:00p
East Providence High School
2000 Pawtucket Ave. East Providence
The NEARI Professional Development Committee and the Racial & Social Justice Committee joined forces to present this full day of speakers and sessions centered on the richness of Black history. We'll lift up the stories of writers, inventors, and innovators in the Black community. We will explore new ideas for teaching Black history and cultures through the NEA Diverse Readers Lesson Planning Series with classroom implementation, applicable standards and unit design.
Registration is open now!
Keynote Speaker: Kekla Magoon
Kekla Magoon is the author of many novels and nonfiction books for young readers, including The Season of Styx Malone, The Rock and the River, How It Went Down, and Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People.
She has received the Margaret A. Edwards Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the John Steptoe New Talent Award, three Coretta Scott King Honors, the Walter Award Honor, an NAACP Image Award, and been a finalist for the National Book Award.
Kekla conducts school and library visits nationwide and serves on the Writers’ Council for the National Writing Project. Kekla holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she now serves on faculty. Visit her online at keklamagoon.com.
Black History Conference Agenda
8:30-9:00am | Check In and Breakfast Breakfast/coffee provided by students of EP Culinary CTE Program | |
9:00-9:10am | Opening Remarks NEARI President Sen. Val Lawson and NEARI Executive Director Mary Barden EPHS Cafeteria | |
9:10-9:45am | Keynote Remarks
Kekla Magoon Kekla will discuss her award winning nonfiction book about the Black Panther Party. Revolution in the Classroom: Embracing Our Power as Changemakers, will discuss the importance of reading and writing as a tool for social change, and our individual and collective power to transform our classrooms and communities. There will be copies of Kekla’s books for folks to take and have signed. Books available at no charge will be Revolution in Our Time, She Persisted: Ruby Bridges, The Rock and the River, and Camo Girl. EPHS Cafeteria | |
10:00-11:10am | Session I (select one)
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11:15am-12:30pm | Session II (select one)
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12:30-1:15pm | LUNCH (provided) | |
1:20-2:30pm | Session III - Diverse Learners Series vol.3 (select one)
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2:30-3:00pm | Wrap Up Closing Remarks from NEARI Vice President and Racial & Social Justice Committee Chair Amy Mullen Evaluation forms, Book signings (Dr. Ullucci will be available with free copies of her book Anti-Blackness at School) |