So excited to be a convener for the workshop sessions during today’s Jumpstart Virtual conference with Initiative for Race Research and Justice — @MilnerHRich wanted us to take a selfie so here’s mine 🎉🎉🎉 Looking forward to impactful conversations about racial Justice in higher education

Kicking off my Monday and the first day of August with Initiative for Race Research and Justice for #2022Jumpstart virtual conference!! Cheers to the center and all who support this work ☺️ Dena Lane-Bonds @MilnerHRich Ira E. Murray, PhD #Ashley Peabody College #Jumpstart2022

I’m at Initiative for Race Research and Justice’s opening keynote lecture with Gholdy Muhammad! Listening to her talk about our “standards” and moving away from basic and raggedy (thank you Dr. Muhammad for speaking it plainly) curriculum has been so inspiring.

How do you stay whole while doing this work? Gholdy Muhammad “I rest, I rest, I rest.” And “name Joy every day”

At Cheryl E. Matias, PhD.’s keynote lecture for #jumpstart2022 entitled “The Dangers of White Emotionalities: National Hysteria and Hullabaloo in CRT, teaching and Racial Justice”. Her book titles “Surviving Becky(s)” and “Feeling White” have me so intrigued and excited to read more

It’s #VandyPhDday and I’m about to watch the third year students present their work!

Watching Lizi Metts, NBCT’s presentation “COVID changed everything”: Exploring Experienced Math Teachers’ Agency in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Insightful work about how teachers navigated the space between teaching in the before times & during COVID from May 2020 to June 2021 #VandyPhDday

Now we are learning from @_CandiceLove. They really bring home how culture is reflected in STEM disciplinary norms and what that means for student learning. Their presentation is entitled “Examining Epistemic Diversity as Design” #VandyPhDDay

What leads to diversity in CS when it’s used a major part of putting the “STEM” into STEAM for diversity initiatives? A question I’m left pondering after Ebony O. McGee, Plottin 4A Black STEM Revolution’s question at @_CandiceLove’s wonderful presentation. #VandyPhDDay

Laura Parks literally supporting students’ voices to be heard during her #vandyphdday presentation is just 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

And research about language teachers from Rachel Siegman (She/her/hers) in her talk “Teacher Sensemaking of Translanguaging Curricular Tools: Pursuing Culturally Sustaining Practices & Instruction for Plurilingual Learners”. We got to see how students represent their experiences #VandyPhDDay

Watching @BLoveSoulPower speak the now as the afterlife of slavery and the afterlife of Brown 🤯

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