Events

Dear White People: Showing up for Black colleagues

Webinar

Dear White People is a four-part webinar series interrogating whiteness, anti-blackness and anti-racism in education. Part 4 of the series investigates how do you show up for your Black colleagues in schools and campuses? Panelists Credit: Lumina Foundation Jasmine Haywood Strategic Impact Officer Lumina Foundation Jasmine Haywood is a strategy officer at Lumina Foundation, an […]

Teaching about racism: Assembling a teacher’s toolkit

Webinar

Join Professor Cynthia Tyson, professor of literature for children and young adults, for a virtual meetup presented by the Ohio Department of Education's Social Studies team to help understand race and racism in the United States today and help educators create tools to use in their classrooms. This session will help teachers create a toolkit of […]

Black Minds Matter: A free 5-part online course

Webinar

This five-part course addresses issues facing Black students in education by drawing parallels between the policing of Black lives and schooling of Black minds. The course will balance a discussion of issues facing Black students as well as offer research-based strategies for improving their success. Course Dates July 16, 2020 July 23, 2020 July 30, 2020 […]

Unapologetic Educational Research: D-L Stewart

Webinar

In this talk, D-L Stewart, an Ohio State alumnus and professor at Colorado State University will discuss the ways that engineering diverse participant samples in normative qualitative research contains, protects, and prioritizes white supremacy. White supremacy in normative qualitative research treats “diverse” participants as fungible, has material effects, and enacts power over minoritized communities. I […]

Unapologetic Educational Research: Richard Milner

Webinar

As we more understand an amplification of research on race in education, white researchers are designing research studies centering race. Richard Milner, an Ohio State alumnus and professor at Vanderbilt University will address what this moment and movement could mean in building knowledge to inform practice in education and how researchers can deepen their capacity […]

Home is the Key: Addressing Community Disparities

Webinar

October 28, 2020, 6 PM While a new generation marches forward for greater justice and equality, The Ohio State University is tackling systemic racism in its own backyard. On the heels of an Ohio State Alumni Magazine fall issue package on the topic, a new four-part webinar series is being launched featuring a diverse group […]