Collaborative Workshops & Book Clubs
Interdisciplinary Curriculum Planning Workshops
BCC is excited to organize Saturday workshop sessions for K-12 teachers focused on collaborative interdisciplinary unit planning. We believe that teaching for liberation necessarily involves planning curriculum that is culturally responsive and relevant to the students we teach, in contrast to scripted curriculum. Our workshops also support the creativity, innovation, expertise, and collaboration of teachers. Each of our workshops will have a theme or topic around which we will generate unit questions, discipline-specific content and skills, and interdisciplinary connections.
Educator Book Clubs
Mainly over the summer months, BCC will lead a series of book club discussions around texts that will function to inspire and re-energize teachers on their purpose and pedagogy. Certain texts also push us further in our learning around what it means to practice anti-racism and education as the practice of freedom. These discussions serve an important purpose for teachers to dig deeper into pedagogy, or the theory of teaching, and make connections to their classroom practices. Often, teachers are not given time and space for such book discussions during the school year, but reading the writing of education philosophers, activists, and thinkers past and present is an important way to continuously develop your purpose and passion as a teacher.