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Artwork credit: Mikael Owunna
Practices of Freedom: A Model for Transformative Teaching and Teacher Education aims to construct and refine a teacher training model that centers Black community educational knowledge traditions in order to increase Black teachers & teachers of color and transform curricula and pedagogy in Western Pennsylvania.
Our ambitious and multi-pronged approach brings together intergenerational micro-collectives of people to participate in study groups, signature coursework, and research projects that are grounded in Black pedagogies and knowledge traditions.