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Update 7/18/20: This event is SOLD OUT with 200 registrants. Join YDEKC’s mailing list for updates on future events. For a look at the workshop descriptions and speaker bios, please browse the schedule below, or check out our event flyer and Symposium webpage for more details!

Join us for this virtual learning journey for educators and youth development professionals to strengthen their individual and collective capacity to create equity-based learning environments that support the whole child, with a focus on shifting adult practices and systems to better serve youth of color in the Road Map region. 

This symposium includes live plenaries, workshops, and community building sessions (with breaks in between sessions). Most sessions will be recorded and available to registered participants through the month of August. 

Thank you to our sponsors, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Kaiser Permanente; this event would not be possible without their generous support! Sponsored by Seattle Public Schools for Washington State Clock Hours and in partnership with School’s Out Washington to offer STARS Credits to eligible attendees.
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Friday, August 7 • 10:00am - 11:30am
Body Workshop C2 ⁠— Ethnic Studies + Theatre of the Oppressed
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This session showcases examples of new, hyper-relevant arts-integrated Ethnic Studies curriculum. Participants experience first-hand the transformative power of exploring content through Theatre of the Oppressed. In the lesson, students research history and current issues around gentrification and segregation in Seattle, through text, video and discussion. They express their own ideas and learn about other perspectives through the technique of machines: Students choose words and gestures to express an aspect of gentrification’s policies or impact. Students collaborate by connecting their words and gestures with others to create a machine to represent their concepts. Students use the same process to imagine potential alternatives, resistance and solutions, to transform the machine into a machine of change, and consider their own role in transformation.
Speakers
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Jennifer Dunn

Teacher, Seattle Public Schools
Jennifer Dunn is a Chicanx Ethnic Studies educator at South Lake High School in Rainier Valley. She has experience using Theatre of the Oppressed in the classroom and has presented her work in several spaces including the Seattle Art Museum. She is an Equity Literacy coach for the... Read More →
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Rachel Atkins

Teaching Artist
Rachel Atkins is a playwright and teaching artist. As scriptwriter for the award-winning educational theatre company Living Voices, her 12 different multi-media shows on history and social justice have been seen by over 3 million people throughout the US and Canada. A member of... Read More →


Friday August 7, 2020 10:00am - 11:30am PDT
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