Join educator Marlee Bunch for a conversation on building collaborative and equitable classrooms, 7th grade–college.
Dr. Bunch's new book is The Magnitude of Us: An Educator’s Guide to Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms (Teachers College Press, 2024). A user-friendly teacher guidebook, The Magnitude of Us helps educators navigate emerging best practices to center historically marginalized voices and perspectives in middle, high school, and postsecondary learning spaces.
Inspired by Bunch's research steeped in the oral histories of Black female educators, the book includes an abundance of user-friendly scaffolding and resources for implementation. It includes the novel un/HUSH framework, which asks us to unlearn the “hush” often associated with marginalized histories and stories. The framework considers the following guiding principles: (H) using histories not told to inform teaching practices, (U) unlearning behaviors and practices that do not empower marginalized voices, (S) creating classrooms and spaces that allow for stories to be shared, and (H) encouraging healing to occur from connection, collaboration, and relationships.
Bunch will be joined in conversation by poet Jordan Stempleman, whose work appears in the book alongside that of other renowned poets including Ashley M. Jones, Mary Ruefle, and Claudia Rankine.
This webinar is for teacher educators, pre- and inservice teachers, DEI directors, school administrators, education advocates, professional developers, and all those interested in harnessing the collective power of us to improve outcomes for all students.
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About the Panelists
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Marlee S. Bunch is an educator, author, researcher, and curriculum and research developer for K-12 initiatives at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Magnitude of Us: An Educator’s Guide to Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms.
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Jordan Stempleman is the author of nine books of poetry, including Cover Songs (The Blue Turn), Wallop, and No, Not Today (Magic Helicopter Press). He also edits The Continental Review, Windfall Room, and Sprung Formal. Since 2011, he has organized the Common Sense Reading Series in Kansas City, Missouri. In addition to his editorial work, Jordan teaches in the Liberal Arts Department and the Creative Writing Program at the Kansas City Art Institute.
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This webinar is sponsored by Teachers College Press, publisher of The Magnitude of Us.
