2023 Conference Webinar
The IUE’s 4th annual Equity Conference featured Dr. Gholdy Muhammad. From Dr. Muhammad’s research examining abolitionists and 19th-century education among communities of color, she found that early Black readers, writers, and thinkers held five goals or pursuits for learning. This approach extends CRE (Culturally Responsive Education) and is historically responsive to education. These five pursuits include:
- Identities
- Skills
- Intellect
- Criticality
- Joy
Culturally and Historically Responsive Resources
Q and A Session
Dr. Gholdy Muhammad questions and answer session will be available soon.
Amplifying Voices: Speaking Up and Speaking Out for Children Professional Development Series
Are you looking for quality professional development for your educators? Are you looking for something other than sit and get PD? Is your school, district, or classroom ready to discuss hard topics around race, bias, privilege and power and how they manifest and impact children in education?
This is Amplifying Voices: Speaking Up and Speaking Out for Children, a 3-part video professional development series for anyone involved in the field of urban education. This series is brought to you by the UW System Institute for Urban Education at UW-Milwaukee. We are a UW System sponsored program supporting educators through research, professional development, and clinical experiences.
Each session features a diverse panel of participants that discuss disparities impacting urban education such as the disproportionate referrals of black males for emotional behavior disorder in special education, disparities in school discipline practices and the connection of literacy and social justice. Each interactive session has embedded discussion prompts, reflective questions, and a variety of activities to help groups process the material.
Check out a preview of the series content here!
Amplifying Voices Professional Development Trailer
Please fill out one of our interest forms if you would like more information about this professional development opportunity.
SPACES Teacher Affinity Groups
SPACES is a project that provides a safe space for diverse teachers from Milwaukee and surrounding areas to support one another as facilitators of culturally relevant pedagogy. Please fill out the interest form if you are interested in joining a SPACES teacher affinity group.
New CEU Courses Available
Are you looking for CEUs to renew your professional license? The IUE has curated three self-paced professional development sessions about that can be completed for CEUs. Visit the CEU Courses webpage to see the description of each session along with a registration link if you are interested in enrolling.
Equity Conference Archive
2022 Conference Webinar
The IUE’s annual Equity Conference featured Former Milwaukee County Municipal Judge, Derek Mosley. Judge Mosley shared with us his talk about Unconscious Bias: Knowing What We Don’t Know. Unconscious bias is a learned stereotype that is automatic, unintentional, deeply ingrained, universal, and able to influence behavior. Unconscious bias seeps into decisions that affect recruitment, retention, hiring, access to healthcare, banking, housing, education, the justice system, providing services, interpersonal interactions, and outcomes in ways that can disadvantage both individuals and groups of people. We all have some form of unconscious bias, and the key is to recognize that we have it and employ techniques to mitigate it.
Q and A Session
The keynote is NOT recorded, but a questions and answer session is available.
2022 Conference Question and Answer Session
2021 Conference Webinar
The IUE’s annual Equity Conference featuring Dr. Lynnette Mawhinney. We are facing an unprecedented teacher shortage in American education. Coupled with the demands for meeting the needs of an increasingly diverse student population, school districts are clamoring for educators from diverse backgrounds.
2021 Equity Conference (YouTube)
2021 Equity Conference Recommended Readings (PDF)
2020 Conference Webinar
Presented by the University of Wisconsin System Institute for Urban Education and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Education. The conference was held between Aug. 3-7, 2020. The IUE featured a webinar series of excellent speakers discussing various issues related to Culturally Responsive Teaching.
Here are the featured webinars for your viewing:
Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, “Educating in a Post-Pandemic World” (YouTube)
Parent-Student Panel RUSD, “What to Know Before you Teach” (YouTube)
Andre Bennett, “Unidentified Bias and its Impact on Students” (YouTube)
Dr. Denise Ross, “Reframing Academic Excellence: Pedagogy and Social Justice” (YouTube)