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About Damion Taylor

Damion has spent the last 15 years applying data and technology to entertainment. Both analytical and creative, he brings a unique skill set that’s in high demand for brands and media companies such as Warner Bros., NBC Universal, Machinima, Mitu and New Form. This means he has spent his career observing and understanding the motivations that drive people's actions. After witnessing the Central Park Karen incident and murders of Ahmaud Abery and George Floyd in 2020, he decided to use his company and skills to make a positive impact on the world.

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• Technology created by people of color
• Racial bias in school counseling
• Influential people in Damion’s life
• Professional development opportunities for educators

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About Yaritza Villalba

President and Founder of YV Educational Resources Inc., Yaritza Villalba has eleven years of teaching experience in the New York City Department of Education. She started her career teaching Social Studies to high school students in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York.  Yaritza has developed curricula and partnered with edTech platforms like Flipgrid, PearDeck and Wakelet to conduct a variety of workshops for educators around the world. She is currently an Education Innovation Lead at Flipgrid, Microsoft; servicing students and educators and sharing culturally responsive and sustaining resources and strategies for all.  

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• Working at a transfer school
• Relationship building
• Flipgrid
• Flipgrid and Culturally Responsive Practices

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McKenzie’s Time Machine

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About Kate Kennedy

Kate Kennedy is a PhD candidate in Urban Education Policy at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. She studies the K-12 American educational landscape, building on a career of classroom teaching and education leadership. Kate's research focuses on politics, leadership, and equity in K-12 education policy. Specific research areas include social-emotional learning, care and love in education policy and systems, and the politics of school choice. These interests are driven by a passion for social justice, a belief in transformative leadership, an ethic of caring, and a deep respect for the teaching profession.

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• What it means to care
• Being intentional when addressing care
• A six-point strategy for district leaders

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How District Leaders Create Caring Organizations

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About Matthew Kincaid

Matthew Kincaid, a former social studies teacher, and school administrator is now the founder, CEO, and Chief Consulting officer of the non-profit, Overcoming Racism. Kincaid is currently the co-chair of the truth and reconciliation committee for the human relations commission serving the city of New Orleans and an Amaphiko Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. In 2018 he was recognized as one of “100 Visionary Leaders” for Real Leaders Magazine in addition to receiving the “Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award” for the state of Louisiana from the U.S Small Business Administration. In 2019, Kincaid was the recipient of Gambit’s 40 under 40 recognition.

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• Why is anti-racism work important
• The “Magical Experience”
• What’s wrong with the word equity?
• Keeping the status quo

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About Dee Lanier

Dee Lanier is a life-long educator who is extremely passionate about issues of equity and inquiry-based learning. A career educator, Dee has facilitated racial equity and culturally responsive professional development globally through the lens of design thinking. Dee holds Undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Sociology with special interests in education, race relations, and inequity. Dee is an award-winning presenter, TEDx Speaker, Google Certified Trainer, Google Innovator, and Google Certified Coach. Dee is also the creator of the design thinking educational activities, Solve in Time!®, and Maker Kitchen™ and is the co-host of the Liberated Educator podcast.

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• Design starts with equity
• Equity with empathy
• Cultural Appropriation
• Marginalization

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Demarginalizing Design-Elevating Equity for Real World Problem Solving

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About Abeer Ramadan- Shinnawi, MEd

Abeer Shinnawi, is a Palestinian American educator of 18+ years. She has held a variety of leadership positions both in the U.S. in various school and district settings. Abeer Shinnawi is the Associate Director of the Program for the non-profit Re-Imagining Migration, where she supports a network of partner organizations and schools, leads professional development, and creates resources for K-12 educators as well as cultural institutions.  Abeer is a veteran middle school social studies teacher who has used her own upbringing as a child of immigrants to help connect students, schools, and communities. Throughout her career, she has worked with schools, cultural institutions, and publishers to provide curriculum, content, and activities that reflect BIPOC students and teachers. Before joining the team at Re-Imagining Migration, she worked as a resource teacher in the Baltimore County Public Schools Office of Social Studies, leading curriculum development and supporting teachers. In addition, she served as an equity liaison and the co-facilitator of an affinity group for teachers of color. She also created and facilitated a student support group that provided safe spaces for immigrant students. Shinnawi is co-founder of the Facebook group: Arab American Educators Network, created as a safe space for Arab American educators to collaborate, share their experiences, and grow as a collective.

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• Children of immigrants are 27% of school-aged youth yet they are mostly invisible and misunderstood
• Where can we start when welcoming new Americans?
• Asking the right questions
• “We’ll start where you’re at, but we aren’t going to keep you there”
• How to avoid tokenizing students
• Ensuring new Americans have equal opportunities
• Pronouncing student’s names correctly

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Moving Stories Curriculum

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• “It’s not ready yet”
• Change strategies
• Getting started
• Classroom Culture
• Instructional Planning
• Ways of Working
• Feedback Strategies
• Assessment Strategies
• Supervision and Evaluation
• Reflection

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About Erin Austin

Erin E.H. Austin is a National Board Certified French teacher in Colorado. She began her teaching career in Minnesota in 2002, and she holds a B.A. in both French and Art Education, a M.A. in Curriculum & Instruction, and graduate certificates in French Studies and Gifted, Creative, & Talented Education. She was a NEA Foundation Global Learning Fellow in 2018 and now presents nationally on global education-related topics. In addition to doing contract writing work, Ms. Austin is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Selling Your Original World Language Resources: How to Open, Fill, and Grow a Successful Online Curriculum Store (Routledge, 2021). The book is based on her experience with her own Teachers Pay Teachers curriculum store, and she leads workshops to show other educators how to make money from their original resources. In addition to the Leading Equity Podcast, she has been a featured guest on the Side Hustle School Podcast and the Dr. Will Show Podcast. Ms. Austin is currently the chair of the associate board of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado, an organization she has been involved in since 2005, and she sits on the board of the Abundant Yoga Community, a young non-profit in western Wisconsin whose mission is to bring yoga to those with financial or geographic barriers.

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• What is global education?
• Teaching kids about global conflicts
• Prejudice reduction for New Americans
• A global connection plan
• Encouraging students to take action

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The Ultimate Guide to Selling Your Original World Language Resources

Creating A Global Connection Plan

CCFLT 2022 QR Codes

International Student Panel Guide

Creating A Global Connection Plan PPT

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About Coach Victor Hicks

"Coach" Victor Hicks is the founder and lead instructor of Coding with Culture, an organization designed to teach computer science and digital literacy through an “HBCU-Ready” lens to scholars in grades K-8. In addition, Coach Hicks serves as a CS and STEM educator in Atlanta, Georgia where he continues to bring culturally-relevant and sustainable instruction in the aforementioned disciplines to students of all ages for over 20 years. Building rapport with students and educating the “whole” child are pillars of Victor’s educational philosophy. Coach Hicks received the “Everyday Hero Award” from the Inspire EDU organization for his commitment to bridging the digital divide for African-American students. His innovative approach toward combining computer science with Black culture was highlighted in an article in Forbes magazine among other educational publications.

Coach Hicks’ mission is to get as many scholars as possible exposed to the rich history and cultures of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. He is a firm believer that it’s never too early to begin the journey, and offers college tours, the Psi Phi Beta HBCU-Ready Step Team and other experiences to light the HBCU flame in elementary and middle school students nationwide.

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• Is coding the answer?
• An HBCU coding project

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• I’m no longer an ally and here’s why…
• “And what did you do?”
• Not doing anything is not doing anything
• Performative Wokeness
• What are your motives
• Am I doing enough?
• Joining an organization

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