Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Building Cultural Competency



Franki and I spent an amazing weekend at the Highlights Foundation at the Building Cultural Competency Symposium. The required reading was WHITE FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo, and processing this text with and without the participants who self-identified as not-white was a huge learning experience. We also listened to and learned from these remarkable speakers:

Edith Campbell who blogs at CrazyQuiltEdi and tweets @crazyquilts

Dr. Debbie Reese who blogs at American Indians in Children's Literature and tweets @debreese

Renée Watson who wrote the Newbery Honor/Coretta Scott King Award-winning PIECING ME TOGETHER and who tweets @reneewauthor

Dr. Marilisa Jiménez García  assistant professor at Lehigh University who specializes in Latino/a literature and culture and who tweets @MarilisaJimenez

Dr. Laura M. Jiménez  who blogs at BookToss, is a professor of preservice teachers at Boston University, and who tweets @booktoss 
 
Paula Yoo  who is an author, journalist and screenwriter and who tweets @PaulaYoo


Check out these blogs and Twitter feeds. Join the conversations. Join the learning.


3 comments:

  1. Thanks! Just followed those I hadn't already on twitter. Looking forward to reading more from these authors.

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  2. I didn't know you were at Highlights! What a great opportunity. Like Linda, I'll be following all these voices that I wasn't already. Thanks for the reporting!

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  3. Thanks for sharing links and posts for further learning. This is something I need to ponder more.

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