It is hard to believe 2020 is rapidly drawing to a close. This past year has been a very bizarre combination of time slowing down and speeding up at the same time. As we begin to wrap up this year and orient ourselves towards the next, I encourage you to reflect on all that you have learned and what you are hoping could be possible next year. Please forward me your reflections - I would love to learn more about your 2020 learning and aspirations for the liminal potential of 2021.
I would like to highlight the work of two women whom I had the pleasure of meeting this past month - Cheree Davis and Julia Torres. Cheree is a doctoral candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and has launched a new consulting company, the mission of which is to increase the number of BIPOC teachers in US schools. Julia is a 2018-20 Heinemann Fellow and the co-founder of #DisruptTexts and @TheEdCollab. She is an Educator for Liberation and disruptor of the literary canon. Two amazing women - I encourage you to check out their work.
If you are free on December 9th and 14th, please join me at the SERC Learning Revolution conference. This was originally intended to be an in-person event in Northern Ireland this past May, but COVID had other plans. :) What was to be a regional conference will now be a global one - please join us as we reflect on what we have learned in education in the last eight months and what might be possible when we emerge from this liminal state.
