About

The Center for Educating Critically brings together interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners who center humanizing anti-racist teaching and learning. We prioritize working collaboratively with educators who are committed to exploring transformative possibilities that will enable all learners to navigate classroom spaces impacted by the sociopolitical climate, district, and state-level mandates.

Our focus is on

• Interrogating and disrupting and transforming oppressive classroom practices (e.g., antiblackness, audism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, misogynoir)
• Affirming students’ full humanity (i.e., intersecting identities and ways of knowing and being through culturally sustaining practices)
• Cultivating joyous classroom experiences

We do this through:

• working with PK-12 teachers, staff, administrators, and community members
• working with government officials and policy-makers
• researching new approaches to humanizing, anti-oppression teaching and learning, specifically
  • Empowering students in the mathematics classrooms by interrogating structures that empower and constrain student opportunities
  • Exploring how technology serves as an essential point for access, inquiry, and growth
  • Cultivating a justice-oriented solidarity orientation to teaching and learning
  • Language at the intersection of racism, audism, and patriarchy
  • Foregrounding sociocultural explorations of students’ rich out-of-school semiotic practices
  • Examining criticality in children’s literature in scholarship and classroom practice
  • Promoting linguistic justice
• amplifying research focused on equitable and just teaching and learning
• collaborating with other equity-focused researchers and practitioners