CREC: Capitol Region Education Council
 
Igniting Change - RESC Alliance (Fall 2024)
The Fall 2024 Igniting Change Conference is an opportunity to engage with nationally recognized experts and other educational leaders on the equity-centered topics of Culturally Sustaining Systems and Structures, Equity for Teaching & Learning, Equity-Centered Leadership, and Supporting Linguistically Diverse Students. Nationally recognized keynote speakers include Dr. Dena Simmons and Dr. Gholdy Muhammad. Breakfast and lunch will be served.
Objectives
Notes

Dena Simmons, Ed.D., is the founder of LiberatED, a collective focused on developing school-based resources at the intersection of social and emotional learning (SEL), racial justice, and healing. She is the former Assistant Director of Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, where she supported schools to use the power of emotions to create a more compassionate and just society. Prior to her work at the Center, Dena served as an educator, teacher educator, diversity facilitator, and curriculum developer. She has been a leading voice on teacher education and has written and spoken across the country about social justice and liberatory pedagogy, diversity, emotional intelligence, and bullying in K-12 school settings, including the White House, the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit, the United Nations, two TEDx talks, and a TED talk on Broadway. Dena has been profiled in Education Week, the Huffington Post, NPR, the AOL/PBS project, MAKERS: Women Who Make America, and a Beacon Press Book, Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists. She earned her doctorate degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, where she served as faculty in the Summer Principals Academy. Dena’s research interests include teacher preparedness to address bullying in the K-12 school setting, culturally responsive pedagogy, and the intersection of equity and social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions—all in an effort to ensure and foster justice and safe spaces for all.


Dr. Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad is an Associate Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture. She has previously served as a classroom teacher, literacy specialist, school district administrator, curriculum director, and school board president. She studies Black historical excellence in education, intending to reframe curriculum and instruction today. She also co-authored Black girls’ literacies: An Edited Volume. Her Culturally and Historically Responsive Education Model has been adopted across thousands of U.S. schools and districts across Canada. In 2022, she was named among the top 1% Edu-Scholar Public Influencers due to her impact on policy and practice. She has also received numerous awards from national organizations and universities. She was named the American Educational Research Association Division K Early Career Award and the 2021 NCTE Outstanding Elementary Educator in the English Language Arts. She has led a federal grant with the United States Department of Education to study culturally and historically responsive literacy in STEM classrooms. Her book, Unearthing Joy, is the sequel to Cultivating Genius and provides a practical guide for putting culturally and historically responsive education into curricular practice.

Award
COC
Detailed Information 
Payment PricePayment price
RESC Group Rate (3+) after 9/1/2024$275.00
RESC Individual Rate after 9/1/2024$350.00
Schedule(s):
Online MeetingDateStart TimeEnd TimeTitleLocationAddressRoomInstructor
10/30/20248:30AM4:00PM CT Convention Center100 Columbus Blvd., #400 , Hartford, CTBallroom
 
DANA CORRIVEAU View Bio
John Gustafson View Bio