17th Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference

Decolonizing the Oregon Trail: Anticolonial Teaching Strategies for Elementary Classrooms 10:30am - 12:00pm

A Breath of Fresh Air: What Abbott Elementary Gets Right 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Critical Media Literacy and the Classroom 10:30am - 12:00pm

Why Are Schools, Parks, and Libraries Free? Young Learners Critically Analyzing Capitalism 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Analyzing Graffiti Lesson 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Ethnic Studies, Disability, and Mathematical Practices: Collaboratively Crafting IEP Math Goals... 10:30am - 12:00pm

Elevating Student Voice in Letters to a Teacher Unit 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Deportations on Trial: Mexican Americans During the Great Depression 10:30am - 12:00pm

Civil and Labor Rights Legacies of Alaska Cannery Workers 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Imagining the Future: Helping Students Picture Climate Justice 10:30am - 12:00pm

Engaging Multilingual Math Learners Through Projects 1:00pm - 2:30pm

The Impact of Gun Violence on Youth: Classroom Conversations 10:30am - 12:00pm

Social Justice Healing Circle 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Affinity Space: Disability 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Incorporating K–12 Literature About Palestine — Preparing for False Allegations of Anti-Semitism 10:30am - 12:00pm

Patterns of Air — Pathways for Indigenous Inspiration, Literacy, and Creativity 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Affinity Space: Latinx 3:30pm - 4:00pm

An Invitation to Healthy Racial Dialogue with Our Younger Generations 10:30am - 12:00pm

It’s a Big Fat Deal: How Schools Teach Contempt for Fat People and What We Can Do About It 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Affinity Space: Asian American/P... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Justice Mobility Through a Just Transition — Designing a Game 10:30am - 12:00pm

Love Is a Revolution by Renée Watson: Reimagining Self Love 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Affinity Space: Interested in he... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

The Leaders of Now 10:30am - 12:00pm

Perspective Storytelling as a Justice-Centered Science Teaching Practice 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Localizing Your Science Curriculum 10:30am - 12:00pm

When We Fight — UTLA’s 2019 Strike Film 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Revealing Stolen Truths: Finding Belonging in the Counter Narrative 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Affinity Space: Black/African 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Critical Pacific Islands and Oceania Studies in the K-12 Classroom 10:30am - 12:00pm

Foundations and Futures: Advancing Ethnic Studies Through Asian American Pacific Islander Curric... 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Affinity Space: Queer 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Radical Agency in the Classroom: SEL as Social Justice 10:30am - 12:00pm

Speaking for Ourselves: Resisting Organized Bigotry at School 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Affinity Space: Indigenous 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Reclaiming Our Education: WA NAACP Youth Council Voices on Ethnic Studies 10:30am - 12:00pm

Supporting Ethnic Studies Legislation in 2025 (Panel) 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Affinity Space: Jewish 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Sharing Our Journeys (Redux): Black and Brown Educators Building Solidarity Through Testimonios 10:30am - 12:00pm

Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Affinity Space: Multiracial 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Understanding Asian American Students and the Model Minority Stereotype 10:30am - 12:00pm

Undoing the Myth of Professionalism: Oppressive Cultural Norms and Identifying Sustaining Practi... 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Affinity Space: Muslim 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Welcome Poems: Using Poetry to Create Safe and Welcoming School Communities 10:30am - 12:00pm

From Ode to Essay: Writing in Praise of the Places We Love 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Affinity Space: White Co-Conspir... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

What Evidence Can We Find of Systemic Racism in School Discipline? 10:30am - 12:00pm

When Privileged Parents Make Demands: Troubleshooting Obstacles to Socially Just Classrooms 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Affinity Space: New Teacher 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Whose Science?: Pushing Back on the “Science of Reading” Through Teacher Voice, Activism, and Co... 10:30am - 12:00pm

Censorship and Book-Banning in Education: Inviting Students into the Conversation Through Choice 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Morning Keynote: Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner 9:00am - 10:00am

Afternoon Keynote: Teach Palestine Panel 2:45pm - 3:30pm

Lunch 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Nurturing a Rainbow of Resistance to Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws  10:30am - 12:00pm

No More Elegies: Building the Habit of Joy in the Classroom 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Living Voices Performance of La Causa: Racial and Social Justice in the Migrant Farmworkers Move... 10:30am - 12:00pm