17th Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference

Lucille Clifton said “We Cannot Create What We Cannot Imagine.” This workshop aims to give students an opportunity to picture a more hopeful future by illustrating the slogan This Is What Climate Justice Looks Like. Participants will attend a “visioning conference” role play, representing organizations working on housing, immigration, Indigenous rights, food and farming, youth activism, jobs, and racial justice. Together, we will learn about important work being done and imagine what we could build together.

The presenter will share projects she has used in her multilingual math classroom at Berkeley High. The projects are open-ended and draw on students’ culture, language, and experiences as immigrants to the United States. The projects contain rigorous mathematical content. Attendees will work with some of the projects, view sample student work, and discuss the impact on student learning.