K-12 Teaching Academy Returns

Focusing on Community, Relationships, Healing, and More!

We initially established our free K-12 Teaching Academy in Summer 2020 to support current teachers, teacher candidates, and community partners in transitioning to online teaching as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, our webinars have been viewed nearly 30,000 times and our series has been highlighted on ABC7 News, EdSource, and the COVID-19 CA website.

Our Summer 2021 series focuses on returning to a “new normal” in classrooms in Fall 2021 with topics such as:

• (Re)building classroom community • Establishing restorative routines • Anti-racist teaching • Student voice and choice • Recognizing new learning priorities

“How do we center our students’ humanities and create an environment where they feel seen and see each other?”

- Wanda Watson, Lurie College Associate Professor of Teacher Education, from the session “Bringing Our Humanity to the TK-5 Classroom Through an Ethnic Studies Stance”

“Of those changes that we made, what do we want to bring back with us and what do we want to leave in 2020?”

- Emma Pass, Middle School Language Arts Teacher at PSD Global Academy and Consultant at Empowered Edu, from the session “Bring it Back to the Classroom: What did we learn from a year of COVID?”

“How do we treat young people like the holistic human begins that they are? This pandemic has had really disparate impacts on students based on their positioning.”

- Tammie Visintainer, Lurie College Associate Professor of Teacher Education, from the session “Reimagining K-16 (Science) Teaching and Learning During a Time of Crisis”

Watch all 13 Summer 2021 webinar recordings at sjsu.edu/education/community/k12-academy.