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Listen to the Content Methods Laboratory Classes instructional team discuss how the laboratory classes will support our participating teacher candidates and observing teacher educators to connect the dots between teaching practice and advancing justice.

Listen to the Content Methods Laboratory Classes instructional team discuss what we mean by laboratory classes and how we use them to analyze the work of teaching and teacher education.

For the next three weeks, tune in for a series of conversations with the laboratory classes instructional team to explore the ins and outs of the program.

The program will be held July 24-28 at The School at Marygrove.

In this feature story in the centennial issue of Michigan Education Magazine, TeachingWorks team members reflected on our collective work to harness the power of teaching to create a just society. Click here to read the full article.

TeachingWorks Director of English Language Arts Dr. Monique Cherry-McDaniel spoke with University of St. Thomas Faculty members Dr. Amy Smith and Dr. Muffet Trout about how being fellows in the TeachingWorks Practice-Based Teacher Education Certificate Learning Sequence is supporting them to implement program-wide change in their department.

The conviction of Derek Chauvin is not an indictment of the white supremacist system that condones the senseless police killings of Black people as they drive their cars, walk home, and live in their communities.

His horrible and horrifying language reproduces broader societal and historical patterns of speech that perpetuate and incite violence and hate against women, especially women of color.

The acts of violence and hate form a fiery torrent seemingly without end. Disrupting them requires more than statements.