BLM at School Week of Action: Cultivating Genius: A Community Conversation w/ Dr. Gholdy Muhammad

MPS celebrates National Black Lives Matter Week of Action 2021

The Milwaukee community will have opportunities to listen, learn, and add their voices to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) narrative in order to bring about positive change. Leading off Black History Month in February, the National Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action, February 1–5, 2021, is designed to engage the community in topics that address four national demands and foster discussions and solutions to current issues.

Milwaukee Public Schools thanks its partners and sponsors for helping to host the week of events centered on four national demands and BLM principles.

* Black Educators Caucus
* Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership
* Milwaukee Inner-City Congregations Allied for Hope (MICAH)
* Milwaukee Metropolitan Alliance of Black School Educators (MMABSE)
* MPS Department of Black & Latino Male Achievement
* Milwaukee Teachers Education Association (MTEA)
* Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Cultivating Genius: A Community Conversation with Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
Hear from author and educator Dr. Gholdy Muhammad, associate professor of language and literacy at Georgia State University and author of Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy. Dr. Muhammad will engage in a dialogue about her book and what it means to cultivate genius in students using an equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy.

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