Culturally Responsive Education Forum Sponsored by CRES Institute

The Institute for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at St. John’s University is sponsoring a forum, “The Politics of Why Johnny Can’t Read: Reading Wars, Phonics, and Equity,” on Tuesday, November 7, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. via Zoom. 

This virtual forum is the latest in the series of events devoted to Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CR-SE) that are organized by the institute to correspond with New York City Department of Education Professional Development days. 

In the United States, there is a long history of intermittent “wars” about the teaching of literacy in the K–12 education system. These battles, although also related to the general population, have corresponded historically to major movements and structural changes in the US that revolve around racial and ethnic equity and justice. 

Contemporarily there is another war underway that is gaining significant amounts of attention in the national press and in educational spaces.  

Please join Sonja Cherry-Paul, Ed.D., Founder, Red Clay Educators, Adapter of #1 NYT Best Seller, Stamped (For Kids), Executive Producer and Host of The Host of The Black Creators Series, and Codirector of  Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy and Teach Black History All Year Institute.  

You may register at this link.