Topic: Tricia Ebarvia

The anticipation of what these two institutes will bring us in 2022 is energizing. Through IREL, Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul and Tricia Ebarvia have designed a space where educators can take the necessary time to reflect deeply on their practices and work for transformative change in their classrooms, schools, and communities.

What is one important piece to creating change? Examining practice in community.

Sonja and Tricia discuss Sonja’s recent adaptation of Stamped for Kids, the myriad forces that continue to inhibit the work of antiracism, and why opportunities like IREL are so important.

Upon registration for #IREL21, participants were sent a survey asking why they decided to return this year OR why they are signing up for the first time. Here is what we learned.

Committing to an inclusive, representative, and equitable language arts curriculum is important and challenging work. Where do you begin? You begin with the mission of the #DisruptTexts movement.

When we, Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul and Tricia Ebarvia, began imagining what IREL could be, we knew we wanted a space where teachers could take the necessary time to reflect deeply on their practices and work for transformative change in their classrooms, schools, and communities.

How do we go beyond the cosmetic fixes of racial inequality in education and go further?

Listen in or watch as Dr. Sonja Cherry Paul and Tricia Ebarvia talk about centering racial equity in our literacy practices and their upcoming (virtual!) Institutes for Racial Equity in Literacy. #IREL20 ⁠

This summer authors Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul and Tricia Ebarvia will be co-facilitating a special Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy at UNH.

In what ways are certain topics treated as taboo in our classrooms and why? How often do we avoid talking and writing about race because we fear what others might say? If we avoid controversial issues, how will our students learn how to have civic discussion of such issues?

Look inward to understand how we develop empathy, so we can integrate experiences that foster empathy in students, as well as lead us toward more inclusive decision-making in our schools.

Reading and writing can be powerful tools for agency and liberation, which is why making sure our practices are grounded in inclusion is so important.

On The Heinemann Podcast today, the need for and needs of teachers of color.

Heinemann Fellow Aeriale Johnson: To Tiana, With Love

Heinemann Fellow Tricia Ebarvia: One Important Thing I Can Learn from Students

Taking A Closer Look at "The Hate U Give"

Heinemann Fellow Tricia Ebarvia: All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten