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ETHNIC STUDIES IN THE ELEMENTARY Learning Outcomes:
CLASSROOM
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022 Share how ethnic studies can be both integrated
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM and designated within the elementary school
classroom
Target audience: Pre-Service teachers interested in Identify ways to build a classroom community
Elementary Teaching
Strand(s): Equity & Justice, Reaffirming the vocation that humanizes students and builds on cultural
wealth.
of teaching, K-12 education, TK / Early Elementary
focus Examine classroom activities and routines that
centers the students intersectional racial
Hosted by: OUSD identities, particularly those from Black,
Presenter(s): Leah Aguilera, Tontra Love, and Katy Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian backgrounds.
Felsinger
Coordinator: Leah Aguilera, OUSD TSA Ethnic Studies,
History, Social Studies
E-mail: leah.aguilera@ousd.org

We will share how Ethnic Studies can be both
integrated and designated into the elementary
classroom to build a classroom community that
humanizes students and values their intersectional
racial identities, particularly those from Black,
Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian backgrounds. We will
provide resources to illustrate how teachers can learn
about students’ strengths, interests, experiences, and
barriers to learning and deeply integrate students’
funds of knowledge/community cultural wealth into
the curriculum.

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