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PLENARY SESSION
Cultivating Sacred Space for Healing
Centered Engagement
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Target audience: All
Strand(s): Equity & Justice, Reaffirming the Vocation
of Teaching, Ongoing Healing, K-12 Education
Hosted by: Teach for the Bay
Presenter(s): Dr. Farima Pour-Khorshid: Professor of Teacher
Education at the University of San Francisco
Coordinator: Tracy Burt, Teach for the Bay Coordinator
E-mail: tburt@ccsf.edu REGISTER NOW!
Drawing from the Healing Centered Engagement framework
(Ginwright, 2015) and Dr. Angela Davis’s decades of work bridging
prison abolition to K-12 education, Dr. Farima shares her personal
life story of navigating pain, healing, and abolition inside and outside
of K-12 schools. She highlights how colonial schooling, trauma, grief,
and punishment eventually led her to abolitionist teaching and
breaking cycles of harm at the individual, interpersonal, and
institutional levels. Healing and abolition are vital for our collective
liberation and teaching can be a journey that invites us to be in
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