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About Radical Pedagogy Institute

Who We Are The Radical Pedagogy Institute is a collective of educators based in the greater NJ/NYC area who believe in the transformational power of radical pedagogy & local political organizing. The Institute was created to provide a space for such educators to forge local connections & support one another in our work towards a truly liberatory education system for all students. Our Vision We dream of an educational system that uses tenets of critical pedagogies–-queer, anti-racist, DisCrit, culturally relevant, & other liberatory pedagogies–-to re/humanize educational experiences for all students. Such educational practices are what we refer to as “radical pedagogy.” We intentionally use the term “re/humanize” with the backslash for two reasons. First, we honor that many Black, Latinx, & Indigenous students come to schools having already engaged in truly humanizing educational experiences at home with their family or other members of their community. Our goal for those students is to rehumanize their PK-12 education through the use of radical pedagogy. We also recognize that for some students, e.g., some queer students, such identity-based cultural experiences/communities may not be available, in turn limiting their access to truly humanizing educational experiences. For those students our goal is to humanize educational spaces & experiences through the use of radical pedagogy. Our Mission The Institute is a space for educators in the greater NJ area to foster meaningful connections, obtain the political knowledge needed to organize for change within their communities, & learn how to enact anti-racist, queer, & other critical pedagogies across ALL content areas & grade levels. Here, teachers are viewed as expert change agents and valuable sources of community knowledge. To that end, members are encouraged to propose PD ideas with the purpose of sharing practices of radical pedagogy & political organizing they are employing in their own classrooms.

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