Saturday Seminar #2: Emerging and Converging with Equity

8:45 AM: The morning starts with mingling with colleagues over light refreshments.

9:00 AM: Keynote and interactive question and answer session in the auditorium.

10:45 AM: 15-minute break

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Interactive workshops. Workshops are co-facilitated by a leader from Bay Area Writing Project and a leader from either the Bay Area Math Project or Bay Area Science Project, exploring ideas presented in the keynote and how they may be applied in our math and science classrooms.

Writing As Mathematical Thinking (Applicable Across Grade Levels K-16)

with Harold Asturias, Bay Area Math Project Director

How does writing about mathematical task deepen students' conceptual understandings and build their agency and identify as learners? Writing is a powerful tool for thinking therefore we must provide students, of all levels of proficiency, multiple and frequent opportunities to practice making sense through writing. When students build a habit of writing to think, they develop as independent learners.

Environmental Justice through Citizen Science and Evidence-based Argumentative Writing

Grades 4-10th

With Katherin Suyeyasu, Bay Area Writing Project Director

Join us in investigating place-based phenomena through an environmental justice lens in order to make science meaningful to students, their families, and our community. We will explore how to engage students as citizen scientists as we tackle issues such as why our community has such high rates of asthma-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations, and why child lead poisoning in our Fruitvale community is among the highest in the nation. We will also share tools to support students in argumentative writing using evidence from their research and data from their investigations.

Cassandra Chen, Oakland Unified teacher for 11 years at United for Success Academy, where

she has taught 6-8 grade math and science. She is a science teacher leader in her district and as an NGSS early Implementer, and has worked with the Lawrence Hall of Science’s East Bay Agency for Young Scientists to engage students in environmental justice through citizen science.

Candice Asa Fukumoto-Dunham, a Bay Area Writing Project teacher consultant, has taught 6-8 grade English Language Arts and Social Studies for the last 20 years. She has been teaching at United for Success Academy in Oakland Unified for the last 12 years and has been a teacher leader for Social Science, districtwide ethnic studies, and school culture and climate.