Please join us for our latest scholar series panel discussion aimed at high school Ethnic Studies educators. This month our cohort will discuss "How do we create healing spaces in response to controversial topics?" Joining our conversation will be Kyle Beckham, lecturer and co-director of the UC Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP). Beckham is also a veteran classroom teacher who helped to co-create SFUSD's Ethnic Studies program.
Event Details:
📅 When: Tuesday, March 26, 2024, ⏰ 4:00 - 5:30pm PST
Featured Speakers:
- Kyle Beckham - Before joining Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP) as a lecturer and co-director, Kyle completed his doctoral work in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE) at Stanford in 2019. His research focused on alternative approaches to schooling, teaching, and learning, particularly in continuation high schools in California. Prior to graduate study, he taught high school history and humanities, literacy, and media arts for ten years in San Francisco and Oakland. Along with a collective of other district teachers, he helped co-create SFUSD's Ethnic Studies program.
He has taught and co-taught courses in child and adolescent development, the social and cultural foundations of schooling, African American educational history, the history of school reform, Ethnic Studies, curriculum design and development at Stanford, the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and Alder Graduate School of education.
In BTEP, Kyle co-teaches the theory focused side of the summer social foundations course. In the fall, he teaches Curriculum Design and Development for Project-Based Learning, and in fall and spring leads the Master of Arts preparation Practitioner Action Research Seminar, and co-teaches the secondary practicum.
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact americancultures@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible.
