A Canadian school district will host a symposium that the district says is “creating the conditions for anti-racist teaching and learning.”
The Waterloo Region District School Board in the province of Ontario is hosting its second “Roots and Wings” symposium on Thursday. The two-hour livestream will feature remarks from Superintendent Pam Kaur, who was hired by the district last July because she demonstrated “strong equity leadership capacity grounded in social justice, anti-racism and anti-oppression.”
Southwood Secondary Vice-Principal Carli Parsons described the sessions as “19 amazing workshops to continue our work creating the conditions for anti-racist teaching and learning in our classrooms, schools and system.”
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The symposium got its name from the W.T. Townshend Public School’s motto, a favorite saying of founder William Townsend.
The 2nd @wrdsb Roots & Wings Virtual Symposium is May 5th from 6 – 8:30pm. Open to all WRDSB staff & featuring 19 amazing workshops to continue our work creating the conditions for anti-racist teaching & learning in our classrooms, schools and system. Hope to see you there! pic.twitter.com/sypPh3UQpO
— Carli Parsons (@mscarliparsons) April 26, 2022
Those of African and Caribbean descent are set to lead the workshops to offer their “collective learning” of anti-racism teaching, including sections on intersectionality and how to “decolonize.” The goal is to “advance a culture of care” by contributing “decolonizing possibilities for newcomer identities” in the district, according to a write-up about the symposium.
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All staff members have been invited to participate.
Canadian schools have taken other steps to placate equity advocates in the past, with one university in Alberta joining the “lowercase movement” and dropping capitalization to oppose the oppression of indigenous people last September.
