Day 1 – Reimagining Literacy: Toward a Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Approach to the Teaching of Reading | Tuesday May 24 from 3 – 4pm
Dr. David E. Kirkland
Vice Dean for Equity, Belonging, and Community Action; Distinguished Professor of Urban Education; Executive Director, NYU Metro Center
Description: In this presentation, Dr. David E. Kirkland will engage the KCC community in a conversation that centers culture in reading. He uses CRSE as a frame for thinking about how to teach vulnerable youth to read as we continue to imagine how equitable approaches to education should look in our schools. Thus, as educators continue to respond to the systematic inequities highlighted and exacerbated by this moment, the expertise, scholarship, and advocacy work of Dr. Kirkland will help support crucial conversations on how CRSE—in reconstructing justice—can best serve our students during and after this moment and how it can help us reimagine more just and humanizing approaches to reading beyond it.
Bio: Dr. David E. Kirkland (he/him/his) is the founder and CEO of forwardED, LLC. He is a former secondary English teacher and high school administrator, who has served on the faculty of New York University for over 15 years as a professor of urban education. Dr. Kirkland also served as NYU Steinhardt’s inaugural Vice Dean for Equity, Belonging, and Community Action, and seven years as the executive director of NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. He is an activist and educator, cultural critic and author, and a leading national scholar and advocate for educational justice. While Dr. Kirkland’s work has always centered equity and culturally and linguistically responsive-sustaining education, his most recent work has focused on supporting instruction responsive to the social, cultural, and emotional needs of linguistically and culturally plural students. Dr. Kirkland has also organized youth empowerment and youth mentoring programs in major U.S. cities and currently leads efforts to enhance education options for vulnerable youth throughout the U.S. He has received many awards for his research and educational advocacy work; a full list can be found here. Learn more about Dr. Kirkland by following the link here.
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