{"id":5857,"date":"2021-11-30T12:34:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T17:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/conferences\/?page_id=5857"},"modified":"2021-12-05T22:57:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:57:56","slug":"encouraging-dei","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/conferences\/events\/vste-2021\/encouraging-dei\/","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging DEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #4472c4;\">Encouraging DEI Through Critical Thinking with Literature<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"color: white; background-color: #4472c4; text-align: center;\">Monday, December 6, 2021 \u2b25 2:15 &#8211; 3:15 PM<br \/>\nPresented by Karen Streeter and Ruth Okoye<\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #b90843;\">Session Description:<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Let us introduce you to the thought process behind our book club for teachers. We used trade books, critical thinking skills, and reading strategies when helping teachers plan to spark conversations about diversity and inclusion during language arts instruction. You\u2019ll find opportunities to think critically about identity, bias, stereotypes and empathy and use tech tools to facilitate activities throughout the reading and writing cycle when you join us for this session.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Session Slide Deck:<\/span><\/h5>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/conferences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021_VSTE_DEI-Book-Club.pdf\">2021_VSTE_DEI Book Club<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>Find more resources and classroom implementation ideas on this session&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/conferences\/events\/vste-2021\/encouraging-dei\/resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RESOURCES<\/a> page.<\/h4>\n<h4>Return to <a href=\"https:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/conferences\/events\/vste-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VSTE 2021 Session Listings Page<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encouraging DEI Through Critical Thinking with Literature Monday, December 6, 2021 \u2b25 2:15 &#8211; 3:15 PM Presented by Karen Streeter and Ruth Okoye Session Description: Let us introduce you to the thought process behind our book club for teachers. We used trade books, critical thinking skills, and reading strategies when helping teachers plan to spark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/conferences\/events\/vste-2021\/encouraging-dei\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Encouraging DEI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5859,"parent":5853,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5857","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","user-has-not-earned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5857"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5913,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5857\/revisions\/5913"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}