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2023 Pedagogy Conference

Radical Love in Practice:

Building Student Assets to Create an Equitable and Compassionate Community

This year’s theme is “Radical Love in Practice: Building Student Assets to Create an Equitable and Compassionate Community” Engage with experts and colleagues on how to implement radical love in your classrooms, curriculum, interactions, and campus-wide.

What is Radical Love?

Radical love transforms us and society by loving politically and ethically. It sees the humanity and dignity of all, especially the oppressed. It critiques the unjust and violent systems and envisions more humane alternatives. In education, radical love engages students as whole, diverse beings, fosters their criticality and agency. It collaborates with educators, families, and communities for an equitable and compassionate education for all.

Featured Speakers

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Pedagogy - Keynote Dr. Darrick Smith

Welcome Keynote

Dr. Darrick Smith

Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of San Francisco


(He/Him) Dr. Darrick Smith is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of San Francisco and Co-Director of the Transformative School Leadership (TSL) program. He researches and practices culturally responsive discipline, critical pedagogy, transformative school leadership, and social justice schooling. He founded the TryUMF (pronounced “triumph”) program in Oakland, CA and co-led the June Jordan School for Equity in San Francisco.

He has trained and coached school administrators in California and consulted for the statewide Professional Learning Network. He also works as a national consultant for the Now is the Time Technical Assistance (NITT-TA) Center funded by SAMHSA. He teaches practitioners in the East Asian Regional Council of Overseas Schools and has lectured and reviewed for UNESCO’s 12th International Summer School in Warsaw, Poland.

Dr. Smith has spoken at various national and statewide conferences on educational reform and worked in California’s correctional facilities. He has been committed to resistance efforts in the Greater Bay Area of Northern California for 25 years.

Pedagogy - Presenter Dr. Tesha Sengupta-Irving

Closing Presenter

Dr. Tesha Sengupta-Irving

Berkeley School of Education, Associate Professor, Learning Sciences & STEM Education & Affiliate Associate Professor, UCB Center for Race & Gender


(She/Her) Dr. Tesha Sengupta-Irving’s research concerns the sociocultural, disciplinary, and political dimensions of children’s learning and identity work. Broadly, her research asks a deceptively simple question: What, in addition to mathematics, do children learn when they learn mathematics? In collaboration with teachers, she co-designs lessons to promote racially minoritized children’s fluency in mathematical ideas and practices, while also safeguarding their sense of joy, agency, and collectivity. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a PhD in Curriculum and Teacher Education from Stanford University.

Conference Agenda

8:30am
9:00am
Breakfast
9:00am
9:20am
Opening Remarks
Dr. Kimberly Rogers
9:20am
10:20am
Welcome Keynote
Dr. Darrick Smith
10:30am
11:45am
Breakout Sessions
11:45am
12:30pm
Lunch + ESL Panel
12:45pm
2:15pm
Breakout Sessions
2:15pm
3:15pm
Closing Presenter
Dr. Tesha Sengupta-Irving
3:15pm
3:30pm
Closing

Morning Breakout Sessions




Lunch/ESL Panel


Afternoon Breakout Sessions