Critical Literacy & Social Justice Learning Series

This three part learning series seeks to add to the collective knowledge and understanding, and the growing bank of resources, by providing schools with a new resource to support equity, social justice, media, and critical literacy. Targeted towards students in grades 4-12, this useful resource is a pack of posters created by unlearn include various equity-related images that are open to interpretation and that provoke thinking and discussions.

The Purpose of the Program

Deepen understandings around the importance of embedding equity-related discussions and social justice in their classrooms and schools; awareness of the importance of student voice in school; foster and build teacher and student leadership capacity;
Integrate equity, inclusion and diversity across the curriculum using critical thinking strategies; and
Develop strategies and skills for collaborative leadership

Process

Teachers participating in the learning series will experience a half day workshop with unlearn. Following this session, the teachers will select two students from their class who will collaborate in a full day session to explore equity through an integrated curriculum model, using unlearn’s equity-focused poster pack. The expectation is for school teams to engage their peers in an unlearn experience that they create. The final half-day session will bring teachers and students back together to share about their experience.