Dates: July 15 - 16, 2025
Format: Online Modules with Live Zoom Sessions
Registration Options
- Full Participation/PD Credit (Virtual)
- Full Institute (2-days plus additional optional programming on the 3rd day available), includes plenary sessions, dialogue sessions (Pool Parties), and unlimited workshops virtually
- One-day passes available, includes 2 plenaries, 1 dialogue session (Pool Parties) and 1 workshop
- Eligible to receive Clock hours / CTLEs
- Plenary Only Participation/No PD Credit (Virtual)
- Full, 2-day Institute includes Keynote Address and Plenaries as well as 4 bonus workshops on topics such as racial literacy, trauma-informed teaching, culturally relevant pedagogy, and diversity issues in higher education
- One-day passes for plenaries each day available [1 workshop]
- NOT eligible to receive Clock Hours / CTLEs
Registration Fees:
For the Full Participation, Full Institute/PD Credit CEUs, CTLEs, Clock Hours option:
- Early Registration: $285 ending January 20, 2025
- General Registration: $475 starting January 21, 2025
For NYC DOE District 5 educators, the Full Participation, Full Institute/PD Credit CEUs, CTLEs, Clock Hours option:
- Early Registration: $150 ending January 20, 2025
- General Registration: $250 starting January 21, 2025
For the Day Pass for Full Participation/no PD Credit option:
- Early Registration: $120 ending January 20, 2025
- General Registration: $200 starting January 21, 2025
For the Plenary Only Participant Full Institute/No PD Credit option:
- Early Registration: $237 ending January 20, 2025
- General Registration: $395 starting January 21, 2025
For the Day Pass Plenary Only/No PD Credit option:
- Early Registration: $80 ending January 20, 2025
- General Registration: $110 starting January 21, 2025
Please email tcacademy@tc.columbia.edu for more details on the following discounts:
- 10% Group Discount for three or more people from the same school, district or organization
- 25% Group Discount for five or more people from the same school, district or organization
- 10% NYC public school discount
- 30% Graduate Student discount
Discounts cannot be combined and registrants will receive the best discounted price.
Please Note: TC students and other graduate students may earn 3 graduate credits by enrolling in a TC course associated with the Institute and paying TC tuition rates. Registration for this institute through TC Academy is for the non-credit offering and Academic Credits will not be awarded.
Fellowships:
We are working to raise foundation funding to provide more educators fellowships to the Institute. If you are unable to afford the Institute and your school or district has no professional development funding, please submit an inquiry here.
For more information, questions or to register:
Email TC Academy: tcacademy@tc.columbia.edu
Presenters
Teachers College, Columbia University faculty will be speaking and leading workshops, including: (list in development)
- Christopher Emdin, Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology
- Mark Gooden, Department of Organization & Leadership
- Sonya Douglass Horsford, Department of Organization & Leadership
- Bettina Love, Department of Curriculum and Teaching
- Felicia Moore Mensah, Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology
- Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Department of Arts and Humanities
- Laura Smith, Counseling and Clinical Psychology
- Rachel Talbert Department of Curriculum and Teaching
- Jonathan Collins, Education Policy and Social Analysis
Learning Objectives
Summer Institute participants will grapple with the many ways in which race and ethnicity matter in teaching and learning and how to design racially and culturally diverse educational settings in which all students can learn from each other. Challenging issues and topics to be covered include racial identity, racial and cultural literacy, multicultural education, culturally relevant pedagogy, addressing racial politics, and how implicit biases affect leadership and teaching in diverse schools.
Key Takeaways:
Participants will:
- witness examples of rigorous, joyful learning and development that engages all students and fosters the educational benefits of diversity for all students
- develop strategies to tap into the insights and knowledge of diverse groups of students
- facilitate dialogues among students, staff and parents about issues of race
- understand racial identities within racially diverse contexts
- develop culturally relevant curriculum and pedagogy
- improve achievement outcomes for all students
- learn to build community and engage parents
- center the knowledge and understandings of racially, ethnically and culturally diverse learners, including those not measured on standardized tests
- promote the educational and social advantages of racially, ethnically and culturally diverse schools
- learn to connect with social service and health care providers to foster a more racially and socio-economically just educational system
- work towards a plan to bring this knowledge back to your own schools and communities
Attendee Participation:
The Institute includes several plenary sessions that foster greater understanding of issues related to race and ethnicity in the U.S.; racial and cultural literacy; multicultural education; culturally sustaining leadership; and student critiques.
Participants will also engage in daily small-group dialogue sessions with attendees from different educational roles and professional positions, as well as different locations, to connect these macro themes to their context. Time will be spent each day on how to take back new learning to apply in participants’ schools, classrooms and communities.
They will also participate in professional development workshops led by Teachers College faculty and other noted education leaders. Participants will sign up for workshops ahead of time.
Plenaries and Pool Party small-group dialogue sessions will be live streamed and can be watched in real time (synchronized) remotely. Afternoon plenaries will be offered either live streamed or taped (asynchronous). Workshops will be live streamed the week of July 14 and recorded workshops will be available through July 31.
After the Institute, participants can continue to dialogue via a private online forum designed to foster thoughtful exchanges on difficult topics.
Who Should Attend
The Reimagining Education Summer Institute is designed to help all educators and educational leaders – in public, private, charter schools and higher education – learn how to address the racial hierarchies and antiblackness that have shaped our educational system and strive to create truly integrated schools and classrooms that tap into the educational benefits of racial and ethnic diversity. This professional development Institute is designed primarily for teachers, school administrators, district officials, parents, and graduate students in education and all others who are interested in addressing the deep-seated racial inequalities and injustices in our educational system that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing challenges faced by students, teachers and schools.
For individuals who attended prior Summer Institutes, we have consciously designed a program to give you the opportunity to take your learning on critical topics to a deeper level, and to continue your work on a plan to implement your new insights in your schools and communities.
Demand for the Institute
Demographic, geographic, and attitudinal shifts call out for new and innovative ways of providing novice and veteran educators with the tools necessary to educate and empower a more diverse student body to engage with a global economy and society. We provide a place to reimagine and replace old practices and curricula that reinforces racial inequalities, segregation and antiblackness.
This Institute combines the expertise of Teachers College faculty, other faculty from around the country, and P-12 public and private school teachers, administrators, parents and students from the New York City metro region and across the US. Together, we will explore innovative ways to better prepare educators for a more racially and ethnically diverse student population.
Upon Completion
Participants who successfully complete this course will receive a Certificate of Participation (Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or Clock Hours).
Licensed educators in NY state are also eligible for a Continuing Teacher Leader Education (CTLE) certificate.
