Radical Hope

UOTeach Teaching Radical Hope 

UOTeach is within the Department of Education Studies. In this space you are invited to work using a critical intersectional lens toward dismantling white supremacy. The department engages in teaching, research and service that centers Tribal Sovereignty, Black Lives Matter in schools, Latinx and Asian Desi Pacific Islander identity and exclusion, economic justice, LGBTQ educational rights, immigrant educational rights, language preservation, and access and opportunity for Oregon k-18 students to all be fully included in every classroom.

In UOTeach, equity and engagement are at the center of teaching and learning. This is grounded in the philosophy that every child deserves an excellent teacher; excellent teachers need extensive subject area preparation, extensive socio-cultural knowledge, and an equity framework for curriculum and instruction. Teachers must be prepared for their role in creating welcoming, inclusive, and safe schools and communities in order to develop the critical thinking skills of children.

In our equity framework for anti-oppressive and culturally sustaining education, we believe that each teacher plays a pivotal role in the lives of children and the success of learning communities to help students make connections between the sociocultural context of their lives and the thinkers, learners, and doers they can become.  

WE ENVISION schools

· Where no student lives on the margins.

· Where teachers, administrators, and staff members thoughtfully and consistently work towards social justice, knowing that such work is never easy, never uncomplicated, and never finished.

· Oriented toward the public good rather than corporate models of efficiency.

· That are transcultural rather than assimilationist.

· Where students and educators collaborate to challenge the brutalizing impacts of homophobia, sexism, racism, nationalism, classism, ableism, and ecological exploitation.

· That foster hope.

We are holding ourselves as collectively accountable for the Education Debt

WE ASPIRE to create a community and culture of critical compliance, which we understand to require simultaneously examining carefully the mandates that govern educational spaces—standards, curricula, assessments, accountability measures—and supporting students in the successful completion of those mandates.

We are making a commitment to improve the educational experiences of diverse Oregonians

WE SEEK opportunities for thoughtful resistance, openings for forwarding alternative visions of teaching and teaching practices, of assessment and accountability, and of schools and schooling.

 

UOTeach students will experience a yearlong focus on the following anti-oppressive pedagogies subject area instruction and creating supportive classroom communities. Teacher candidates have the opportunity to create an end of program project to attain an honor cord in one of these equity focused pedagogies.

  1. Culturally Sustaining English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
  2. Indigenous Decolonization Pedagogy
  3. SOGIE Inclusive (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Expression Affirming, and Expansive Practices)
  4. Anti-Racist (Abolitionist) Pedagogies

Here are a few educator related resources we align with: