Don C. Locke Multiculturalism and Social Justice Symposium Featuring Gloria Ladson-Billings

The College of Education’s Third Annual Don C. Locke Multiculturalism and Social Justice Symposium will feature a keynote address by National Academy of Education President Gloria Ladson-Billings. The title of her talk is “This Is Us! Educating Post Covid/Post Civic Unrest America — Tragedy or Opportunity?”
The event will be held virutally via Zoom and livestreamed on YouTube. Those who register will receive a link to Zoom a few days before the event.
Ladson-Billings is the president of the National Academy of Education and the former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she retired in 2018. Her research examines the pedagogical practices of teachers who are successful with African American students. She is the author of the groundbreaking 1994 book The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children and the critically acclaimed book Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms.