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Small Talk about Big Ideas: Solidarity in the English Education Classroom
Wednesday, June 11, 7:00 p.m. ET

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This event is free for all NCTE members. Not yet a member? Join today! 

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on solidarity with two contributors to ELATE’s premier journal, English Education: Ankhi G. Thakurta and Rashida Mustafa. Participants will learn 

  • how concepts of solidarity apply to our classrooms and our students, 
  • why the work of solidarity is increasingly connected to the work of English education, and 
  • how to enact and sustain this work as teacher educators and classroom instructors. 

Ankhi G. Thakurta is author of the 2024 Emig Award–winning article “Solidarity-as-Project: Charting Democratic Co-inquiries in an Asian American Girl and Woman–Centric English Education Community,” and Rashida Mustafa is author of “Parallels of Discrimination: Affirming Palestinian American Adolescents’ Identity in Politically Charged Climates.” Don’t miss this critically reflective discussion with your ELATE colleagues!

Please contact profdev@ncte.org with questions. Note: Registration will close 90 minutes prior to the event’s start time.

 

FEATURED GUESTS

Ankhi G. Thakurta is an assistant professor at the Boston College Lynch School of Education and Human Development. She is a bilingual Indian American immigrant and former ELA teacher whose community-centered research explores the civic literacies, learning, and dreaming of immigrant, migrant, and refugee youth. Her work has been supported by funding from ELATE, a National Academy of Education / Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, and other sources. She can be found on Bluesky and Instagram.

Rashida Mustafa is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the English education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research examines Palestinian American adolescent identity developments through their literary experiences.

FACILITATOR

Melanie Shoffner, a professor at James Madison University, is the editor of English Education, the journal of English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE).