DTEC-TAG Education Now! Webinar Series
The DTEC-TAG Education Now! Webinar Series featuring Dr. Akosua Lesesne will be held on January 27, 2022, at 6-7:30 pm. This is a professional development opportunity for our TAG Equity Warriors, yet an open webinar. Click on the subject line to learn more and save the date.
The Education NOW! Webinar Series is an opportunity for DTEC-TAG Equity Warriors, Educators, and key education stakeholders in our community to obtain the tools and resources from scholar-practitioners with various perspectives to enlighten the notion of “the state of education” affairs at this moment. Each webinar session will vary by topic, grade level, and audience. Still, all will include discussions around instruction, policy, and learning strategies for students, teachers, parents, district administrators, and other community stakeholders. Education NOW!
Learn more about Dr. Akosua Lesesne
Dr. Akosua Lesesne is an educational design leader with expertise in Education for Black liberation, grades 6-12, and the Black teaching tradition. She will be joining us as the guest speaker for our very first Education Now! Webinar series of 2022. She began her career as a high school social studies instructor and has 17 years of teaching, instructional coaching, and district-level leadership experience within five major predominantly Black and Latinx urban school districts along the east coast. Akosua was one of the chief architects of a flagship district-wide Black male mentoring program with Broward County Public Schools, served on the grant writing team that won the district a $5 million High School Graduation Initiative grant from the United States Department of Education to expand this program, and oversaw the expansion of this program model throughout the district. Her work defending and inspiring our most vulnerable youth has earned her praise from students, parents, colleagues, and renowned educational scholars alike. In her latest book, McArthur “Genius” Award-winning educator and renowned author Lisa Delpit wrote this about Lesesne’s impact, “Your tireless efforts to give our children brighter futures is exhausting to watch, but so inspires me to continue the struggle.” In addition to founding and leading Lesesne Learning, Akosua is the Founder and CEO of The Lesesne Collective Corp d/b/a Sisters in Education Circle (SIEC) and the SIEC Retreat Host. She earned a Bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Harvard University, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Tufts University, and a Doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
You can learn more about her work via her website www.siecretreat.org
To access the webinar click on the Zoom link below:
Meeting ID: 853 8518 5742 Passcode: 400127
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