Ethnodrama: Engaging Students as Community Leaders

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Community Allies is available to school districts for short or long-term mentoring of educators in culturally relevant curriculum enrichment that supports teacher and student leadership in community change-making. Based on the particular issues and needs of your classroom, school, or district, we help you integrate local history and creative and artistic resources that align with the broad range of teacher and youth literacies and with their real world college, career, identity, and citizenship needs. We provide training in practitioner research techniques that can help you research your educational initiatives and strengthen within and across discipline teaching and research partnerships, and we provide research assistance to help you document instructional designs and learning outcomes. We provide professional development in the form of in-person visits, classroom assistance, and interactive workshops, webinars, and video conversations. We work with you to establish a time line and program sufficient for your educational goals.
                                                                                                 
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  • In every aspect of our professional development, we center instruction in the many aspects of student cultures, literacies, and identities.
  • We help you connect the arts with socially just and multicultural teaching and learning. 
  • We do not bring a prescribed curriculum or program; we offer an array of educational materials and instructional supports. 
  • We learn from you your questions and desires for teaching and learning. 
  • We provide a variety of literacy frameworks, dramatic resources, digital data bases and curricular materials and then support you in adapting and building upon them as you design your own instruction. 
  • We help you innovate your instruction through interdisciplinary relationships with other teachers in your school. 
  • We co-construct knowledge with you regarding the use of ethnodramatic and digital platforms that facilitate culturally responsive teaching.


Inspiring Close Reading

  • Explore how to frame culturally rich inquiries.
  • Explore how to apply ethnodramatic principles and questions.
  • Explore dramatic and editing techniques and digital research platforms.
  • Learn how to maximize students' abilities to deconstruct the languages, messages, and cultural influences on texts.
  • Learn how to research your practice and challenge your assumptions about students.
  • Learn how to discover and build instruction upon student literacies, languages, identities, and cultures.


Inspiring Academic Research

  • Learn innovative collaborative research methodologies that you can use to grow as an organization, as a school, as a teacher.
  • Learn how students can join these research efforts and gain agency in pursuing their own learning goals.


Inspiring Critical Writing

  • Expand upon the ways you engage students as researchers and writers through the use of ethnodramatic, community-centered non-traditional data collection, analyses and film production.
  • Learn how these interactive, concrete, and hands on instructional methods impact student agency in becoming community leaders.
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