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COEHD to host African American studies online educator workshop

COEHD to host African American studies online educator workshop

JULY 10, 2020 — A group of College of Education and Human Development professors is hosting a workshop about the importance of bringing African American studies to the secondary education level amid the worldwide protests, marches and global conversations of systemic racism and oppression of African Americans in the United States.

The Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies is presenting a first-of-its-kind online educator workshop, “Building Critical Consciousness in the Classroom and Community: African American History, Culture and Economics,” on Tuesday, July 14 from 10 a.m. to noon.

“We would like students of all ethnicities and ancestries to take the class because everyone can learn from it,” said Mario Salas, a lecturer in COEHD. “It addresses the overall problem of the country of having a severe lack of knowledge in relationship to what’s going on now, and what has happened in the past.”


“We would like students of all ethnicities and ancestries to take the class because everyone can learn from it.”



The course will provide attendees the necessary skills and knowledge they need to bring the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills topic of African American studies to secondary education.

Organized by UTSA professors Karla Broadus, Salas and Charles Gentry, the two-hour workshop is open to educators, future educators and members of the community. Upon completion, attendees will receive two Continuing Professional Education credit hours.

In 34-minute sessions, speakers will focus on the Texas Education Agency goals for African American studies, which are to broaden the knowledge and understanding about the history, culture, economics and political realities for African Americans.

On January 27 of this year Salas went before the State Board of Education and presented a curriculum to bring African American studies to secondary classrooms across the state of Texas. The curriculum was passed unanimously, making Texas the fifth state in the U.S. to approve an African American studies course for high school students. The course is based on one created by the Dallas Independent School District and implemented in 16 DISD schools in fall 2019.

The inaugural workshop comes following the events of arrest and death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by a white police office in Minnesota, which has led to international Black Lives Matter protests. 


Register for the workshop.

“We have to educate people about what is the reason for all of this,” Salas said. “We want to be able to apply what we know about the history of racial inequality to what we have going on now.”

Anyone interested in attending the workshop is asked to RSVP.

Libby Castillo



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