EducationChange Leadership
Co-Curricular Workshop Series
Opportunities to connect with others on this important topic
I believe that I informally integrate this into my classes and Teaching Fellows, but would love to learn more.
I want to create a space that is focused on youth participatory action. I don't think I should choose what is important to them.
How did you hear about opportunity
DeWelde and Harris are awesome. I do what they say. :)
Associate Professor of Literacy Education
Type of Community Engagement
Social Action
I want opportunities to listen and learn from others.
- Adolescent literacy
- Race and power
- Identity and culture
- Language development
- Historical legacies of discrimination
- Educational hierarchies
- Linguistic inequities
- Culturally sustaining teaching practices
- Antiracist education
The course explores the relationship between adolescent literacy, race, and power, focusing on how identity and historical discrimination shape language development. It aims to equip participants to identify linguistic inequities and implement culturally sustaining, antiracist teaching practices. The course emphasizes youth participatory action and community engagement in social action initiatives.
- Course: Teaching Fellows: First Year Experience
- Instructor: Ian O'Byrne, Associate Professor of Literacy Education
- Focus: Adolescent literacy, race, and power
- Goals: Identify linguistic inequities, resist systemic oppression, implement antiracist teaching
- Format: Co-Curricular Workshop Series, In Person, 120 min sessions, 2x/week for 14 weeks
- Engagement: Opportunities for youth participatory action
- Department: TEDU, School of Education, College of Charleston
- Semester: Fall '26, Spring '27
