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What are the strategies you use to create and adapt learning experiences for incarcerated students?

In her book, Emergent Strategy: Shaping change, changing worlds, adrienne maree brown offers a visionary approach to change in a rapidly changing world. As teachers, one of our greatest hopes is that our students leave our classrooms believing in their ability to navigate those rapid changes, and build satisfying lives. In this two-part series, we bring the principles of Emergent Strategy to carceral classrooms, exploring how they offer both students and teachers a richer, more connected experience.

Two-part Workshop Series for Prison Education Practitioners

May 15 | 11:30 am - 1 pm ET | 8:30-10 am PT

May 22 | 11:30 am - 1 pm ET | 8:30-10 am PT

Individual registration for the series: $50

emareena danielles, educator and author

emareena is a master educator, field researcher, and public scholar at the intersection of education, corrections, criminal legal reform, and abolition. They are compelled to ground their work in what they hear from community groups and impacted people and families, learning also from thinkers, activists, mystics, practitioners, and healers.Their formal education includes a Master’s of Science in Teaching from Portland State University, and a B.A. in Communications from the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. emareena has been studying and exploring barriers to learning, and what it means to be a “better teacher,” for close to 25 years.   

Their first text “Building a Trauma-Responsive Educational Practice: Lessons from a Corrections Classroom,” is the first book to address the impacts of trauma on adult learning, and provide a guide to working in carceral spaces. The text also invites curiousity about how we can bring joy into challenging spaces, especially carceral classrooms, and what that can mean for learners. emareena focuses on countering the impacts of trauma on learning as a way to guide students toward rediscovering themselves as strong and capable learners, and one pathway to a joyful and compassionate world.   

Trauma, Education and Adult Learning Substack

Trauma-responsive educator’s Google group 

emareena’s talk for the Maggie Garb inaugural lecture series 

Join us on The Galactic Cow as we discuss a new future for education!

JuliA Metzker, Director, The Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Eduation

JuliA Metzker, Ph.D., serves as the director of the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education at The Evergreen State College. JuliA received her first degree from Evergreen, where she learned firsthand the value of a transformative liberal arts education. She obtained a doctoral degree in inorganic chemistry from the University of Arizona and completed a postdoctoral appointment at the University of York in the United Kingdom. 

In her 10 years as a chemistry professor at Georgia College, she discovered the power of community-based learning to engage students in learning that matters. After serving as director of community-based engaged Learning at Georgia College, she moved to Stetson University as the founding executive director for the Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence. Recently, Dr. Metzker co-authored, Learning That Matters: A Field Guide to Course Design for Transformative Education, that takes a fresh approach to designing learning experiences for the 21st century. She believes in reimagining and reclaiming the democratic potential of assessment, work she champions in her role as co-chair of Imagining America’s “Assessing the Practices of Public scholarship” research group.