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Calendar At-a-Glance: Advanced Topics
The State Education Resource Center (SERC), in collaboration with the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE), is honored to offer sessions related to Advanced Topics of Connecticut’s African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latino Course of Studies. These sessions are based on key concepts and topics of interest from teachers who have been teaching the course. These sessions will give teachers who have participated in the Training Series additional opportunities to engage with speakers and other teachers regarding application of content from the model curriculum.
| Date(s) | Time | Session Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 1/8/25 | 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | Film Review: “La Gran Fallacia/The Great Fallacy” | SERC, Waterbury |
| Tuesday, 1/14/25 | 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Latino History and Cross-Cultural Perspectives | Online Event |
| Wednesday, 1/15/25 Wednesday, 1/22/25 |
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | Black American History Mapping | The Lyceum, Hartford |
| Wednesday, 1/23/25 | 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Harvest of the Empire: Contributions of Latinos to Our Nation’s U.S. History | Online Event |
| Tuesday, 2/4/25 Thursday, 2/20/25 Wednesday, 3/19/25 |
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Feeding Two Birds with One Worm: Empowering Humanities Teachers to Teach African and Latino American History While Implementing Connecticut’s New Social Studies Standards | The Lyceum, Hartford |
| Thursday, 2/6/25 | 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Inquiry into Black and Latino Studies: A Genealogical Perspective | The Lyceum, Hartford |
| Wednesday, 2/19/25 | 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Hecho en Puerto Rico/Made in Puerto Rico (Play) | Roberto Clemente International Dual Language School, Waterbury |
| Wednesday, 4/23/25 | 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | This is Our Time: Changing Women’s Narratives About Race and Ethnicity in Puerto Rico and Latin America | SERC, Waterbury |
Registration Information:
Contact Information:
For registration questions:
Heather Dawes, SERC Project Specialist
860-632-1485, ext. 263
Email: dawes@ctserc.org
For content questions:
Nitza Diaz, SERC Consultant, 860-632-1485, ext. 394
Michelle LeBrun-Griffin, SERC Consultant, 860-632-1485, ext. 321
Dwight Sharpe, SERC Consultant, 860-632-1485, ext. 324
Connecticut’s African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latino Course of Studies Student Summit III
Branches of the Same Tree – Black and Brown Unity
Friday, January 17, 2025 at 8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
*Registration starts at 8:00 a.m.
West Hartford Conference and Meeting Center
50 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT 06107
It is said that the histories of African Americans and Latinos can be understood as “Branches of the Same Tree”, sharing common African ancestry, customs, and solidarity. We use this idiom with Student Summit III to express the unity and solidarity exemplified historically in Black and Brown communities. We expect that students will be inspired to take on roles of civic engagement and activism in CT and beyond.
In Summit III we invite our youth to participate in a day that includes:
- exploring the histories of the settler colonial project in the United States;
- engaging in cultural community-building activities through Afro/Latino traditional and contemporary dance and spoken word;
- learning about Black/Brown principles of unity from the historical perspective of the Black Panthers and Young Lords; and
- planning and co-creating Black/Brown Principles of Unity for today’s youth.
Special Guests
Miguel Melendez
CEO, Weapons of Knowledge
Dr. Johanna Fernandez
Author, “The Young Lords”
Denise Oliver-Velez
Activist and Member, Young Lords
RapOet-Khaiim Kelly
1st Hip Hop Troubadour of an American City
For questions regarding content, please contact:
Nitza M. Diaz, 860-632-1485, ext 394 or diaz@ctserc.org
For questions regarding registration or to arrange for a language or sign language interpreter, please contact:
Heather Dawes, 860-632-1485, ext 263 or dawes@ctserc.org
*Transportation stipends and permission forms will be made available upon registration.
An offering by Connecticut’s African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latino Course of Studies
(CT PA 19-12 and PA 21-2).
2024-25 COHORT 4 TRAINING SERIES
Note! Two new dates have been added
The State Education Resource Center (SERC), in collaboration with the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE), is pleased to offer Cohort 4 of Connecticut’s African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latino Course of Studies Training Series for the 2024-2025 school year. We continue to gather highly regarded content experts, historians, and local social studies teachers to design and provide sessions related to key topics in tandem with the scope and sequence of the course. The revised format for this year will allow teachers to self-select sessions based on interest and need. New schools and/or new teachers implementing the course are encouraged to attend the series in its entirety to fully benefit from the learning community.
All sessions will be held from 9:00am to 3:00pm at SERC with lunch on your own.
| Dates | Session Outline |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, 12/10/24 |
Semester 2, Unit 1-2 – Topics to include:
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| Friday, 1/31/25 (NEW!) |
Semester 1, Units 1-3 – Topics to include:
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| Friday, 2/7/25 (NEW!) |
Semester 1, Units 4-6 – Topics to include:
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| Tuesday, 2/11/25 |
Semester 2, Unit 3 – Topics to include:
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| Tuesday, 3/11/25 |
Semester 2, Unit 4 – Topics to include:
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| Tuesday, 4/8/25 |
Semester 2, Unit 5 – Topics to include:
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An offering by Connecticut’s African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latino Course of Studies (CT PA 19-12 and PA 21-2)
Registration and Contact Information
To register for individual sessions or the full training series in its entirety, please go to: https://25-06-111.eventbrite.com
To register for other CSDE/SERC events, please go to: https://ctserc.org/events
Questions about Registration:
Contact: Heather Dawes, SERC Project Specialist
Phone: 860-632-1485, ext. 263
Email: dawes@ctserc.org
Questions about Content:
Contact any of the following:
- Nitza Diaz, SERC Consultant
Phone: 860-632-1485, ext. 394
Email: diaz@ctserc.org - Michelle LeBrun-Griffin, SERC Consultant
Phone: 860-632-1485, ext. 322
Email: griffin@ctserc.org - Dwight Sharpe, SERC Consultant
Phone: 860-632-1485, ext. 324
Email: sharpe@ctserc.org
“Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2019) (a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2021, and each school year thereafter, each local and regional board of education shall include African-American and black studies and Puerto Rican and Latino studies as part of the curriculum for the school district, pursuant to section 10-16b of the general statutes, as amended by this act.”