Summer Teacher Institute

8:30 AM	Coffee & Breakfast treats
9:00 - 10:00 AM	Presenter: Kenneth Edward Whitlock, Jr. Keynote: The Story of a Reluctant Race Pioneer: Navigating the Segregated World of my Youth & the Complexities of School Integration
10:00-10:15 AM	15 minute Break
10:15-11:00 AM	Presenter: Barbara Whitlock Empowering Courageous Dialogue & Invigorating Teaching about Race in the US through Character Education - sharing action research
11-11:15	15 minute Break
11:15-12:30	Presenter: Karen Bohlin Lessons from Langston Hughes on the Schooling of Desire
12:30-1:15 PM	Lunch Break
1:30-2:15 PM	Presenter: Emilie Rogers “What Do You Want, Miggery Sow?” The Socratic Method and Desire in Literature Instruction
2:15-3:00PM	Reflection & Discussion

Angel Adams Parham is associate professor of sociology and senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. She is passionate about education across the K-16 educational spectrum, and her research and teaching are inspired by classical philosophies of living and learning that emphasize the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty.   She has homeschooled her daughters, and is the co-founder and executive director of Nyansa Classical Community, an educational non-profit focused on K-12 students which provides classical and Christian curricula at the lower and upper school levels for schools and homeschools. Parham is the co-author, with Anika Prather, of The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature and she has published articles on the intersection of Black writers and classical liberal education in popular outlets including the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Public Discourse, Comment Magazine, The Hedgehog Review, and Common Good Magazine.  

In her scholarly work, Parham is the author of American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race (Oxford, 2017), which examines changes in race and racialization in New Orleans under the French, Spanish and Anglo-American administrations. The book was co-winner of the Social Science History Association’s Allan Sharlin Memorial book award (2018); co-winner of the American Sociological Association’s Barrington Moore book award in comparative-historical sociology (2018); and recipient of an Honorable Mention from the Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award, International Migration Section, American Sociological Association (2018).  She is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled "Reckoning and Reconciliation: On Race, Place, and Memory in Civic Life" which examines Americans' engagement with difficult, complex histories and the relation of these histories to understanding what it means to be American. Parham completed her B.A. in sociology at Yale University and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.