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The final workshop in an ongoing professional development series dedicated to transformative teaching, Braiding Indigenous Education, STEAM, and Critical Education Leadership explores This workshop explores how Indigenous knowledge systems, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics), and studies in critical education leadership can be woven together to create transformative, justice-centered learning environments.
Participants will engage with Indigenous epistemologies and pedagogies that honor relationality, land-based learning, and community accountability, while examining how these approaches can enrich STEAM education and leadership practices. Through dialogue, case studies, and collaborative activities, the workshop invites educators, administrators, and students to envision educational models that disrupt colonial hierarchies, cultivate creativity and scientific inquiry, and empower leaders to foster good relationship, sustainability, and collective well-being. Participants will leave with practical strategies and reflective frameworks for braiding these three strands into their own teaching, curriculum design, and leadership work.
Through dialogue, reflection, and experiential learning, educators will be invited to consider how pedagogies of healing and reciprocity can support ethical and empowering teaching. The workshop will also offer practical strategies for fostering mutually affirming relationships between educators and communities, contemplating how instructional leadership, in form and practice, is ceremony. This workshop is ideal for educators seeking to engage with education as a path toward collective flourishing.
For details on how this workshop meets the requirements for high quality professional development (HQPD), please click here. Participants will receive lunch, a sourcebook containing readings and activities, a certificate of completion, and 10 PDPs for Massachusetts teachers, if needed).
Date: Saturday, November 15, 2025
Time: 10 AM – 3 PM
Location: Hampshire College, Franklin Patterson Hall Faculty Lounge (Rm. 221), 893 West St. Amherst, MA 01007
Registration Deadline: November 10th, 2025
For further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at nromero@hampshire.edu and see you soon!
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED AND THIS PROGRAM IS AT CAPACITY. Thank you for your interest and stay tuned for information on the next installment in November!
The second workshop in an ongoing professional development series dedicated to transformative teaching, Pedagogies of Healing and Reciprocity explores how global Indigenous educational philosophies can inform transformative classroom practices that center relationality, autonomy, community accountability, critical thinking, and growth through community-sustaining teaching and learning. Drawing from literature on Indigenous and decolonizing education from Oceania, Southeast Asia, Turtle Island and beyond, this workshop examines the ways in which culturally accountable pedagogy can promote both teacher agency and improved student outcomes.
Participants will engage with key concepts such as storytelling and holistic well-being, learning how these principles can suffuse conventional teaching practices with vibrancy and vitality. The workshop will highlight case studies and frameworks that examine how education fosters community resilience and cultural resurgence, while critically reflecting on the legacies and limitations of colonial schooling.
Through dialogue, reflection, and experiential learning, educators will be invited to consider how pedagogies of healing and reciprocity can support ethical and empowering teaching. The workshop will also offer practical strategies for fostering mutually affirming relationships between educators and communities, contemplating how teaching, in form and practice, is ceremony. This workshop is ideal for educators seeking to engage with education as a path toward collective flourishing.
For details on how Pedagogies of Healing and Reciprocity meets the requirements for high quality professional development (HQPD), please click here. Participants will receive a boxed lunch, a sourcebook containing readings and activities, a certificate of completion, and 10 PDPs for Massachusetts teachers, if needed).
Date: Saturday, August 16, 2025
Time: 10 AM – 3 PM
Location: Hampshire College, Franklin Patterson Hall Faculty Lounge (Rm. 221), 893 West St. Amherst, MA 01007
Registration Deadline: August 5th, 2025 – REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED AND THIS PROGRAM IS AT CAPACITY. Thank you for your interest and stay tuned for information on the next installment in November!
For further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at nromero@hampshire.edu and see you soon!
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED AND THIS PROGRAM IS AT CAPACITY. Thank you for your interest and stay tuned for information on the next installment in November!
The second workshop in an ongoing professional development series dedicated to transformative teaching, Pedagogies of Healing and Reciprocity explores how global Indigenous educational philosophies can inform transformative classroom practices that center relationality, autonomy, community accountability, critical thinking, and growth through community-sustaining teaching and learning. Drawing from literature on Indigenous and decolonizing education from Oceania, Southeast Asia, Turtle Island and beyond, this workshop examines the ways in which culturally accountable pedagogy can promote both teacher agency and improved student outcomes.
Participants will engage with key concepts such as storytelling and holistic well-being, learning how these principles can suffuse conventional teaching practices with vibrancy and vitality. The workshop will highlight case studies and frameworks that examine how education fosters community resilience and cultural resurgence, while critically reflecting on the legacies and limitations of colonial schooling.
Through dialogue, reflection, and experiential learning, educators will be invited to consider how pedagogies of healing and reciprocity can support ethical and empowering teaching. The workshop will also offer practical strategies for fostering mutually affirming relationships between educators and communities, contemplating how teaching, in form and practice, is ceremony. This workshop is ideal for educators seeking to engage with education as a path toward collective flourishing.
For details on how Pedagogies of Healing and Reciprocity meets the requirements for high quality professional development (HQPD), please click here. Participants will receive a boxed lunch, a sourcebook containing readings and activities, a certificate of completion, and 10 PDPs for Massachusetts teachers, if needed).
Date: Saturday, August 16, 2025
Time: 10 AM – 3 PM
Location: Hampshire College, Franklin Patterson Hall Faculty Lounge (Rm. 221), 893 West St. Amherst, MA 01007
Registration Deadline: August 5th, 2025 – REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED AND THIS PROGRAM IS AT CAPACITY. Thank you for your interest and stay tuned for information on the next installment in November!
For further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at nromero@hampshire.edu and see you soon!
The first workshop in an ongoing professional development series dedicated to transformative teaching, Critical Pedagogy for Educators makes accessible a suite of evidence-based tools derived from my research on community-embedded and trans-Indigenous approaches to liberatory learning and covered in my book, Decolonial Underground Pedagogy: Unschooling and Subcultural Learning for Peace and Human Rights (Bloomsbury).
Grounded in critical pedagogy – an approach to education that promotes reciprocity, balance, healing, courageous engagement, and fearless inquiry – this module is designed to cultivate educators’ capacity for community-building, critical thinking, and adaptive, resilient teaching. Ideally, we will leave these sessions with a deepened understanding of our radical agency and the inspiration needed to persist.
For details on how Critical Pedagogy for Educators meets the requirements for high quality professional development (HQPD), please click here.
Some topics we’ll cover include:
Teaching as a walk to elderhood: how do we teach in ways that help others define and achieve their goals? How does this differ from teaching as a disciplinarian, manager, or content expert?
Teaching as a defense of the sacred: how do decolonial and relational teaching practices enhance student learning while redressing historical traumas and building solidarities between schools, families, communities, and ecosystems?
Teaching as armor: how does compulsory schooling maintain systemic processes that colonize and dispossess? What is the educator’s role in subverting these processes, allowing peaceful realities to flourish and emerge?
Participants will receive a comprehensive source book filled with curated readings, sample activities, out-of-class assignments, and reflection prompts to support continued growth long after the workshop ends. I will also provide a certificate of completion, a written assessment, and an invoice to facilitate professional development reimbursement.
Date: June 14, 2025
Time: 10 AM – 3 PM
Location: Hampshire College, Franklin Patterson Hall, 893 West St. Amherst, MA 01007
Fee: $350 (includes boxed lunch, sourcebook, certificate of completion, written assessment, invoice for reimbursement purposes, and 10 PDPs for Massachusetts teachers if needed)
A deposit of $25 is required to reserve a space. The deposit will be deducted from the total fee. Full payment upon registration is also accepted.
Discounts can be arranged for groups and if multiple educators from the same school, college, or district wish to attend.
Payment information will be provided upon registration. For further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact noah.romero@gmail.com.
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