STLinSTL 2024

In her latest book Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Teaching and Learning (Scholastic, 2023), Dr. Muhammad defines joy as more than celebration and happiness, but also as wellness, beauty, healing, and justice for oneself and across humanity. She shows educators how joy, which is rooted in the cultural and historical realities of Black students, can enhance our efforts to cultivate identity, skills, intellect, and criticality for ALL students, giving them a powerful purpose to learn and contribute to the world.

In this session, participants will dig into Muhammad’s five pursuits and will have an opportunity to both evaluate and revise a lesson as they try their hand at creating a curriculum that cultivates identity, skills, intellect, criticality, and joy. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to read chapters 1-3 of Unearthing Joy and to bring a lesson to this session.