{"id":55,"date":"2014-08-07T10:49:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T17:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/ccrp\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:03:53","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/ccrp\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Culturally Responsive Practices Workshop Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Upcoming Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring Professional Development Series 2026 & 2027<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CCRP workshops and presentations are currently on pause for spring 2026 and 2027. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information will be posted herefor future events and workshops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Access to the live and archived keynote and faculty development lectures can be found on The Mountie Network<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

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Archived Events:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

2025 Spring Professional Development Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

April 11th & 12th, 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Kristen B. French<\/strong> \u2013A’saanaak\u00ed\u00ed\u2013(Amskapi Piikani (Blackfeet)\/Anniih (Gros Ventre)\/ Eastern Band Cherokee\/Settler) has been a professor in the Early Childhood, Elementary, and Multilingual Education Department at Western Washington University for 18 years. She teaches courses in Tribal Sovereignty, Native Education and Policy Development, and Racial Justice Praxis. Kristen is a faculty advisor to the Native American Student Union (NASU) and the Beading, Reading, Eating, and Weaving for Healing Always Group (BREWHA). Her research interests include Critical Land-Based Family History, Anti-Colonial Teacher Education, Siksikaitsitapi Land-Based Learning, and Indigenous Craftivism. Two recent publications include Composting Settler Colonial Distortions: Cultivating Critical Land-Based Family History (French, Sanchez, Ullom, 2020) and Truth, Land, and Sovereignty: Native American Intellectual Activists, Their Critique of Settler Colonialism, and the Unsettling of Multicultural Education (Haynes-Writer & French, 2020). Kristen is mother of two amazing adult children, Elizabeth and Charlie. When she is out of the office, you\u2019ll find her in her healing garden, kitchen, craft room, or reading Indigenous speculative fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Bragg<\/strong> \u2013 Maats\u2019Omaatstaaki (Amskapi Piikani (Blackfeet)\/Anniih (Gros Ventre)\/ Eastern Band Cherokee\/Settler) is a worker-owner at Long Hearing Farm, a multiracial rural worker\u2019s co-op and certified organic farm with a commitment to growing food as if the lives of kids in our communities matter located in Sauk-Suiattle, Stillaguamish and Upper Skagit lands. She holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Law, Development and Globalization, her thesis focused on the complex relationship between food sovereignty movements and international human rights frameworks. Kitchen grunt, migrant youth educator, community food movement builder, school garden coordinator, and land transfer specialist are just a handful of the hats that Elizabeth has worn over her decade of organizing. Long Hearing Farm is named after her ancestor, Long Hearing Woman, whose values of love, joy, commitment to family, and adaptability inspire her everyday. She is a student of the ideas that all organizing is science fiction and archival research is time travel and you\u2019ll find her at the farm or in the kitchen with a speculative fiction audiobook playing in her ears! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EOU Faculty and Staff Development<\/a>: April 11th: 1:30-3:00pm<\/strong>: View Recording<\/a>
“How to Make Indigenous History Accessible: Native American Fiction as Critical Land-Based Family History<\/strong>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This interactive presentation and workshop will offer faculty and staff an opportunity to make Indigenous history more accessible for students and for themselves through an exploration of Native American fiction and Critical Land-based history tools.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Community Keynote<\/a>:  April 11th 6:00-7:00pm: <\/strong>View Recording<\/a>
“How Indigenous Speculative Fiction can Save Us: Stories of Thrivance from Survivors of an Apocalypse”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/em><\/strong>This interactive keynote conversation will offer some tools on how to navigate our current historical moment from the wisdom of Native speculative fiction writers. Native American stories and history help us to reimagine possibilities for individual and collective healing and thrivance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pk-12 Teacher Workshop<\/a>:  April 12th:  9am-2:00pm at EOU<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“How to Pack A Curricular Go Bag: Indigenous Speculative Fiction in the Classroom”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this interactive teacher workshop, participants will create a curricular \u201cgo bag\u201d for using Indigenous speculative fiction in the classroom. Surviving an apocalypse \u2013or teaching young people about Indigenous history and Native authors\u2013 requires creative tools for understanding what teachers need to unpack, prepare, gather and take with them on their teaching journey. Using Cherie Dimaline\u2019s, Marrow Thieves (2017) and Hunting by the Stars (2021), as well as other Indigenous speculative fiction texts, participants will explore key themes, engage in curricular activities, and leave with resources for the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2024 Spring Professional Development Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

April 26th & 27th, 2024<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Ren\u00e9e Watson<\/strong> is a #1 New York Times Bestselling author. Her books have sold over one million copies.  Her young adult novel, Piecing Me Together, received a Coretta Scott King Award and Newbery Honor. Her children’s picture books and novels for teens have received several awards and international recognition. Many of her books are inspired by her experiences growing up as a Black girl in the Pacific Northwest. Her poetry and fiction center around the experiences of Black girls and explore themes of home, identity, body image, and the intersections of race, class, and gender. https:\/\/www.reneewatson.net\/about<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

EOU Faculty and Staff Development<\/a>: April 26th: 1:30-3:00pm<\/strong>
Interactive workshop for faculty and staff on building community in the classroom and
the role of art in social justice education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community Keynote<\/a>:  April 26th 6:00-7:00pm: <\/strong>View Recording<\/a>
\u201cPiecing Me Together: The Healing Power of Storytelling.\u201d<\/em>
Ren\u00e9e will read selections from her books and share how storytelling can play a powerful role in
individual and collective healing. She will discuss storytelling as a social justice strategy
that educators can use in their classrooms. Following her presentation, Ren\u00e9e will be in
conversation with a session moderator. The conversation will build upon themes from
Ren\u00e9e\u2019s prior presentation and body of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pk-12 Teacher Workshop<\/a>:  April 27th:  9am-2:00pm at EOU<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ren\u00e9e will facilitate interactive activities and writing exercises that cover a range of topics
related to social justice education.
\u25cf And My Body Is Masterpiece: A Poetry Workshop with Ren\u00e9e Watson – In this
workshop, participants will write about the memories and stories that our bodies hold
using prompts from poems, song lyrics, and excerpts from Watson\u2019s novels, Piecing Me
Together, Watch Us Rise, and Love is a Revolution. Teaching practices for bringing
poetry into the curriculum will be demonstrated and resources will be provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf My Suitcase Carries – In this workshop, participants will write poems and share
stories that celebrate and critique the places we call home using poems and excerpts
from Watson\u2019s work as prompts. Teaching practices for bringing poetry into the
curriculum will be demonstrated and resources will be provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2023 Spring Professional Development Series<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

April 28th & 29th, 2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alex Shevrin Venet <\/u><\/strong>is a nationally recognized author and speaker who specializes in connecting theory to practice to create equity- centered trauma-informed schools and communities. She is an educator, professional learning facilitator, and writer. She believes all students need a safe and caring school environment that can be created through unconditional positive regard, recognizing the dynamic and complex lives of students. https:\/\/unconditionallearning.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

EOU Faculty and Staff Development<\/a>: April 28th: 1:30-3:00pm <\/strong>View Recording<\/a>
\u201cPracticing what we teach: applying equity-centered trauma-informed education to the university level.\u201d
Interactive workshop for faculty and staff to explore how ECTIE principles and strategies look in their classes,
programs, and roles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community Keynote<\/a>:  April 28th 6:00-7:00pm: <\/strong>View Recording<\/a>
\u201cUnconditional Positive Regard: a Powerful Equity Stance.\u201d<\/em>
As schools seek to center equity and justice and become trauma-informed, one piece of advice is often repeated: build relationships. But what kind of relationships are the most transformative? How should teachers consider their relationship-building through an equity-centered trauma-informed lens? The concept of unconditional positive regard offers a key to these questions and more. This transformative mindset impacts not only our day-to-day interactions, but the very foundations of how we do school. Unconditional positive regard demands that we value students for who they are, not what they do or how they achieve academically. In this keynote, learn how unconditional positive regard can be a powerful equity stance that honors students\u2019 full humanity and helps them learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pk-12 Teacher Workshop<\/a>:  April 29th:  10am-2:00pm at EOU<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGetting started with equity-centered trauma-informed changemaking\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 As educators, we know our schools need to be safe, caring places where all students can learn \u2013 and we also know there are so many barriers before that dream becomes a true reality. How should a caring and justice-oriented teacher get started in the face of pushback, complex systems, and limited time? In this workshop, we\u2019ll explore how we can find our spheres of influence, use our strengths to determine our role as change-makers, and build critical connections with others in this work. Educators will leave the workshop with an action plan to take back to their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2022 Spring Professional Development Series<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 19th and 20th, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guests scholars: Francisco Rios, Longoria, and Kristen French<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n