Research Presented: Community Sustaining Pedagogy: Reimagining Teacher Education at the Intersection of the PreK-12 Classroom and the Grassroots Community for Transformative Social Change byKaitlin Popielarz, EquityMatterz: Leveraging Critical Professional Development and Critical Mentorship to Retain and Sustain Teachers of Color by Tonya Walls, and Liberation through Disobedience in Teacher Education by Ramon Vasquez.

Presenters will share research that disrupt traditional teacher education approaches to teacher mentoring, course design, Euro-centered epistemology to introduce new strategies for preparing teachers to advance liberation in schools.