EduCon 2025

This conversation shares the findings of my dissertation. My study looked at the Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity project to determine if participating in this project had any bearing on White educators’ feelings of efficacy in their ability to be culturally responsive to their minoritized students. My research identified ways in which SEED structures provided white teachers with concrete steps for unpacking their own lived experiences and inviting the stories of minority students into the classroom. For this conversation, there are two possible approaches based on whatever is more appropriate for the Educon setting. The conversation can be centered around the findings of my study and specifically geared exclusively towards White participants as an accountability space. Alternatively, it can be restructured to focus less on the exclusive experience of White educators and provide all Educon participants with the opportunity to engage in a Windows and Mirrors activity across lines of difference and grounded in SEED norms. The Windows and Mirrors activity is an activity in which participants are given a selection of images and directed to find one that is a mirror of their own lived experience and one that is a window into the lived experience of others. Participants share these images with one another, engaging in serial testimony where they are given an allotted amount of time to speak uninterrupted. Participants then engage in cross talk. Finally, they journal about their reflections as a result of this conversation.