Coursework: ITP Seminar

Seminars are held weekly on Fridays in the Educational Sciences Building in Rm. 259, unless noted otherwise

While this is a required course for ITP fellows, members of the university and wider community are welcome to attend.

September 3, 2025
September 5, 2025
  • ITP Seminar - Bonnie Siegler: Race-Conscious Refinement: Rejecting Race-Evasiveness as a Form of Cultural Capital in High-Income, Predominantly White School Districts

    September 5, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    WCER, Room 259

    ABSTRACT

    How did school districts serving high-income communities describetheir commitments to address racism after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protestsand police officers' murder of George Floyd? Leaders of these districtsdescribed talking about racism as key to their organizations’ racial equityefforts, but how district leaders portrayed the importance of talking aboutracism varies by district racial composition. In predominantly White districts,leaders expressed shock at evidence of racial violence and framed race-talk asnecessary for both addressing the discomfort learning about racism caused andpreparing students for leadership roles in diverse, global settings, rejectinglongstanding White norms of race-evasiveness and racial ignorance. Statementsfrom similarly high-income districts with fewer White students also promotetalking about race but describe these conversations as supporting raciallymarginalized students’ immediate socioemotional needs, not preparing studentsfor future success. The findings illuminate an emergent form of culturalcapital for affluent White students called race-conscious refinement: easediscussing racism as a mark of distinction that serves students’ futureadvancement. This article contributes to research on Whiteness, organizationalDEI efforts, and racial socialization in schools, and suggests how the “racialcontract” may shift to accommodate new, sophisticated mechanisms that upholdelite White dominance in the social media age as well as the era of backlashagainst efforts to disrupt racial inequality in organizations.

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September 12, 2025
  • ITP Seminar: Fellows only

    September 12, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    WCER, Room 259

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September 19, 2025
  • ITP Seminar - Adam Gamoran, William T. Grant Foundation

    September 19, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    WCER, Room 259

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September 26, 2025
  • ITP Seminar

    September 26, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    WCER, Room 259

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October 3, 2025
  • ITP Seminar - Courtney Bell, UW-Madison, Director of WCER

    October 3, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    WCER, Room 259

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October 10, 2025
  • ITP Seminar

    October 10, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    WCER, Room 259

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October 17, 2025
October 24, 2025
  • ITP Seminar - Thad Domina, Director of Graduate Studies at the University of North Carolina School of Education

    October 24, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    WCER, Room 259

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