Join us on Tuesday, April 22nd at 5:00pm (Doors open at 4:30pm, Free Pizza at 4:45pm) in the Student Union Theater to celebrate Earth Day with a screening of The Children Could Fly. A documentary created by one of our SJSU Professors, Dr. Tiffani Marie (Assistant Professor in Teacher Education and & Ethnic Studies).

"This documentary sets out to disrupt normative beliefs that, particularly for Black children, increased schooling leads to social and economic uplift, critical thinking, and a sustainable sense of purpose. It aims to center critical dialogue and visuals rooted in empirical understandings of the inextricable link between the wellness of Black children and the abolition of schooling--its historical and ongoing investments in structural, institutional, and interpersonal forms of anti-Blackness. It will disentangle functions of schooling from education; and it aims to follow/highlight the pedagogical practices that we engaged throughout our students four years of high school, practices that sought to ensure that all of our [Black] students had access to quality education (knowledges, resources and communities) en route to their well-being" (Scholar Works).

Screening to be followed by a dynamic discussion and Q & A session with Dr. Tiffani Marie, Lalin St. Juste, a sound alchemist and social worker, and Jewell Bachelor, a community healer and educator. 

The EmpowerED: Re-Conceptualizing Teaching Series brings together SJSU students, faculty, researchers, and local community educators for quarterly movie screenings and panel discussions to critically examine public depictions, perceptions, and expectations of public education teachers in the United States.

Fiscally Supported by the College of the Humanities and the Arts’ Artistic Excellence Programming Grant and Lurie School of Education