Leaders: Regents Professor Kathy G. Short, Dr. Dorea Kleker, and Narges Zandi, University of Arizona
Authors: Kao Kalia Yang and Shifa Saltagi Safad
June 2-5, 2025
9 am – 4 pm at Worlds of Words, at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona
To register, click here.
Join us for a four-day, in-person workshop to engage in experiences and books that invite children to immerse themselves in literature about refugee and immigrant experiences. In this interactive workshop, you will explore new picturebooks and novels for your work with students and participate in engagements with these books. You will also interact with children’s authors/illustrators who will join us to talk about their global books–Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Rock in My Throat, and Shifa Saltagi Safad, author of Kareem Between, winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Young People. You will receive their books along with booklists and other materials.
We are framing this workshop around the conceptual framework of journeys as movement along a pathway to examine the forced and chosen journeys in our own lives. Within this frame, we will explore refugee/immigrant books related to themes of displacement, difficult journeys, detention, belonging, home, language, memory, names, and walls. There will be time to browse books as well as use dialogue strategies to engage with books. We will also share our work with children around these books. Our goal is inviting children to critically engage with story as a means of making sense of their own lives, and of understanding the lives of children whose experiences differ from their own.
Participants will receive a PD Certificate. Registration is limited to 35 people.
Cost: $100 (includes lunch and materials)
Questions, contact: dkleker@arizona.edu or shortk@arizona.edu
See lodging and scholarship information on our website! https://cercll.arizona.edu/wowinst25/
Tucson Values Teachers is providing limited scholarships for educators to attend PD opportunities, if you are interested, click here for more information
- For questions regarding this resource, please contact Center for Educational Resources in Culture Language and Literacy (CERCLL).
- Phone No: (520) 626-8071
- Email Address: cercll@arizona.edu