Sustaining Our HeartWork: Q and A with Author Educator Activist Lorena Germán

The goal of MCTE’s Sustaining Our Heartwork webinar series is to provide K-16 educators with tools to critically evaluate their beliefs, values, and practices and resources to design and enact antiracist pedagogies. Join us for the third webinar in the series featuring Lorena Germán. MCTE membership is not required to attend this event.

Lorena Escoto Germán is a Dominican American educator focused on anti-racist and antibias work in education. She earned her master’s degree at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English.

Lorena is a two-time nationally awarded educator whose work has been featured in newspapers and journals including The New York Times, NCTE journals, EdWeek, National Writing Project, and Embracing Equity. She is author of The Anti Racist Teacher: Reading Instruction Workbook. 

A cofounder of the groups #DisruptTexts and Multicultural Classroom, Lorena is the director of pedagogy at EduColor and Chair of NCTE’s Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English. Of all her work, Lorena is most dedicated to her roles as wife and mami.

Lorena is the author of Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices.

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