RIPL Collective
Recharging and Inspiring Possibilities in Learning
Details
Who:
Educators (K-12, preschool, university, and community educators are all welcome!)
What:
An afternoon of connection and shared learning.
Where:
Philip E. Batt Education Building
Educators are invited to gather each month at the Wassmuth Center to connect, learn, and co-create just and joyful learning communities where every person’s dignity is honored. Together we will cultivate a network of human rights educators, including former and current Wassmuth Human Rights Education Fellows as well as other classroom and community educators interested in teaching about, through, and for human rights.
The Teacher Leadership Council is hosting these monthly sessions:
Dates for the 2024-25 academic year:
- August 20, 2024
- September 17, 2024
- October 22, 2024
- November 19, 2024
- December 17, 2024
- January 28, 2025
- February 25, 2025
- March 25, 2025
- April 22, 2025
- May 20, 2025
February’s Gathering
This month’s gathering will feature Dr. Janet Kaufman who will facilitate an introductory, interactive workshop in Nonviolent, or Compassionate, Communication. NVC is practiced globally, among individuals, communities, and organizations where people are working to communicate and address conflict peacefully, even in sites of war. NVC offers a communication framework for enriching life with dignity and being together empathetically as human beings. Working with a structure for helping us see ourselves and each other, we’ll focus on listening and speaking for collaborative problem-solving, with consideration for each person’s feelings, needs, and values. We’ll get to know each other and practice approaches we can use every day in the classroom and beyond.
Janet Kaufman, Ph.D. CPM will be leading this workshop. As a former middle and high school English teacher, and having spent most of her career as a professor of English Education, she now works at the intersections of mediation, conflict coaching, restorative conversation, and facilitation. Janet enjoys the challenge of navigating difficult conversations and creatively addressing differences. She holds onto her belief and hope that we can help make a world we all can live in together.
A special thank you to Tango’s Empanadas for sponsoring appetizers!
