Julia Torres & Renan Leite

☟⬇︎ Watch Here on April 2nd ⬇︎☟

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Today’s Gathering has pre-recorded sessions (to allow greater flexibility for presenters and tech hosts during the pandemic).

This means:

Keep your eye on the time! You will see the session from the start, not live in progress… don’t miss the next one!
Tweet with #TheEdCollabGathering. Presenters looking forward to connecting!

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[su_row]Julia E. Torres is a TheEdCollab Book Ambassador, focusing on 6-12 readers. Read her full bio here or request her for consulting or speaking engagement.

Julia E. Torres is an expert in secondary writing and reading instruction, including accelerated reading and writing instruction for multilingual students and those learning in urban environments. Julia facilitates workshops and professional conversations around the country pertaining to best practices in reading and writing instruction, culturally sustaining pedagogies in language arts, as well as digital literacy and librarianship. Currently, Julia is a teacher librarian for five schools on the Montbello Campus within the Far Northeast region of Denver Public schools. As a teacher/activist committed to education as a practice of freedom, her practice is grounded in the work of empowering teachers and students to use language arts education to fuel resistance and positive social transformation. In her work as a member of Educolor’s Working Group, Julia frequently collaborates with the collective by participating in online chats as well as local community organizing and the creation of school and classroom resources that promote educational equity, student agency, and the advancement of teacher pedagogy with respect to anti-bias/anti-racist educational curriculum development, and practices, as well as educational progressivism. Follow her on Twitter @juliaerin80[/su_row] [su_row] Renan Leite is the Director of Library and Information Services at TASIS Portugal. Follow him on Twitter @293Renan [/su_row]

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