Roots of Knowledge Speaker Series: Laurie Toro

800 West University Parkway,Orem UT 84097

03 March, 2022

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Join us for a presentation by Laurie Toro in the beautiful Roots of Knowledge stained-glass gallery! Free and open to all! “Fostering Educational Equity by Sustaining Roots of Knowing & Culture” - Presented by Laurie ToroDuring this presentation we will examine the controversies underpinning culturally sustaining pedagogy, which at its heart is the practice of sustaining our individual roots of knowledge and culture. We’ll problematize the academic expectation of code-switching and introduce code-meshing as an alternative to privileging monocultural and monolingual norms.About Laurie ToroLaurie Toro is the Peer-Tutoring Coordinator in Academic Tutoring at Utah Valley University. She earned her M.A. in Community Leadership from Westminster College and completed a B.A. in English at Utah Valley University. Her passions and research interests focus on race, culture, identity, leadership, and equity in education.______________________Roots of Knowledge is a stained-glass panorama of history and human drama. The intricate details incorporated into every window represent years of painstaking research on the events and people that shaped humankind from the days of wooly mammoths and cavemen to the iPhone. Created by Holdman Studios and installed at the UVU Fulton Library in 2016, this artistic landmark comprises 80 individual panes and took 12 years to complete.For information on where to park at UVU, please visit https://www.uvu.edu/parking/visitor-parking.html.