XITO Washington Winter Institute X

XITO’s 3-Day Institutes are intensive professional development programs designed for educators, activists, and community organizers to engage with decolonizing and re-humanizing frameworks for Ethnic Studies. These institutes offer participants hands-on training in culturally responsive teaching practices, with a focus on empowering traditionally marginalized students, especially Xicanx/Latinx youth.

The 3-day events provide participants with tools to implement liberatory pedagogies in their classrooms and communities, often focusing on social justice, critical consciousness, and student empowerment. Through workshops and collaborative discussions, educators learn to apply research-based best practices in teaching that center the cultural identities and lived experiences of students of color.

A notable feature of these institutes is their alignment with community organizing principles and a commitment to transforming education policies. Attendees leave with actionable strategies to bring back to their schools and communities to foster equity and inclusion

MISSION: XITO is a grassroots, urban education consulting collective and non-profit organization committed to training teachers, school districts, and higher education institutions in decolonial and re-humanizing pedagogies and curriculum development.

VISION: There are a lack of opportunities for teachers to improve their practices in meeting the needs of students of color through critically conscious, authentic and research based methodology, specifically for teaching Ethnic Studies. XITO addresses the need for educators to receive training in liberatory and decolonizing practices with the goal of impacting future education policy.

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