Our 2024 CRP Institute was on November 8-9 and the theme was "Education for Liberation: Requiem and Renaissance," a collaboration between the Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence and the CREATE Teacher Residency Project.

This collaborative conference joined the long history of community engagement and powerful beloved community research traditions of the Crim Center's Sources Conference with the CREATE Project's focus on supporting educators working together to strengthen their understanding and use of culturally relevant pedagogy in their work.

We offered this conference in remembrance of those who came before us. We honored those educational trailblazers who provided a pathway of resilience and resistance and our using their works as a catalyst for the work we continue to do. Our requiem is never-ending and is a celebration of those individuals, groups, movements, ideas and ways of knowing that have come before us and on whose shoulders we stand in this work.

At the same time, we must collaboratively showcase, uplift and center the voices, experiences and knowledge of historically marginalized communities and work to collectively imagine and enact ways of doing and being that dissolve barriers and pave the way for liberation. We must prioritize critical consciousness, community empowerment and social justice. We must draw inspiration from liberatory spaces to re-birth new spaces for learning. We must challenge dominant, deficit-focused narratives.

Click here to learn more and review the program. 

The next Sources-CRP Conference will be in the Summer 2025. More information will be posted in January, 2025.