Join us at the 2022 Annual Teachers of Color and Allies (TOCA) Summit
Sept. 7, 2022
The 2022 Teachers of Color and Allies (TOCA) Summit will be held in-person on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022 at the University Memorial Center on the CU Boulder campus.
The theme for this year’s summit is “Heal for Real: Finding, creating, and sustaining communities that prioritize educators of color.” Our programming will focus on discussions and practices to support teachers of color and their allies in healing from the difficult last few years our communities have endured.
Registration is now closed.
Links for Participants
Map of University Memorial Center
2022 Schedule of Events
2022 Affinity Group Discussions
2022 Workshop Sessions
2022 Keynote Speaker
Guided by a desire to design educational spaces that center healing and learning, Elizabeth Mendoza, Ph.D., has focused her research on the intersection of sociocultural theories of learning, critical theories of race, participatory action research, and Curanderismo, a traditional Mexican healing art. With this aim, she co-founded the Healing, Empowerment, and Love (HEAL) Program for women-of-color graduate students, which completed its second cohort in the spring of 2021 and seeks to foster academic and racial healing by deepening participants’ connection to their inner wisdom, relations to each other, and to mother earth. Dr. Mendoza is currently a Project Scientist at the University of California, Irvine, where she supports efforts to integrate youth voice and inquiry in career development and equity for racialized youth.
What is TOCA?
The Teachers of Color and Allies (TOCA) Summit is traditionally a daylong event that gathers education students, local educators of color, and allies to provide collegial support, opportunities for networking and mentoring, and insights into best practices in education. Hosted by the School of Education in partnership with local school districts, the summit is held every fall.