TWP Speaks! with Dr. Tim San Pedro
The Toronto Writing Project is thrilled to invite faculty, students, alumni, and friends of OISE to participate in our speaker series, TWP Speaks!
TWP Speaks! brings educators and scholars together in conversation, and at 6PM EST on July 8, 2025, Dr. Tim San Pedro will join us for a virtual public lecture followed by a Q&A session. In his talk Embodying Connection: Practicing Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Pedagogies in the Graduate Classroom, Dr. San Pedro will share insights from a graduate-level course where culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogies (CRSP) were not only studied—but embodied through collaborative, equity-focused practices. Especially relevant for the Toronto Writing Project’s community of K–12 educators, teacher candidates, graduate students, and faculty, the presentation explores how CRSP can be enacted in ways that center care, community, and co-creation of knowledge. We invite community members, educators, and researchers from Toronto and beyond to imagine pedagogies that reconnect mind, body, and spirit across all levels of education.
TWP Speaks! is made possible by the generous support of the Ruth and Alexander Dworkin Tolerance Fund, which promotes collaborations and professional learning between the Centre for Urban Schooling and local educators.
About the Speaker
Dr. Tim San Pedro
Dr. Tim San Pedro is an associate professor of Critical Studies in Education at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on the intricate link between motivation, engagement, and identity construction to curricula and pedagogical practices that re-focus content and conversations upon Indigenous histories, perspectives, and literacies. His upcoming co-authored book "Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in Higher Education: Storying the Connection of Self, Community, and Embodied Learning" will be published in November 2025 by Teachers College Press. He is also the author of Protecting the Promise: Indigenous Education Between Mothers and Their Children and co-editor of Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities and Education in Movement Spaces: From Standing Rock to Chicago Freedom Square.