SUMUD IN PRAXIS:
TEACHING FOR SOLIDARITY
FROM TURTLE ISLAND TO PALESTINE
JANUARY 15–17, 2027 | TUCSON, ARIZONA
This 3-day professional development institute is an opportunity for educators to deepen their understanding of teaching about Palestine with a focus on how Indigenous populations on Turtle Island and Palestine have practiced sumud (steadfastness) and how educators today must practice sumud for the right to teach about Palestine in their classrooms.
The institute will include intensive field work on the US/Mexico border, making connections between settler colonial projects, land dispossession and cultural resilience from Turtle Island to Palestine.
This gathering is intended for K-20 educators and leaders interested in teaching Palestine in an Ethnic Studies framework with the goal of developing curriculum using the content from our three days together.
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Registration will open in September 2026. Sign up below to join the waitlist and be the first to know when applications are open.
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This institute is co-sponsored through an ongoing partnership between XITO and the Teach Palestine Project of the Middle East Children's Alliance. Together, we have been offering intensive workshops and trainings for educators for over 6 years, building connections across struggles for Indigenous liberation against settler colonialism from Turtle Island and the US-Mexico borderlands to occupied Palestine.