Equity Webinars and Training
WEBINARS AVAILABLE FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Summer 2022 Professional Development: Universal Design/Equity Best Practices for Distance Learning
Description: This is a recording of 2022 Summer Professional Development Universal Design/Equity Best Practices for Distance Learning. Presenting is Dr. Lauren Goodman.
RESOURCES
Distance Learning for All Presentation and Distance Learning for All Resources
Evaluation Universal Design/Equity Best Practices for Distance Learning
Equity: Design for the Most Vulnerable Student
Description: This is a recording of part of the Equity Fellows 2021 Kickoff session. Presenting is Lauren Goodman, head of professional development at Berkshire Community College. Included are many resources that faculty will find helpful in considering equity in the classroom.
Resources associated with the presentation are available here.
Studying on Empty (offered by Trellis)
Description: When basic needs, like food security, are not being met, academic performance can slip as students try to balance school, work, and family obligations under persistent stress.
Best Practices in Student Retention for Men of Color (offered by Trellis)
Description: This webinar will provide practical approaches to improving the higher education outcomes for men of color. Presenters will share scalable programs and strategies that can help integrate academic and social support services to improve the academic success of men of color.
Evaluation: Best Practices Retention Men of Color
Anti-Racist Practices for Digital and Online Learning
Description: Jessica Rowland Williams, director of Every Learner Everywhere, looks at how institutions can harness technology to address systemic inequities through digital learning.
Evaluation: Anti-Racist Practices
The Lenses We Employ in Our Equity Work
Description: The way we see the world is defined by the lenses we use to understand people, problems, and solutions. They are shaped by our formal education, social interactions, and society around us and we employ these lenses both consciously and unconsciously.
College Aspirations and Access in Working-Class, Rural Communities
Description: The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Students Encounter
Evaluation: College Aspirations and Access
Implicit Bias, Structural Racialization, & Equity
Description: Increased interest in the topic of implicit bias provides an opportunity to open and deepen important conversations in our organizations and communities about equity, belonging, and ultimately justice.
What is White Privilege, Really?
Description: In our webinar educators will learn about white privilege and more, reaffirming their commitment to anti-racist education and developing practices for inviting students into this work.
Strategies for Cultural Inclusion in Online and F2F Classrooms
Description: Some strategies discussed will include assigning culturally focused fiction and nonfiction writings by diverse voices, class viewings of films and documentaries, class and group discussion methods for culturally sensitive issues, and how to create a relaxed and safe environment in the classroom through interpersonal connections with students.
Equitable Teaching in English, Inclusive Teaching and Gateway Courses
Description: In this session, faculty discuss equity issues particular to teaching English composition. We will also four key principles of inclusive teaching. Lastly, presenters will discuss a resource for getting started focusing on equity.
Directions for Access: You will have to enter your email to access the ASU conference. Go to Main Hall and search for the title above. Link is here.
Creating & Sustaining An Inclusive Campus Culture By Addressing Microaggressions, Implicit Bias & Other Exclusionary Incidents
Description: When it comes to microaggressions, implicit bias, and other exclusionary incidents, no campus is immune. However, most campuses hold a vision, mission, and campus community statements that include the importance of diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Join the presenter as she shares critical concepts in diversity and inclusion work, provides opportunities for self-reflection, and strategies useful for all campus members when addressing and intervening in moments of exclusion, bias, and microaggressions.
Link to Webinar here.
Evaluation of Creating and Sustaining an Inclusive Campus Culture
Part 1: Diversity, Inclusivity & Civility: Developing & Enhancing Students' Cultural Competence (2-Part Workshop)
Description: It takes a campus community to create inclusive and civil environments wherein students, faculty, and staff feel welcomed, are encouraged to do their best work, are treated with respect and dignity, and are valued for who they are. This session will increase participants awareness of difference and consider how issues of diversity can impede the development of inclusive communities. It will examine issues of implicit cultural assumptions, stereotyping, and biases and consider how attitudes toward race and gender operate at a conscious and unconscious level. The session will support participants to expand their cultural competence and ability to make distinctions, and encourage them to use their natural empathy in relations with others in order to strengthen their campus communities.
Link to Webinar here.
Part 2: Diversity, Inclusivity & Civility: Developing & Enhancing Students' Cultural Competence (2-Part Workshop)
Description: This section will focus on the needs of faculty. We will address the many kinds of diversity on campus (e.g., age, gender, religion, sexual orientation), and focus specifically on how faculty can strengthen their efforts to increase success for students who confront social and academic challenges that limit their engagement, learning, and success. These include students who are first generation/low socio-economic status, multicultural and international students, and students who are academically under-prepared for college level work. We will also address bullying and incivility as emerging challenges on campuses and in the workplace.
Link to Webinar here.
Magna Seminar: How to Create a Transformative Learning Experience for Students by Managing Hot Moments and Difficult Discussions in the Classroom
Description: Gain proven strategies for managing difficult dialogue and responding to hot moments in the classroom. Learn how to prepare for a challenging discussion and make it more productive as well as how to assess the outcomes of the experience and the impact it had on your students.
Directions to Access this Seminar (use your TC Google account to access the directions)
Evaluation How to Create a Transformative Learning Experience
Magna Seminar: Simple Strategies to Create an Inclusive Classroom for Gender Variant Students
Description: Gain important insights into the ways you can create a classroom environment and a pedagogical approach that are responsive to the needs of all students and that contribute to an environment of mutual esteem and respect.
Directions to Access this Seminar (use your TC Google account to access the directions)
Evaluation Simple Strategies to Create an Inclusive Classroom