9:00-9:30

Registration and check-in

9:30-9:45

Welcome and updates from Dr. Beth Carroll, Director of WAC & UWC

Remarks by Dr. Shernita Lee, Assistant Vice Provost for Student Success

9:45-10:15

Kim Morton Transfer Admissions and Engagement

10:15-10:30

Break

10:30 - 11:45

Dr. April Baker-Bell, Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy

In this talk, Dr. April Baker-Bell will discuss how anti-Black linguistic racism and white linguistic supremacy get normalized in teacher attitudes, curriculum and instruction, pedagogical approaches, disciplinary discourses, and research, and she will discuss the impact these decisions have on Black students’ language education and their linguistic, racial, and intellectual identities. Dr. Baker-Bell will introduce a new way forward through Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy, a pedagogical approach that intentionally and unapologetically places Black Language at the center to critically interrogate white linguistic hegemony and anti-Black linguistic racism.

11:45-12:45

Lunch

12:45-2:15

Dr. April Baker-Bell Workshop: Linguistic Justice: From Theory to Praxis 

Deepen your Linguistic Justice practice with an interactive session that supports participants in thinking about how to integrate the ideas from Linguistic Justice into their curriculum and instruction. This guided workshop will include activity-based exercises, such as reflection/preflection activities, syllabus design, and strategies for teaching. Workshops come with a digital workbook that participants can download to continue to learn from.

2:15-2:30 

Break

2:30-3:45   

RC1000/2001 & ENG111/112 Panel:

    Moderator-Kelly Terzaken

Edee Wilcox, Forsyth Tech & CC

Katy Landres, Forsyth Tech & CC

Miles Britton, App State

Bill Torgerson, App State