Event Recordings & Videos

Format: Online webinar in Google Meet

Time:  12noon -  1pm

Facilitator:  Kameal Love

Sponsor:  MATC's DEI Committee

Cost:  Free  -- in fact, we provide you with a copy of the book, if you register via the link below. 

How to Register:  Click here

DEI Badge/Certificate:  This activity counts towards the 2020/2021 MATC DEI Badge in SumTotal.

This event is part of our MATC Reads for Equity Series. The September book is We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Dr. Bettina Love (2019)

Book Description from Amazon.com:

Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex.

To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice. This book is the winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award.

Format: Webinar

Time:  12pm - 1:15pm

DEI Badge Eligible: Yes

FQAS Eligible: Yes

Facilitator: Dr. Latish Reed, Milwaukee Public School's first DEI Coordinator

In response to the pandemic impact and recent racism resistance, institutions and organizations from all categories are working to answer the call for more equitable environments. With this shift comes a multitude of ideologies, strategies, and terminologies. However, in order to ensure that these terms become more than buzzwords, we must understand how the ideologies --and our own work --- fit into the overall equity continuum. In this introductory session, we will critically examine some equity terminology that underpins the justice-oriented work that must be done, and we’ll explore a couple of commonly cited equity models. The workshop will also include a Q&A component. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a better understanding of these strategies and terms, and you will be able to assess your own work and your college, using the frameworks. 

Resources:

• Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization

Format:  Online

Time:  12noon - 1:15pm

Presenters:  Jairo McMican, Dean of Student Learning at Central Carolina Community College & 

Abe Dones , Assistant Dean at Durham Technical Community College

Inclusive Instruction is dedication to working with the growing population of diverse students. Being culturally responsible and inclusive is the concept of not only bringing diversity to the table, but also truly welcoming the newness of ideas, experiences, cultures and perspectives that may come with it. When educators commit to this approach, they will continually self-monitor and improve their teaching styles so that it serves all students equitably. This presentation will offer many short and long term tangible strategies that can be implemented right away.  

Resources:

ACUE Inclusive Teaching Toolkit   (contains 10 practical strategies you can use)

As we move closer to becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution, it's important that we not only focus on admission but also on campus culture. A group of student panelists will speak candidly about how they experience MATC, what we do well, and how we can become better in terms of making Latino/a students feel welcome and valued. Join us to listen and learn.  This conversation expands our discussion of equity and the data presented in the Equity Scorecard. 

Format: Online / Experiential

Sponsor: MATC DEI Committee

Cost: Free

DEI Badge Eligibility: Yes

FQAS Eligibility: Yes

In this interactive workshop, you will have the opportunity to play an online microaggression game, assuming the role of a gay person, a person of color, or a differently abled person for a workday. During the simulation, you will be exposed to various microaggressions, and you'll have to decide how to respond.  After the simulation, you'll go into breakout rooms to debrief before reconvening to hear about the physical and mental health toll that these microaggressions take. The session will be facilitated by Erica Turner, a registered nurse from Cedarburg who has won multiple social justice awards and is co-founder of Bridge the Divide in Cedarburg.

Format: Online

Film Screening Times:     

• Thursday, October 22:  6:30pm - 8:30pm     Click here to register  

• Friday, October 23:  9:45am - 12 noon    Click here to register for the Friday morning movie

Discussion:  Friday, October 23:  12 noon - 1:30pm  Click here to register for the discussion

DEI Badge Eligible: Yes

FQAS hours available for the discussion potion

Sometimes, what we learn in the silences is more revealing than what people actually say. 1 Angry Black Man explores that very point. The film’s backdrop is a liberal arts college where a diverse group of students are studying Black writers, including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, August Wilson, and Ta-Nehisi Coates. The students are engaging in nuanced conversations, critiquing classic texts while drawing parallels to current events on campus and in society. A tense undercurrent runs through the film. The protagonist, Mike, is a Black student who has been falsely accused of sexual assault by a white female student.  On this particular day he has his African-American Literature class with his favorite professor." Although he doesn't say it, Mike is feeling sad, isolated, and angry.

 Join us for an online screening of the film on Thursday evening or Friday morning.

Then, after the film's Friday morning screening, Black Lens co-founder Dr Donte McFadden will lead a discussion about the many issues raised by the film. Students and community partners are invited to attend!

Format: Online

Sponsor: MATC DEI Committee

Time: 12 noon - 1:15pm

Badge Eligible: Yes

FQAS Eligible: Yes

Presenters:  Jairo McMican, Dean of Student Learning at Central Carolina Community College & 

Abe Dones , Assistant Dean at Durham Technical Community College

When some students have questions about college, they also have family members ready and willing to help them navigate the college experience. This is not the case for first generation students. This interactive presentation will focus on how and what educators communicate to first-generation students. The learning outcomes will center around instruction and overall communication. Through a series of activities, we will explore techniques to enhance learning for first-generation students in and outside the classroom. Participants will be expected to help guide the discussions so they can take away what is most beneficial to them. Upon the conclusion, participants will be able to better assess their communication skills and how that contributes to better persistence and matriculation of first-generation students.   

FQAS Eligible: Yes

DEI Badge Eligible: Yes

As we work to further cultivate inclusion at MATC, we must understand that some of the assumptions we have made about people and groups are the result of hearing the same one story repeatedly.  To truly be inclusive, we must consider that there are multiple lenses through which a story can be told, and sometimes this involves shifting the center away from what we are most familiar with. To put this concept into practice, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee will host a presentation titled “The First Thanksgiving and Other Fictions of the Native Experience.” History instructor Kate Erickson will lead the discussion about how our notions of a traditional Thanksgiving may not be accurate. Perfectly timed for the upcoming holiday, the workshop will be held on Friday, November 13 at noon. Everyone is welcome to learn more about how Natives have often been represented in historical stories, and how those stereotypes have impacted our students, Native and others, and us.