GSI LCIT

GSI LCIT, or Graduate Student Instructor Learning Community for Inclusive Teaching, is for sharing ideas and resources about inclusive teaching through discussion and reflection. It is not a place to be lectured about how to teach, but to have discussions about inclusive teaching practices and strategies.

. This community is made for graduate students by graduate students. To that end, we are committed to:

• monthly meetings with graduate student attendance (i.e., not their course coordinators or advisors)

• relatively short, free readings, accessible to grad students’ time

Please note that attendants are welcome and encouraged to simultaneously attend the U(M) LCIT, but it is not expected or required in any way.

This community’s inception is inspired both by U(M) Math LCIT and the recent events that again highlight racial inequity in the US. Our goal is to increase awareness, knowledge, and resources to support teaching more inclusively. We recognize that education systemically perpetuates inequities, and part of the goal of the work we’ll do together is to actively dismantle those structures and patterns. We also recognize that all work toward inclusion and anti-racism must involve a personal journey, and GSI LCIT does not replace this journey within ourselves. This community exists so that we may better apply the lessons learned in our own personal journeys directly to the classroom by sharing ideas, resources, perspectives, and educational materials. We will also work to center underrepresented voices, including those of Black and Brown folks, both in our readings and our discussions. Finally, we recognize the limitations of this community. Our own work in our individual classrooms cannot change the inequities perpetuated by larger educational systems, but we work to mitigate the harm done by these systems by taking active steps in our own classrooms.