During Phase 3, you will:

• Share elements of your teaching portfolio with your Learning Team (Learning Team Activities)

• Explore evidence-informed approaches for enhancing one’s personal and professional wellness as an educator (Keynotes & workshops)

• Review and discuss research into pressing issues facing college faculty and students 

Please review the schedule for a detailed outline of each day. Keep in mind that breaks and evenings provide CEDP participants, facilitators, and planning team members the opportunity for networking, informal peer learning, and/or personal wellness activities.

At CEDP, we value "Accountable Spaces." We strive for our spaces to be a place where educators can engage in robust discussions, share their experiences, and be themselves. We recognize that we cannot guarantee safe spaces and while we hope that we co-create spaces where people have the courage to speak up, we cannot expect everyone to be brave all of the time. Accountable Spaces is a framework that helps with this. This framework was developed by an Inclusion Strategist by the name of Elise Ahenkorah. First we need to consider what we mean by accountability: 

“Accountability means being responsible for yourself, your intentions, words, and actions. It means entering a space with good intentions, but understanding that aligning your intent with action is the true test of commitment.” Ahenkorah, 2020.

Sometimes, we have good intentions, but how something we said lands with another person is not the way we intended it. It is an ongoing and developmental process to work towards aligning our intentions with our words and actions. We are all a work in progress. 

As members of the CEDP Community, we encourage everyone to embrace accountability to foster more inclusive and equitable spaces in this community, college classrooms and workplaces, and other spaces we inhabit.

This means:

• being mindful of and responsible for our words

• entering a space with good intentions but understanding that we all mess up sometimes

• accepting responsibility when we make mistakes

• being OK with and open to being "called in" and to learning

• acknowledging when others are affected by something and/or when we are affected ourselves and working to learn/grow from this experience

• trusting in those we share a space with that their intentions are good, that they mean well just like we do, that we are all in a process of learning and growing and that making mistakes is part of how this happens

• Recognize and embrace friction as evidence that multiple ideas are entering the conversation — not that the group is not getting along. 

Accountable Spaces is embedded in all we do at CEDP. In your learning teams, your facilitator will provide an opportunity on day 1 to co-create what this looks like, and explore what you all need as participants to be able to contribute and learn effectively. 

These expanded Accountable Space Guidelines can be used to align intentions with action at your next gathering (be it personal or in a classroom) to foster an inclusive and impactful exchange.

Adapted from:

Elise Ahenkorah, “Safe and Brave Spaces Don’t Work (and What You Can Do Instead)”

Jos Trutt, “There are no safe spaces”