Our Pact

Expectations Between You & Me

Fabi with her dogs

What you can expect from me:

  1. I will treat you with dignity and respect and be flexible to support your individual needs.

  2. I will provide you with a clear, organized online course that is designed to ensure you meet our course outcomes in a meaningful manner.

  3. I will provide a variety of assignments to ensure your learning needs are met.

  4. I will provide a supportive, safe and brave environment for you to share and discuss ideas with me and your peers.

  5. I will reach out to you when I sense that you need support.

  6. I won't be perfect. I am human and will make mistakes at times. I will view mistakes as an opportunity to learn and grow.

  7. I will bring on my A game every week for you.

  8. I will trust you.


Students in the classroom

What I will expect from you:

  1. You will treat me and your peers with dignity respect and say thank you when your need has been met.

  2. You will strive to be an active participant in this course and aim to meet due dates.

  3. You will maintain an open line of communication with me so I understand how to support you.

  4. You will contact me if you have a concern with meeting a due date and submit an Extension Request.

  5. You will strive to regularly contribute to collaborative activities to ensure other members of our class have ample opportunity to read/listen, reflect, and respond to your ideas.

  6. You will do your best to have patience with technology. There will be hiccups, expect them. We will get through them together.

  7. You will give yourself grace. Expect to struggle. It's the perseverance toward improvement that will build the character universities are looking for.

  8. You will breathe and remember that learning is a process that I am part of. It's a partnership.

"We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for."

-Dolores Huerta - Chicana Activist