Alisa Cooper, Ed.D, Professor, Glendale Community College
Monday, November 8th, 2021, 4 PM EST
This session will discuss a number of tools and strategies to help build a more inclusive environment in your course, including using discussion to examine and oppose the forces of racism. In addition, this session will include examination of the challenges many instructors face when cultivating an actively anti-racist curriculum in the classroom.
Panel Discussion:
Dr. T. Kinard Douthit , Assistant Professor Winston-Salem State University
Kristin Randles, Professor, Central Piedmont Community College
Norris Edney III, Ed.D, Director for The Center of Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement at the University of Mississippi
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 11:00 AM EST
Allyship can support a culture of inclusion as we increase our knowledge and awareness of sexual orientation, racial intricacies, and gender identity. Identities are complex and intersectional. Our approaches to incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion should be as well. Engage with our panelist to find ways you can create a more culturally inclusive environment by promoting DEI in your classroom and beyond. This webinar will provide tips, tricks, and context to implementing small steps that make a large impact.
For more information, please contact Antoinette Moore @ [email protected]
Lata Murti, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Global
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 3:00 PM EST
As our classrooms and communities become more diverse, how do we respond to controversial topics and facilitate respectful discussions and dialogue about them? This interactive webinar offers one way to do so: The SCRAPs Method. Inspired by weekly, online discussions in undergraduate Sociology courses, SCRAPs is an acronym for six strategies to help us respond to difficult, disagreeable, or unfounded statements. Each strategy fosters critical thinking and dialogue rather than divisive reaction. Together, we will share examples of difficult statements we have heard or read, in any context, and will apply the SCRAPs method to develop possible responses.
For more information, please contact Kim Schroeder-Freund @ [email protected]
Dr. Ali Na, Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media, Queen's University
Wednesday, November 10th, 1:00 PM EST
This webinar focuses on Asian diasporic issues in relation to diversity, equity, and inclusivity. Framed through the experiences of anti-Asian racism since COVID-19, this talk unpacks a longer history of anti-Asian racism entangled with gender, class, and sexuality. This is important to DEI work, because equity requires understanding inequity. Offering tactics beyond multicultural imaging, this talk highlights the dynamic differences within Asian North American demographics and also dispels the myth of Asians as perpetual foreigners. Before moving to Q&A, the session will close by exploring how Asian/Asian North American inclusivity is intercultural, plural, and coalitional.
For more information, please contact Kate Stewart @ [email protected]
Luz Garcini, Ph.D., MPH, Assistant Professor at the Center for Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH) at UT Health San Antonio's Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine.
Wednesday, November 10th, 3:30 PM EST
Why are diversity, equity, and inclusion needed in teaching and mentoring? This webinar will explore this question while also providing strategies for incorporating diversity into the curriculum, ways of building safe environments, and talk about grassroot efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic settings.
For more information, please contact Olivia Kaiser @ [email protected]
Jenniffer Whyte, Upper School Spanish Teacher at The Donoho School
Thursday, November 11th, 5:00 PM EST
Unbleaching your curriculum starts with you! Engage in this session where we will discuss about personal biases, racism, and focus on making your classroom culturally sensitive to all representations. Also, take home tons of resources that will allow you to leave the session with confidence and ready to unbleach.
For more information, please contact Moises Rimeris @ [email protected]