Something that may be of interest
In August, Dr. Mays Imad hosted a webinar for Denison where she shared her work on trauma informed pedagogy. In late March, she hosted a national webinar: Leveraging the Neuroscience of Now: Toward Healing & Recovery.
If you missed this event, Mays has shared the recorded webinar link. This worked is based on Why hope still matters, Mays’ article in the Chronicle.
The Association of College and University Educators has a nice resource for supporting inclusive learning with ten helpful practices. As their website points out:
A classroom, whether physical or virtual, is a reflection of the world in which we live. Research has shown that students from underrepresented groups often face additional challenges. By implementing inclusive teaching practices, faculty create learning environments where all students feel they belong and have the opportunity to achieve at high levels.
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, is partnering with the Boston Globe to launch The Emancipator , “a resurrection of an early 19th-century abolitionist newspaper with a hope to reframe the national conversation in an effort to hasten racial justice.” In the fall the center conducted a reading group using Kendi’s book How to be an antiracist.
In August, Dr. Mays Imad hosted a webinar for Denison where she shared her work on trauma informed pedagogy. As we look forward and what a fall return will look like, Mays will host the webinar:
Leveraging the Neuroscience of Now: Toward Healing & Recovery
Friday, March 26, 2021
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PDT (3:00 PM EDT)
Register: https://pima.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsce-orzMpGt2DsqhxvQnJPvErr3kz1Yvo
With our scheduled no-class days this week, it is not only an opportunity for our students to catch their breaths, but for us as well. This Chronicle piece by James Lang gives us three resources with strategies to consider to help us refresh and refocus:
This week the New York Times published a collection of resources for teaching about race and racism with The New York Times. The post offers a list of more than 75 writing prompts, lesson plans, graphs, short films and more, to help teachers explore these important topics with students. It also includes suggestions and strategies by four educators on how to facilitate these critical, yet sometimes challenging, conversations.
This short piece from the Chronicle provides seven ways to lighten things up in class that are emotionally, academically, and pedagogically sound.
Have students been asking for letters of recommendations? The Lisska Center has created this video to provide you with suggestions on writing letters of recommendation, including things to focus on and what to ask of students. To ensure you have the full picture, consider this recommendation letter check list which you can share with students.
If you are using Zoom for your classes this semester, you may be struggling with the same question I am: cameras on or off? I know there have been a number of studies and reports that argue it is more equitable to not require cameras on. Students may be Zooming from non-ideal situations – crowded apartment, a bathroom because its quiet, or even a parking lot to access wi-fi.
I am hosting a book group with other centers around the nation. I needed a way to provide a Google calendar event with Zoom links to anyone who wanted to sign up. In this video, I show a quick way to create such a link that can be used inside or outside of Denison.
