Presenter
Professor Natasha L. Robinson, Esq.
Facilitator(s)
Joann Horton
Why?
This session provides a foundational understanding of bias and systemic racism in order to improve work opportunities and student learning opportunities. We all must be held accountable for our actions and inactions. Before there is accountability, there must be transparency. This open conversation seeks to unpack our understandings and experiences in an authentic and transparent manner in collaboration with fellow members of the Academy of Process Educators.
Resources
From Inclusion to Equity: Pedagogies that Close Achievement Gaps
(this reading will take approximately
10 - 12 minutes)
Plan
Before the session:
-
Read
the assigned
article.
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Answer these Exploration Questions
on the forum for the session
before the session begins.
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In your opinion, what is the difference between racism and prejudice?
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How do your current course content and classroom practices enhance or dismantle substantive and procedural systemic racism and bias?
- In the words of the author of the article, Dr. Amy Mulnix, how can you “infuse equity into your syllabus, assignments, and course content?”
Part
A (Discussion)
During the session:
- Welcome/introduction of guest speaker (2 min)
- Goals for the session (3 min)
- To consider our current understandings of systemic racism and
bias
- To collect evidence of understandings and experiences in
order to formulate equity-informed pedagogy and practices
- To create particularized equity-informed pedagogy and
practices for our learning communities
- Address responses people to the exploration questions (5 min)
- Lecture: understanding bias and systemic racism (20 min)
- Q&A about topic/reading (10 min)
Note: Critical Thinking Questions that evolve out of Part 1 discussion
will be integrated into Part 2
Part B
(Strategies)
During the session:
- Explain activity logistics: creating
strategies that empower change (5 min)
- Activity: breakout groups discuss
3-5 "Critical Thinking Questions" (20-25 min)
(forum
link for CTQs)
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Considering the four broad strategies that Dr. Mulnix cites as being
important for ensuring inclusion and equity in the classroom, what
adjustments can you make to strengthen inclusion and minimize bias in your
classroom?
- How do students benefit from connecting
course content to their life experiences?
- Why do diverse student values matter in
constructing your curriculum?
- Identify two strategies that you can use to
minimize systemic racism and bias so that students feel that they belong.
- How do the strategies in this article relate
to Process Education principles?
- Teams report top insights gained
from discussions (5-10 min) (forum
link for insights)
- Closure: participant reflections on
value of learning experience (5 min)
- Session assessment (5
min)
Note: This session (Part 2) is designed to provide participants with a series of strategies that they can use to empower change in their classrooms
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