Learning Community

ROLE

Project lead, co-facilitator.

Challenge

To create collaborative 3-month faculty learning communities and reading groups to engage in deep learning that develops our thinking about inclusive teaching. Each faculty member received a copy of a book.

Outcome

• Launch was successful, and faculty waiting lists were created

• Total of 97 participating faculty members

• 2 conference presentations by learning community members

• 1 book published by a participating faculty member

• 1 invited speaker, Dr. Z Nicolazzo, and 2 plenaries

• Total of 4 Learning Communities designed, implemented, and assessed

Learning Community Topics:

Reading Group & Learning Community on White Fragility and Our Teaching

Book: DiAngelo, D. R. (2018). White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Germany: Beacon Press.

Reading Group & Learning Community on Strategies for Supporting Transgender Students Navigate Institutional Politics of Inclusion

Book: Nicolazzo, Z. (2016). Trans* in College: Transgender Students' Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion. United States: Stylus Publishing.

Reading Group & Learning Community on Inclusive Classroom Communication

Book: Preskill, S., Brookfield, S. D., Preskill, S., Brookfield, S. D. (2012). Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms. Germany: Wiley.