Funded by a strategic plan seed grant for transforming education at Penn State

Goals:

Participants in the Equity Pedagogy Network strive to:

    • Learn about existing anti-racist, equity pedagogy models and materials;
    • Adopt (or select and implement) pedagogical and curricular materials designed to be culturally disruptive of white supremacy and culturally sustaining for diverse groups of students, especially for Black, Latinx, Indigenous and other students who identify as members of racially and ethnically minoritized communities;
    • Critically examine their own pedagogical practices through interactive discussions and activities involving other Network members;
    • Workshop focal areas of practice (e.g., text from their syllabus, assignments, student assessments) to consider how they might adjust their practice.
    • Encourage each other to share experiences, insights, challenges and successes as they incorporate new ideas and practices into their teaching and curriculum design work to strengthen them through peer review.
    • Collect and analyze race-conscious data to inform ongoing inquiries (their own and others) centered on the development of equity-minded change processes.
    • Assess their professional learning experiences and outcomes through self-assessments of growth in understanding and application of pedagogical and curricular changes.
    • Share learning on equity-based practices with colleagues through workshops, presentations, creation of new learning circles on specific topic/needs of their unit.
    • Contribute to an online platform/repository to share materials (e.g. lesson plans, instructional activities or modules, student learning assessments, syllabi text) and lessons learned from their efforts to institutionalize anti-racist, equity pedagogy and culturally sustaining curricula.
    • Seek to institutionalize anti-racist, equity pedagogies through participation in shared governance at all levels of the university.

     

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