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The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: Adapting Our Teaching Habits with Felicia Rose Chavez

Sat, Oct 23

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Online Workshop

This interactive 90-minute session draws on storytelling, freewriting exercises, and discussion to prompt us to interrogate our academic and cultural inheritance with the goal of discovering possibilities beyond traditional teaching models.

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The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: Adapting Our Teaching Habits with Felicia Rose Chavez
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: Adapting Our Teaching Habits with Felicia Rose Chavez

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Oct 23, 2021, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Online Workshop

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The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: Adapting Our Teaching Habits

October 23, 2021

1:30-3:00 p.m. via Zoom

So much of teaching is about inheritance, about reinforcing the way it’s always been done. Many of us can’t even articulate why we teach the way that we do, beyond tradition serving as a rite of passage. Every one of us carries this inheritance into the classroom, through our choice of dress, demeanor, curriculum, and evaluative measures. Whether or not we’re aware, academic heritage has present-day weight and substance. It’s the same with cultural heritage. Where we’re from (and how we “read”) influences our relationship to, and assumption of, inherent rights, benefits, and advantages. As educators, this bias perpetuates our classroom policies. If “the way it’s always been done” hurts and marginalizes a subset of our students, how might we adapt our teaching habits to actively achieve plurality?

This interactive 90-minute session draws on storytelling,…

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