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Equitizing Your Classroom - Resources

Resources to help equitize your syllabus and class

Equitizing your classroom - pdf

Ideas for making your syllabi more accessible and your classroom a fair and approachable environment:

• Inclusion by Design worksheet (from Equitizing workshop - Brantmeier, Broscheid, and Moore). This is a thorough self-assessment of your syllabus. Learn more about how this tool helps faculty examine their teaching practices.
• Syllabus Reflection Questions for Students (from Veronica Keiffer-Lewis’ “An Equity-Centered Environment” document)
• An Equity-Centered Environment - Veronica Keiffer-Lewis
• Putting the Values of Equity into Practice - Veronica Keiffer-Lewis
• From an Equity Stance to a Framework & Lens - Veronica Keiffer-Lewis
• Sample Diversity and Inclusion Syllabus Statements - Brown University
• Syllabus Review Protocol - USC Rossier Center for Urban Education
• Diversity Statement on a Syllabus - Carnegie Mellon University Eberly Center
• Equity graphic to help explain equity (that is perhaps less problematic than the popular baseball field one)

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)

Describing Realities, Imagining Directions: Critical Race Pedagogies

• Video of webinar
• Slides from webinar
  • 19:40 Jennifer Brown (Barnard) talks about her influences and inspirations including Adrienne Maree Brown’s work and reconfiguring learning spaces.
    • Emergent Strategy
    • Pleasure Activism
  • 54:37 Question and answer about teaching and learning spaces

Syllabus samples

• Veronica Keiffer-Lewis - Sample syllabus
• Dr. Adrienne Keene - Sample syllabus
• Q-studies 126 - Sample syllabus

Twitter thread

Twitter thread in response to Eve L. Ewing (author, poet, professor, University of Chicago) - “profs of twitter: in the last few months I’ve seen lots of folks tweet about adding helpful things to your syllabi. Not readings, but statements about the course, about yourself, or resources you want students to know about. Care to share some of these in the replies?”

Student resources on campus

Resources to include in hard-copy syllabi and on Canvas:

• EOPS:  Support for students hindered by language, social, and economic disadvantages.
• Food Pantry: Offers supplemental food for students dealing with food insecurity.
• Scholarship Office: There’s free money out there!
• Tutoring on campus: Get free tutoring support in most subjects.
• Counseling office: Academic, emotional, and career support.
• Veterans Services: Connect with other vets and find support and community.
• DSS: Make use of the accommodations for students with disabilities.