Seed grant funding leads to creation of equitable education network

推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜公平教学法网络致力于支持和加强教师的种族平等工作, 员工和管理人员
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尽管COVID-19大流行, 股本 Pedagogy Network increased its reach to four 校园, 9个合作中心和单位,拥有130名教师,其中约100名成员参与其中一个工作组. 随便称为“网络”,“该组织旨在通过改善公平的教学和学习,为所有学生和教师改善社会成果, 偏见和多样性.

来源:Patrick Mansell

宾州大学公园. -目标是使人们能够接受教育, 参与的学生, 培育和拥抱一个多元化的世界, 推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜公平教育网络 (“网络”) works to support 和 enhance 的 racial equity work of faculty, 员工和管理人员 across Penn State by developing a community for resource-sharing, collaborative inquiry 和 reflective practice.

资助 through Penn State’s Strategic Plan seed grants transforming education 的me, 网络, via its professional learning communities 和 speaker series, 作为连接推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜旨在将公平教育制度化和文化维持课程的倡议的中心枢纽. 项目负责人包括Alicia C. 多德, director of 的 Center for 的 Study of Higher Education 和 professor of higher education; Leticia Oseguera, senior research associate for 的 Center for 的 Study of Higher Education 和 professor of higher education; 和 Paula Smith, 她是跨文化领导与交流中心主任,也是阿宾顿校区的首席图书管理员. 

“关于大学如何才能更具包容性并支持反种族主义教学,一直存在着一个广泛的问题, admissions 和 curriculum practices; however, 这个问题没有一个快速的答案,多德说. “我们必须依靠我们教师的专业知识和管理人员来帮助深化和发展反种族主义教育.”

多德接着解释说,在过去,教师和机构的努力是被划分和分散的. The creation of 网络 makes faculty efforts in 多样性, equity 和 inclusion across 的 University feel less isolated, 据多德说, by bringing toge的r resources for efficiency, 建立团结,并为有关公平和反种族主义努力的话题的对话提供社区意识.

Opportunities Abound: The Network’s beginnings

多德, Oseguera 和 Smith submitted 的ir proposal, “Embracing Diversity by Institutionalizing 股本 Pedagogy 和 Culturally Sustaining Curricula,” during 的 fourth cycle of 的 Strategic Plan seed grants in 2019. 对于他们的提议, trio worked to identify underlying causes of racial equity issues, developed ideas to promote better underst和ing of inequalities in higher education, 旨在提供更多互联互通的解决方案,从而加强推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜所有校园的价值观.

尽管COVID-19大流行, 网络 has increased its reach to four 校园, 9个合作中心和单位,拥有130名教师,其中约100名成员参与其中一个工作组. Currently involved in 网络 are 的 University Park, 阿宾顿, 白兰地酒和大阿勒格尼校区. 

“这正是种子基金所要培养的合作和创新思维. The Network not only crosses unit boundaries, but it is also attempting to tackle head on issues of accessibility in education, as well as potential biases that may be hindering 的 success of students – our ultimate goal. It also clearly speaks to our ongoing commitment to make Penn State more welcoming, 公平和多样化,尼克·琼斯说, executive vice president 和 provost 和 sponsor of 的 seed grants. “到目前为止, 我们已经发放了43笔种子基金,资助了使我们更加强大的广泛倡议, 更具包容性, more impactful 和 more strategic institution.”  

The Network hosts various working groups such as 的 steering committee named 的 启动组Greater Allegheny Crossing Bridges Task Force 和 教育学院公平小组. The organization also boasts eight professional learning communities, 包括专注于领域的小组 科学教育政策小学和幼儿教育counseling, rehabilitation 和 human services,以及多学科小组 阿宾顿 和 白兰地酒 校园. 

“我们想创建这些学习结构,这样我们推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜的社区就可以分享模型, 议程和学习彼此,多德说. “理想情况下, we are building communities in which our faculty can hear from experts, 内部和外部, 和 take 的se lessons into 的ir classrooms. 我们有教授不同学科的教师,他们有兴趣主动将对种族主义和种族冲突的关注纳入他们的课程, 和y also recognize that when teaching diverse groups of students, it’s important to present such information in a way that feels safe.”

最终, 多德和史密斯说, 该网络希望通过改善所有学生和教师的教学成果来改善社会结果.

“Diverse faculty, diverse thoughts 和 equity education leads to better results,多德说. “For example, STEM fields are important in racial equity issues. 在全国范围内, 我们看到拉丁人更少了, Black 和 Indigenous students in STEM fields, so we have been intentional in our attempts to involve STEM faculty with 网络.”

Smith fur的r noted that 的 group began by looking externally for funding; however, 内部的种子基金使该网络成长为一个可以广泛使用的结构. 

Included within 网络’s professional learning community are 的 阿宾顿 股本 Pedagogy 教师 Learning 社区; 白兰地酒 Professional Learning 社区; Counseling Education 和 Rehabilitation Services 教师 Learning 社区; Educational Policy Studies 教师 Learning 社区, University Park; Elementary 和 Early Childhood Education Program 教师 Learning 社区; 股本 Team, 教育学院, University Park; Greater Allegheny Crossing Bridges Task Force; 和 Science 教师 Learning 社区.

Smith leads 的 阿宾顿 股本 Pedagogy 教师 Learning 社区. 史密斯解释说,该小组一直在反思自己的教育,以及如何将成员的经历延续到课堂上.

史密斯说:“我们正在努力活在当下,思考如何在课堂上拓展自己。. “What practices do we do just because that is how we were taught? 我们有认知偏见吗?  是否存在语言偏见? We don’t want to be in 的 category of ‘this is what I do because this is what I was taught.’”

Each learning community is directed by a leader or co-leaders, 谁会定期见面,分享想法和材料,以深化和改进学习设计. The community of participants learn from 的ir own inquiries, through collaboration 和 interaction with each o的r, 和 from invited speakers who share 的ir expertise through a moderated speaker series.

该网络提供了一系列演讲,来自推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜和其他大学的教师在演讲中提出并促进了种族不平等等问题的讨论, 包括教学大纲, 语言标识, fostering belonging 和 national narratives surrounding discrimination.

“因为大流行, Zoom让我们以一种我们最初没有想到的方式扩展,允许人们加入我们的活动,不管他们的地理位置,史密斯说. “We saw an expansion in faculty from various disciplines coming toge的r to share ideas. 教师 don’t always get 的se kinds of opportunities, 因此,无论是亲密的还是大型的小组对话,都有助于从公平的角度启发个人使用不同的教学方法.”

扩展:网络的未来计划

2021-22学年, 多德 shared that 网络 has various plans for its expansion including an academy, 网络成员收到的新补助金, 教学大纲研讨会和成员评估.

值得注意的是, 6月21日至23日, 网络 is hosting an Academy for 股本 Minded, Anti-Racist Leadership developed by faculty from 的 Center for 的 Study of Higher Education. Designed for administrative leaders at Penn State, 该集团旨在每年举办一次活动,重点是提供专业发展机会.

The academy aims to develop critical leadership competencies, 包括种族素养, race- 和 racism-conscious schemas (“equity-mindedness”), 以及对历史上以白人为主的机构的政策和做法可能需要改变的看法.

作为网络的产物, 埃伯利科学学院和教育学院的教职员工获得了霍华德休斯医学研究所的一笔赠款,用于创建一个学习型社区,该社区将通过该基金会的包容性卓越资助计划联网. 玛丽·贝思·威廉姆斯, senior associate dean for instruction 和 curricula 和 professor of chemistry, 还有纳撒尼尔·布朗, 数学教授, 会和多德合作吗, 作为项目的联合领导, 和一组同事一起研究大学如何使教学评估对整个机构的教职员工更具包容性. 该团队的目标是通过重新设想当前的系统,限制教师可能从学生评估中得到的偏见和不公平的回应.

“The Network isn’t something that you see being funded at o的r institutions,史密斯说. “通过富有想象力地利用资源, 我们已经能够强调公平教学法的重要性,并专注于更深层次的对话. 这笔拨款帮助我们获得了牵引力,我对这个网络的未来和我们能取得的成就充满希望.”