Transforming Practice, Learning Equity, Learning Excellence

(StFXEquityExcellence)

Background and Goals:

StFX recognizes that we are stronger when we honour our differences. Valuing and promoting equity, diversity and inclusion creates a campus community where we support the needs and aspirations of our students, faculty and staff by being creative, adaptable and inclusive in our practice and policies. We provide opportunities to members of all communities to participate, engage and belong.

The Transforming Practice: Learning Equity, Learning Excellence curriculum aims to address an existing gap in professional development opportunities for faculty and student services professionals in higher education in Nova Scotia.

The curriculum aims to do the following:

introduce faculty and staff to research in areas such as anti-racist, anti-ableist, anti-oppressive, universal design for learning, and culturally responsive pedagogy and practices;
establish a shared understanding of foundational concepts and issues related to educational inequities;
encourage self-reflection related to systems of inequity and personal privilege and bias;
amplify the work of practitioners and scholars who are integrating inclusive and equity-centered practices; and
provide concrete strategies for enacting equity-centered approaches in curriculum, instructional methods, assessment, and across a multitude of intersecting student services.

Excerpt From: Project Working Group. “Transforming Practice: Learning Equity, Learning Excellence.”

Outline

1. Systems of Inequity

Understand the foundation of social equity

2. Personal Privilege and Bias

“An expanded awareness of concepts and theoretical frameworks surrounding identity, power, and privilege, including intersectionality, bias, and microaggressions”

3. Systemically Oppressed Groups

An expanded awareness of equity deserving groups in Nova Scotia

4. Calling out Racism: Anti Black and anti-Indigenous racism

“An expanded awareness and understanding of concepts including racial discrimination, anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, colonization, and decolonization”

5. Navigating Courageous Conversations

Understanding what makes conversations challenging and developing greater self-awareness.

6. Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Practice

“An expanded awareness of the concepts and theoretical frameworks around cultural relevant pedagogy and practices (CRP), including critical race theory, anti-racist and anti-oppressive, and social justice theories.”

7. Universal Design for Learning

“Universal design for learning’s (UDL) rationales and benefits and describe UDL’s principles and practical guidelines”

8. Student Voice and Agency

“[Understand] the concepts of voice and agency to how your students experience education content, spaces, and relationships”

9. Transforming Teaching and Learning

“Reflect on your professional approaches to equity and inclusion to identify strengths and areas to improve and, build on your teaching approaches by adding equity-centered practices and strategies to your professional toolkit”

10. Transforming Student Services

“Build on your service delivery approaches by adding promising practices and strategies to your professional toolkit”

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