Discipline-Specific Faculty Learning Community: Spring 2023 Applications Due

Friday, January 20, 2023
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

January 25 – April 21

Dates vary by discipline

Discipline-Specific Faculty Learning Communities

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 20, 2023

Description

Minnesota State received funding through the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund managed by Minnesota’s Office of Higher Education to support faculty members within disciplines to come together to explore culturally responsive teaching practices.

This is a great chance for colleagues to re-engage with others in their discipline or those they met at last year’s Teach Together Minnesota! conference, and to explore evidence-based strategies that could reduce equity gaps that exist within our programs.

Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to meet this goal? One promising path is to ground those practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In this course, we’ll have the opportunity to examine how well our current practices align with the central tenets of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. CRP advocates that good teaching draws on the knowledge and skill our students bring to the classroom, creates supportive relationships that allow students to take learning risks, and prepares students to challenge barriers to their full flourishing. In this course we will give and get support for deepening our CRP practices.

All participants will receive the e-book for Zaretta Hammond’s Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, which will be an optional reading for the short course. Details for acquiring a free version of this e-book will be sent to participants.

Audience

This Spring 2023 opportunity is open to any Minnesota State faculty teaching courses within the participating disciplines and associated subjects associated with

• Accounting
• Health and Exercise Science
• Economics
• Math
• Cross-Discipline (reserved for individuals with prior approval)

Additionally, high school teachers who teach college-level courses in these disciplines through concurrent enrollment at participating Minnesota State institutions are welcome.

Dates 

Accounting

• Kick-off: Friday, January 27
  • 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
• Regular live sessions: Fridays, 2/10, 2/24, 3/24, 4/7, 4/21
  • 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Health and Exercise Science

• Kick-off: Friday, January 27
  • 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.
• Regular live sessions: Fridays, 2/3, 2/17, 3/3, 3/31, 4/14
  • 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Economics

• Kick-off: Wednesday, January 25
  • 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
• Regular live sessions: Wednesdays, 2/1, 2/15, 3/1, 3/29, 4/12
  • 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Math

• Kick-off: Thursday, January 26
  • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
• Regular live sessions: Thursdays, 2/9, 2/23, 3/23, 4/6, 4/20
  • 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Cross-Discipline (reserved for individuals with prior approval)

• Kick-off: Friday, January 27
  • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
• Regular live sessions: Fridays, 2/3, 2/17, 3/3, 3/31, 4/14
  • 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Community Expectations

• Read Zaretta Hammond’s Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain (free eBook available)
• Engage with supporting materials (articles, videos, websites)
• Attend 5 – 6, 90-minute Zoom sessions, occurring every other week
• Contribute to 5 asynchronous discussions
• Submit a final Action Plan

Participant Learning Outcomes

Through engaging in the work of the training, faculty will be able to:

• explain to others the central tenets of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy,
• incorporate those central tenets into course outcomes, materials, assessments, activities, syllabi, and relationships,
• identify interconnections between implicit bias, microaggressions, trauma, structural racism, stereotype threat, and course success,
• use our increased skills at CRP to share with, support, and encourage other faculty learners to increase everyone’s skills at CRP,
• trace how our values have changed and/or deepened through engaging in course, and
• create a professional development plan for making next steps on the journey of culturally responsive teaching.

Goals

Increase student success and decrease equity gaps by supporting our work to:

• draw on the knowledge and skill our students bring into the classroom,
• create supportive relationships that allow students to take learning risks,
• investigate how our own biases and assumptions show up in our teaching practice, and
• create more equitable classrooms

Financial Compensation

Participants will receive financial compensation in the form of release credit equivalency (RCE) of $1750 in combined salary and fringe. In order to receive compensation, Minnesota State system office will hire each faculty participant as a “temporary shared employee” for the purposes of completing this program.

Registration Required

*Limit of 30 participants per discipline

Register by January 20, 2023 using the following form.