Session #1
November 1st, 2022 1:30-2:30pm
Speaker: Cathy Albisa, JD, VP Race Forward
Racial Equity and Pedagogy
Learning Objectives:
- Creating Shared Language on Racial Equity and identifying the four levels of racism: internalized, interpersonal, institutional and structural
- Understanding the relationship between institutional racism and pedagogy
- Understanding why asset based pedagogies advance racial equity
Session #2
November 21st, 2022 1:30-3:00pm
Speaker: Lissette Delgado-Cruzata, PhD, PI
Our STEM Numbers: Graduation and Retention
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the make-up of our student population in the John Jay STEM majors
- Identifying the attrition trends, and discussing graduation patterns in John Jay STEM majors
Session #3
March 30th, 2023 1:30-3:00pm
Lissette Delgado-Cruzata, PhD, PI
Strategies to Promote Student Engagement
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the definition of student engagement, and the dimensions of this social construct
- Understand the types of classroom strategies and activities that can promote student engagement
- Identifying core elements of culturally relevant materials that can promote student engagement
Session #4
May 11th, 2023 1:30-2:30pm
Chrissy Stachl, PhD, Reflecting Equity
Sense of Belonging in STEM
Learning Objectives:
- Defining diversity, inclusion and sense of belonging
- Understanding deficit thinking and exploring anti-deficit language and approaches
- Identifying strategies to promote sense of belonging to STEM in the classroom and in other settings
