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Creating Inclusive Classrooms

As an instructor at Â鶹ӳ»­, there are many opportunities to capitalize on the presence of the representational diversity both in our community and particularly with our teaching. The following resources from the suggest a number of actions to take to make our classrooms as healthy and as safe an environment possible for all student learners. These resources also include a number of suggestions for engaging with particular diversity topics.

 

From the state-wide Academic Senate for California Community Colleges webpage for :

: Principles and practices compiled by faculty, administrators, and chief human resource officers. Resources are separated into pre-hiring, hiring, and post-hiring modules.

: Developed by the California Community Colleges Curriculum Committee (5C), the document includes promising practices that can be used by faculty, deans, curriculum chairs and committees, Chief Instructional Officers (CIO)/Vice Presidents of Instruction, and local academic senates to begin conversations on how to redesign practices from working within a traditional Eurocentric model to working within an equity-minded framework.

: The DEI in Curriculum Praxis builds upon the DEI in Curriculum: Model Principles and Practices toolkit. Principles and practices compiled by faculty, administrators, and chief human resource officers. Resources are separated into "Level One: Gearing up," "Level Two: Action Ready," and "Level Three: Growing and Scaling.

: Developed by ASCCC Equity and Diversity Action Committee for local academic senates and colleges to use in beginning action on developing a cultural humility plan. The tool includes links to resources to use in the development of a local plan and also for self-reflection as individuals.

: Developed by the ASCCC Open Education Resources Initiative to assist faculty in assessing instructional materials for equity, inclusiveness, diversity, and anti-racism.

: ASCCC landing page for resources; includes a link to Chancellor’s Office Undocumented Students webpage.

: Resources for & by part-time faculty, compiled by ASCCC Part-Time Faculty Committee.

: Information about recommended liaisons to be identified by local senates to assist in the dissemination of ASCCC information on selected topics including inclusion, diversity, equity, and anti-Racism (IDEA) liaisons; open education resources (OER) liaisons; career technical education (CTE) liaisons; noncredit liaisons; guided pathway liaisons, and legislative liaisons. Includes a link to sign up for liaison listservs.

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