2020-2021 Lunch Hour Reading/Discussion Club

“ Stamped from the Beginning uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists...Kendi shows how and why some of our leading proslavery and pro-civil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America.”- Dr. Kendi’s website. 

In this book group we will discuss how racism remains permeated in society and how even individuals perceived to be forward thinking have remained complicit in maintaining the status quo. We will seek to identify ways to shed light on ourselves and our institutions in moving towards enacting anti-racism. This book is over 500+ pages, so a deep commitment to the work will be necessary to benefit from participation.

Small Teaching Online “outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. It includes current best practices around educational technologies, strategies to build community and collaboration, and minor changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant learning gains.”

Our group will analyze and discuss the small, “doable” practices Darby suggests and share the tips and tricks that we have all learned during our own experiences with online and remote  teaching.

In this time of stress and pandemic, finding hope can be challenging. Radical Hope takes a critically reflective lens to our teaching to remind us that the pedagogical choices we make and the ways we interact with our students have the ability to change ourselves, our students, and, possibly, our institutions. While grounded in theory, Gannon weaves in personal narrative and practical advice to help us examine our personal pedagogical choices. We’ll explore Gannon’s ideas for developing and maintaining our hope in our students, our teaching, and academia.