For instructors committed to equitable and inclusive teaching, the current pandemic offers both considerable challenges and opportunities. While lessons on interconnectivity abound as the pandemic reminds us of our shared humanity, our students' varied and divergent experiences of learning in crisis have revealed existing and newly developing inequalities. The stress of the moment reduces most everyone's cognitive and emotional bandwidth, which can make individuals rely more heavily on mental short cuts and biases, increasing the risk of inadvertently perpetuating oppressive structures. As teaching practices are rapidly transforming, how can we as a community of instructors center and prioritize equity for our most vulnerable students?
Join Rose Buckelew, Cortney McEniry, and Dorothe Bach for a conversation about ways we may work together to advocate for those students most impacted as we approach the final weeks of the semester.