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Equity-Designated Courses Guide: Home

A resource for educators developing Equity Foundation and Equity Applied Courses in support of SVC’s Equity Degree Requirement and those interested in equity-centered content.

What is this guide for?

This guide is a resource for educators developing Equity Foundation and Equity Applied Courses in support of SVC’s Equity Degree Requirement.

It also for those who are interested in equity-centered content and approaches to teaching and learning.

You'll find a compilation of collected resources, introductory lesson plans, discussion questions, and reflective prompts to support other instructors from any discipline in decolonizing, radicalizing, and otherwise bringing more equity knowledge and (de)structure into their classrooms.

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Equity Work

Equity work in educational institutions is an emotionally laborious, time-intensive long term practice. The project of integrating equity has long been heaped on those bodies experiencing the majority of the harm, placing them in danger on a daily basis. In providing accessible methods for colleagues to begin integrating equitable thinking into their classroom, we offer support to both them and the students, pursuing a way to make sure that equity work at SVC is careful and sustainable.

Students deserve the best possible support in becoming kind, expansively-minded individuals who understand the material consequences of difference in US America. This takes teachers who have done the work and felt supported  enough that they may engage in the kind of teaching and thinking required to guide this deep learning experience.

Contributions

This guide is intended to be a dynamic document. If users have ideas for additional resources, critiques of existing resources, or other suggestions for how to make this list stronger, email mariko.thomas@skagit.edu. 

This work is for all of us at SVC and is a life practice, never a finished project.

Addressing SVC Faculty Competencies

Engagement with these resources and implementation of equity-centered content and practices in the classroom demonstrates exceptional fulfillment of all five of SVC’s Essential Competencies:

  1. Instructional Excellence: Equity-centered content and practices require the development of skills, practices, and capacities that support instructional excellence and student achievement. This LibGuide is offered as a resource and collaborative space for those who are committed to centering equity in SVC classrooms, instructional practices, and professional development. 

  2. Student Assessment: Equitable assessment practices are crucial for supporting student learning and empowering students to succeed in college classrooms. The resources that we share here focus specifically on how this Essential Competency can be (re)conceptualized with equity at the center to ensure that students receive generative assignments, feedback, and guidance to support their achievement and engagement, specifically in equity designated classrooms. 

  3. Program and Course Assessment: Implementing equity-centered content and practices in the classroom requires the development and revision of curriculum. This is laborious, time-intensive, and reflective work that has the potential to transform both what students learn in our classrooms. The process, products, and resources shared here contribute to the assessment and development of equity-centered curriculum, aiding in Program and Course Assessment at SVC. 

  4. Student Advising: The resources shared here are crucial tools for educators pursuing more equitable approaches to teaching and advising will help us to “foster relationship-based advising connections with students in support of students’ academic and career aspirations.” Culturally-responsive and equity-centered approaches to advising and student support ensure that students are met with resources and advice that responds to their unique sociocultural position and needs. 

  5. Service to the College: This LibGuide is offered as a collaborative, community space for those who are doing equity work to gather, share, and generate. We aspire for this to be a space that makes our work sustainable and lifegiving. Additionally, we assert that engagement with these resources and implementation of the equity-centered content and practices in our classrooms also shapes our college governance, campus leadership, and community relations roles. 

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