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Equity-Designated Courses Guide: Resources

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.

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Equitable Approaches To Grading And Assessment

Book: Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) by Susan D. Blum (see available titles gallery)
Website: “Understanding Teacher Bias: Acknowledging the Impact of Unconscious Bias” by Tiara Smith
Article: “Four Ways Teachers Can Reduce Implicit Bias” by Jill Suttie
YouTube Video: “Transparency and Problem-centered Learning” by MAWinkelmes
Blog: “What Are We Doing and Why? Transparent Assignment Design Benefits Students and Faculty Alike” by Kasey Christopher
On Canvas: SVC TILTed Assignment Template

Toolkits For Introducing Students To Equity Work Around Race Specifically

Dismantling Racism from DrWorks
Anti-Racism Resource List from Good good good
Lesson Plans for Stages of Teaching about Racism (open source doc) from AASHE Advisory Council

Considering Bias At An Institutional Level In Education

PDF: "White Supremacy Culture" by Tema Okun
Book: "A Blueprint for Equity-Driven Community College Leadership" By Pamela E. Eddy and Kim E. Vanderlinden
Book: Biased (see available titles gallery)

Teaching About Equity

Book: Holding Change by adrienne maree bown (see available titles gallery)
PDF: “The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses” by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney
Article: “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
Article: “Studying Through the Undercommons,” an Interview by Stevphen Shukaitis with Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
PDF: “Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities” by Eve Tuck
Webpage: “Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Action: First Steps” by Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning
Article: “We Taught Critical Race Theory” by Ebony Omotola, Devin T. White, and Lynette Parker
Article: “The Complicated Process of Adding Diversity to the College Syllabus” by Emily DeRuy
Podcast: "Revealing your unconscious bias" Podcast series from Hidden Brain
Book: Not Light But Fire (see available titles gallery)

Guidance For Enacting Equitable Teaching Practices

Book: The White Educators’ Guide to Equity: Teaching for Justice in Community Colleges by Jeramy Wallace, Jeremiah J. Sims, Lasana O. Hotep (see available titles gallery)
Book: Responsible Pedagogy: Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education by Eric Dettweiler (see available titles gallery)
Book: Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy by Vershawn Ashanti Young, Rusty Barrett, Y’Shanda Young Rivera, and Kim Brian Lovejoy (see available titles gallery)
Book: A Pedagogy of Kindness by Catherine J. Denial (see available titles gallery)
PDF: “Trauma-Informed Practices for Postsecondary Education: A Guide” by Shannon Davidson
Book: Building a Trauma-Responsive Educational Practice: Lessons from a Corrections Classroom by Em Daniels (see available titles gallery)
Article: “Bad Listeners” by J. Logan Smilges
Article: “Think you’re bad at math? You may suffer from ‘math trauma’” by Jennifer Ruef
YouTube Channel: Let’s Get Trauma-Informed YouTube Channel by Bailey Collie
Webpage/PDF"Debias the Classroom" Checklist for Teachers
Jen’s Guide to Instructional Design: Or, How I Spent My Sabbatical by Jennifer Boland (file attachment)
Book: I Won't Learn From You (see available titles gallery)

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