This 96-hour professional learning opportunity is designed to help administrators, faculty, staff, and recent graduates become scholar-practitioners in educational justice. Through seven (7) core courses, one (1) elective, one (1) symposium on Student Equity Day to present your project proposal, sixteen (16) bi-monthly professional learning community (PLC) sessions, and two (2) one-on-one meetings with the director of student equity and success, you will have an opportunity to use critical action research to address a particular educational barrier in your domain of influence that is hindering the academic, social, and/or psychological success of students from minoritized communities. The Fall 2020 cohort, which is limited to 34-35 participants, will meet one Friday per month from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM beginning September 4, 2020. To register, click HERE.

Schedule

An Introduction to Critical Professional Learning (3 Hours)

• Friday, September 4, 2020, Zoom or Room 321
• Facilitated by Kofi Akinjide, Ed.D., Cabrillo College
  

Privilege, Oppression, Liberation, and Freedom (3 Hours)

• Friday, October 2, 2020, Zoom or Room 321
• Facilitated by Kofi Akinjide, Ed.D., Cabrillo College
  

Practicing Data-Based Inquiry for Student Equity and Success (3 Hours)

• Friday, November 13, 2020, Zoom or Room 317
• Facilitated by Kofi Akinjide, Ed.D., Cabrillo College
  

One-on-One Meeting: Refining Your Problem Statement - Part 1 (1 Hour)

• November, 2020 via Zoom
• Facilitated by Kofi Akinjide, Ed.D., Cabrillo College
  

Practicing Critical Action Research in Higher Education - Part 1 (3 Hours)

• TBD, Zoom or Room 321
• Facilitated by Kofi Akinjide, Ed.D., Cabrillo College
  

Reframing Student Success (3 Hours)

• Friday, January 22, 2021, Zoom or Room 321
• Facilitated by Kofi Akinjide, Ed.D., Cabrillo College
  

Elective (Select One Course from the Following)

Inclusive Excellence in Educational Administration (3 Hours)

• Friday, February 5, 2021, Zoom or Room 313
• Facilitated by TBD

Inclusive Excellence in Student Services (3 Hours)

• Friday, February 5, 2021, Zoom or Room 323
• Facilitated by Blanca Arteaga, Ed.D., Gavilan College

Inclusive Excellence in Teaching (3 Hours)

• Friday, February 5, 2021, Zoom or Room 321
• Facilitated by TBD

One-on-One Meeting: Refining Your Problem Statement - Part 2 (1 Hour)

• February, 2021 via Zoom
• Facilitated by Kofi Akinjide, Ed.D., Cabrillo College

Practicing Innovation in Student Equity and Success (3 Hours)

• Friday, March 5, 2021, Zoom or Room 321
• Facilitated by Kofi Akinjide, Ed.D., Cabrillo College

Practicing Critical Action Research in Higher Education - Part 2 (3 Hours)

• Friday, April 9, 2021, Zoom or Room 321
• Facilitated by Kofi Akinjide, Ed.D., Cabrillo College

Symposium on Inclusive Excellence in Higher Education (2 Hours)

• Tuesday, August 24, 2021, Zoom or Building 300
• Facilitated by Kofi Akinjide, Ed.D., Cabrillo College

Professional Learning Community (PLC) Sessions (16 Hours)

• Twice per Month via Zoom
• Facilitated by Cohort Members

Endorsements

• Approved by the Sabbatical Leave Review Board (SLRB) for 2 Units of Alternative Credit
• Approved by the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) for 96 Hours of Professional Development Credit: Register

Flex Friday activities are professional learning opportunities that are designed to increase your capacity to take humanizing action on campus: both inside the classroom and outside the classroom. Each opportunity is a collaborative, reflective, and active learning experience. In other words, you'll learn how to put theory to practice so that you can foster the academic, social, and psychological success of students from minoritized communities.

Spring 2021

Inclusive Excellence in Student Equity

• TBD
• Zoom or Room 321
• Facilitated by TBD
  

Student Equity Day is an opportunity for administrators, faculty, staff, and student leaders to engage in a series of professional learning opportunities during Flex Week (i.e., the week before the fall and spring semester). It offers an appropriate prelude to the school year as well as a checkpoint between semesters to refresh our sense of educational mission as it relates to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. To access the complete Flex Week calendar, click HERE.

To request a book from the Student Equity Lending Library, click HERE. We hope that you enjoy these readings!

Conceptual Frameworks

• Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education by Edward Taylor, David Gillborn, and Gloria Ladson-Billings
• Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson
• Readings for Diversity and Social Justice by Maurianne Adams, Warren J. Blumenfeld, Carmelita (Rosie) Castañeda, Heather W. Hackman, Madeline L. Peters, and Ximena Zúñiga

Ableism

• Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare
• In Search of Freedom: How Persons with Disabilities Have Been Disenfranchised from the Mainstream of American Society and How the Search for Freedom Continues by Willie V. Bryan
• The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal by Jonathan Mooney

Ageism and Adultism

• "Aging with Disabilities: Ageism and More" by Debra J. Sheets

Classism

• Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America by Barbara Jensen
• Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks

LGBTQIA Oppression

• Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion by Ryan Conrad
• The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes by Diane Ehrensaft
• Has the Gay Movement Failed? by Martin Duberman
• It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living by Dan Savage and Terry Miller
• Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele
• Transgender History: The Root's of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker
• Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg
• Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition from Self-Loathing to Self-Love by Mia Violet

Racism

• Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities by Craig S. Wilder
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Religious Oppression

• "Christian Privilege: Breaking a Sacred Taboo" by Lewis Z. Schlosser
• Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart by Christena Cleveland

Sexism

• Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Working for Change

• A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson
• "But That's Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy" by Gloria Ladson-Billings
• Confronting Equity Issues on Campus: Implementing the Equity Scorecard in Theory and Practice by Estela M. Bensimon and Lindsey Malcom
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond
• The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billings
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
• Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity by Kimberly D. Tanner
• Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice by Maurianne Adams and Lee A. Bell
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

The Student Equity Lending Library is an oasis of resources for students, faculty, staff, and administrators at Cabrillo College who want to increase their understanding of educational and social justice. The library contains books, articles, and DVDs that can help anyone on campus support the goal of better serving students from minoritized communities. To see the library selections, please feel free to stop by the Office of Student Equity on the Aptos campus in Aptos: we are located in Building 100, Office 103C and 104.

STEP 1 - Pick a book! Click HERE to view our current library. They are in alphabetical order.

STEP 2 - Fill out our form HERE to request a resource (Note: You must sign in to a Google account and complete all of the required information. Cabrillo faculty, please use your employee ID number).

STEP 3 - Return your book by the end of the semester. (Please!)

Inclusive Excellence in Educational Administration

• Addressing Anti-Blackness on Campus: Implications for Educators and Institutions presented by Dr. Frank Harris III, Lasana Hotep, Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud, and Dr. J. Luke Wood

Inclusive Excellence in Student Services

• Equity-Minded Student Services in the Online Environment presented by Dr. Frank Harris III and Dr. J. Luke Wood

Inclusive Excellence in Teaching

• Employing Equity-Minded and Culturally Affirming Teaching Practices in Virtual Learning presented by Dr. Frank Harris III and Dr. J. Luke Wood

Other

• Addressing Racial Bias and Microaggressions in Online Environments presented by Dr. Frank Harris III and Dr. J. Luke Wood
• Understanding Immigration Options through Family Petitions presented by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center