Teaching Innovation Conference: Inclusive Frameworks For Student Success

Our events seek to be inclusive, and all are welcome. Ground your work with students in trauma-informed care and racial equity. Are we increasing or decreasing buffers and stressors? How can we build community during times of crisis? Dig into what it looks like to show up for our students. This conference is sponsored by the Certificate of Innovation in College Teaching and is geared toward graduate students, adjuncts, and early career faculty at Portland State University. These four inclusive human-centered frameworks will be modeled through workshops, affinity group chats, and keynote addresses that will provide you with ideas, skills, and resources to use in your work with students:

Culturally Sustaining Practice
Universal Design for Learning
Trauma-informed Practice
Contemplative Practice

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Opening Keynote Address: Trauma-informed Care in Times of Toxic Stress

Mandy Davis

Keynote Speaker Dr. Mandy Davis from Trauma Informed Oregon will open the Inclusive Frameworks for Student Success Teaching Innovation Conference by talking about the structural requirements for a trauma-informed campus. ...Read More
Journaling with QTBIPOC Students: Tips for Crafting Affirming, Personal Statements for Scholarship/Job Applications

Oscar Fernandez

Feeling tokenized by periodically writing diversity statements for scholarship and job applications? This hands-on writing workshop centers on participants’ merit and cultural wealth as the focus to craft affirming, personal ...Read More
Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment for People in All Bodies

Alecsandra Renfroe and Ashley Harrison

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every aspect of our lives, including how we show up in the classroom. In order to acknowledge and hold space for the difficulties of the ...Read More
Community Collaboration: From our Centers to the Classroom

Haley K. M. Okamoto

Organizing more than 100 workshops, performances, dialogue sessions and other cultural events each year, PSU’s Cultural Resource Centers’ student staff provide a wealth of co-curricular learning opportunities. How might we ...Read More
Mitigating Toxic Stress for Communal Liberation

Harold McNaron and Shilo George

How does our institution acknowledge and address the stresses and traumas students bring to campus? How might we better understand and support BIPOC students navigating racist systems on and off ...Read More
Another World Is Possible: Afro-futurism, Transformative Justice, and Pleasure Activism

Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown
adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha -- both authors, activists, and educators -- sit down for a conversation about anti-racism and inclusivity in higher education.

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Inclusive Course Design to Reduce Access Barriers

RT Tougas

Participants will receive a list of course design strategies that increase equity by directly reducing the need for many Disability Resource Center accommodations. This workshop gives universal design and trauma-informed ...Read More
Using Trauma-Informed Assessment Practices to Support Adult Learners

Maika Yeigh

Assessment practices can bring students into the learning or push students out of our courses. In this workshop, teaching faculty will explore the use of assessment tools that increase feelings ...Read More
Exploring the Dimensions of Equity in Teaching

Raiza Dottin and Janelle De Carrico Voegele

This 60-minute workshop will provide participants with information on four key areas (Multicultural Education, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Culturally Relevant Education, and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy) of equity in teaching. During the ...Read More