Thread by @itsAlexCL

Looking forward to learning with and from @Dr_Catalano, @rachellwag, and @Susan_Marine in their interactive symposium "Teaching the Tools of Resistance: Crafting Critical Classrooms" #ASHE2021 🧵

Me and @HeyDrMcCloud are virtually sitting next to each other!

@rachellwag 😂😂😂😂

Building critical graduate classrooms has never been more important. // @rachellwag #ASHE2021

It's paramount to interrupt schooling practices that reproduce asymmetrical power relations & classrooms can promote a humanizing culture of participation! YES! // @Susan_Marine @rachellwag @Dr_Catalano #ASHE2021

In her History of HE course, @Susan_Marine begins by acknowledging how documented history has been constructed by colonizers and how we as scholars must focus on the reclamation of people's history and center the stories of those who have been colonized #ASHE2021

Additionally, @Susan_Marine reframes the eras of HE to reflect the ongoing struggle for liberation, visibility, and full participation #ASHE2021

She builds the course around three q's:
1) Who is higher education for? (people)
2) What is higher education for? (purpose)
3) How can we use insights from history to tackle current-day challenges, and to create truly liberatory institutions? (perils/possibilities)
#ASHE2021

Next up, @rachellwag discusses her approach to a social justice and inclusion survey course for masters students. #ASHE2021

In the course, @rachellwag organizes the classroom to let people make choices, have them curate readings, and engage in many reflective opportunities #ASHE2021

@rachellwag also practices self-grading and ungrading in her course, which has done wonders for my own teaching. Could not encourage it enough! #ASHE2021

SN: I think @Dr_Catalano wins for best Zoom background. All these books though! Just makes him even more dreamy! 😍

@HeyDrMcCloud and I very much appreciate the discussion around being assigned a course to teach you may not have expertise in from @Dr_Catalano #ASHE2021

Love this reimagining of a law course through risk management, critical self-awareness, and critical thinking! #ASHE2021

I appreciate much of these suggestions, and I think there is a dimension of whiteness to consider too when it comes to course evaluations. Like, Black/Latinx faculty are already up against it for course evals, and to then take some of these TQs may be riskier. #ASHE2021