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Our Guiding Purpose: We are guided by the academic success of all students. Ultimately, the measures of our success are improvements in students’ persistence, achievement, and graduation rates—particularly students who are the first in their families to go to college and those from groups historically under‐served in higher education.
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Happy Earth Day!
In honor of earth day and what is likely a busy spring season for all of us, I’ll keep the intro short and sweet by sharing three highlights about what’s happening at the Washington Center.
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Washington Center Partner Highlight:
emareena danielles |
The Washington Center works with higher education professionals in diverse roles at two- and four-year institutions across the country and internationally. This network enriches the community and expertise shared through our Collaborative.
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emareena danielles, author and educator, has a wide breadth of experience in teaching, training, and student support in contexts from high school to college to community education to corporate programs. They constructed their own MS in Teaching at Portland State University with a focus on peace education, inspired by bell hooks and Colman McCarthy. Their work on trauma-responsive teaching grew from this blend of experience, knowledge, observation, in a practice that emerged from their time working in various aspects of the education-prison nexus.
emareena’s book, Building a Trauma-responsive Educational Practice: Lessons from a Corrections Classroom (Routledge, 2022), is the first book to address the complexities and impacts of historic, systemic, and individual trauma on learning and in adult classrooms. The text provides guidance to teachers in developing a trauma-responsive practice, and encourages them to bring their own joy in learning into their classrooms.
For those considering teaching in the prison system, they recommend talking to others with experience, reading the book (!) and forming a clear understanding of personal motivation for working in this field. They caution, “Don’t go in to save people. Don’t go in to get rewarded for doing good deeds.” Work in the system can be very isolating, and accessing support, professional development, or training can be challenging due to time and financial constraints. emareena is passionate about providing this kind of support and actively seeks opportunities through their consulting practice Me Out Loud LLC.
Their expertise and interests inspired a collaboration with the Washington Center to offer a two-part virtual workshop on May 15 and 22. Emergent Strategies in Prison Education is designed to address the need for intentional training and support for educators working within the constraints of the prison system. For more information about this workshop series or to share this with others, check out our registration announcement.
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Their expertise and interests inspired a collaboration with the Washington Center to offer a two-part virtual workshop on May 15 and 22. Emergent Strategies in Prison Education is designed to address the need for intentional training and support for educators working within the constraints of the prison system. For more information about this workshop series or to share this with others, check out our registration announcement.
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Visit the Learning Community Program Directory
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Connect through the collaborative! |
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FREE WORKSHOP on April 25th
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While many campuses and communities gear up to celebrate Earth Day, to truly address the climate crisis, we need sustainable changes to be made every day, not just on Earth Day. This workshop will explore ways to engage students and campus communities beyond yearly spectacles that can address both student engagement and climate impact. We will look at individual and collective action, impacts of behaviors, habits of college students and how that can shape future behaviors.
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, University of San Fancisco
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What are the strategies you use to create and adapt learning experiences for incarcerated students?
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In her book, Emergent Strategy: Shaping change, changing worlds, adrienne maree brown offers a visionary approach to change in a rapidly changing world. As teachers, one of our greatest hopes is that our students leave our classrooms believing in their ability to navigate those rapid changes, and build satisfying lives. In this two-part series, we bring the principles of Emergent Strategy to carceral classrooms, exploring how they offer both students and teachers a richer, more connected experience.
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Two-part Workshop Series for Prison Education Practitioners
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May 15 11:30am-1pm ET | 8:30am-10am PT
May 22 11:30am-1pm ET | 8:30am-10am PT
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Workshop: Best Practices for Promoting the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Faculty and Staff |
Tuesday, April 23
3-4 pm EST via Zoom
Dr. Sue Maxam, Pace University
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Just as with students, mental health challenges have increased exponentially over the past few years for faculty and staff on college campuses across the nation. This is due to, in large part, work-related stress, emotional depletion, limited resources/support, poor work-life balance, job insecurity, organizational culture, increased involvement in student mental health, etc. Therefore, institutional leaders have increasingly prioritized the mental health and well-being of faculty and staff (in addition to students). This session will explore best practices that can be adapted personally and campus-wide. It will also focus on ways learning communities can support staff/faculty wellness. [register here]
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Association for General and Liberal Studies |
AGLS encourages participation from faculty, students, staff, and administrators, as well as proposals that relate successful collaborative efforts between two and four-year campuses. Sessions that actively engage the session audience and/or provide usable ‘Monday morning’ ideas and activities are especially encouraged. We pride our conference on providing hands-on experiences for the attendees. [Submit your proposal by April 26, 2024]
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National Learning Communities Conference |
The NLCC 2024 planning committee welcomes proposals from educators, researchers, administrators, and practitioners engaged in teaching, creating, implementing, assessing, and sustaining high quality learning communities. [Submit your proposal by May 1, 2024]
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