Bridging "Gen"-erational Divide with Inclusive & Accessible Pedagogies: Useful Practices & Reminders for Starting the School Year
This session offers practical, inclusive, and accessible teaching strategies to support first-gen students from day one. Discover actionable tips from crafting welcoming syllabi to designing flexible course materials, from fostering reading and writing skills to building an equitable classroom environment, where all students, including first-gen students, can navigate their liberal arts education experience successfully.
An interactive, educational workshop, designed to help educators combat burnout and navigate professional and personal stressors. The program defines resilience as the ability to adapt, recover, and grow from adversity. Participants build a practical "Resilience Toolkit" focused on three core pillars: reframing the physiological stress response through self-compassion, countering the brain's natural negativity bias using a 3:1 positive-to-negative reflection ratio, and fostering connection through structured peer co-regulation check-ins.
