Leadership group name:

Communication and Professional Development Resources

Leadership group members:

Spokane Community College’s Andrea Reid and Angela Rasmussen, and Cascadia’s Robyn Ferret.

Describe your leadership group purpose/aim:

We have developed a collection of professional development resources intended to support different stakeholders across campuses. We chose to widen the ACI focus from “labor-based grading” to “nontraditional grading” (NTG) in an effort to make room for the complex conditions of naming and negotiating this work, and to establish common ground as we encourage all efforts to disrupt historic inequities in higher education. These materials not only offer ideas about the what and how of NTG but also highlight the why, emphasizing both student engagement and faculty feedback about potential pedagogy transformations.

We structured the collection to support professional developers and their audiences at different points on the road to antiracist education, including those unfamiliar with assessment innovation. Using the “workshop in a box” model, we developed a website that includes slide decks, presentation notes, workshop guidelines, and feedback data that can be applied or adapted for small and large group presentations. Our materials reference classroom applications and larger-scale curriculum development, presentations and communities of practice, and administrative support for this work within and beyond EDI frameworks.

What did you accomplish?

• developed and refined a survey to capture ACI participant experience and perception of using NTG in their classrooms
• administered the survey to faculty participants at the April 14th ACI convening
• synthesized and transcribed survey results noting common themes as well as complexities
• shared all survey data at the June 9th ACI convening, highlighting powerful takeaways and encouraging participant reflection on results; collected volunteer names for beta testing of our forthcoming website
• initiated conversations with the three other leadership teams to determine where our project contents or purposes might overlap or utilize shared resources
• created and distributed an opt-in form for ACI Canvas artifact publishing
• created and led presentations on our own campuses for distinct audiences and time frames: 50-minute Campus Development Day training (Spokane), 30-minute English Department facilitated discussion (Spokane and Cascadia), 10-minute Faculty Forum presentation (Spokane), 20-minute preview customized for department meetings (Cascadia), 75-minute workshop for all faculty professional development day (Cascadia); see artifacts below
• developed a website to house our artifacts, which we will further refine at a working retreat June 29-30

Include an artifact related to your work.

• ACI participant survey April 2022
• Survey results: ACI profdev team survey data share final
• Website, “The Antiracist Assessment Trek,” which includes the following resources:
  • 50-minute Campus Development Day training (Spokane)
  • 30-minute English Department facilitated discussion (Spokane and Cascadia)
  • 10-minute Faculty Forum presentation (Spokane)
  • Spokane Innovation Grant proposal
  • 20-minute preview customized for department meetings (Cascadia)
  • 75-minute workshop for all faculty prof dev day (Cascadia)

What could be the next step to continue the work?

• sharing the website: 15 possible beta tester volunteers from ACI participants, then with other colleges and the SBCTC Student Success Center

• developing conference presentations/workshops: for other teaching and learning centers, for TYCA fall ‘23, ATL in spring ‘24, and more