Leadership group members:

Pierce College’s Adrianne Kleckner and Jason Loan; Whatcom Community College’s Katherine Burns, Justin Ericksen, and Brian Cope; Tacoma Community College’s Heather Urschel; Edmonds Community College’s Reggie Townley; Seattle College’s Danielle Blackman.

Describe your leadership group purpose/aim:

This group’s goal was to provide possibilities and best practices, a framework for anti-racist curricula that moves beyond assessment and includes course structure, outcomes, and more holistic curricular design. The main deliverable we strove to create is an open-source repository that participants can bring back to their institutions.

What did we accomplish?

The group first developed a set of guiding principles for equitable antiracist curriculum and pedagogy, each principle defined, unpacked, and connected to practice, as well as to foundational research, data, and published best practices.

Using these principles as a foundation, the group developed a repository prototype, using OpenWA Pressbooks. This open-use resource is available to all Washington state educators. The group leaders included example content for this repository, including whole course design, units/modules, assignments and projects, activities and lessons, as well as assessments. Members of the group created templates, included in the repository, that participants can use to connect their curriculum pieces to the guiding principles.

At the final ACI gathering, the group will present this starting content and encourage participants to submit their own content, using a Google submission form. We welcome curriculum that isn’t just plug-and-play, including assignments and activities that are in development.  The content will be creative-commons licensed, so participants, departments, and schools will be inspired to not only use the repository but also take it and transform, revise, and develop it for their institutions’ writing courses.

Include an artifact related to your work.

• Link to ACI Repository
• Link to Guiding Principles

What could be the next step to continue the work?

The group will take content through 2023, then pass the repository along as an open-source book for use. Ideally, at least two members of the group would be funded through 2023 to continue to take in submissions from ACI participants to flesh out the repository. This would include:

• Reviewing submissions. We envision this repository as an inclusive space for contributors to share their work, ideas, and process. Our review process would be confirming that the submissions align with the aforementioned guiding principles and threshold concepts.
• Supporting contributors by providing technical support.
• Editing submissions for web publication.
• Revising the repository as needed to accommodate contributions.
• Publishing contributions in the repository.

Our maintenance of the repository would be completed and finalized by the end of December 2023. Because the Repository is an open-source resource available online, it will be used, reimagined, and shared locally as well as globally.