Creating Communities of Care in our Classrooms


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We invite you to join us for a 1-hour interactive, peer-to-peer workshop with four Mellon TLH Faculty Fellows, Cheryl C. Smith (Baruch College), Jason Hendrickson (LaGuardia Community College), Lara Saguisag (College of Staten Island), and Reiko Tahara (Hunter College). It will be an opportunity for us to have an honest dialogue with our students and colleagues about some of the experiments we have been doing to create communities of care in our classrooms. In the first half of the workshop, we will each present our efforts to create and implement real changes in our classrooms this semester, from implementing new models for collaboration and group work to revamping approaches to assignments and assessment. We’ll use the rest of the hour to hear from participants and engage in student-centered discussions about creating learning communities of care.

Accessibility: We will have ASL interpreters for the event. Closed captions will be provided by TypeWell.

Please note: This event will be recorded, with the exception of the Q&A session.

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About Jessica Murray

Jessica Murray received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at The Graduate Center, CUNY in 2020. She is the Director of Digital Communications for Transformative Learning in the Humanities (TLH), a three-year initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is also working on a web project with teaching materials about civil rights struggles in New York City, including disability rights history. She advocates for improving public transit accessibility in New York City for people with disabilities and chairs the Advisory Committee for Transit Accessibility for New York City Transit.