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Session 4 – 3:45-4:35pm
Why We Can’t Shame People into Action | Zoom Link
Elizabeth Griswold, Front Range Community College
How often have we approached JEDI conversations by shaming someone to get our point across? I have made that mistake countless times and I have come to realize that method gets me no closer to helping others understand JEDI concepts. Every single person in this world has grown up with their family’s beliefs, lessons, and rules and their own set of beliefs, lessons, and rules. Sometimes we must bring psychological safety into the conversation to help change a mind. This concept does not work 100% of the time and does not work immediately, but it is an effective method to turn JEDI conversations into discussions and not arguments.
Liz Griswold goes by she/her/ella and is a Bachelor’s of Science in Criminology and is a graduate from Regis University. She currently works for Front Range Community College as an Administrative Assistant to the Deans of Instruction at the Boulder County Campus. Liz is making her mark on the world by strongly advocating for JEDI work and pushing the boundaries of self-driven education over formal education in JEDI work. She may not have the job title, and she may not have the Ph.D. degree, but she is changing the narrative of what qualifies as a credible expert.
Timeless and Worldly: Advanced Listening Skills for Scholars and Professionals | Zoom Link
Brian Weaver and Andreas Braun, Community College of Denver
Attendees learn the professor’s AGILE model including: Nonverbal signals; such as eye contact, facial expression, and body language. Verbal signals; such as voluntary or involuntary vocal utterances, paraphrasing, questioning, and silence. Recording and memory strategies, methods of “follow-up” after listening, feeling and developing sincerity, authenticity and playfulness in listening experiences, reflecting, managing emotions and emotional labor (such as with empathy, introversion or “compassion fatigue”), in-person vs. digital listening skill differentiation and applications, how to enact intuitive “social listening,” the roles of intuition and judgments in listening for safety and achievement/social mobility, and “creating space” for long and uninterrupted periods.
Brian Weaver is Assistant Professor of Communication, and Faculty Advisor to Phi Theta Kappa at the Community College of Denver. Professor Weaver is interested in leading scholarship in the communication field, and with the current research theme: “The Art and Science of Play: Soul of Play.”
Mr. Andreas Braun is a multilingual philosopher, scholar, writer, multi-media artist, and world explorer. He has experienced at least forty countries over the last ten years, pursuing his passion for Intercultural Communication. Andreas Braun is Denver’s first International Honorary Inductee and second-year scholar and artist-in-residence. He first resides in Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia. Germany: a country known as one of “thinkers and poets”.
Implementing Grading Contracts for Equitable Assessment | Zoom Link
Karleanne Matthews, Jeff Becker, and Kelly Zepp, Community College of Denver
Grading practices can never be objective because they carry with them values, assumptions, and biases; we worry that many values, assumptions, and biases built into traditional points- and percentage-based grading systems do great harm to students, particularly minoritized students. We will share our experience with grading contracts as an anti-racist assessment practice that honors students’ diverse experiences, improves student-teacher relationships, builds shared values in the classroom, limits the impact of implicit bias, and allows all students to achieve success. Supporting our discussion will be data and student feedback collected from our classes in which we use contract grading.
Jeff Becker is a professor of English at CCD.
Kelly Zepp and Karleanne Matthews are assistant professors of English at CCD. We have taken different routes on our journeys to contract grading (and are still journeying!) but share our commitment to improving and promoting assessment practices that meet our students’ diverse needs.
Connecting College to Career | Zoom Link
Sarah Homer and Evan Kravitz, Arapahoe Community College
Most students start college with some idea of a career goal in mind. When they can better connect their classroom learning with their career goals, they may be more likely to find purpose in the course content, further develop their career goals, and persist toward graduation. Faculty and college staff can make meaningful career conversations part of their interactions with students to facilitate these positive outcomes. This session will provide ideas on how to engage in meaningful career conversations and will discuss career exploration tools to help students better define their career goals.
Sarah Homer currently works for Arapahoe Community College as Senior Campus Navigator for the Sturm Collaboration Campus in Castle Rock. Sarah earned a Master of Education with an emphasis in higher education administration from the University of Utah. She started her time at ACC in Career Services and has built AAA course sections that have additional career focus to engage students early in career conversations and to confirm their pathway. Sarah is passionate about career exploration and will have career conversations with just about anyone in any setting – including the grocery store line!
Evan Kravitz is a Career Counselor at Arapahoe Community College. His focus is on helping each individual student create a network of career contacts and alumni mentors to gain a competitive edge and real-world perspective and insight on the career world. He graduated with a degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia in 1998 and spent the better part of 15 years working as a broadcast news producer and assignment editor at CNN in both Atlanta and New York and with the CBS News Affiliate (KYW-TV) in Philadelphia. In 2015, Evan entered graduate school at the University of Denver and upon graduation transitioned to the role of career counselor at Front Range Community College and Arapahoe Community College. He resides in Centennial, Colorado with his wife, Laine, and daughter, Madeleine.