OFAR: Antiracism and Open Educational Resources for Strengthening Student Success

October 2024:
This post-conference workshop will include a deep dive into teaching practices focused on antiracism, open education, and identity. Practical examples will be shared to support transformative teaching practice to create a more antiracist learning environment for students.
With Maritez Apigo (Contra Costa College). Hosted by the RP Group's Strengthening Student Success Conference.

Innovative and Inclusive OER for ZTC Success

May 2024:
An in-person workshop on how to enact winning strategies for Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) programs, using Open Educational Resources (OER) and inclusive and transformative online pedagogies.
With Kim Grewe (Northern Virginia Community College). Hosted by College of the Canyons, as part of "Celebrating ZTC in the CCC".

​Counterstorytelling as a humanizing analytical writing method for unsettling epistemological racism in applied linguistics

March 2024:
Recent observations by Motha (2020) and Bhattacharya et al. (2020) note that disrupting the detachment and race-neutrality often relied upon in applied linguistics necessitates dismantling epistemological racism (Kubota, 2020). Responding to this call, I explore storytelling, and specifically, counterstorytelling, as a critical race methodological tool (Johnson et al., 2017) for decolonizing the production and consumption of scholarly knowledge in applied linguistics research. 

An invited colloquium with Wenhao Diao, Hongni Guo, Uju Anya, Dangping Wang, and Emma Trentman, themed "Critical race approaches and language studies from international perspectives". At the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). 

Open Education and Community Impact

April 2023:
A discussion about ways that open education extends beyond the “traditional” stakeholders, reaching families, marginalized communities, the workforce, and more.
​Hosted by the nationwide Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER).

Sustainable & Flexible Teaching for Online Success 

August 2022:
With over two years of online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic behind us, how can we best meet students’ needs during this unprecedented time? How can we make online teaching sustainable for ourselves as faculty? In what ways can we incorporate flexibility while still being rigorous? Why is care so critical to online teaching? 
​With Maritez Apigo (Contra Costa College). Hosted by College of the Canyons.

From Gotcha to ‘You Got This!’: Online Teaching Strategies that Uplift Students, Build Interactivity, and Increase Retention

April 2022:
This interactive workshop provides hands-on experience in building a simple, online “Encouragement Board”. We also explore how and why transforming traditional assessments, like timed and multiple-choice tests, into lively, weeklong video/audio discussions can reduce stress and anxiety. 
Hosted by the California Virtual Campus, Online Network of Education (CVC @ONE) of the California Community Colleges.

Teaching About Bias in Real Estate Education

April 2022:
How can we effectively teach about real estate bias through online education? What are the education requirements mandated by new California state law? What is inclusive pedagogy?
Hosted by the California Community College Real Estate Education Center at Saddleback College.