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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Dear English faculty friends and colleagues:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">First off, thank you so much to those of you who attended the
<a href="https://youtu.be/P4c1mP2Kvlc" title="https://youtu.be/P4c1mP2Kvlc">Informative Webinar</a> about the
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><a href="https://bit.ly/2CcZoo0" title="https://bit.ly/2CcZoo0"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Antiracist
Writing Assessment Ecology (AWAE) grant </span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">last Friday, September 18th, 2020.</span></div>
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we mentioned at the webinar, the </span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><a href="https://bit.ly/3hyZLsV" title="https://bit.ly/3hyZLsV"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">core
team</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt;"> really wanted our first interaction with all of you to
give you an idea of the kind of work we will be doing over the year. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">In addition to meeting the members of the core team, Asao B. Inoe walked us through an antiracist reading process of the
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><a href="https://bit.ly/3hv7Y0s" title="https://bit.ly/3hv7Y0s"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">grounding
principles</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt;">The</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> grounding
principles </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">emerged during the hours of collaboration, dialogue, and discussion as we designed the structure
of the grant and the other supporting materials ... as we grappled with the question posed by deep reading of the
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://bit.ly/SBCTCVISION" title="http://bit.ly/SBCTCVISION"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">SBCTC
vision statement</span></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: What does it mean to
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>lead with racial equity</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
in the context of this grant?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Now we'd love an opportunity to go deeper into the structure of the grant and the labor instructions with those of you who can join us for the first
of our upcoming Q&A sessions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Here's a brief description of what we'll do together this
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<li><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Lay out the basics of the application process, including
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><a href="https://bit.ly/2COmj9q" title="https://bit.ly/2COmj9q"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">what
the participants will be doing</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt"> and the
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><a href="https://bit.ly/3l8QpWz" title="https://bit.ly/3l8QpWz"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">labor
instructions</span></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Address a few questions we have heard from our colleagues around the state regarding team make-up and adjunct participation</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></li><li><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Split into breakout rooms, facilitated by a member of the core team, for longer facilitated discussion based on questions raised by participants</span></li><li><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Come back and hear from each of the breakout rooms</span></li></ul>
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<div><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Want to attend? </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Please RSVP to me, Jen Whetham, at jwhetham@sbctc.edu</span></div>
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also be posting the Zoom information to the </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://bit.ly/2t1EO2a" title="http://bit.ly/2t1EO2a" style="margin: 0px">(de)Composing
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<div><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Peace,</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">PS-- Please help spread the word by forwarding this e-mail to English faculty who may not be part of the system-level listservs.</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:12pt"></span></div>
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