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<span style="margin: 0px">Dear Washington State CTC System Members:</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">I write to inform you of a call for nominations for the Cascadia Open Education Summit, which will take place virtually April 27-29, 2021.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">SBCTC is a co-sponsoring organization, and we have been asked to provide a keynote speaker to present for one hour on open educational resources (OERs) in the<span> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/SBCTCVISION" title="http://bit.ly/SBCTCVISION" style="margin: 0px">spirit
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<span style="margin: 0px"><i>What does it mean to create open educational resources (OERs) that "lead with racial equity" and create a "sense of belonging" for our historically underserved students of color (HU-SOC)?</i></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: black">Nominations will be anonymized; and of course, feel free to self-nominate or put forward more than one name. </span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: black">Sadly, my amazing colleague Boyoung Chae is not eligible for nomination.<span style="margin: 0px">🙁</span></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: black">Please send Monique Belair (mbelair@sbctc.edu) your nominations by close of business next </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: black"><b>Thursday,
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