[GuidedPathways] FW: BIPOC (Black, Indigenous (Native First People) and People of Color) Community of Care and Practice - Anti-Coloniality in English Language Acquisition - Skagit Valley College June 23, 2023

[Ashley Montenegro Ramirez]

Alaafia BEdA Colleagues,

Registration is still open for an exciting opportunity, designed for Black, Indigenous, and other faculty of color who teach English in the Washington community and technical college system.  We will be holding an in-person only affinity space at Skagit Valley College, June 23, 2023, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM. This year we ecstatic to welcome BIPOC English and Communications faculty serving within our CTCs in Academic areas. Please share/forward this invitation to BIPOC English faculty in your programs and across your campus or organization. Faculty, please ensure to gain permission from your Dean or Director to attend. We are asking deans and directors to consider sending your faculty to this in person professional development event.

There will be no virtual option. This carved out space aims to transform the practices and approaches of English Language Acquisition by BIPOC English and Communications Faculty. This community of practice, focusing on Anticoloniality in English language teaching, centers BIPOC faculty who are looking for a critical space to explore anticoloniality of the Adult Education field, academic English and communications and are committed to deepening their equity centered practices.

Purpose

The BIPOC AntiColoniality in English Language Acquisition Community of Practice and Care centers BIPOC pre-college English faculty, especially those who are looking for a courageous, critical space to disrupt colonization and transform the field, are committed to deepening their equity centered practice and are seeking to cultivate community in the work of transforming and reimagining teaching and learning. This year we are inviting all BIPOC English Faculty to join this year’s cohort.

For BIPOC English faculty at predominantly white institutions, discourses about anti-racist pedagogy are consistently designed for our white peers and held in white spaces that often harm us or use our personal experiences and insights as teaching tools. As such, it is difficult for us to find professional opportunities that center our unique struggle to reconcile our systematically-marginalized racial and ethnic identities with hegemonic practices of teaching English writing. The BIPOC AntiColoniality in English Language Acquisition Community of Practice and Care, therefore, seeks to fill an important need. In our Community of Practice and Care we will delve into the following questions posed by Dr. Suhanthie Motha<https://english.washington.edu/people/suhanthie-motha> in her book, Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching: Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice<https://english.washington.edu/research/publications/race-empire-and-english-language-teaching>:

What does it mean to become an English teacher in a global context in which English(es) carry tremendous cultural and social capital economic power? How do teachers support their students’ access to privileged forms of English while maintaining a critical eye toward the legacy of colonization and racialization in which the profession is embedded? How is the broader international terrain of the profession relevant to practices within the walls of one individual classroom (and vice versa)? How can teachers negotiate the racialized nature of the English language as they are teaching it, remaining mindful that the historical connection between the spread of the English language and the international political power of people who are identified as “White” has resulted in a messy intertwining of English and Whiteness? How does teachers’ consciousness of their own racial identities become salient in their practice?”

How to Join: Click here to register<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZRTwYFN6sCQwh4dyKnOblg5jgafXxfcpg9s-rSDUS1SizjQ/viewform?usp=sf_link>.

The registration form includes contact information, a short paragraph introducing the participant and their reasons for wanting to be part of this community of practice and care. The deadline for registration is June 15th, 2023.

Facilitators

  *   Dr. Suhanthie Motha (she/her)
     *   University of Washington
  *   Zahra Alavi (she/her)
     *   South Seattle College
  *   Carolina Forero (she/her/ella)
     *   Seattle Central College
  *   Carlos Sibaja Garcia (he/she)
     *   Shoreline College
  *   Amy Gustafson (she/her)
     *   Skagit Valley College
  *   Stephanie Khan (she/her)
     *   Tacoma Community College
  *   Inés Poblet (she, her, ella)
     *   Whatcom Community College
  *   Sajonna Sletten (she/her)
     *   Bellevue College


Washington State Board Staff

  *   MarcusAntonio Gunn (he/she | his/hers)
     *   Policy Associate for Basic Education for Adults
     *   magunnn at sbctc.edu<mailto:magunnn at sbctc.edu>
  *   Katelynn Orellana (She/They)
     *   Program Administrator for Basic Education for Adults
     *   korelleana at sbctc.edu<mailto:korelleana at sbctc.edu>
  *   Monica Wilson (she/her/hers)
     *   Director of Student Success Center & Strategic Initiatives
     *   mwilson at sbctc.edu<mailto:mwilson at sbctc.edu>
  *   Guava Jordan (she/her)
     *   Policy Associate for Student Success Center
     *   gjordan at sbctc.edu<mailto:gjordan at sbctc.edu>
  *   Ashley Montenegro Ramirez (she/her
     *   Administrative Assistant, Student Success Center




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*MarcusAntonio is my full first name. Please don’t shorten it.
[2022-10-24 09_08_34-Greenshot]<mailto:magunn at sbctc.edu>
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