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Academic Year 2024 - 2025
Teaching to Transform
On behalf of the AAPI THRIVE project, you are invited to apply for a professional development opportunity sponsored by the U.S. Dept of Education AANAPISI Grant under the Chancellor's Initiatives. We are offering a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) dedicated to increasing faculty awareness about the talents, cultures and diverse perspectives of our Asian American and Pacific Islander students (AAPI), many of whom are first generation and Pell eligible. Together, we will ask "How do we implement teaching strategies that honor the unique experiences of our students and their communities?" Our FLC work will draw on evidence-based methods, center student voices, and engage with critical research by AAPI scholars.
The FLC will integrate aspects of the following:
- An examination of faculty positionality
- Understanding anti-racist, culturally sustaining and Indigenizing pedagogies
- Fostering anti-bias learning environments
- Valuing student strengths, knowledge, agency and self-authorship
- Selection of course content and course design that is culturally relevant
- Equitable access and assessment (writing, creative projects, etc.)
- Community accountability and coalition building
We will start by establishing our meeting schedule for the academic year to accommodate everyone's calendar. Then faculty participants will engage in group and self-paced activities that include discussion boards, written responses to journal articles/essays/videos and the time necessary to make revisions or additions to your syllabus, lesson plan or other classroom activity. Participants will also develop individualized goals. Upon successful completion*, you will demonstrate evidence of your efforts by sharing your work with a small group of students and colleagues in a showcase format.
*To receive an addition to your salary, participants are required to participate in the final showcase and attend a majority of the regularly scheduled meetings.
The contents of this program were sponsored by and developed under an AANAPISI grant from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.
If you have questions, please write uwt-aapithrive@uw.edu or Tanya Velasquez, Associate Teaching Professor, Co-PI AAPI THRIVE project, iamtanya@uw.edu.
For general disability accommodation requests, contact DRS at 253-692-4508 (voice), 253-692-4413(TTY), 253-692-4602 (fax), or drsuwt@uw.edu, or fill out this form.
For interpreting, captioning, amplification services, and TTYs, contact the Coordinator of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at 253-692-4508 (voice), 253-692-4413 (TTY), or drsuwt@uw.edu.