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Know Your Rights Rapid Response Training
Thursday, February 6, 2025
11AM — 12:30PM
Room 5015
A community defense project developed to protect immigrant families from deportation threats and to provide accompaniment support during and after a community member's arrest or detention.
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
12PM-1PM in Appreciation Hall
Refreshments will be served.
Zoom link available
Dr. OiYan Poon is a community-engaged research scholar, educator, storyteller, and leader for intersectional racial equity. Her research has focused on the racial politics of Asian Americans, education access, affirmative action, and admissions systems and practices. In her book, Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family, it explores how Asian Americans are shaping the future of race relations through debates over education policies like affirmative action, using personal narrative and interviews of Asian Americans across the country.
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Practices Series Resumes | |
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This monthly pedagogy series is intended as an opportunity for busy faculty to deepen their understanding and skill with Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Practices without doing a deep dive into the literature, themselves. Sessions grounded in the work from CRP scholars Dr. Gloria Ladsen-Billings and Dr. Patricia Larke.
Drop in for one session or participate in the entire series. Hourly PGA credit awarded. All meetings will be held from 1-1:50PM via Zoom (you'll get the link when you register)
Up next:
Monday, February 3, 2025: Shared Beliefs about Social Relationships and Dynamics REGISTER
Wednesday, March 5, 2025: Shared Beliefs About Knowledge REGISTER
Monday, April 14, 2025: CRP in Higher Ed: What Professors Need to Know REGISTER
Monday, May 19, 2025: The Evolution of CRP REGISTER
Please register in advance via the Vision Resource Center using your @FHDA email address.
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Equity Development Series
Winter 2025
The importance of understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion is a critical part of the work of educating our students at Foothill. We believe that equity work is reflected in all aspects of the campus and are affected by all members of the campus community. Through engaging with this series, we aim to build on the skills that we have, the experiences we have gone through, and the everyday work that we do.
While the concepts discussed are applicable to all, the series is specifically designed with classified professionals in mind. All sessions will be offered in hybrid modality and will be facilitated by Chris Yang, DEI-B Inititatives Program Supervisor. Please consider joining during your lunch break. Attendees receive professional learning credit!
Implicit Bias
📅Thursday, February 13 | 🕜12-1PM
In person in the Altos Room or online via Zoom (link provided upon registration)
What is Implicit Bias? How is it an equity issue and how does it affect the way that our institution is run? How can we recognize it and how can we combat it?
REGISTER
Navigating Triggers
📅Thursday, March 13 | 🕜12-1PM
In person in the Altos Room or online via Zoom (link provided upon registration)
What are triggers and how are we impacted by them? How do they show up for us and how might they be guiding our everyday actions and reactions? Let's learn more about where they come from, explore what they may look like, and talk about what we can do about them.
REGISTER
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The Art of Biography Series Towards Conscious Change
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Sunday, February 16, 2025
8:30 - 11am via Zoom
Series description from The Anti-Racist Table:
It takes courage for a human being to reflect on the past, reset the
present and take steps towards a hopeful future for conscious
awareness of diversity, equity, and inclusion. To understand who you
were and who you have become, we are offering a four-week course
leading you through passages of time; revisiting the people and
places that influenced your unfolding destiny and life. This “inner
self” understanding is essential to the task we are being called to
do--to open our hearts to seeing and loving one another, to heal the
racial and social divide.
We invite you to join the AntiRacist Table on a journey of discovery
and healing over four weeks of study and creating together. Our
workshop series weaves together the threads of AntiRacism,
Mindfulness, Biography and Art as an opportunity to explore themes
pertaining to what it means to be human and show up for one
another in this life!
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USC Equity-Minded Teaching Institute
Wednesdays in February 2025 (2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26)
10am - 12pm PST via Zoom
From the USC Race and Equity Center
| Individual enrollment is open for higher education part- and full-time faculty, department chairs, deans, and instructional design leaders interested in leading race-conscious inquiry to produce equity-minded classrooms. Beginning with race-conscious reflection on the impact of current classroom practices, institute participants will learn how to develop culturally-relevant and inclusive pedagogy, curriculum, language, roles, and routines that foster racial equity for their students, and particularly Asian, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx/Latiné students. | |
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Office for Civil Rights: Accommodations — What Is Required by Federal Disability Law and What Isn’t
February 6, 2025
2PM-3PM Pacific
- Do I have to provide extended time on all assignments as an accommodation?
- Must my college create remote or virtual classes for every subject as an accommodation for students who need them?
- What if I already provide extra time for exams and quizzes? Do I still need to provide extra time for students with disabilities?
- What about emotional support animals and service dogs — what is allowed in the classroom and what isn’t?
Come hear a presentation from the chief attorney, Anamaria Loya, at the San Francisco regional office of the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights. She will share information and insights regarding the obligations of college professors, employees, and staff under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act — two of the federal civil rights laws that address disability rights.
Special Presentation - will not be recorded
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Friday SLO talks Friday SLO Talks are weekly gatherings of higher education practitioners to discuss and learn about issues concerning equity and assessment of student learning outcomes. happen Fridays from 10AM to 12PM. The series will be resuming soon! In the meantime, please consider participating in their annual symposium: | |
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A2MEND 18th Annual African American Male Student Success Summit
Standing on Business: Operating with Excellence in Engaging and Serving Black Males
March 5-7, 2025
Los Angeles, CA
Join us as we bring together Black male college students and educators to encourage and find innovative ideas to increase the success of Black male students in California’s community college system. The summit is hosted by the African American Male Education Network & Development (A²MEND), a nonprofit comprising African American male educators, who voluntarily use their professional expertise to operate a statewide mentoring program for Black male college students.
This year's theme, "STANDING ON BUSINESS: Operating with excellence in engaging and serving black males" will cultivate the importance of re-establishing the black male success in the community college and their presence in the community as a whole.
This event offers distinct workshop strands for faculty, staff, students, and administrators
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Nuestra Lucha, Nuestra Libertad
Our Struggle, Our Freedom
April 14-16 2025
San Jose, CA
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In these political times, we who believe in the urgency of racial justice understand that freedom is a constant struggle. Yet in such challenges historically, we have found and created pockets of beauty in the quest for freedom. Cumbre 2025 is an invitation to the Latine community to rise and meet them yet again. As our ancestors understood, each of us must name and confront these politics and the personal (self) internalized oppression they manifest. To do so is essential in order to authentically lead the pursuit of racial justice for Latine communities in professional spaces, regardless of sector. | |
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SAVE THE DATE!
Classified Leadership Institute
📅June 24-27, 2025
Sacramento, California DoubleTree Hotel
The Classified Leadership Institute (CLI) is the largest, most comprehensive learning conference and professional development opportunity aimed at California Community College Classified Professionals. CLI seeks to promote leadership training while strengthening the classified presence in participatory governance at the local and state level. The conference is open to all Classified Professionals working at the 116 California Community Colleges.
Registration opens February 24 but scholarships are available now! Learn more and apply no later than February 7, 2025.
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💡Don't forget, faculty can use these towards your Professional Growth Activities! Here's a convenient link to Appendix O2 for you. Staff can also apply to use these workshops toward the staff Professional Growth Program. | | | | |
