Submitted by: Adele Pelz
We began the meeting by talking about the Summer Curriculum Working Committee and encouraging members to apply for this meaningful initiative and how it would build on our departmental work along with the questions we have been addressing about what equity and inclusion mean for our subject area and what they look like in our practice.
Building off of our discussion, we decided to begin to draft a list of guiding principles that we see driving our curricula in an effort to dismantle any areas of bias in our classes and create meaningful change in content and teaching.
In addition, at our next meeting we will be working on a template to document any examples of projects, texts, and resources that were launched this year.
This document along with the guiding principles should inform the work of the committee and will inform our end of year presentations.