2021 DEI Summer Institute Day TWO

"REFLECTING ON ONE'S CULTURAL LENS" could be implemented in a UM course by allowing students to discuss stereotypes they were taught while at home or in grade school before reading a novel such as "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee OR "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson.

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UM professors implementing culturally responsive teaching practices address the “so what?” factor of instruction by helping students see how the knowledge and skills they learn in their UM courses are valuable to their lives, families, their communities.

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UM professors practicing culturally responsive teaching practices believe all students are capable of achieving high levels of success, especially if they have previously attended Mt. Brook, Vestavia, or Hoover schools. These educators understand that students from Birmingham City and Jefferson County schools Black, Indigenous, students of color, and other marginalized groups are rarely vulnerable to negative stereotypes about their intelligence, academic ability, and behavior.

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UM professors who are culturally proficient understand that no students are SERVED IN VARYING DEGREES BY THE DOMINANT CULTURE, in other words, racial privilege is nonexistent.

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Choose the best match for pioneers and key scholars in each field of study:

• Bill Gates (Multicultural Education), Lori Grenier (Culturally Relevant Pedagogy), and Oprah Winfrey (Critical Race Theory)

• Frida Kahlo (Multicultural Education), John Leguizamo (Culturally Relevant Pedagogy), and Rita Moreno (Critical Race Theory)

• James Banks (Multicultural Education), Geneva Gay (Culturally Relevant Pedagogy), and Gloria Ladson-Billings (Critical Race Theory)

UM professors who practice cultural proficiency view literacy as not only written words but also as oral contributions. In other words, when possible, course projects can allow for a verbal product in the form of a speech, poetry, song, or spoken word.

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Which statements prompt you to think of someone who is in immediate need of a quality DEI workshop:

• "Critical Race Theory is one of many tools that provides an understanding of race, history, discrimination, and oppression." AND "We make authentic attempts to promote literature in our colleges and programs that reflect multicultural perspectives."

• "Our class curriculum should highlight various cultural achievements" AND "Let's allow our students to speak about the communities they come from and acknowledge their significance in who they are."

• "I don't see color, all of my students are the same." AND "Slavery happened a long time ago. Why are we revisiting this time in history?"

UM professors who are culturally proficient understand that most Latinos in the U.S. are not immigrants and try to avoid using terms like "illegals" to describe "undocumented immigrants".

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UM professors protect and respect students in the LBGTQIA+ community through seeking understanding that "pronouns" are not important and too time-consuming to learn.

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Select the best definition of "intersectionality" as it relates to our topics of discussion:

• The presence of one or more demographics, but not limited to gender, SES, sex, race, gender, language, religion, ability, education, that may conclude in a positive or negative impact on one's life.

• The presence of one demographic such as gender, SES, sex, race, gender, language, religion, ability, education, that may conclude in a positive or negative impact on one's life.

• The moment when a student has to make a decision as to which professor to take to receive the best grade.