(Re)Teach

This three-part podcast is a collaboration between S.A.F.E. Topics and (Re)Teach.  Sean Davis, curry mitchell, and I co-host a discussion with Denise Stephenson (Director of the Writing Center), Chad…

Some tips on how to be a more effective, equity-minded teacher on Zoom:
1) Be more direct (2:31)
2) Teacher in shorter segments (9:15)
3) Be more hands-on (15:13)
4) Record and post your lectures (20:32)

This episode gives a step-by-step process to using the chat feature to create a space for spontaneous conversations.  Doing this will help build the communities that equity groups, especially Black a…

Having spent more time on Zoom in the last few months has allowed me to really reflect on what it is good for and what we should avoid doing on it.  Zoom is good for connecting with students.  We sho…

With my last episode for the season, I wrap up with a discussion of how experiencing COVID 19 while being black correlates to talking about closing equity gaps.  I will be back in August with season …

I have a conversation with two active, amazing, and resilient students, Susy and Melissa, about imposter syndrome, the feeling that you do not belong in a certain space.  Although this is something t…

Melissa and Susy both took my Research Methods class and talked to me about how I “decolonized” research and the research process for them.  We talked about how I used my DoorDashing experience as a …

So, I invited Dr. Rachel Hastings on my podcast and we talked for over two hours straight!  I broke this is up into smaller bite-sized segments.  In this segment, listen as we talk about:
-How POCs ne…

In honor of National Poetry Month, I talk about four different levels of integrating spoken word poetry into your classroom curriculum.  As a spoken word poet, I advocate for this genre because it ad…

I interview Shawntae Mitchum, a former student of mine, about her Master's thesis regarding the experiences of black faculty who teach at community colleges.  We explore why there is very little stud…

While moving to an online format, I struggled with how to maintain the integrity of using multiple-choice as a tool for student learning versus making it into an exam.  During the conversion, I reali…

It has taken me 4 episodes and COVID 19 to realize what is bothering me so much about the sarcastic and demeaning remarks that many of my colleagues made in a teaching group chat that I am part of.  …

Some things were easier than I thought, while other things were harder than I imagined when I started teaching again after a two-week break.  Switching to distance education has made me rethink every…

Many of us are being driven to find/create content for the distance education format and I want to encourage us to allow our passions to drive our content.  My passion for hip hop lead me to develop …

Some quick tips on how to look better in a video:
1) Clean the area you will be recording in
2) Look through the camera to see what is behind you
3) Purposefully choose a camera angle: up, down or strai…

Some quick pointers on how to sound better in a podcast format:
1) Short podcasts do not need an intro/outro, but longer ones should
2) Throw a blanket over your head if you cannot record in a sound bo…

As COVID 19 is essentially forcing many professors to shift to a distance-learning modality, an age-old question arises, what format would be more useful to me as a professor: Podcasts or Videos?  Ho…

Amidst the current COVID 19 pandemic, schools are switching to a distance learning modality across the entire world.  If your personal health and/or safety is not at risk, I believe that this is an o…

I was blessed to have Melissa and Susy, two student advocates, and we continue to talk about emailing professors and how traumatic that can be for students when professors do not respond kindly or wi…

This is part two of me talking about an email that a professor posted in a sociology group chat that I belong to.  The student asked, "Will I miss anything important?"  I reflect on why this question…