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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy & Practice - Faculty Feedback

January 26, 2023

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Joy Polanco O’Neil, Carrie Mulcaire, and John Escobedo

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About CCCCO’s Culturally Responsive Pedagogy & Practices Grant

Purpose & Goal : California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office- Institutional Effectiveness Div.

Program Name: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy & Practices - Innovative Best Practices (CRPP-IBP)

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Funding Period: Two Fiscal Year: June 15, 2023- June 30, 2025

Award Amount: $300,000 (or $150K per year x 2 years)

Total Funds Available: $14,200,000

Proposal Due Date: February 17, 2023

Project Start Date: June 15, 2023

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What: CRPP was established to provide culturally competent professional development, with an emphasis on improving learning outcomes.

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About CCCCO’s Culturally Responsive Pedagogy & Practices Grant

Goal: The grant’s goal is develop DEIA-focused professional development opportunities to upskill faculty and successfully expand their capacities to serve students, improving students’ experiences and outcomes.

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Purpose: Trainings to focus on nurturing the development of culturally responsive pedagogy and classroom practices for faculty that work with disproportionately impacted, underrepresented students.

Examples of interventions (not exhaustive):

  • Semester-long syllabi reboot institute to adapt DEIA content into their syllabi
  • PD to support faculty in creating liquid syllabi—public, accessible, mobile-friendly websites
  • Curriculum institutes designed around specific DEIA topics
  • Developing LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum, pedagogical strategies & resources
  • Data coaching programs that seek to improve faculty/practitioner data usage to inform evidence-based, equity-conscious, and anti-racist pedagogical practices
  • Innovative equity-conscious pedagogies and online learning to improve the outcomes of students
  • Initiatives to integrate culturally competent and evidence-based pedagogical strategies & approaches
  • Support the development of anti-racist curriculum and integration of evidence based pedagogical strategies
  • PD and on-going peer to peer support and to make sense of data

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About CCCCO’s Culturally Responsive Pedagogy & Practices Grant

This is a competitive grant that will be evaluated based on the grant requirements below.

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Grant Requirements

  • Focus of grant is on faculty professional development only
  • Proposed activities must be evidence-based DEIA strategies or methods
  • Need to have clearly defined responsibilities, timelines, and milestones for this project
  • Allowable expenses include
  • The project needs to produce observable changes in practice, process, and policy
  • Must include reasonable costs for the anticipated outcomes
  • Must include bold, yet reasonably attainable outcome measures and deliverables
  • Need to think how to sustain proposed activities and purposes beyond the end of two-year grant
  • Proposal needs to align with state’s DEI Integration Plan and Governor’s Recovery of Equity Taskforce

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Higher Educational and Societal Trends

  • In 2014, 20.2 Million enrolled full time in HE (17% increase from 2004)
  • Of the 20.2 Million, 42% are non-White students and an increase of 26% people of diverse populations and ethnic backgrounds.
  • The California Community Colleges serves 2.2 million students
  • Achievement gaps persists among the colleges where only 48% of students who enter a community college complete a degree, certificate, or transfer to a four-year university after six years. These achievement gaps disproportionately impact underrepresented minority students in the college system.

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Equity Gap needs to close.

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Society is changing. HE is changing, too. And so is the way we teach in response to how students learn.

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HE has a far reaching potential to impact society through educational experiences that create, enhance and revitalise cultural experiences for all students and contribute to the community at large.

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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: A Breakdown

Culture - is the consideration of the whole student including but not limited to:  culture, ethnicity, family backgrounds, community, socio-economics, values, beliefs. history, language, communication (styles), academic needs, access, etc. that constitutes the whole student

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Pedagogy - Is how you approach your teaching style, and relates to the different learning theories you use to teach and that is responsive and relevant to how student learn. In essence, it means how you deliver your curriculum to the students.

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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy - is teaching and learning practice in the classroom reactive and responsive to culturally diverse, whole students to promote student achievement, sense of belonging and place in the classroom and the world.

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Developing culturally responsive, equity-centered teaching and learning techniques provides faculty with additional tools to cultivate inclusive, engaging, and equity-oriented learning and working environments through a continuous cycle of growth and improvement.

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Questions for Faculty

  1. Should faculty receive their personal course level data as a component of this equity program? What type of course level data do you believe would be useful for faculty to know?

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  • What type of culturally responsive pedagogies and classroom practices would you like to learn and implement in your teaching?

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  • Time constraints can sometimes prohibit faculty from participating in professional development opportunities. What is a reasonable recommendation as far as the length, from start to completion, for this equity training program?

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  • What type of incentives should faculty receive for completing this equity training program?

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Questions & Answers