A Framework for Inclusive Practices

(Audience: Any)

Participants will gain knowledge and skills needed to improve their ability to effectively interact with different cultural groups in the workplace. Participants will explore workplace practices that help retain employees and promote professional development. Finally, participants will develop strategies and action plans for their future careers.

Media Literacy

(Audience: Students)

The media literacy workshop is an interactive experience that focuses on analyzing media content to increase knowledge on how media ownership or regulation may affect the type of media we consume or share. The workshop will help participants become better media consumers, better media producers, and better global citizens by learning how to think about various media and the messages that are presented.

Rethink Simulation

(Audience: Students)

The ReThink Simulation is an immersive workshop that guides students through a semester in the life of a current student, using specific scenarios to highlight campus resources. This experience helps students understand how to navigate challenges and access support systems effectively. By participating, students will increase their empathy and reinforce the importance of utilizing campus and community resources when needed.

Culture, Connection, Belonging (CCB)

(Audience: Students)

This workshop focuses on enhancing cultural awareness, fostering a sense of belonging, and promoting mutual understanding within the workplace. Through an interactive session, participants will engage in meaningful discussions, networking activities, and reflections that highlight the importance of cultural diversity, respect, and empathy.

Trauma-Informed Practices

(Audience: Any)

This workshop will draw on the CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) and SAMHSA’s National Center for Trauma-Informed Care’s (NCTIC) Six Guiding Principles To A Trauma-Informed Approach. These principles include safety; trustworthiness and transparency; peer support; collaboration and mutuality; empowerment and choice; and cultural, historical, and gender issues. We will address how these principles can be embedded within an organizational structure that involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma (including community disasters, violence, abuse, grief, and crises) and develop an action plan for implementing trauma-informed practices.

Inclusive Advising

(Audience: College Educators)

In this workshop, participants will gain a better understanding of the campus resources that are available to students and learn how to apply the appreciative and developmental models of advising in their work to create an inclusive campus environment.

Safe Zone Training

(Audience: College Educators)

Safe Zone is designed to educate faculty and staff about the LGBTQ community and develop participants' capacity for building an inclusive campus for all students. Participants will learn terminology related to LGBTQ identities, discuss the experiences of LGBTQ students, and develop skills for building LGBTQ inclusive environments. Participants may choose to become members of the Safe Zone network following the workshop.

Supporting First-Generation Students

(Audience: High School and College Educators)

In this workshop, participants will learn about the specific barriers for first-generation students, examine the research and practices that improve first-generation student success, and identify relevant supports and campus resources for first-generation students.

Supporting Life Long Learners 

(Audience: College Educators)

In this workshop, participants will learn about the specific barriers for students returning to college after years out of the classroom. Participants will examine the research and best practices to help support lifelong learners in the pursuit of their college degree.  

Best Practices for Teaching International Students

(Audience: Middle School, High School, and College Educators)

This workshop focuses on the intercultural factors that influence the experiences of international students. We will explore effective communication strategies between and among instructors and students and the academic and pedagogical challenges, opportunities, and promising practices for teaching international students. We will provide practical approaches for addressing issues of language, curricula, teaching methods, assignment design, assessments, academic integrity, classroom management, classroom participation, and help-seeking.

Creating Welcoming School Environments

(Audience: K-12 Educators, Social Service Providers)         

Students enter our classrooms with different backgrounds and a variety of experiences. Teachers not only work with students, but also have reciprocal interactions between families and schools. How do we create welcoming school environments for LGBTQ students and parents? How does our own perception of gender and sexual identity affect our interactions with students and families? We will also address how to create school and classroom practices and processes that support the growing diversity of our student body.  

Preparing High School Students for College

(Audience: Middle School and High School Educators)

This workshop focuses on ways to prepare students to transition into higher education. We will address how to prepare students academically and socially to engage in discussion based classes at the collegiate level. We will also address some of the developmental changes that students experience and how to prepare and support them for this next stage of their life.  

A Framework for Inclusive Practices 

(Audience: Any)

Participants will gain knowledge and skills needed to improve their ability to effectively interact with different cultural groups in the workplace. Participants will explore workplace practices that help retain employees and promote professional development. Finally, participants will develop strategies and action plans for their future careers.

Media Literacy

(Audience: Any)

The media literacy workshop is an interactive experience that focuses on analyzing media content to increase knowledge on how media ownership or regulation may affect the type of media we consume or share. The workshop will help participants become better media consumers, better media producers, and better global citizens by learning how to think about various media and the messages that are presented.

Trauma-Informed Practices

(Audience: Any)

This workshop will draw on the CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) and SAMHSA’s National Center for Trauma-Informed Care’s (NCTIC) Six Guiding Principles To A Trauma-Informed Approach. These principles include safety; trustworthiness and transparency; peer support; collaboration and mutuality; empowerment and choice; and cultural, historical, and gender issues. We will address how these principles can be embedded within an organizational structure that involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma (including community disasters, violence, abuse, grief, and crises) and develop an action plan for implementing trauma-informed practices.

A Framework for Inclusive Practices 

(Audience: Any)

Participants will gain knowledge and skills needed to improve their ability to effectively interact with different cultural groups in the workplace. Participants will explore workplace practices that help retain employees and promote professional development. Finally, participants will develop strategies and action plans for their future careers.