CTLT’s Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning (A-RTL) programming allows staff and faculty to cultivate teaching and facilitation practices that support anti-racist solidarity.
About
Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning (A-RTL) programming provides space for staff and faculty to cultivate teaching and facilitation practices that support anti-racist solidarity. A-RTL aims to create equitable learning environments and caring classroom spaces where learners who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour can thrive. The A-RTL program works in partnership with the CTLT’s Teaching, Learning and Professional Development (TLPD) team and the Indigenous Initiatives (II) team to collaborate on program planning, workshop offerings, and training opportunities for UBC educators.
A-RTL provides opportunities for educators to deepen their understanding of anti-racism and anti-racist practices at an individual, community, and institutional level by encouraging program participants to:
- Gain awareness of how to cultivate teaching and facilitation practices that support anti-racist solidarity
- Understand how to create equitable learning environments where students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour can thrive
- Adopt anti-racist frameworks and pedagogies in their role at UBC
- Identify anti-racist practices they can implement in their role at UBC
- Feel confident in taking up anti-racist work within their unit/team at UBC
- Understand how to shape the learning environment to centre student experiences
- Recognize how the institution impacts students, staff, and faculty who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour
- Understand how to counter the impact of institutional systems at UBC to advance anti-racism
Resources
- For CTLT Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning events
- We also share regular program updates via blog posts
- Refer to this Anti-Racist Ecosystems Table and Map to learn more about anti-racist programs, resources, and initiatives at UBC
- Check out other anti-racism events taking place at UBC
Contact
For more information about the CTLT’s Anti-Racism Teaching & Learning Programming, please contact Shannon Robinson, Educational Consultant Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning. Shannon is also available for 1-1 consultations.
Consultant bios
Shannon Robinson
I care about engaging in anti-racist work because I want to do my best to contribute towards building a future where people are living in better relations with one another, where the world is not only survivable but joyful, and where reciprocity and respect are centred in our engagement with one another, as well as with lands, waters, plants and animals. I know that I can only support a very small piece of this work in my lifetime, but I’ve been taught about the importance of intergenerational thinking, and I believe in the radicality of hope!
Nathalie Lozano Neira (on leave)
I feel I have a commitment to the communities that surround me. I grew up doing anti-racist work with people that became my communities and families, it was part of understanding how we come to build relationships with each other and with the lands that we inhabit. For me anti-racist work must be grounded in Indigenous and Black liberation and as such it feels vital and the root of how I chose to live in community, navigate the academy and be in relation with all the beings that surround us. Nathalie’s work in the coming months will focus on adapting ARTL programming to meet the needs of faculty and staff.
