SNF Paideia in collaboration with the Critical Writing Program is very excited to host award-winning educator Felicia Rose Chavez (author of The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop) for a mini-residency at Penn. Felicia Chavez will be sharing two faculty workshops (lunch provided!) and one student-facing program with us on September 10 and 11. Faculty of all disciplines are warmly invited to register for one or both workshops. Both workshops are 90 minutes long, with 30 minutes for lunch at the beginning.
Workshop #2: Disrupting Student Bias
How do we respond when confronted with student expressions of bias and authority? As educators, we need concrete strategies to disrupt patterns of microaggressions, resistance to listening, and a lack of empathy. This dynamic session walks faculty step-by-step through strategies to foster productive dialogue and reflexivity in our classrooms, inspiring the best in our students. We culminate with a productive brainstorming session, troubleshooting participants’ classroom experiences to work toward positive change.
Information on Workshop #1: Adapting Our Teaching Habits and registration details are available here.
About Felicia Rose Chavez
Felicia Rose Chavez is an award-winning educator with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Iowa. She is author of The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom and co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT. Felicia’s teaching career began in Chicago, where she served as Program Director to Young Chicago Authors and founded GirlSpeak, a feminist webzine for high school students. She went on to teach writing at the University of New Mexico, where she was distinguished as the Most Innovative Instructor of the Year, the University of Iowa, where she was distinguished as the Outstanding Instructor of the Year, and Colorado College, where she received the Theodore Roosevelt Collins Outstanding Faculty Award. Her creative scholarship earned her a Ronald E. McNair Fellowship, a University of Iowa Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, a Riley Scholar Fellowship, and a Hadley Creatives Fellowship. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Felicia currently lives in Seattle, Washington.
Note: Faculty of all disciplines are warmly invited to register for either or both workshops. Both workshops are 90 minutes long, with 30 minutes for lunch at the beginning.
For questions, please reach out to Sarah Ropp (sropp@upenn.edu) or Aurora MacRae-Crerar (aurorama@upenn.edu).
