| Safety of Wellbeing |
- Establish community agreements and a netiquette policy
- Provide continuous feedback using low-stakes assessments
- Be aware of the ways that our actions and policies as faculty could, intentionally or unintentionally, inflict harm or trauma on students through our language, unexamined assumptions, grading, etc.
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| Know Your Students |
- Be familiar with your students’ demographics and needs
- Be aware of students’ traumas and current life situations
- Offer space for students to process and share experiences with peers and/or you as instructors
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| Clear Expectations & Boundaries |
- Provide clear student expectations with grading, submitting assignments, and participation in class
- Offer students choices of topics when requiring reflection assignments or projects on traumatic subjects
- Respect the limits of your expertise — assign work within the scope of your competency
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| Inclusivity |
- Provide multiple ways to access course content — including with technology-enhanced options
- Create opportunities for students to voice their ideas and opinions on different platforms
- Integrate and invite sharing of personal experiences related to course content
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| Collaboration |
- Be present in class and actively engage with students
- Provide frequent opportunities for group work for assignments or projects; be mindful of how much time is spent outside of class
- Create an open space for students to collaborate on activities to activate problem solving skills
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| Empowering Students |
- Encourage students to take risks, learn from their mistakes, and freedom to leverage personal experiences
- Offer students choices in topics of inquiry and debate
- Challenge students to consider their identities as community changemakers and promote social justice
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| Sociocultural Diversity |
- Adapt your curricula to address current issues of diversity and oppression, acknowledging the agency of groups actively challenging oppression
- Acknowledge assets that students bring to their learning
- Foster inclusive excellence — finding common ground among diverse communities — and celebrate diversity
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| Resilience |
- Acknowledge yours and your students’ growth and change
- Solicit feedback from students and use it to improve current course delivery in response to learning needs
- Be proactive in recognizing when students are struggling
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