Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Resources

Pedagogical Resources for Handling Difficult Dialogues 

Inclusive Course Design Worksheet

Inclusive Classroom Syllabus

Developing Community Agreements in Your Course

Dialogue, Discussion, and Debate: Knowing the Difference

Facilitating Dialogue Online

Identifying and Addressing “Hot Moments” and Attending to Intent and Impact

Common Teaching Strategies for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Work

Worksheet to conduct an Inclusive Classroom SWOT Analysis

Example of the Ladder of Inference 

Loteria Humana Worksheet is an activity that gets students thinking about where they have privilege, where they have cultural wealth, and what does that mean for the classroom.

Matrix of Oppression Worksheet – As you begin thinking about your teaching, consider completing the Matrix of Oppression Worksheet adapted from Patricia Hill Collins.

Office of Intercultural Engagement Gender Diversity Resource Toolkit

Pride Month Resource Site (UNCG Libraries)

Resources from Campuses Leading This Work

Perceived Challenges Worksheet – Thinking through potential challenges to an inclusive classroom.

Inclusive Strategies Reflection Worksheet – Checklist of inclusive classroom practices adapted by the CRLT at Michigan from Linse & Weinstein 2015

Setting the Tone for an Inclusive Classroom – Five guidelines from the CRLT at Michigan for establishing a welcoming learning environment

Responding to Microaggressions Online

DismantlingRacism.org: This is an excellent resource with materials for dismantling racism where you are – from a UNCG Alum (Dr. Tema Jon Okun) and other activist and colleagues. 

The Charlottesville Syllabus: Link to the ongoing syllabus project, in response to white supremacist protests in Charlottesville (2017), which is intended to aggregate resources for conversations about the recent and distant history of racial violence in the US.

Black, Indigenous and People of Color Mental Health Resource Guide (received from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport list serv)

The Anti-Racist Educator

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

Black Lives Matter Resource Site (UNCG Libraries)

Anti-Racism Resource Guides (UNCG Libraries)

Tips for Working with Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing from University of Texas

Handbook for Working with Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing from University of Maryland

Expectations and Tips from UC-Santa Cruz

The following resources were aggregated for UNCG’s Indigenous Pedagogy Workshop by UNCG students. Feel free to review the following sites, articles, and chapters from edited volumes that address various elements of indigenous experience and ways of knowing.

Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought by Sandy Grande

Indian Country Today Site

Why Land Acknowledgments Matter: A guide to indigenous land acknowledgment

Native Land Digital Map: Native-Land.ca

Project 562 – national photography project dedicated to photographing over 562 federally recognized tribes in The United States

Stop Talking: Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning and Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education (Merculieff & Roderick 2013)

Relearning the Star Stories of Indigenous Peoples (Taylor 2019)

Healing: the stories of academic success and barriers faced by Lumbee tribal young adults (Locklear 2017)

“Do you live in a Teepee? Do you have Running Water?” The harrowing Experiences of American Indians in North Carolina’s Urban K-12 Schools (Hunt, Locklear, Bullard, & Pacheco 2020)

Under the Rattlesnake: Cherokee Health and Resiliency (Lefler & Belt 2009) – UNCG Library E-book (requires UNCG login credentials) or (you can purchase a copy here on amazon.)

Introduction: Coloniality of power and de-colonial thinking (Mignolo 2007)

Nourishing the Learning Spirit: Living Our Way to New Thinking (Battiste 2010) or visit ERIC

Naturalizing Indigenous Knowledge with Eurocentric Education (Battiste & Youngblood Henderson 2000)

Indigenous Concepts of Education: Toward elevating humanity for all learners (Van Wyk & Adeniji-Neill, eds. 2014)

Red Pedagogy in TEACH BOLDLY! (Grande 2010) or visit JSTOR

Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies (Denzin, Lincoln, Tuhiwai Smith, eds. 2014) – find the full book at Sage Publications

Grande. Red Pedagogy: The Un-Methodology or visit Sage Publications site

Cajete. Seven Orientations for the Development of Indigenous Science or visit Sage Publications site

Kincheloe & Steinberg. Indigenous Knowledges in Education: Complexities, Dangers, and Profound Benefits or visit Sage Publications site

These resources were created by students in Communication Studies.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Podcast Series

Helping International Students Succeed (from the CST Communication in the Classroom Series)

Students with Visible Disabilities and the Ways That We Respond (from the CST Communication in the Classroom Series)

Lasell College, Student created Tumblr on Ramadan 

Islamic Center at NYU resource on Ramadan support (pdf)

University of Richmond, Religious Holiday Calendar and Information