Everything Under One Roof!
Enjoy presentations and conversations with our speakers all in one place.
This workshop was a wonderful experience to learn more from your peers, with a great selection of topics from a diverse board of presenters. If you missed any of the conversations, you can access all of them here.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM ET Orientation: Bedford's 5th Annual WPA/Writing Director Workshop
Presenter(s): Vivian Garcia, Marketing Manager & Coltrane Stansbury, Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Macmillan Learning
This session will provide attendees with an overview of our 5th Annual WPA/Writing Director Workshop and provide information on key resources and programs available from Bedford/St. Martin's.
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM ET Academic Ableism and the Teaching of Writing
Presenter(s): Jay Dolmage
In this session, we will collaborate to address the ableist attitudes, policies, and practices that are built into higher education. We will ask how writing programs have historically figured into, and fought against, this ableism. We will also interrogate the minimal and temporary means we have been given to address inequities, and the cost such an approach has for disabled students and faculty. We will explore our own ableist biases, apologies and defenses in an effort to build tools for a much more accessible future.
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM ET Don’t Sweat the Technique; Using Peer-Models to Demystify Standards and Increase Engagement in the Writing Classroom
Presenter(s): Jesus Limon Guzman
This workshop will introduce inclusionary teaching practices that aim to increase engagement, cultivate peer-to-peer modeling, and “just in time remediation.” Reflecting on his time as an Equity Coordinator and English Faculty, the presenter will review equity-minded practices across disciplines that influenced the development of the teaching and learning strategies discussed in this workshop. The workshop will explore how to use online discussion boards and public student submissions to help cultivate writing communities where peer-models and public instructor feedback help demystify standards and create clearer access to expectations. Ultimately, this workshop will highlight ways the expertise of a small group of students can be activated for the collective empowerment of an entire course.
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM ET Move Toward Antiracist Assessment: Reimagining your First-Year Writing Program
Presenter(s): Melvin Beavers
What is assessment in a writing program? Moreover, what does assessment look like that is responsive to the concerns of a writing program and its local context? Many of us tend to think of assessment in terms of how it is administered at the programmatic level. Although we understand that assessment in the classroom takes many forms, formative and summative assessments, a truly engaged and equitable writing classroom will value diversity, inclusion, equity, and labor issues for faculty. This presentation is designed to allow WPAs to take a deep dive into their program and develop an action plan that lays the foundation for real structural and meaningful change.
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM ET How (and why) to Queer Your Pedagogy
Presenter(s): Stacey Waite
This presentation focuses on disrupting normative practices of pedagogy, writing program administration, and teacher development. The approaches and questions outlined in this presentation will help teachers and WPA's make their classrooms and programs inclusive spaces for queer students, queer teachers, queer ideas, queer writing, and queer practices--including some ideas about why it's very necessary to do so.
Thursday, October 28, 2021
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM ET Critical Race Theory: A Vital Lens to Examine Systemic Racism
Presenter(s): Christina Hsu Accomando
In the wake of last year's global protests against systemic racism, students and colleagues are eager to learn more about structural inequities and what people can do to make a difference. At the same time, lawmakers are seeking to ban Critical Race Theory, in an attempt to silence discussions of racism. This webinar will identify key concepts from Critical Race Theory and address concrete ways that CRT lenses can inform classroom teaching and DEI work. We will draw upon resources including "Understanding the Attacks on Teaching" and the 11th edition of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States.
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM ET Ways with Culture: Toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Composition Classroom
Presenter(s): Uzzie Cannon
This workshop will define diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and discuss the purposes of DEI in the composition classroom. Workshop leaders will demonstrate DEI pedagogy through examples of active reading, thinking, and writing activities that include simple in-class assignments and more expansive project-based activities. Participants will learn how to integrate and implement the cultural practices of DEI in their first-year writing courses.
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM ET Equity in the First-Year Writing Classroom and Beyond
Presenter(s): Steve Schessler
Join us for a discussion on improving equity in the first-year writing classroom and beyond! In this workshop, we review policies and practices to improve equity from the program level to the composition classroom.
We will consider the context of the equity mindset: student-centered, strengths-based, grounded in critical self-reflection, and evidence-based. With our commitment to equity, we will examine ways to enact change at the program level through equitable student assessment in policies, assessment formats, and grading practices. Moving from the program to the classroom, we also will discuss achieving equity through classroom tools, including reading assignments, diagnostics, peer review, feedback, and the use of data to assess results.
4:00 - 4:45 PM ET A Conversation with Dax-Devlon Ross, Author of Letters to My White Male Friends
Presenter(s): Dax-Devlon Ross
Join Dax-Devlon Ross as he discusses his latest book, Letters to My White Male Friends and participates in a Q&A session.
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Jay Dolmage
Professor of English University of Waterloo
I am committed to disability rights in my scholarship, service, and teaching. My work brings together rhetoric, writing, disability studies, and critical pedagogy. My first book, entitled Disability Rhetoric, was published with Syracuse University Press in 2014. Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education was published with Michigan University Press in 2017 and is available in an open-access version online. Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability was published in 2018 with Ohio State University Press. I am the Founding Editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. I am also the co-author of the Bedford/MacMillan books How To Write Anything and Disability and the Teaching of Writing.
Jay Dolmage
Professor of English University of Waterloo
I am committed to disability rights in my scholarship, service, and teaching. My work brings together rhetoric, writing, disability studies, and critical pedagogy. My first book, entitled Disability Rhetoric, was published with Syracuse University Press in 2014. Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education was published with Michigan University Press in 2017 and is available in an open-access version online. Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability was published in 2018 with Ohio State University Press. I am the Founding Editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. I am also the co-author of the Bedford/MacMillan books How To Write Anything and Disability and the Teaching of Writing.
Dax-Devlon Ross
Author of Letters to My White Male Friends and Social Impact Consultant
Dax-Devlon Ross is the author of six books and his journalism has been featured in Time, The Guardian, The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post Magazine and other national publications. He won the National Association of Black Journalists’ Investigative Reporting Award for his coverage of jury exclusion in North Carolina courts and is currently a Puffin Writing Fellow at Type Media Center. His most recent book Letters to My White Male Friends, published by St. Martin’s Press in June 2021, is a call to action and a reflection on race. Dax details how racism has harmed Black people for generations but has also hurt white people by robbing their lives of fullness and meaningful relationships. A New York City teaching fellow turned non-profit executive, Dax is now a principal at the social impact consultancies, Dax-Dev and Third Settlements, both of which focus on designing disruptive strategies to generate equity in workplaces and education spaces alike. Dax received his Juris Doctor from George Washington University. He currently resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Alana, and their young daughter.
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Jay Dolmage
Professor of English University of Waterloo
I am committed to disability rights in my scholarship, service, and teaching. My work brings together rhetoric, writing, disability studies, and critical pedagogy. My first book, entitled Disability Rhetoric, was published with Syracuse University Press in 2014. Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education was published with Michigan University Press in 2017 and is available in an open-access version online. Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability was published in 2018 with Ohio State University Press. I am the Founding Editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. I am also the co-author of the Bedford/MacMillan books How To Write Anything and Disability and the Teaching of Writing.
Dax-Devlon Ross
Author of Letters to My White Male Friends and Social Impact Consultant
Dax-Devlon Ross is the author of six books and his journalism has been featured in Time, The Guardian, The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post Magazine and other national publications. He won the National Association of Black Journalists’ Investigative Reporting Award for his coverage of jury exclusion in North Carolina courts and is currently a Puffin Writing Fellow at Type Media Center. His most recent book Letters to My White Male Friends, published by St. Martin’s Press in June 2021, is a call to action and a reflection on race. Dax details how racism has harmed Black people for generations but has also hurt white people by robbing their lives of fullness and meaningful relationships. A New York City teaching fellow turned non-profit executive, Dax is now a principal at the social impact consultancies, Dax-Dev and Third Settlements, both of which focus on designing disruptive strategies to generate equity in workplaces and education spaces alike. Dax received his Juris Doctor from George Washington University. He currently resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Alana, and their young daughter.
Stacey Waite
Associate Professor of English and Graduate ChairUniversity of Nebraska—Lincoln
Stacey Waite is Associate Professor of English and Graduate Chair at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln where she teaches courses in Composition, Pedagogy, and Gender Studies. Waite was also the Director of Composition at Nebraska for several years before taking on the position of Graduate Chair. Waite’s most recent book Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2017. Having worked with both the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, and currently with the Nebraska Writing Project, Waite directs and contributes to many writing programs and projects in the local community in Lincoln, NE—among them the Young Writers Camp, the Louder than a Bomb Omaha Youth Poetry Program, and the Summer Institute for Teachers. With interests both in critical and creative writing, Waite has also published four collections of poems: Choke (winner of the 2004 Frank O'Hara Prize), Love Poem to Androgyny (winner of the 2006 Main Street Rag Chapbook Competition), the lake has no saint (winner of the 2008 Snowbound Prize from Tupelo Press), and Butch Geography (Tupelo Press, 2013).
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Meet our featured speakers
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Jay Dolmage
Professor of English University of Waterloo
I am committed to disability rights in my scholarship, service, and teaching. My work brings together rhetoric, writing, disability studies, and critical pedagogy.
Dax-Devlon Ross
Professor of English University of Waterloo
I am committed to disability rights in my scholarship, service, and teaching. My work brings together rhetoric, writing, disability studies, and critical pedagogy.
Stacey Waite
Professor of English University of Waterloo
I am committed to disability rights in my scholarship, service, and teaching. My work brings together rhetoric, writing, disability studies, and critical pedagogy.
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