Please mark your calendars for an all-virtual professional development event, “Equitable Placement and Completion: A Racial Justice Imperative,” a joint effort between the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and The Puente Project. Our featured speaker, Dr. Christopher Emdin, is the Robert A. Naslund Endowed Chair in Curriculum Theory and Professor of Education at the University of Southern California, and author of many titles, including STEM, STEAM, Make, Dream; Ratchedemic: Re-Imagining Academic Excellence; and For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and the Rest of Y’all Too.

Participants will come away with an understanding of how to move racial justice work forward through Equitable Placement in support of student success in the California Community College system. The webinar will also introduce the 2022-23 Puente Communities of Practice (ComPs) for California community college educators, which will include the following strands:

• Linguistic Justice Across the Curriculum with Michelle Gonzales and Kisha Quesada Turner, Las Positas College
• Math Justice for Student Empowerment with Karla Rojas, Sacramento City College and Hal Huntsman, Antelope Valley College
• Instructional Design with Corazón/Heart with Fabiola Torres, Glendale Community College and Kristin Land, Chabot College
• Placement + Support of Marginalized Students through a Justice Lens with Luke Lara, Miracosta College and Juan Pablo Carreon, Pasadena City College

Suggested Audience: The event is open to everyone, including students. We especially encourage the participation of part-time faculty, counseling faculty, and faculty teaching transfer-level Math and English. In addition, classified administrators and professionals, educational and executive administrators, and trustees are encouraged to attend.  

More Info and Register https://cccpln.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/event/94cd91d4-220e-4ac6-b73c-67468f8984cb