Five Breakout Moves to Build a Community of Powerful Learners

Active-learning environments run the risk of devolving into chaos or replicating larger systems of inequity that exist outside the classroom. This webinar includes research-based strategies for developing a community of powerful learners in an active-learning classroom. Topics include co-developing norms around group learning, fostering a positive academic classroom mindset, deciding if a task is “group-worthy,” and learning students’ names. Participants in this webinar learn (1) how to create a classroom structure that allows students to safely explore, experiment, improvise, take risks, make mistakes, and co-construct new knowledge with their peers; (2) strategies to ensure that inquiry-based group learning is inclusive and equitable for students from all backgrounds; (3) instructional moves that can immediately be incorporated into pedagogy to ensure their inquiry-based group learning approach is inclusive, engaging, and equitable.

Felicia Darling, Instructor, College Skills, Santa Rosa Junior College
Dr. Felicia Darling is the author of Teachin’ It! Breakout Moves That Break Down Barriers for Community College Students. Dr. Darling is a first-generation college student who taught mathematics for 30 years at the secondary and college levels. She possesses a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University and is a Fulbright Scholar. She holds a Bachelor’s in Mathematics, an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, a California single-subject math credential, and a California Teacher of English Learners Certificate.

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Only those attending the LIVE webinar will receive a certificate of attendance. Thank you!