Fresno State WAC

Writing Across the Curriculum at Fresno State. Supporting faculty across campus in teaching writing to students! run by @jchevs, WAC coordinator

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#4C21

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If you’re attending CCCCs this year, check out our panel on Transformative WAC initiatives! It’s pre recorded (“on demand”) (s/o to Dr. Lisha Daniels Storey, our brilliant moderator

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@lgsilber @kelinelle @jchevs all talk about WAC initiatives and their hopeful trajectories to consider how ecological/sustainable WAC frameworks have worked for us on the ground

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Powerful words in this video from our colleague, Dr. Earl Aguilera. All teaching, and certainly the teaching of writing in all the disciplines, is an act of transformation, and never neutral. Thank you @Mister_Ayyye

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We still out here 📚📓🤓

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Jumping into a Wikipedia rabbit hole for "research"... here I am 5 hours later, reading about trebuchets 🙃

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What’s something that SEEMS to help you study but ISN’T actually helping you.

Mine is telling myself that I can take a 5 minute break to scroll through Twitter to “reset” my brain. Here I am...5 hours later

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Dr. Sergio Juárez: as facilitators of knowledge, we must practice self-reflexivity around our positionality, and educate through the lens of there being many forms of knowledge and intelligence #ensenamosPLC

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Dr. Mario Bañuelos: redefining “notions of success” in mathematics education by emphasizing “growth mindset” vs “math people”; also by creating possibilities for marginalized students to engage with math on deep cognitive level beyond assignments like worksheets #ensenamosPLC

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Dr. Rohit Mehta: why are indigenous ways of knowing absent from STEM? How do we check our own participation in reiterating disciplinary knowledge hierarchies? #ensenamosPLC @FSEnsenamos

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Grateful to be learning from @FSEnsenamos on how to embody anti-racism across disciplines (both in and out of classrooms) #ensenamosPLC

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TODAY:
Join us for Webinar Four: Anti-Racism Across Disciplines and Content Areas
Thursday October 22nd at 4PM

By filling out the exit survey you can receive a Certificate of Completion at the end of the series!

https://t.co/0JAyuPoTmq

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Thinking of ways to practice anti-racist pedagogies in writing across all classrooms, including STEM! https://t.co/WERdWRn6Jc

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This book is our go-to!

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Are you looking to start or revitalize a WAC program? Be sure to check out book Sustainable WAC: A Whole Systems Approach to Launching and Developing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs by Michelle Cox, Jeffrey R. Galin, and Dan Melzer. https://t.co/nOUox6DIue

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"Your writing, your voice, your knowledge matters." --Karen Rowan #FresnoStateWrites

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"We have to resist those messages that tell us that we don't belong, that our voices don't matter." --Karen Rowan #FresnoStateWrites

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"Writing is hard. And it's always going to be hard because that's what it is. But fortunately we experience the thrilling moments we make meaning." --Karen Rowan #FresnoStateWrites

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Karen Rowan talking about the "thrill and terror of making new meaning." #FresnoStateWrites

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"It was a shock to me to see that some of my fellow English majors were there because they saw themselves as writers." --Karen Rowan #FresnoStateWrites

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"How easily I discounted some of my writing." --Karen Rowan #FresnoStateWrites

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"Before we had smartphones, some of us had books" --Karen Rowan on sometimes running into things while reading and walking. #FresnoStateWrites