Center for Teaching & Learning Becoming an Anti-Racist, Equity-Minded Educator

'What if I make a mistake?' you may be thinking. 'Racism is a volatile issue, and I don't want to say or do the wrong thing.' In almost forty years of teaching and leading workshops about racism, I have made many mistakes. I have found that a sincere apology and a genuine desire to learn from one's mistakes is usually rewarded with forgiveness. If we wait for perfection, we will never break the silence. The cycle of racism will continue uninterrupted.”
—Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

• Anti-Racist and Equity-Minded Course Design, an Amherst Center for Teaching and Learning resource list.
• Anti-Racist Educator Self-Examination Questionnaire and Rubric, created by Anna Stamborski.
• Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Scholarship on Race and Racism, a Macalester College resource list. 
• Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator. Torres, M.G. (n.d.). Wheaton College. 
• Revolutionizing My Syllabus: The Process. Wilson, C. (n.d.). Bryn Mawr College. 
• Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources, resource list created by Stamborski, Zimmermann & Gregory. 
• Survey Your Syllabus, an Amherst College Center for Teaching and Learning survey.

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The CTL grew out of collaborative efforts from across the College. We have been

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 invested in inclusive teaching since our founding in 2017 and are committed to assessing our internal practices and outward facing support and programming to help Amherst College address systemic inequities and marginalizing practices in order to grow toward being an anti-racist institution. We are motivated and inspired by the work of our students, faculty, and fellow staff in this area and are ready to shoulder this work in partnership with you.

Read more about the CTL's ongoing initiatives.

Image: Diversity & Democracy "Being Human in STEM: Moving from Student Protest to Institutional Progress" by Sheila Jaswal