Past Events and Programs

Build Your Climate Literacy Workshop Series

Are you passionate about climate justice, but would like a better understanding of the science behind it? This workshop series is designed to provide faculty with the resources, vocabulary, and understanding of the science behind climate change. The purpose is to continue collaboration across different divisions and programs to connect social issues to the science ...

Building an Equitable Classroom Community with CATs – One Day Workshop!

Are you looking for innovative ways to ensure all your students are learning what you hope they are learning in your class? Would you like some tips for enhancing the energy and building community in your classroom? CATs may be just the thing for you! Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, non-graded, sometimes anonymous, in-class ...

Building Expertise: Sharing Reading Strategies to Boost Student Confidence and Success

Students enter the classroom with varying degrees of confidence in themselves as readers. When we share with students the many reading strategies we use in our own areas of content expertise, their reading comprehension and confidence increase. This leads to greater student success in understanding class texts and completing reading assignments. In this online workshop, ...

Carbon Criminals: Climate Crimes

Please join us for a lively discussion of the new book Carbon Criminals: Climate Crimes, which takes a criminological perspective towards the climate crisis. Unlike many climate justice books that focus on causality, and have a doom and gloom approach, this book focuses on the role that large corporations and the global political community played ...

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (New) – Spring 2022

Join us to read and discuss selections from "Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice" by Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. From the book description: "to explore the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, ...

CATs in Virtual Learning Environments – Spring

Muddiest point...exit tickets...jigsaws... These are examples of classroom assessment techniques, or CATs - simple, non-graded, often anonymous in class or online activities to quickly assess student learning. Join us as we showcase different technology tools and classroom assessment techniques you can easily implement in your virtual classes to engage your students and quickly assess what ...

Civic Engagement for Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community

The Civic Engagement for Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is fully online due to COVID-19. It involves three synchronous two-hour workshop-style sessions during Fall quarter during which participants hone their knowledge of climate justice issues and learn about ways to involve their students in civic engagement around this issue. With significant support, participants emerge ...

Climate Change is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice

Join us to read and discuss the important book Climate Change is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice (2021) by Jeremy Williams. The book highlights the intersection between white supremacy and environmental destruction to show that the two crises are symbiotic and reinforcing.  As the publisher's summary notes "In this eye-opening book, ...

Climate Justice & Biodiversity: Indigenous and Urban Perspectives Workshop 

How are we able to anticipate and reduce effects on biodiversity, particularly in urban settings and by those communities who feel the change most? This asynchronous online short course will begin by defining climate justice and biodiversity using Indigenous and Urban perspectives. Then provide an overview of relevant climate change impacts in Washington state and ...

Climate Justice Book Discussion: “How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire”

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion of non-violent vs. violent means of achieving policy changes and global commitment to addressing the damaging effects of climate change! David Spataro will lead a reading of the book "How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire" by Andreas Malm. From the publisher's ...