FREE EQUITY TRAINING: Reimagining Hierarchies in Post-Secondary Education

How do you reinforce hierarchies in your teaching and learning, intentionally or not? How do you overcome these hierarchies in your pedagogy, including your syllabi, course readings, and grading rubrics?

This workshop invites you to discover how colonial worldviews and practices, such as systemic racism and ableism, continue to impact your pedagogy, and, ultimately, your students. 

The first half will explore how colonization shapes ideas of success and productivity at the post-secondary level. The second half will be an interactive session where participants will apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to a syllabus, reflecting on the choices of readings, grading rubrics, and classroom organization.

Together, we can all reflect, learn, and grow.

Facilitator: Larissa Crawford [she/elle] (B.A., International Development and Communication Studies, York University) is a published researcher, policy advisor, and restorative circle keeper with over 16 years of experience in government, community, and academia (where she led the groundbreaking York Student Identity Census). 

As a young disabled mother pushed out of the conventional workforce, Larissa founded Future Ancestors Services, a speakers bureau and consulting firm centering temporal decolonization, sustainable workplace culture, and disability and caregiving accessibility. Larissa proudly passes on Métis and Jamaican ancestry to her daughters, Zyra and Ātea.