Co-panelists share strategies for
building community in the classroom, centering marginalized students in
curriculum, and highlighting equity-minded pedagogies. These objectives are
achieved through positionality, counter narratives, and curriculum development.
Effective use of social positioning can facilitate the introduction and critical analysis of racial hierarchies and
racial positioning; in-group diversity; and gender constructs. Counter
narratives can aid in identifying and addressing disparities in access and
inequitable resources for BIPOC students and adequately equipping and
empowering all students for success. Centering marginalized students can be
structured into curriculum development that includes stories diverse in authorship
and character and voices of those who are oppressed or those who are without
the same power as those of the dominant culture.