Teach In
February 9, 2023
Save the date!
Join the Cal Poly Community for the seventh annual Social Justice Teach In, a daylong series of talks and workshops centered around equity and social justice designed to inform and inspire.
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2022 - 6th Annual Teach In
February 17, 2022
Join the Cal Poly Community for the sixth annual Social Justice Teach In, a daylong series of talks and workshops centered around equity and social justice designed to inform and inspire.
Attendees must register for virtual and in-person sessions individually, and will receive separate email confirmations for each session. In person participants, please be prepared to present your tickets on the day of the Teach In.
Cal Poly requires all students, employees and visitors accessing any indoor facility on campus to wear a face covering, regardless of their vaccination status.
These events will comply with all mandatory requirements and mitigation measures during the COVID-19 pandemic by following state, local and campus safety guidelines, which are subject to change should public health conditions warrant different requirements.
Four tracks of sessions are focused on specific topics, as marked on this schedule.
Art and Creative Efforts
Equity-Minded Education
DEI and STEM
Self-Care and Community Well-Being
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9 — 10 a.m. |
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| There Are Black People in the Future |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Understanding (White) Privilege and Dismantling Oppressive Systems: A Hands-On Approach |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| A Food System for the Common Good |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Explore Online and In-Person Inclusive Teaching Practices to Try Out Tomorrow! |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Anti-Racism Response: Educator Perspectives on Culturally Responsive Practices |
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Register Here (In-Person) |
| Constructing Belonging — San Luis Obispo's First Multicultural Center |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Strategies to Combat Systemic Racism and Microaggressions in SLO County: An Interactive Dialogue |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
10 — 11 a.m. |
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| Sexual Geographies: The Place & Space of Violence Prevention |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Restrictions Apply — a Story About Racism in the Happiest City in North America |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Healing isn't Linear: Centering the Voices of Marginalized Survivors |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Organizational Strategies to Create Inclusive Organizations |
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Presentation Canceled |
| Building Bridges for a More Connected World: Why Cultural Competence Matters |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Trails of Absence: Sai Blank and the Myanmar Crisis |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
11 a.m. — 3 p.m. |
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20 Seconds in Memoriam
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Michael Rippens shares his installation “20 Seconds In Memoriam,” an interpretive hand-washing station paying homage to the hundreds of Filipino American healthcare workers who have sacrificed their lives during the pandemic in the service of caring for others. Their names —hand-printed in the sink’s basin— become visible as visitors wash their hands, allowing one to spend the recommended 20 seconds reflecting on those front-line workers killed by COVID-19. |
Located in the University Union |
11 a.m. — 12 p.m. |
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| The Indigenous Kitchen: Stories and Recipes for Healing and Wellness |
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Waitlist Only (In-Person) |
| Exiled: The Deportation of Asian American Legal Permanent Residents |
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Register Here (In-Person) |
| Okinawa and the U.S. Military Base Issues: Past, Present, and Future |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| An Open Review Session Critical Librarianship and the Ethics of Care |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Nuestra Ciencia: Opening Opportunities in Science |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Not So "Model" After All: Asian American Racialization and COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
11 a.m. — 1 p.m. |
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| Intro to Activist Organizing in the Central Coast: An Intersectional Labor Workshop for Social Justice |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
12 — 1 p.m. |
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| Let’s Co-Create a Self-Care Card Deck |
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Register Here In Person |
| Precision Medicine and Machine Learning: Health Equity Promise and Pitfalls |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
12 — 1:30 p.m. |
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Food Justice and Climate Chaos: A Conversation with Best-Selling Author and Food Activist Anna Lappé
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| The Seeds in STEM Program: A Story-Centered Social Justice Approach to STEM to Engage Underrepresented 7-12 Students |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
12 — 2 p.m. |
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| Activist Art Making |
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Waitlist Only (In-Person) |
| Health Inequities and the COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
1 — 2 p.m. |
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| Standing in the Gap: How Faith Shapes LGBTQ Identity & Political Development |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Enhancing Health & Wellbeing Outreach to Latinx Students at Cal Poly |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Planting Seeds in Red Mud: the Case for Ethnic Studies in Paso Robles, CA |
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Register Here (In-Person) |
2 — 3 p.m. |
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| Using Data Skills and Statistical Thinking to Investigate and Identify Social Inequalities |
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Register Here (In-Person) |
| Mindful Practices, Resilience and Social Justice |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Findings and Lessons Learned from the 2020 Campus Survey on Sexual Violence |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| "Just What is Critical Race Theory and What's it Doing in a Nice Field Like Education?" |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
2 — 4 p.m. |
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STFU! Silencing Anti-AAPI Racism, Misogyny, and Xenophobia with Rina Sawayama
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Waitlist Only (In-Person) |
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Teatro Campesino/Farmworkers Theatre: Lessons on Activist Theatre |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
3 — 4 p.m. |
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| Working Mothers in Higher Academia During the Pandemic: A Discussion of Needed Organizational Support and Coping Mechanisms |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Research that Makes a Difference: Social Justice, Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities at Cal Poly |
Panel Facilitators:
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Trauma-Informed Leadership: How We Emerge From the Pandemic |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
4 — 5 p.m. |
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| Anti-racist pedagogies in Architecture |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Centering Student Identities and Languages in the K-12 Classroom |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| A Conversation on Social Justice Education In and Out of the K-12 Classroom |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Defining Multiracial College Students: How Mixedness is Measured in Higher Education |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
| Learn by Doing Using Content Analysis: Cal Poly Students Critique Health Advice During COVID-19 |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
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Building Student Authority in the Classroom- Issues of Power in Group Work
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Register Here (Virtual) |
4 — 6 p.m. |
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| Introduction to Disability Allyship |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
4:30 — 6 p.m. |
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Keynote Reception
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Cal Poly - Outdoor Patio, Advanced Technologies Lab (ATL) |
6 — 7:30 p.m. |
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Keynote Lecture
How I Keep Looking Up: Art and the Social Practice of Belonging and Resilience |
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Register Here Cal Poly - Advanced Technologies Lab (ATL) Building 7, Room 01/02 |
How I Keep Looking Up: Art and the Social Practice of Belonging and Resilience
from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
What is belonging? What does it mean to carry belonging with you? Can art help us be more resilient?
Christine Wong Yap (she/they) is a visual artist and social practitioner working in community engagement, drawing, printmaking, publishing, and public art. She partners with organizations to conduct participatory research projects to explore dimensions of psychological wellbeing such as belonging, resilience, interdependence, and collaboration.
Wong Yap’s work engages questions of belonging through projects that are as much social practice as they are public art. Drawing on examples from New Mexico to New York City to San Francisco Chinatown, they will share some of the lessons they have learned as an artist, highlighting how their projects have been shaped by local knowledge and positive psychology, and the steps they have taken to increase diversity, accessibility, equity, and inclusion in their projects.