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As STEM educators, how can we make room for students’ mental health and emotional wellbeing in our classrooms and through our pedagogy?
Ash Tea and Dr. Dax Ovid will introduce Social Emotional Justice, a concept that reimagines social emotional learning by identifying and addressing the power dynamics that reinforce injustice through emotional policing in classroom environments. With this groundwork set, Tea and Ovid will facilitate a discussion of social accountability with STEM educators. By considering the collaborative contribution to emotions educators activate within STEM students, Tea and Ovid will explore how educators impact students’ ability to manage emotions while striving for academic goals.
Dr. Melissa Haswell will focus on the undergraduate college student experience with emphasis on the trauma students face related to racialized groups, the LGBTQIA+ population, and socioeconomic status. She will introduce trauma-informed pedagogy strategies with short application activities, starting with identifying the steps of the typical stress-response.
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