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SDD14: Creating Access to Success: Tools to Cultivate Vibrant, Diverse, and Effective Learning Environments in Community College Classrooms
Hours: 3
This workshop will equip faculty with specific useable tools to create vibrant learning environments that are enriched by differences, in which every student is fully supported in thriving and excelling. Often, discussions of diversity, equity, and multicultural competence leave us feeling guilty, defensive, hopeless, and frustrated. In this workshop, we will build on our collective commitment to the success of all students and shared expertise to fuel solid, believable hope, transformation, and new possibilities, using the foundation of proven research-based strategies to support each student in being successful in reaching her or his academic goals. Dr. Ramos Duffer will lead us through an exploration of the underpinnings of racial misunderstandings and the latest research on the formation and effects of prejudice, to create shared understanding of the ways that oppressions manifest and interrupt the learning process in college settings. Together we will identify steps to dismantle unintended barriers in the classroom and best practices to cultivate and sustain vibrant, diverse and effective learning environments in community college classrooms.
Presenter: Martha Ramos Duffer, Psy.D. from Quantum Possibilities.
Martha Ramos Duffer, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist, motivational health and wellness speaker, trainer, coach and consultant based in Austin, Texas. Dr. Ramos Duffer is the owner and founder of Quantum Possibilities, which provides a broad array of consulting, training, coaching and therapeutic services focused on personal and spiritual growth for individuals, healing and joyful relationships for couples and peak performance and healthy systems for organizations. Dr. Ramos Duffer was born in Mexico City and grew up in Puerto Rico. She left Puerto Rico to attend Baylor University where she majored in psychology and received her Bachelors degree with honors. After earning her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology also from Baylor University, she has taught undergraduate and graduate psychology courses at several universities in Texas, served as the Executive Director of a non-profit organization focused on social and economic justice, provided psychological services through various agencies, hospitals and her own private practice, and spoken widely nationally and regionally. She has had the opportunity of working with varied local, regional and national organizations, developing programs and providing training to their Boards of Directors and Staff, helping them gain the skills and create the systems necessary to sustain a healthy workforce and carry out their missions more effectively. A frequent guest on Univisions Despierta Austin and keynote speaker at conferences around the state and nation, Dr. Ramos Duffer has become a sought after speaker and trainer in the areas of health, motivation, empowerment, growth, communication, multicultural competence and wellness. |
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